I first thought this was a bad idea by Paypal but you opened my eyes

In my language, the word for coal refers to both types, but you can specify “wood coal” or “rock coal” if necessary.

I was never a fan of Calibri but the new font looks way too Arial-like for my taste.

I’ve always felt that biological warfare is a really stupid idea for everyone involved. Like, stuff like nuclear and chemical weapons is not nice, but the effects are relatively localized. With biological warfare though, there is no way to absolutely contain the pathogen and to prevent its spread in your own population.

No

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

It’s a very deliberate phrasing, since not everyone agrees that initialisms are not acronyms.

Personally I think that “ackhually that’s an initialism not an acronym 🤓” is exactly the kind of ultimately irrelevant distinction that internet know-it-alls love to know and point out. I know because I used to be like that too when I was younger.

But often those distinctions are not universally acknowledged or useful in all contexts. Like how strawberries are not scientifically berries, but we still often group them as berries.

Nitpicking word definitions is pointless when the distinction being pointed out is not relevant for the conversation.

Initialisms are a type of acronym. All initialisms are acronyms but not all acronyms are initialisms.

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

What fell off was a plug filling in an optional emergency exit location. It was a regular row of seats because the plane didn’t have the optional emergency exit installed (it is only required for high density passenger cabin configurations).

In part because there are people actively and deliberately muddying together the Netanyahu government and Israel (as well as Israel and Jews) so that any criticism of the actions of Israel or Netanyahu can be labeled “antisemitism”.

Japan has various earthquake notification systems. Tweets are just one more way to get the information to the people on a platform they use.

I agree in general, but to mention one potential benefit: DVD only supports SD resolutions, streaming services may have the same content in HD.

A 5 second break, while suboptimal, is significantly less suboptimal than having to watch 20+ second ads.

I often watch vods. My favorite streamer’s time zone and streaming schedule mean that I can only catch a couple of hours of the beginning of their stream before going to bed, and I couldn’t regularly watch 8-10 hours of stream in one go anyway, so I watch the vods of the streams I want to see the rest of.

“Real” in this sense is not etymologically related to “royal”.

It’s not the exact same thing, but I’ve definitely been drawn out of what I’m watching because of compression artifacts.

I believe it is the Vsauce video titled The Banach-Tarski Paradox.

Yes

Naming things is the hardest part of everything.

That’s why I’m never going to have children.

The only Google feature I haven’t found a passable alternative for is location history.