I can’t properly check the URL on mobile, but here’s a link that works for me:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/uk-government-undermines-security-with-demands-for-apple-encrypted-data/

I agree - but parallels can be a quick and effective way to communicate information where the specifics aren’t important, even if they have to be consciously discarded for someone diving further into the detail.

I won’t argue the point further than this message, and I appreciate the details you’ve provided, but the point of analogies is drawing parallels to quickly aid understanding at a surface level.

Nothing analogous to finding a needle in a haystack actually involves rooting through dry grass for a sliver of metal, but the analogy still stands.

I like your comment for the most part, but:

obviously comes from a mishearing by someone who didn’t read books

This is assumptive and prescriptive. The link I sent demonstrates that it’s been used extensively and for a long time by people who not only read books, but write books. I’m on board that “set foot” is the better phrase and likely to be the earlier one, but trying to dictate which is correct is - respectfully - a fool’s errand.

Sure, but OP’s image says:

hell, pollen isn’t analogous to sperm,

Pollen kind of is analogous to semen in a very broad sense, though, in as much as the pollen grain produces (rather than carries) sperm and delivers it to the ovule, right? It’s not the same when examined closely, but that’s the point of analogies. Grainy semen.

“Set foot” might be better established (and sound better), but “step foot” is not new.

this is a ANPORT

“Incharge” (typically without a space) can apparently be used as a noun to mean a person who holds responsibility. I’ve not personally come across this and most definitions on the web suggest it’s peculiar to Indian English, though, which is odd because the FfRF is US-based.

This is from the excellent Dan Sheehan:

Obligatory Big Train link: “the actual train wouldn’t be quite as fast as that.”

https://piped.video/watch?v=_qSQXzzJGO8

And also probably Starfield 😉

I found this on the web for “Hey I wobble in the bath believes Apple® beehive.”

In the new beta, when a user taps the thumbnail of an image or link post, it opens in a media viewer entitled “quicklook”.

Everyone else also checked the number, right? I’m normal, right? RIGHT?

Rules 1 and 5 apply here - please don’t just use this as a place to rant.

Rosanne Cash - God Is In The Roses Lynda Randle - God On The Mountain Swans - A Little God In My Hands Craig Finn - God in Chicago Bauhaus - A God In An Alcove Derek Webb - God In Drag Toni Child’s - I Saw God In The Supermarket Catherine Wheel - God Inside My Head Resa Saffa Park - God Is Drunk Rockettothesky - God Is Underwater

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

Is this a thing? I get anxious about groups of people I don’t know but will need to interact with - parties, joining a friend at the bar with their friends, etc - but a crowd doesn’t bother me in the least.