I once realized so many of my favourite businesses were cooperatives. I started thinking of what other co-ops I could start and grow. The excitement faded once I realized it would have to not be about the money.

This is what I often did before going to a party. Sometimes before, sometimes after driving more than 90km to get there

I agreed with you up to the point where it appeared as if you felt that logophiles are miserable and spread misery. That being said, I appreciate your perspective and I’m sorry sharing what brings me joy has the opposite effect on you.

That’s limerence.

A more stable relationship is when feelings crystalize, but until then, there’s limerence. Two-way limerent relationships are as unstable as a bottle of undiluted nitroglycerin. In any case, limerent relationships are quite common, and are the stuff of music, art, and poetry.

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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Humanity.

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The only source is the absolutely bonkers price – that’s why it’s an assumption.

In all seriousness, if I were to release open source hardware and software, I’d charge a price like that to ensure that my time would be reasonably compensated for what’s clearly going to involve small production batches of hand-built-in-the-first-world items.

It’s a project by an Australian team, so one would assume two things:

1. It’s in Australian Dollars.
2. Australia has experienced severe hyperinflation overnight (or earlier today, for many of us reading this)

I have no experience in this specific matter, but you could look up how to switch the sector size from 512 bytes to 4096 and, you know, just do the opposite.

They share a brand for mutual benefit. As far as I’m concerned, they can take the Electrolux and pyrex route and share the mutual pain of the other side being overly capitalist.

Haier & GE in the US can rebrand if they don’t like the attention.

I’m trying to remember which company it was that sued their foreign trademark licensee because the partner chose to use inferior parts. The argument they used was that the partner damaged the global brand. It might not be relevant if the licensor is the one that’s messing up here.

I suspect the dumbfounded reply you received was because one expected the word ‘epidemic’ to be used instead.

‘pandemic’ usually is taken to mean it has spread across several international boundaries. ‘pan,’ meaning ‘all.’

That’s partialism, Patrick.