Exactly my first thought. Plus it’s especially weird on a bird where the eyes are on either side of the head normally

Excellent point! That pushes the timeline back even further.

I’d say they were already very common in online chatrooms long before cellphones were widely adopted. They just translated really well to the poor typing options, character limits, and per-message billing of the time so became more widely adopted (and some new shorthand created).

Must’ve been off of work for a few years. Poor beaver was headed back after being on long term disability only to find he had been made redundant. Dam

I thought he only asked for the most beautiful woman?

Funny thing, it’s not even named after him; manual dick-shapers already existed, he just invented the automatic dick-shaper and also happened to be named Dick Shaper. A great example of nominative determinism.

Sorry, it being 2026 now was making be constantly think of 2025 in the past instead of the “future”

You’re right, after some further thought I forgot one rule that I use. Will edit to fix this.

To answer your question, the February that had recently passed would just be “February” until later in the year (likely when February 2025 would be closer or similar distance to the past one) it would shift to “last February” or “back in February”. It would be “next February” until the end of the year, then “this February” once into the new year.

“This Thursday” is the closest Thursday coming up, “next Thursday” is the next one after that. The exception is if you’re already passed “Thursday” that week, then it’s “next Thursday” until the new week starts.

Those are crazy distances! Super impressive to be able to do that (ignoring why it might be necessary)

Yup, make them prepay for their cleanup. The fund would need to be held in an account earmarked specifically for that well, inaccessible for anything else (maybe held in trust or something).

Seems to align with my personal experience that turning on the filter (but also really turning down the brightness more than the default settings on the phone allow) makes me fall asleep sooner, but that could easily be from just training myself over time that this is the signal to start the sleep shutdown process.

Poor Guy, that was his retirement bird seed

Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don’t understand survivorship bias?

‘Man’ is often used in the same way as ‘mankind’

Yes, which is why without the “a” it doesn’t work. “A small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind” is nonsensical.

He was saying he (a man) was literally taking a step with his leg, but it was a figuratively large step for the species because of where/how he was taking that step.

The beauty of a time machine though is even if you take a really long time to build it, you can just go back and build it faster.

It “works” in that we know what he meant, but it literally doesn’t work without the “a”.

Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?

Edit: hmmm, maybe not

Didn’t NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?

Better than before the call