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Oh wow it's the city

Hey it's spelled "fagott" so that's a completely different and did not at all make terminally online teenage boys snicker 15+ years ago

I have a vague memory of that phrase being spelled exactly like that, but I have no idea what the original source is. I think I remember it from a clan name in GunZ online (and a private server at that) from back when that was a thing.

Mercator is great for navigation in straight lines and makes countries far from the equator look big

The navigation thing is an actual advantage but it doesn't give you the shortest routes, just the easiest to follow

Business to Business

Possibly, but I also made a satirical comment a while back explaining how sex with women is gay (admittedly not entirely my idea, other people have made the joke before)

Major difference is that in Hollywood, you don't hire a bunch of, say, VFX artists for a movie, you contract the company that retains them. They'll generally still have jobs when the movie is over. It's mostly just the cast, director and writers that work on a per-project basis. Games industry is somehow worse than Hollywood.

Use free Gemini to move off Gmail, double damage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

The ball is called a magic 8 ball and it's a toy popular in the US, you ask it a question and it gives you a random answer

Sure. You prefer quarters or nickles?

Interestingly enough, I've once been told it was bad that I said merry Christmas.

Context: I'm from a fairly irreligious country. Christmas has nothing to do with religion for me because our ancestors celebrated it long before the crusade and in our language it has nothing to do with Christ, we call it jõulud.

Anyway, my dad had a business in the US but his English was poor enough that when I was like 12 or 13, he asked me to send some emails to his clients for him. I did. This was in December. Next time he called, he said some client was furious because I either started or ended the email with Merry Christmas aaaand apparently it went to a Jewish family. Which I guess he knew beforehand but I did not and the didn't know the email was from me, not him.

This would've been like late 00s.

How exactly are mutual funds the problem here? Red states banned local/state government funds from investing via BlackRock because it was considered too woke since they have a vested interest in the country lasting more than one quarter.