What? Yes it does. “Ipsum” is a latin word, it means “itself”. It’s a fragment of “[Do]lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet”, “pain itself, for being pain”. It’s from, IIRC, Cicero.

I mean, it’s chunks of real latin.

…Yknow, now that you mention him, I wonder if Zuckerberg would become less… Zuckerberg, if we somehow got him into marine biology.

Depends on the wood. The Ikea one is solid pine. Well, as solid as pine can be.

Only if you compare it to custom bespoke pieces. It would probably still be cheaper to buy a bedframe that looks close tot his and work from there.

And this one, for example, does look very close to the Ikea Tarva.

…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?

The actual phrase was “you wouldn’t steal a car”. The idea was to equate piracy and theft. It wasn’t really taken seriously even then.

Also, piracyisacrime.com

Unironically, yes

Scratch a liberal…

Not necessarily. It could also be the MEK.

You must be one of the Inebriati

Public Security Section 9, you say?

Frankly, “doing the actual work” is much less important than you’d imagine. I have yet to hear someone start with “I’ve been doing this job for…” and not end with something stupid.

Plenty of tredies know a lot, and I’ve met a bunch of tradesmen who did try uni but quit. But also, plenty of them have a need to tear down engineers because they feel threatened, and plenty more think an engineer is an idiot because he wants things done differently than “the right way” which is, of course, “how I’ve always done it”.

“The Anschluss is just a distraction from the kristallnacht investigation!”

The colonies have always been governed by different laws than the metropole.

Which, hilariously, neatly matches the machine-learning approach of “just keep shovelling data, it’ll work eventually”.

Topic aside, the page break is comedy gold.

The annoying part is Dassault had linux cad software and they killed it.