More accurately, "prior" is much less ambiguous than "last" and thus more likely to satisfy the predilections of a pedant.

Gosh I love the depth of pedantry available to descriptivists!

I've been obsessed with it!! The cooking is amazing and I love the philosophical bits that are woven through everything.

Are you worried the cooking focus might take a back seat as the current storyline proceeds?

Oh, I had no idea Shortyz was forked, I'm so glad there's a maintained version thank you!

Agreed, it's definitely coming from the top! I didn't realize they had closed a ton of the other offices during the pandemic, but I suppose it's not surprising either. It also seemed like a lot of remote hiring happened during the pandemic?

Most of the people I know personally affected are in that category (remotely hired or relocated), and most of those people are women. Small sample size with lots of bias, but I've been pretty upset the whole situation. It definitely feels/looks like a way to quietly push a bunch of folks out... whether overtly or as a "bonus" for upper management, it has the same unfortunate effect.

I guess it is what it is, but what it is ain't good. It feels good to commiserate though, thank you stranger!

Noooo, Ferris don't do it!

But what about the consequences of avoiding the consequences??

I'm a bit surprised you thought of SMBus and not I2C! Although lord knows I've seen enough garbled and missing battery traffic from bad connectors, so who am I to say...

You are not alone... Manually unfocusing my eyes is a mainstay of pain relief for me!

Well, the human ones anyway...

Agreed, themes of all kinds can be fun! And I'm loving everyone's themes here. Most of my decks have a theme, though sometimes I sacrifice it for a little performance.

My three current favorites:

• Unionize : colorless, Assembly Worker tribal (took me a while to get that to work right! In particular [[Foundry Inspector]] + [[Self Assembler]] is fun)
• Red Wedding : black/red, vampire tribal with [[Edgar, Charmed Groom]] and [[Olivia, Crimson Bride]] (with almost all wedding themed cards)
• Ballroom Blitz : black/red, blitz ability aggro with graveyard return... basically "dancing" the cards between hand, graveyard, and battlefield (not the most efficient but pretty fun and efficient!)

For me, the loss of AskHistorians was/is/will be the worst. There's so just much important knowledge there, they've changed how I see the world (and I assume that's true for others as well). I really hope they figure out a way to save some of that, but it won't be surprising if it just fades away... Just heart breaking.

I hope we can rebuild some things here, but AskHistorians definitely felt special.

But unfortunately you can't start it again.