Well I mean, if you fell asleep with that cute, satisfied look, it was absolutely worth it!

I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.

The idiot digs deeper, and shows his true colours. Asinine.

No. We get exactly what his comment is about.

If he was in the renewables camp, there would be no point, in this discussion over solar, to bring up nuclear. It’s absolutely unrelated.

What he’s doing is pushing the thought into people’s heads that nuclear is a good solution, and that’s why I’m calling him out for. For being a shill.

No. I type less.

How idiotic.

Maybe the French word does have that origin, and other languages adapted it “differently”?

In Italian for example, this is called cooking “al cartoccio”, where paper is “carta” and butterfly is something else entirely.

I was trying to check Larousse but it keeps blocking me so meh. Perhaps both are true, as you said.

I’m curious if that origin for the word papillote is accurate, because it’s very close to “paper”.

The word describes not only the cooking method, but the “bags” themselves, which can be made out of paper.

The same word is also used for the hairstyle, as well as the pieces of paper used to create it.

The real life version works in reverse, sadly.

This is based of your extensive knowledge of NOT being a business traveler?

• 1.3 million people travel for work every day in the U.S. alone.
• 40% of hotel guests are work travelers.

Random source.

Oh you’re gonna love my other reply then.

Don’t expect me to pander to willful ignorance. If you’re going to act like an idiot, expect to be treated like one.

Also, what’s with the passive aggressiveness? I understand that my confrontational approach there can make some people uncomfortable, but it’s my prerogative.

Many of the things we believe about ourselves and our experiences turn out to be false. Sometimes this is due to innocent memory failures or to the lack of needed information.

Suppose that Charles believes that he failed his biology test because the professor asked obscure and ambiguous questions.
Charles believes this because he doesn’t realize that he got the lowest score out of the 100 students who took the test, and that most people did quite well.
If Charles had this information, he would realize that he failed the test because he didn’t study hard enough, or because he’s not very good at biology.

On the other hand, if Charles continues to believe that the test was unfair after seeing the grade distribution, he is either severely challenged in his capacity for rational calculation or he is the perpetrator of willful ignorance.

Which is it?

You could read 25 - 5 ÷ 5 as "25 - 5 is 20.

You could. You could also lower your pants and drop a massive turd and call that the answer. Both answers would be equally wrong.

PEMDAS isn’t a suggestion that you follow when it suits you, like religion. It’s how math is communicated, unambiguously.

In any case, if that’s where we lost you, then I’ve calculated the chance of you catching the factorial as √-1.

They’re getting indoctrinated by the fox news and qanon groups or sovcits or whoever gets to them first. It’s not a question of if they get indoctrinated, but by whom.

Some will actually be capable of realising it and break free, but then you have the one actively opting into it.

At least the churches have discernable objectives, unlike many other groups operating in the cesspits of the internet.

I suspect building a nuclear device is easier. You have my respect.

Meh. If social media served a purpose, to me, it was to show just how many dimwits are out there who will beg for someone to tell them what to do and how to act and what to think.

You can take religion from them, but they won’t stop being gullible and lost, and they’ll just fall prey to the next scumbag with no scruples that comes along, be it a politician or some other con artist.

The problem isn’t religion - it’s an excuse, a cover.

And why would you wake up at 6 or 7? There are zero hotels that end breakfast service at that time, that’s just a bullshit argument.

What I’m saying is that they need to start early to accommodate other people staying there, and that at some point they need to start lunch, so if you wake up at 11 that’s perfectly reasonable, just don’t expect the world to hold for your lordship to come back to the land of the living.

Just how late do you wake up?

I often stay at hotels for work, and by 8AM I’m leaving so I can be wherever I need to be at by 9, so yeah, breakfast needs to be around 7h30.

Even at home this is a usual schedule, since commuting is a pain.

By 10AM at the latest probably most places also need to wrap up service so they can clear up and prepare to serve lunches in a couple of hours.

It’s not that unreasonable…

They’re kinda giving me more of a twice widowed vibe. Those birds have been to some funerals.

The average (median) price of trucks fluctuated in 2024. It started the year at a relatively high $16,000, before gradually declining to $11,400 in June

They’re much cheaper in Ukraine, random source.