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I reckon it was her idea: https://xkcd.com/327/
Also, possible frist~!
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The real crime in that corporate expense system is alphabetizing the months in the drop-down. That would drive me up a wall inside of 5 seconds.
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Guo X, Dong L and Hao D (2024), Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11:1339390. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390
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Congrats to the anonymous BrownieDad. Now that Mom's gone along with that name, a son nicknamed Little Bobby Tables can't be too far away. We'll all be so proud of him in a decade or so.
For anyone not getting the joke, although I bet that's very few of this audience: https://xkcd.com/327/
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I don't know if anyone considers Make America Healthy Again "serious".
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Apart from that, I would probably leave the search functionality in place just for visual consistency with other drop-downs where it matters more (pretty sure that's Chosen, which my main project's intranet uses)
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actually, the referenced article is a retracted rubbish peer-reviewed article out of China which precedes by 18 months the rubbish out of MAHA.
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Really not a good nickname for the poor daughter, especially in the presence of readers whose cultural origin is the UK, where "tart" is, indeed, a form of dessert, but also one of the many slang expressions for somewhere between "overly promiscuous female" and an actual whore, and not a particularly high-class one at that...
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It's an unfortunate choice in the US as well. I found it jarring.
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@sibtrag (nodebb)
Sigh... once again people feel the need to bring politics into a tech site. And using information based on news articles that refuse to site sources, which are the only ones I can find that are ridiculously dismissive of efforts to improve health, especially when it comes to food, drink, and pretty much anything else people regularly ingest.
It has gotten to the point now that if someone or something has to do with the current administration, people in the news industry to hail from the left always find some way to connect it to the work of lucifer through whatever contrived and massively dishonest means possible. It's why so many news outlets on television and print are really suffering when it comes to trust.
I, as a nearly 50 year denizen of the left, implore that people here stop stopping to political jabs, especially if you aren't even going to be bothered to verify your sources and their sources, if there are any, and also to stop allowing yourselves to be used to help spread bogus information.
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Sorry, as the title text says, Bobby's sister is called Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory. Though First Name may be her middle name ...
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It's not the drop-down that's alphabetized. It's that there's a search box for a list with only 12 items, and the empty search results in all 12 items, and they must be alphabetized in the search dropdown (which is not the original dropdown). I'm sure this is all in accordance with some design guidelines, although I hope those guidelines would also caution adding search features to a short dropdown.
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Only those who really don't understand that there are problems with how certain good and beverages are made. But politics, based on horribly biased information, needs to comes first for some people, generally the same sort that refuse to understand that this is not the place for politics.
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If you are presenting the list of months in an unusual order, even alphabetized, a search box is now mandatory because it'll be faster for me to type the name of the month to search rather than to figure out where it is in the list alphabetically.
If you have to constantly look for December, you probably scroll to the end looking for it at the bottom. Once you're not finding it you probably will start typing "d" to see if you're going mad and the search will help you find it. This is faster than searching the list one item at a time.
So yeah, having a search box is not necessary if the order was correct. But because the order is not the expected order for months, it's faster to start typing to search than to search the list in whatever idiotic order they put it in, or even if they forgot to put it in the list to begin with.
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How do we know how many sisters Bobby has? We only know it's >=1.
It's always hard to date xkcds, but that comic was about 2750 comics ago. At the rate of 3/week that's ~17 years ago. Plenty of time for Mom to have generated an extra then-unknown and unnamed littler sister who's now old enough for girl scout camp.
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It's a little unintuitive, but to find the original publication date of a comic, you can go to https://xkcd.com/archive/ and hover over the comic's title to see the date in the tooltip. Or, third-party sites such as explainxkcd track it a little more obviously.
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I read the cookie dough price as 0^-1, which is how they sneak in those extra costs.
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The ExplainXkcd wiki lists comic 327 as published on 10 October 2007 , good estimate :P
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Not knowing what STEP 7 is, I did a web search. The AI assistant was really helpful, and explained how it came up with the diagram.