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Barnes Stroustrup, creator of C++, ~1990: "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."

It didn't work in 2024, if you can remember that far back.

He's talking about Palestine's right to wipe Israel out, isn't he?

Or metrics for how many fans play the slightest attention to...well, all of that.

I am reliably informed it's Biden's fault.

73 years, you imbecile. And we started it.

Circe taking a quick break?

Let's go Legacy! 1-0 after 30 mins.

Everyone has a different kink.

Via the Panama Canal.

Yet some people complained that they lost the view of the Olympics from the elevated highway. Driving at speed while staring over at the western horizon...

But their father was, which according to Trump's Executive Order makes it OK. The Order is clear: it has to be the biological father. Oh...

In IMAX, packing 20 years into 3 hours.

Only if whatever emerges from the egg causes the destruction of Troy.

Another advantage of all the discussion of The Odyssey: I've learned a new (to me) word - "rhapsode". Even comments sections freely use the word to describe Christopher Nolan.

Picture or it didn't happen. -- the other David

Especially as, in the end, that was not a good place to be.

An English friend told me a while back that, having studied classical Greek in school, touring in Greece he translated the old inscriptions into English so the guide could translate into modern Greek for the locals. Sounds like one of those too good to be true stories told in the first person.

And Alaska.

Yes, but why is a woman named after Athens so nice to a leader of Ithaka?