To add to your point regarding additional functions inherent in smartphones: pagers do one thing. They’re relatively simple devices. Simplicity means that there are fewer things that can cause the device to function incorrectly or fail to function altogether. In hospital communications use-cases, this is a huge benefit.

Additionally, pagers are relatively inexpensive. Therefore, it’s much more effective to have multiple spares available for distribution compared to smartphones. If a pager is inoperable, it can quickly be swapped out with a backup while the original is repaired or replaced. Smartphones do not carry that benefit.

Dragorgon is Tiamat?

The Virtual Boy?

Noodle Hill.

Ah, yes, Ramenfuji!

No… porque no los dos

¿PNLD?

That’s a section of track where the break has been found and documented. At the very least, significant damage that is suspected to be related to sabotage would require additional thorough inspection of the surrounding railway.

This particular rail system is pretty clearly using reinforced concrete ties.

You could do it with a hacksaw, if you had enough replacement blades. And you could do it with an arsenal of bastard files as well. Each iteration on the idea takes considerably more time and effort, though. Those rails are quite a bit tougher than you might realize.

By now I should know better
Your queen is never free

So tell me about your little
Gambit on file c

Chesse you can always sell
En passant to me

What is this, a planet for ants?!

You missed the golden opportunity to call this Chesus Christ.

If they had infinite resources, they wouldn’t need to worry about adblockers.

Will the mirrors be real?

Yes, but you must:

1. Be immortal
2. Have inside you blood of kings
3. Have no rival (no man can be your equal)

3. re: “last candidate … George Washington”

I’m not entirely sure what point you’re making, as there have been multiple other parties whose candidates were elected to the presidency, including the Federalists, the Whigs, and the Democratic-Republicans. Theodore Roosevelt received the second-most votes in the 1912 election as a third-party candidate for the Progressive (Bull Moose) party.

My guess is that they’re conflating “stubbornly contradictory” with “hostile,” which isn’t accurate. Being labeled as or treated as hostile when you’re not is frustrating, and it leads to poor communication. That goes both ways, though, and I can see where you’d both be able to infer hostility that may or may not be intended by the other party.

Also, I’d suggest that if you no longer feel that you should “make an effort” then the best course of action is exactly that - cease engaging.

This vaguely reminds me of Old Man Logan.

Then how does “needlessly argumentative” strike you? You misinterpreted the other poster’s point entirely, and then entered a cycle of doubling down without making any further effort to understand.

A pop-tart