It is crazy to me that every single right wing talking head latched into the Cheesecake Factory part of that statement.

Technically “REM” in all capitals, since it’s an acronym.

May the insides of his eyelids be covered in sandpaper.

Although I want a phone that folds half the size of a normal phone, not a normal phone size that folds out to a tablet.

You already got a joking reply to this with someone mentioning a regular flip phone, but Samsung does actually make what you’re asking for, the “Z Flip” line of phones, which have been developed in lock step with the more popular Z Fold series. Most recent is the Z Flip8 from this year.

Caporael’s paper introduced the theory that the visions, convulsions, and distress the “afflicted” girls reported might not have been supernatural after all.

…you don’t say.

I would be shocked if all of the projects on your list genuinely adhere to requirements as stringent as “no contributor has ever googled an issue and accepted a working AI suggested solution”. How would they even enforce that?

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They don’t need to have been used routinely, just knowledge of their use had to be common. In the same way that “shooting yourself in the foot” makes sense even to people who have never used a gun. It was enough to know what “hoist” and “petard” meant to piece together the intent of the phrase. Then once the phrase itself became common the specific knowledge was no longer necessary.

I’d like to see someone get these working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship