Have you seen the footage of scientists feeding them from their own arms? Nooope, not for all the tea in China.

I’m currently living somewhere hot enough that the little pricks are a bother all year round.

It confused me, because they put “but” as in except, not “butt” as in bumhole.

You can see the original script here: https://www.scribd.com/document/253321759/Mad-Max-2-Script

To understand who he was you must go back to the last days of the old world…

when, for reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior nations went to war…

and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all.

for without fuel they were nothing. They had built a house of straw…

People stopped in the streets and listened: for the first time they heard the sound of silence.

Their world crumbled…

That script matches the production script you can see here: https://propstore.com/product/mad-max-2-the-road-warrior/262-hand-annotated-production-script/

So, it seems like there was no more oil (the imagery in the script seems to suggest the oil fields being burnt). It is a world-wide apocalypse, although not necessarily of the nuclear kind - it depends how literal you think “touched off a blaze which engulfed them all” is.

They’re called “Arabic numerals” because the system was transmitted to Europe through medieval Arabic scholars, but they are universal

Funny thing is the Indo-Arabic/Hindu-Arabic numerals aren’t the only ones used in Arabic-speaking countries. I’ve seen prices like ٣٥٠ (350) in places like Jordan and Egypt. Here’s a chart:

I would say the familiar 0-9 system is understood globally, but I don’t know about those Alpha Centaurians.

You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?

Yup, as long as 6.5 is pronounced “six and a half” because “six point five” is too modern for old money.

Edit: and ha’penny is pronounced HAYP-nee /h ɛ́j p n ɪj/

I do that (but only for one hand), and I’ve also associated months with each segment.

I had to think how you got to 156 instead of 12² but not for too long.

Hmm, I do remember installing that at one point - it might be that I needed to extract a key from it to configure the plugin. I was on Windows then so it wouldn’t have been too hard.

The fact that they fixed the jailbreak just as I was about to do it was part of the reason I moved to Kobo (went with the Clara BW and am very happy with the upgrade).

I have the DeDRM plugin set up on Calibre and it’s either it’s working perfectly or everything I’ve bought from Kobo didn’t come with DRM (I think it’s the first one).

thirst spaces

I can’t decide if this is a joke or a Freudian slip.

Normally introducing non-native species goes terribly (look at Australia and their feral cats, rats, rabbits, cane toads, feral pigs, feral camels, etc, etc). However, in this case I suppose it’s not like water buffalo are going to get out of control and become unmanageable pests.

overnight

Ah, you mean just now. It’s not night everywhere!

Is she related to the old lady who swallowed a fly?

I must bow to your encyclopaedic (or IMDBic) knowledge of Paw Patrol films.

Sounds like the poster maker picked a good film to reference there being a new one of.

The image talks about the new one at the top.

I saw one comment and was sure it’d be the Arthur C. Clarke quote. I like your one, I hadn’t seen it before.

Oh, it’s a beetle! Scrolling through my feed I thought I saw a hairy something else entirely.

I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.