are there lots of people of color doing racially motivated mass shootings that i haven’t heard of?

that is so fascinating. i’ll freely admit that i’ve never had the need or the opportunity to travel abroad, nor to call another country, so this is all completely novel info to me. thanks for sharing.

wait, does that mean australia only has (at most) 9 area codes, for the whole country? wild.

or when you’re searching for house rentals, and it says $800, but what they really mean is they’re looking to sell for $800,000, or its a airbnb type thing they’re advertising, and that’s the nightly, not monthly, price.

here, the area code is ostensibly still tied to a geographic area, and it is optional when dialing a number in the same area code, even for cell phones, i believe. when you get a cell phone number the area code is just the area code where you first got the number. so like i live in a college town, and you can fairly reliably tell where somebody is from based on their phone number.

i am guessing you’re not from the US, and OOP is. in the US, first of all, a billion is 10^9. secondly, phone numbers here are typically 7 digits, with an additional 3 digit area code tied to a geographical region, the first digit of which can’t be a 0.

when i was a kid, before cell phones really took off, it was pretty standard to omit the area code, since we were usually all in the same area code where i lived, but since cell phones have become common, and people are likely to retain their phone numbers when they move, it has become much more typical to include the full ten digits, which would be at least 1.21 billion dollars, by american standards.

uh, no.

clearly everyone in the comments immediately pegged this as ai. i did too, but i am not sure what it is specifically that makes this feel so obviously ai. anyone got any ideas what it is that we’re all picking up on here?

i immediately assumed this was a joke about a sports team, and sure enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Lions

alas, i don’t think there’s actually Panthera leo running around michigan.

“He resisted his homosexual urges, and remained faithful to his heterosexual wife until the very day he shot himself.”