If you haven't read them yet, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett fills a similar fantasy space, but with an excellent dose of British humor mixed in. The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are often recommended as the primary starting point, but there's a handful of parallel storylines with their own "starting points". Going Postal is one of my favorites.

Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.

Locally (Baltimore MD), in the city at least, there's been a plague of car thefts for a while, specifically of Hyundai and Kia models. I forget the exact details, but there's a software glitch that basically makes them child's play to hotwire and roll off with.

SteamOS is arch based and uses KDE Plasma as the default DE, so you could probably run Endeavour OS and be pretty darn close

How dare you besmirch Peppermint Patty's name, she's a trustworthy girl. Lucy van Pelt on the other hand...

What are you on about? They literally mention Proton by name, with a link, in the second paragraph. Plus, this isn't trying to subtly call out Proton, they're a related party in Tuta's concern about Switzerland's potential privacy laws.

Discord is another, goes into effect on the 15th

By Grabthar's Hammer........ What a savings

It wasn't world, Lemmy.ml is his home instance which does the censoring

From what I remember, they got bought out by Coke and the quality rapidly declined shortly after. Plastic bottles, basic flavors, no more witty lizard quips in the cap.

My dad's go to is "Joe's Bar and Grill, this is Grill speaking". Sometimes he'll shake it up and answer as Bar instead

I've heard my BIL pronounce it "chew-gee"

This may be rose colored glasses talking, but IMO the GameCube wasn't a failure. It had quite a few iconic titles (SSBM, Animal Crossing, Mario Galaxy Sunshine) and to this day the GC controller is still considered one of, if not the best, way to play smash bros.

Strong Bad was ahead of his time when he made the Ab-Abber 2000. Abs in minutes - nay, seconds!

Johnny Sins, a pretty prominent porn actor

There's an aspect of Japanese folklore called "Shirikodama" or (roughly) "small anus ball", which states that humans have a small ball/organ/jewel in or near the anus where their soul is stored.

This is what inspired the name of "The Dung Eater" in Elden Ring, who would kill people and then "defile their corpse" to ensure their entire bloodline becomes cursed, as well as the Headless from Sekiro, which has a grapple attack where it removes Wolf's soul via the nearby orifice.

I had this happen to me recently too, with an EndeavourOS live USB. In my case, it turned out to be due to a faulty flash, reflashing with Rufus fixed it.

If this was a recent occurrence, it may have been from the 6.6.5 kernel. There was a WiFi regression in that version that did exactly that, slowed the system to an absolute crawl. I got hit by it on my PC and ended up hosing my whole install (because I panicked and botched things up), but my laptop was fine. I finally got things reinstalled a couple days later when 6.6.6 was released, which fixed the regression anyway.

My mother's been on the "natural health" train for a while now and claims that pasteurizing milk removes most of the nutrients (verifiably false). No amount of my protesting or pointing her towards sources for the contrary have convinced her to stop consuming that garbage.