Regional branding. This is the Q-Tip issue: it didn’t matter which company makes the product, the term has fallen into common usage to refer to a generic thing, in this case, powdered flavored sugar that you reconstitute in water. Or the beverage of your choice.

That’s an interesting fact that I didn’t know, though.

Some people are really addicted to adrenaline.

I don’t know about that. In speed chess, you can lose a game just buy running out of time. Outside of speed chess the state of the board is largely dependent on a sequence of events made over time; even if movement in the 2 directions is always instantaneous, each move is a tick of the clock. Like the 2D board space, most (unique) pieces can move in multiple directions, but like time, games only move forward. Take your hand off the piece, and its irreversible: games move only one direction in time.

I’d say time is definitely a component of the game.

They spend their time trying to destroy Gary’s marriage, apparently.

I hear there’s a good recipe floating around from Jonestown.

Ah, TOS. When there were actual aliens in the galaxy, other than energy clouds.

Are all charitable donations reputation laundering?

Multiverse Kim is evidence of why you don’t promote Kims. They turn evil.

That’s one way to do it.

So is iron.

Yes, and it’s a problem because they allow different people to register accounts with dots in them, but all of these emails go to the original person.

For about a year, my wife was getting Uber receipts and email from relatives to some woman who’d registered the same name, but with the difference of a dot.

Did you know there’s no way to contact someone when the emails you send to them are delivered to you? And that Google ignores messages you send them, even when one of their services is posing a potential fraud and security risk?

After a while, we started responding to her relatives with a form email explaining, and suggesting they call the woman and let her know what was going on. Eventually, it stopped.

That’s hilarious!

Hey, it’s cool when the Orca do it with Salmon! Why do you want your dog to not be cool.

Blue is a perfectly respectable alcohol color. Romulan ale looks like Curaçao to me. Maybe Curaçao that’s emitting Cherenhov radiation, but still… at least it looks like booze and not something you scooped out of a stagnant puddle. Anyway, I love the effort to try to make it look “alien,” like, someone actually put thought into how to make a liquid look alien.

I kind of love how Star Trek booze is all sorts of horrible shades of color. Kanar looks like muddy water; whatever Scotty has here (Romulan ale? But that’s usually blue, right?) looks like algae water.

Parks are in the middle, Roman domus style.

Came into the thread for this comment.

And, really, I object to the title gore. At least put enough information in to make it complete.

And especially if they’re a deep-sea isopod.

Look at how cute!

Looks delicious, doesn’t it?