Anyone who knows at least two languages can tell you that you need to listen to the whole sentence before you can start translating. Usually there’s something in the end that changes everything. In many cases, the word order is more or less reversed, so you have to start translating from the end.

Also, you shouldn’t pet any cat without their consent. Pay attention to the tail. Let the cat approach you first.

I always swim in T. rex blood…. Well more like homeopathic dilution of it but that only makes it more potent.

Try having technical conversation about Internal Combustion Engines without using that acronym. Spelling it out once is fine, but what if you’re comparing different engine types and you need to refer to that one frequently. Yeah, it gets awkward pretty quickly.

You should seriously consider a career in pen testing. Physical security needs to be tested too, and if you can just talk your way in, that company has some serious problems.

Did you get to use the classic line: “Don’t ask me, man. I don’t even work here.”

Each corner is infinitesimally close to 180°, and there are infinitely many of them. If you dislike corners, you’re going to hate circles.

That’s just infinite corners.

Ouch! That would be a very cyberpunk move.

See this rich part of town here? Yeah, we’ll leave it alone, and ensure they will always have power even when there’s a blackout in the rest of the city. Oh, and they get their own clean water system with top tier filtration system.

The rest of the city though… I guess we’ll use the cheapest filters. Only a single water pump should do it. Who needs water pressure in the shower, amarite. If there’s a blackout, we’ll just cut power from the poor neighborhood first, to make sure the wealthy supporters of the mayor stay happy.

Oh, and the new wind farm? Didn’t really find enough empty space for that one, so I guess we’ll just scatter the eye sores all over the poor town. Who knows, maybe they will help with the smoke coming from the 13 trash incinerators.

Ok thanks. Calling those two just “bus” and “rail” would have been sufficient. Those acronyms don’t really give me much extra information, quite the opposite really. What’s wrong with using normal words…

Block Register Territory, British Rail Telecommunications, Brooklyn Rapid Transit company? The list goes on… I’m not even going to try to decipher that other one. Why do people expect everyone to magically know every niche acronym.

The poop volcano?

If you’re expecting a civilised mature city building with sensible decisions, you’re going to be disappointed.

Hmm… maybe. On the other hand, you can do totally messed up stuff because you’re the absolute dictator of the city.

See that suburb there? Yeah, we’re changing it to a highway intersection, so everyone living there will just have to relocate. I don’t care where. It’s their problem. I’m just designing a highway system here, and couldn’t care less what happens to the people who happen to live in the wrong place. It’s their fault they decided to live there.

See this hospital here? Yeah, we’re relocating the whole thing somewhere, because it’s in the way of my new monorail system. We need to put the station right here. Oh, and that residential block needs to go too. There should be shops right next to the station. Not my problem if you liked to live here before.

Another day in a growing city, and this was just the tip of the iceberg. It can get so much worse.

Totally agree. Companies that manage to survive more than a few decades need to adapt. Usually, this means trying a variety of things to see what works.

Eventually, the company may choose to split a certain department into a separate company. When that happens, it usually gets a very distinct name. HP just decided to go with a very confusing way to name those two companies that are supposed to be completely separate.

First, there was Hewlett-Packard, company that existed from 1939 to 2015. After that, it was split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

HP inc. sells computers and stuff like that, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and AI stuff.

Causality is overrated.

I know I freak out no matter what kind of creepy crawler I find on my leg. Usually I just slap first and look at it later.

As others have already said, it’s probably very low or even zero. However, if we allow a chain of events to count, then that number should go up. In that case, you could say that an ant was among the many factors that contributed to the death of a human.

Let’s say you’re tired, driving in the middle of the night, it’s raining sleet, your car has worn-out summer tyres, etc. It’s a recipe for a disaster already, but then you realise an ant has sneaked onboard and is now walking up your leg. You swipe it away, get distracted, and hit oncoming traffic. A truck carrying huge steel beams plows through your 1986 Nissan Micra like it’s made of thin cardboard. Did an ant kill you? Kinda, but not really.

Required training about the dangers of unions? Seriously? That is just so messed up…

Or a “frident”.