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That does seem to be the case - it's specifically Best Buy and they seem to have fed the spec sheet into an LLM to generate a description.

My parents were walking near the Balmoral estate years ago and an old lady gave them a wave as they stood on the verge to let her pass in her Land Rover. They gave a cheery wave back.

They realised a little later that it was the Queen.

The photo was taken by a Boston Globe photographer on 15th January 1919 and has been archived by the Boston Public Library. The title of this post does mention it's been colorized.

That said, autochrome photographic equipment was commercially available from around 1907 -- though it was very expensive.

Small amounts of dirt are going to harbor bacteria, and a soak and rinse (and a light scrub, if it's produce that can be scrubbed) will actually make a notable difference to the pathogen count. It's not magic, but it's good practice.

There’s been listeria outbreaks on waffles the past two years.

NO ONE TOLD ME I HAD TO WASH WAFFLES

There's a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it'll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

For sure, but when he says the right things to disillusion a fraction of the supporter base, let's recognize that even if he is a part of the problem.

White Ninja is a blast from the past! I'm sure I had a bunch of favorites, but this one jumps out at me:

When you install LibreOffice now, the set-up guide encourages you gently to use the newer, friendlier tabbed interface. I don't know if the same is true for in-place updates.

Thanks. The photo in the original article is, as best I can tell, a staircase in the Kozhinsky family tomb in or near the church grounds in Veshalovka, Lipetsk, Russia -- it's totally unrelated.

I think your second para is purely from LotR Online, the MMO? But you're certainly right that Shelob doesn't explicitly die - she flees, seriously wounded, and her fate is unstated as far as I know.