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Exchange line 6 for “Su-u-ure. I bet you can’t walk away from my desk without asking me to do something.”

A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much “urgent” work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.

Maybe it’s the (default) configuration on my distro, but info bash is the same information as man bash but with no bold text for headings and things. Ironically, I think I’d have to sit down with man info or info info for an hour or two before I could figure out how to get that formatting to show up in info.

As others have said, if a patient has next of kin or emergency contact details listed somewhere accessible to the hospital, they may call if the contact can provide information that the patient can’t, especially if the patient is unconscious or delirious.

Of course, if the patient is otherwise aware and apparently of sound mind, then the patient can literally say “please do not contact my family / next of kin”. The hospital might say they weren’t going to, but no harm in asking. And if they do so anyway once they’ve been told not to, that’d be risking a lawsuit.

Anecdotally, I’ve always carried a next-of-kin card in my wallet, and it has come to my aid at least once.

The person or people on such a card don’t have to be parents either. A trusted friend or sibling might be preferable for people who don’t get along with, or no longer have, their parents.

FWIW, most if not all bash builtins turn up when searching in man bash for [four spaces]command-name[space], but as someone else points out, the help command also er, helps.

If you grab the tail of a dog and wave it to and fro, it is not likely that this will make the dog happy, even if it looks a little bit that way to an outside observer.

Likewise, trying to make a terminally online person* do what you think is normal (or even necessary) will not make them act or feel like you do, even if they’re willing to go along with it for a while.

To use another animal metaphor, they’ll come out of their shell when they’re ready, but they may never be ready, and other people have to be OK with that.

* Of course, by “terminally online person” we should substitute whatever actual psychological diagnoses are responsible for the person acting the way they do, not what they do, assuming such diagnoses are even possible (or valid).

Most of the *fetches (and clones by other names) have an option for showing a different distro’s logo without having to go through any major changes. neofetch, moribund though it is, has --ascii_distro for that purpose (Weird choice of an underscore in an option. Most programs use more hyphens to separate words in long options).

This did get me to install screenfetch (superseded by plain old fetch but realised that too late for this comment), cpufetch (a year old, still in active development) and archey4 (likewise) after I did a bit of research on similar programs though, so maybe the sirens got me one way or the other.

As you point out, intelligence is fuzzy and dependent on many factors. Which is why a straight line hard cut-off above and below the mean of a distribution seems pretty arbitrary to me, even if it is based upon a particularly useful way of delineating variance from a mean.

Both you and @iopq@lemmy.world missed the word “is” in the last sentence.

The hypothetical hater clearly installed the package.

“Just use Flatpak.”

“But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB.”

“Duh, it’s not 2GB total. Flatpaks share dependencies.”

“I don’t have any other Flatpaks on my system.”

“…”

“…”

“OK, so it’ll be 2GB. Your next one will be smaller, though.”

“If I install one and if it shares any dependencies with the first one.”

“Pff. You’re just a hater.”

“Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space.”

Last week was the first time I think I’ve ever got a random Internet tarball to configure, make and make install. Program even did what it was supposed to too. I was amazed.

I’m sure cognitive scientists had good reasons for that somewhat arbitrarily defined band of the bell-curve when they gave it the name “average intelligence” but it’s pretty clear that the joke isn’t using that definition.

50% of people are below average intelligence.

(Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it’s still funny.)

Try to take deep breaths. If it’s low blood oxygen as others say, that could help.

Alternative if your brain/body won’t allow it: Try holding your breath. You might have control over that. The aim is to hold long enough trigger a gasp reflex which will, hopefully, shake you awake.

The hard part is finding the presence of mind to remember things to try when you’re in an altered state of consciousness.

Actually, the British beat the French to it. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the guillotine by about 100 years.

Yet another case where another nation somehow becomes better at a sport the British invented.

The southern English are trapped between a rock and a hard place with the whole thing. They do like the idea of stealing culture from the French, but they want to appear to be separate at the same time. And appearing northern would be even worse.

Immediately not trust it and assume I’m too stupid or ignorant to see what the flaw in the system is.

And next I’d be worried that, flaw or not, the authorities might find out about it, because that would almost certainly not end well.

Even if there’s truly a way to get something for nothing, someone else will find a way to take it away.

UKGOV haven’t started on things like Wikipedia yet. They know kids use it for school and blinded by ideology though they are, even they can see there’d be an enormous backlash if they blocked it any time soon.

If that’s going to happen at all, I doubt it would be before the next election. That’s whether Labour get re-elected or the Tories make an unexpected comeback. You can tell how far Labour have fallen in the eyes of their party faithful when they’ve taken a Tory-drafted policy and made it their own.

Ironically, the up and coming third option fascist party, have said they’re going to repeal the Online Safety Act. They have other fish to fry if they get in, and they’ll want to keep their preferred demographic(s) happy while they do it.

I assume that eventually something like the OSA would come back to “protect the children”. They love the current US President.

None of this is hopeful. Take this as more of a rant.

If my large, angry (hypothetical) neighbour decides I’m an a-hole - and, let’s say I am - it still doesn’t give him the right to come into my house and beat me bloody. Nor does it give him the right to change the fences around the yards or remodel my house for me.

Spiderman can definitely be pluralised that way if it’s a surname. I’m conflicted otherwise.

Spider-matopodes?

Are you sure? They’re both unvoiced th, which is what thorn is for if you intend to distinguish.

I can’t tell whether Old English used eth for those words early on - though the unvoiced quality in modern English makes that seem unlikely. Did we also devoice them? Eth died out fairly quickly in favour of thorn in all cases, voiced or not. Possibly because its name is “eþ” not “eð”. It doesn’t even use itself. (Though, ironically, ‘w’ also doesn’t and it replaced ƿynn, which does.)

There was another commenter - actually might have been the same guy, I’m not all that sure - who did use eth for voiced instances, to similar controversial effect in comment sections.

We have a diacritic in English text already. Rather than above or below, it goes to the right of the letter it modifies and looks an awful lot like a letter h.

And if you don’t quite buy that, remember that a lot of diacritics started life as letters that were eventually moved above a preceding letter and then simplified. The tilde on ñ was an n itself; the ring on å was another a; and in at least some cases the umlaut was an e.

Modifying-h may only be stuck where it is because technology did away with the need for economical scribes before they had a chance to start messing with it.