I’m 46 was born in 98, also in 88, and 78 as well.

Born again Christian who wasn’t quite done sinning after the first reset? 😛

15 cm or so, if memory serves. They haven’t been available here for over a decade 😔

Reminds me of one of my favorite passages from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent: “what’s causing all this?”

Ford Prefect: “eddies in the spacetime continuum”

Arthur Dent: “is he now?”

I don’t usually have any problems, but going from browsing in black mode at 11 pm to getting a screenful of white was quite jarring…

No thanks, I already ate

Argh! Light mode!

Actually, that would…Wait a minute!

that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

Probably because overall, this app collection treats you like a machine in need of precise optimization and maintenance of everything including relaxation?

That’s what creeps ME out about it, at least 🤷

Did she have an ostrich sized barbie, though, ready to fry up some mortal wombat?

Barbs. She got hooked on barbiturates earlier than her peers did.

Here you go

I’m no geologist, but I’m pretty sure that the whole botanic family is called “squash” 🤷

No, but once a year they do that thing where they try to hit a suspended ring with a stick from horseback. Like the training montage of A Knight’s Tale.

I record my movies in the suuun

Squash

True. You’ve never been to South Jutland, have you?

I can’t believe they said Chr*stian! That’s the name of the BDSM billionaire from 50 Shades of Horny Soccer Moms!