(It’s 30 minutes.)

Truly.

Not to be confused with Xanthoidea, the superfamily of crabs. (Genuinely did think for a minute that the comic strip was talking about some superfamily, given the “oidea” suffix.)

Hint: Check the clock in the background in panels 2 and 3.

Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

What on Earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights.

This once again establishes that Google Inc. came about in August 1998, not that Google Search did. Google Search existed in 1997; it was a registered, functioning website with a web search engine.

Edit: Huh, I see it’s a bit more complicated. Google Search was available at google.stanford.edu during 1997. Which is still a functioning domain that uses Google Search to index the web.

Edit 2: Unrelated to this, the fact the first version of the Google logo was created in GIMP is so quaint. TIL

Double nope.

Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, [emphasis mine] which has become the most used web-based search engine.

Google Search had already existed since the domain was registered. (EDIT: See comments below. I don’t know that this is true. It seems google.stanford.edu was up as a functioning web search engine in 1997, but this is getting murky.) You’re talking about Google Inc. the company which was created in 1998. Google Search was launched in 1997.

However, by that comparison, it’s vastly less close, as Yandex LLC was first legally registered 14 September 2000.

TL;DR: You were comparing apples to oranges.

Search website:

• Google: 15 September 1997
• Yandex: 23 September 1997

Legally registered company:

• Google Inc.: 1998
• Yandex LLC: 14 September 2000

Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s favor by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

That’s not true.

• google.com launched 15 September 1997.
• yandex.ru was announced 23 September 1997.

Which makes them hilariously close, but Google still precedes Yandex, as their search engine websites were their first products.

This kind of even basic information is being deliberately obscured from us; we’re just supposed to shut up and treat our occupation by a surveillance corporation as a fact of life. Misunderstandings about it should be treated as an opportunity to build solidarity; I feel happy to have taught you something about it.

FYI, “Falcon” is a Flock model, not a separate brand. This website is specifically Flock-branded cameras, but non-Flocks, as stated, are more than welcome on an open knowledgebase like OpenStreetMap.

I’ll give it a listen; thank you for the rec!

Tally Hall’s song “Ruler of Everything” is a “nothing matters and that’s terrifying” song. Contrasting that song, though, earlier in the album is “Spring and a Storm”, imo a “nothing matters and that’s okay and special” song. It ends with:

Create until nothing is left to create

And the Universe bursts with an overworked sigh

Then pretend to, pretend to recrown the creation

And sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry

And then over and over and over again

And then over and over and-- never again…

In my opinion, a commentary on how everything has already been done and it’s all recycled, but it’s special because we’re here now, and eventually, on a personal and a universal level, there’ll be a last time.

The Shrekvolution*

And per the school’s own admission, teachers recognized her as a former student and didn’t say anything at the time.

If you’re drawing that from:

Since our first communication, our initial investigation determined that this individual involved was a former student recognized by staff. [emphasis mine] She was not a substitute teacher. We did involve our Milwaukee Police Department school resource officers (SROs) the day that this occurred. The district’s Title IX coordinator was also notified. In addition to any police actions resulting from this situation, the district is continuing with its own investigation.

It seems extremely clear that what the letter is saying isn’t that the staff saw her impersonating a substitute and looked the other way; it’s that once the students reported her, staff who worked there were able to identify her as a former student.

If this isn’t what you were talking about and I’m missing something, I apologize.

If she had a gun, there would be a lot of dead students right now.

Milwaukee public schools use metal detectors.

This video specifically shows what Rufus King (this high school) does. You’re assuming her having a gun wouldn’t have changed this, but it would’ve. Because part of that “so much security theater” is scanning people who enter the school.

Do you know what schools have implemented in the effort to cut down on school shootings?

Yes, see the video above.

So much security theater just to allow someone like this to waltz into a classroom to openly berate children.

I don’t see the “so much” security theater you’re referring to, and it seems like she got very lucky. She appeared young enough to blend in with the other students but also appeared old enough to be a substitute teacher and had attended the high school not that long ago (and conveniently lived right across the street).

During her scouting the week prior, she “heard other staff in the main office talking about the substitute teacher agency and told the secretary she was a substitute”, so she had that established ahead of time. On the day she went into the classroom, eight of the approximately 70 teachers were absent, and one of those positions happened to be unfilled by a sub (something she couldn’t possibly have foreseen).

Incidentally, unrelated to your comment, here’s the local news source instead of the trash tabloid Metro.

There’s also, in Scarlet & Violet, Klawf al ajillo, which is just a soup of Klawf claw cooked in garlic, as well as Klawf sticks. This is in addition to a bunch of indistinct meats that seemingly also have to come from Pokémon. (Unless those meats are lab-grown, which seems plausible in a world where Pokémon can magically regenerate to full health at a Pokémon Center.)

Klawf can grow back their claws if they lose them, but organically losing their claws is definitely not how Klawf claws are being harvested for commercial sale.

Anti-Janets.

Well first we have to draw blood. I think we have a couple artists here who make OC.