One of us needs to go back to school, because I did not understand a word of what you just said

Yeah, that's half a litre of salty water soaking into your socks and shoes. I find that hard to believe

Before installing Arch on a USB flash drive, I disabled ext4 journaling in order to reduce disk reads and writes, being fully aware of the implications (file corruption after unexpected power loss). I was confident that I would never have to pull the plug or the drive without issuing a normal shutdown first. Unfortunately, there was one possibility I hadn't considered: sometimes, there's that one service preventing your PC from turning off, and at that stage there's no way to kill it (besides waiting for systemd to time out, but I was impatient).

So I pulled the plug. The system booted fine, but was missing some binaries. Unfortunately, I couldn't use pacman to restore them because some of the files it relied on were also destroyed.

This was not the last time I went through this. Luckily I've learned my lesson by now

So the LLM makes up a reason for why it used an emoji

This reminds me of how split-brain patients would confabulate the reasons for the actions performed by the other brain:

A patient with split brain is shown a picture of a chicken foot and a snowy field in separate visual fields and asked to choose from a list of words the best association with the pictures. The patient would choose a chicken to associate with the chicken foot and a shovel to associate with the snow; however, when asked to reason why the patient chose the shovel, the response would relate to the chicken (e.g. "the shovel is for cleaning out the chicken coop").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

https://xkcd.com/859

the group says it's gotten into the government web portal for the South African OR Tambo district

As a South African, that's not much of an accomplishment

TIL "students" and "for" are Chinese words

B. Velocity is relative.

I wonder if these comics have a specific audience. I never find them funny, but people keep sharing them, so there has to be people that enjoy them.

c) is a bunch of bullshit