interesting. we had our own well when i grew up, and i've had allergic reactions to chlorinated water before so i'm super sensitive to it. i remember the water tasting off in london and eastern germany but it doesn't at home and it didn't when i visited austria. last time i was in north america and unprepaired for the tap water, it made me gag.
sweden does something similarly weird. we don't have a currency symbol (unless you count "kr") so the standard way to write a price is "20:-", which used to be "20kr, 0öre", with the colon as the decimal separator and the line added so you couldn't write in another value, but then we switched decimal separator for currency to "," and ":-" just became the symbol for "money".
you even occasionally see abominations like "19,90:-"...
most hybrids run the engine for a few minutes a month anyway, as a precaution. keeps it lubricated and sloshes the fuel around to prevent it from layering.
also i don't know how common this is but my car pressurises its tank to prevent offgassing, which apparently keeps the fuel good longer.
it's not really about the type of data, it's more about how you get it. web browsers could open gopher URIs for a long time, it was just a separate access method.
but the thing is, it doesn't really make a difference today, because we've decided that http is some sort of base protocol.
someone decided to try making a custom matrix:// scheme (it's called a scheme btw) for matrix clients and it's just been a nightmare. clients don't know what to do with the url, servers block it, we had to patch it out to get it to properly encrypt messages to our local homeserver. and matrix just uses http on top anyway.
no, i think they should be reserved for protocols that are important enough to be in the <1000 range of ports. like SSH, or Doom multiplayer.
well, if we're going by the original definition of meme as a concept or idea that spreads and mutates like a social version of a gene through a population (Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976), then unfortunately image macros are indeed a form of meme.
also, that's not an image macro. a macro is shorthand; image macros are memetic images, e.g. they have a culturally understood meaning that requires no extra context after learning of it, optionally with attached text that plays off of that cultural understanding. examples of image macros are "foul bachelor frog", "good guy joegreg", "hide the pain harold", "this is fine", "all the things", and so on. a comic that sets up a scenario is not shorthand, unless it's "loss" or "sweet bro and hella jeff".
i have only ever made one meme. it was more than 15 years ago, in a specific thread on the facepunch studios forums. it broke containment and is now one of the featured examples for the thing it is about on knowyourmeme (i just checked this because i wanted to see if it was in the gallery). and of course, i have no way to prove this. it was a hastily made gif i lost like eight computers ago.
interesting. we had our own well when i grew up, and i've had allergic reactions to chlorinated water before so i'm super sensitive to it. i remember the water tasting off in london and eastern germany but it doesn't at home and it didn't when i visited austria. last time i was in north america and unprepaired for the tap water, it made me gag.