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Alcohol is a known muscle relaxant. That fact is even a plot point early in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I digress.

It’s also something of a mind relaxant. If your pain is made worse by tensing up worrying about the pain, then alcohol is going to help both ways, because you’ll be less able to worry and you won’t be able to tense quite so much anyway.

I’d be surprised if neither ibuprofen nor diclofenac have any effect at all - but don’t take those with alcohol in your system. Liver damage is not something you want to add to your list of ailments.

Consult a physician, etc.

Off the top of my head:

Spelt - past tense of “to spell”. Valid in Britain and British Commonwealth countries, though “spelled” is also accepted.

Cleft - One of the three past tenses of “cleave” that have fossilised into particular subjects at various stages. “Cloven” is ancient and “Cleaved” is the more recent.

Felt - past tense of “to feel”.

Smelt - past tense of “to smell”. This might also be more common in British English.

Past - used many times in this post(!). Derived from the past tense of “pass”, though its usage has split somewhat from “passed” even though they’re generally pronounced the same.

Spilt - past tense of “spill” not to be confused with split, (which is its own past tense). Might be another one more acceptable in British English

And none of this counts the irregular verbs that use ablaut (vowel change) and have past tenses that end in -t like taught, caught, lit etc.

Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn’t have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people’s work.

Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.

The current US administration is unpredictable. Prepare for the worst. Full deportation if you’re unlucky, or merely (your son) getting kicked out of academia. If you have money, you might be able to sweeten a deal to get him to stay, but you might be better off spending that money to have your son study in a less volatile environment, i.e. a different country entirely.

Be aware that lots of people have already had this idea. Applications to academia in other English-speaking countries has increased significantly in recent months.

The Star Wars universe is full of trillions of sapient, dextrous beings, humans* or otherwise. Just because the inventors don’t (necessarily) show up on screen doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

If you want a “too simplified as to be almost certainly wrong” answer: E.T.

His species are canonically native to the Star Wars galaxy but we don’t see them most of the time in the SW lore. Let’s assume they’re the ones who invented it all. Easy.

I mean, the one we got a movie about didn’t seem all that bright, but he managed to build a communicator array out of a Speak-n-Spell, so they must have something going for them.

Yes. Did you mean to ask if the set of sets that do not contain themselves contains itself?

My motherboard has two NVMe slots. I imagine that if I’d had the funds and desire to populate both of them, this same issue could rear its ugly head.

A lot of the original C coders are still alive or only very recently gone (retired, or the ultimate retirement, so to speak), and they carried their cramped coding style with them from those ancient and very cramped systems. Old habits die hard. And then there’s a whole generation who were self-taught or learned from the original coders and there’s a lot of bad habits, twisted thinking and carry-over there too.

(You should see some of my code. On second thought, it’s probably best you don’t.)

For writing loops, many early BASICs had FOR/NEXT, GOTO [line] and GOSUB [line] and literally nothing else due to space constraints. This begat much spaghetti. Better BASICs had (and have) better things like WHILE and WEND, named subroutines (what a concept!) and egads, no line numbers, which did away with much of that. Unless you were trying to convert a program written for one of the hamstrung dialects anyway, then all bets are off.

Assembly style often reflects the other languages people have learned first, or else it’s written to fit space constraints and then spaghettification can actually help with that. (Imagine how the creators of those BASICs crammed their dialect into an 8 or 16K ROM. And thus, like begetteth like.)

C code style follows similarly. It is barely concealed assembly anyway.

COBOL requires a certain kind of masochist to read and write. That’s not spaghetti, it’s Cthulhu’s tentacles. Run.

Ehh. Not strictly true. They’re very similar, but the differences are somewhat important.

Snuggies are rectangular, and bathrobes are not. Bathrobes don’t have hoods, but a backwards Snuggie basically does have one because of the extra material. For related reasons, the top edge / collar of the bathrobe is much less comfortable on the neck when worn backwards than is the equivalent Snuggie.

Then there’s the matter of belt loops, belt and pocket locations which are a complete mismatch.

Finally, the material of a Snuggie is generally not designed to be absorbent like a bathrobe is. If anything, this changes your assertion to “a dressing gown worn backwards is a snuggie”, but the since the rest of the above arguments still apply, it’s still not quite accurate.

You jest, but on some older computers, all ones was the official truth value. Other values may also have been true in certain contexts, but that was the guaranteed one.

Depends if you go with the original idea, or the battery idea designed by Hollywood execs who didn’t think the audiences would understand.

… thus proving that Hollywood execs and the people they make their changes for are only good for batteries*, but I digress.

* For legal reasons, this is a joke. I have to say this because some Hollywood execs have more lawyers than braincells**.

** For all the same reasons, this is also a joke.

Oh, I guarantee that pi is 100% normal. Just not necessarily in the base you want it to be normal in.

Turkish has (and maybe related languages have) genderless pronouns, but I don’t know whether that context shifts elsewhere in the sentence structure or not, and how necessary it might be in legal contracts.

Imagine you’re a horrible misogynist who has the drive to have sex with a woman, but you don’t like the idea of actually having to touch one. If only there was something feminine but not a woman. Something that could understand a man in the way only a man can, but at the same time is not quite as strong and powerful as a man…

It’s a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things

Curiously, I don’t think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I’ve been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.

Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can’t be having my lowercase L’s and 1s looking similar.

Even the old monolithic sites started out with a lot of tech folks as the initial population. It’s tech. Such is the way of things.

Here maybe the effect is stronger because of the similar ethos between the Fediverse and free software like Linux.

Give it time.

Yeah, I was about to go to bed when I was writing that. “Several” or “a few” would have been better.

It’s 1375 and I’m asphyxiating somewhere in the Milky Way about 600 light years from Earth.

But let’s assume that somehow my latitude, longitude and altitude relative to Earth somehow remain the same. Now I’m spawning several feet in the air probably in sight of several villagers. If I’m lucky, they’ll think I was sent by God. If not I’m gonna have a real bad time. There’s a good chance I’ll break a bone in the fall, and that’s not going to go well at all.

But let’s assume there are trees here. Lots of them. That’s actually pretty likely. They hide my sudden appearance and mitigate bone breakages.

Now I’m on the outskirts of a village, battered and bruised and very strangely dressed. I don’t speak any language they’ll understand despite technically being from that area. Middle English is the language of the day, and I speak something that won’t evolve for at least another 200-250 years. Shakespeare is technically modern English and is hard to comprehend sometimes. Here we’re talking Chaucer and that’s pretty much opaque.

I’m literate, but not in Latin, and that’s the language of the Church. I’m numerate, but they haven’t got beyond Roman numerals yet.

I’m not even sure where the church is. I know where it is in the modern day, but that building’s no more than 200 years old. Maybe it’s on the same site. I’d head there for shelter at least.

I know the Lord’s Prayer in modern English. Chanting that quietly might spark some recognition in anyone present but then it might count as blasphemy to say it in anything other than Catholic-Church-approved Latin.

Come to think of it, I could probably blow a couple of minds by writing the alphabet they know and then the same with the extra letters that have been added since.

And then I’d be burned as a witch.

Doesn’t look like it to me. https://www.dafontfree.io/impact-font/ shows lowercase that’s radically different to this. Look at the y for example.

That doesn’t rule out variant glyphs or another member of a hypothetical Impact family, but I’m leaning towards no.