Also:

• Any vacation spot with a lot of Russians, like Cuba. Nobody wants to tell a drunk Russian to put out their cigarette indoors, and smoking is allowed in open spaces (even covered spaces like open lobbies)
• Rome. Igneous rock is very porous, and everything ancient is made of it. Decades after smoking is banned there, the stonework will still be leaking the fumes out of its pores. The smoke was inescapable when I toured 15 years ago despite it being banned in indoor public places, and it will be inescapable 15 years from now.

E-mail, too. You could have all the latest security features to confirm you’re legitimate, but based on the simple fact that your message volume is low (ironically enough), messages you send with your server will often get filed under junk by default.

If the water is cooled with a low-energy method like a Peltier cooler, the heat has to go somewhere.

Yes.

Also, it was grape flavour, not cherry flavour Flavor Aid.

Thanks. The article title “tricks for Lent” points to the non-serious nature of it. Plus, it uses the phrase “According to legend” several times and doesn’t even mention the particular monestaries, nor the specific monks involved. I think it’s just meant to be a humorous jab at legalism.

Typically, if practices get so bad that they have to be forbidden by an administrative authority, then you would have some written document forbidding the practice. Although that would acknowledge it wasn’t legitimate to begin with, it would at least suggest the histriocity of it.

I tried to look this up, but ended up empty-handed. Could you point me in the right direction?

The point has been missed.

There are temporal consequences of sin, even after guilt is removed.

Also. around the mediterrainian, fish is a food staple of the poor. The point is to eliminate excess.

I’d argue that an inlander ordering fish at a fancy restaurant on a Friday during Lent is not following the spirit of the law (which can be more of a discipline than a rule, depending on the local episcopal authority), especially if it’s not a special occasion and the fish was caught hundreds of kilometers away.

My favourite is:

Them: We want less red in the pie chart. Fix that remote vulnerability.

Me: We don’t even have that component enabled. It’s reporting on a DLL file version, not the vulnerability itself.

Them: Just lower our vulnerability score.

(Me wondering if I deploying dozens of fully-patched systems would have the same proportional effect)

Tenable (or how our security folks have our scans configured) doesn’t seem to get that.

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You think the devout ones think they’re good?

Probably the opposite, dude.

The religious aren’t as obtuse as Internet randos suddenly given a voice may lead you to believe. Even those who profess reincarnation believe we only get to experience this life and serve our purpose once. May as well make the most of it.

Ditto. She always called it “poor circulation” and explained it’s genetic. Didn’t know it warranted a name.

I always blamed these particular genetics for my cold induced urticaria.

First a bishop, now a priest, too?

How Interpreted this:

“Complaints have been received regarding an poorly thought out inclusion to our examples of dehumanizing terms. We apologize and will no longer consider that term dehumanizing.”

The Gospel of Matthew was written for a Jewish audience, so that’s saying a lot.

More like the actor Robert Patrick having a severe anaphylactic reaction.

It’s the other way around in Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, isn’t it?