>But I’m just realizing I’ve known what the word ditto means all along without knowing what it comes from.

The term ditto for a mimiograph copy actually comes from the term ditto, which comes from Latin though Italian. Just a little tidbit I finally happened to learn a couple of years ago after half a century on this Earth. I had always had the same assumption as you.

You left out the sweet, sweet solvent.

The sound of the teacher's clack-clack-clack on the hallway floor returning from the teacher's lounge would start a pavlovian tingle in your nose in anticipation.

It almost made up for getting the last one, which was only vaguely legible because the master was running out.

I vaguely remember that. Are you sure you're not a great grandparent? :)

So that's why it's stuck into the end :)

It was a play on "what's a computer?"

Many would say that the term came from the purple copies that smelled oh so good back in the old days.

Not my best work.

Hey, you're the one that used the term.

Grandpa, what's a ditto?

>Actually, a copy for personal use is quite legal.

Personal use isn't sharing with others.

>Except i can copy a paper book and share it without issues. It's not much different

No, you can't.

Heather Thomas > Heather Locklear

^^by ^^a ^^bit

Doing the Lord's work!

You can't just say that and not post a link.

>You seem to be the one who started an argument with a stranger on the internet.

Yes, because you're spreading abject bullshit after viewing a miniscule percentage.

By your irrational thought process, since I've seen animal rescues that neglect their animals, I must conclude that your mom abuses animals at hers as well.

>Animals are dying.

They are, but not from the shipping process.

>I don’t know about you, but I’m for making that happen less rather than arguing about semantics with someone on Reddit.

Then push for a change in the law that allows for the USPS to do something with the chicks sooner. Or, make it illegal to order them and not pick them up.

That's much better than arguing from a point of abject ignorance about both chick biology and the shipping process.

>We’re splitting hairs here.

No, we're not. You're taking the rare instances where chicks are undeliverable, and extrapolating them to the general practice of shipping chicks. In reality, chicks aren't "undeliverable," as they don't get delivered. These are chicks that someone decides to not pick up from the post office. That's a shitty recipient problem, not a shipping problem.

>Plenty do survive.

You just said most don't. Which is it?

>not many people are even aware of birds get transported this way.

The vast majority of people don't know how the vast majority of things are done.

>Awareness can hopefully lead to improving the process so that fewer birds are harmed.

There's nothing wrong with the process. It's extremely reliable with very low mortality rates. Someone choosing to not pick them up at the post office isn't a reflection on the shipping process. Claiming otherwise is like claiming that Amazon has a problem with their shipping process because you left your package on the front steps for a week after they dropped it off.

>When she gets calls to pick them up, the majority don’t make it.

It's often too late by the time the USPS realizes they can't be delivered.

>and have enough nutrients for 72 hours

Baby chicks have 72 hours of nutrients built into them when they hatch. That's why the process of shipping chicks the same day as they hatch works so well.

It would be a logistics nightmare shipping three-day-old chicks.

>Shipping chicks that young is really risky and most sadly don’t make it.

No, it's not risky, and yes, the overwhelming majority make it just fine.

I was asking where it was located. I'm curious because it's a tough situation to solve, considering the lack of space in the areas where they're needed.

There's been talk since the 80s about excavating a large part of the Sepulveda Basin, which would be perfect as far as location on the LA River and already having a dam there, but there's a golf course there, so obviously that can't be done.

>Hence the new reservoir.

Which one is that?

I still have two T61s, chugging along just fine. I have a client still running a T43. They will not die.

>In most places, you are able to use computers to decrease the profits used to calculate your tax if you're a business.

Spending a buck you don't need to spend simply to save paying twenty-eight cents in taxes is a horrible financial idea.

>Businesses also can afford it because it's a tax write off

That's not how tax write-offs work.

As you noted above, businesses buy them because they're rock-solid and come with top-notch service for the rare times they aren't.

>installed bigger storm drain pipes, and cleaned up the existing ones.

That's great for flooding, but SoCal needs to figure out a practical way to retain a lot more of that water instead of dumping it into the ocean.

My ex-girlfriend wound up stabbing her new boyfriend two weeks after they got together.

Damn, you really dodged a bullet there.

Popular usage dictates definitions.