I think “100,000s of dollars” is cursed too. If you want to use that phrasing, just spell out “hundreds of thousands”.

I am pretty sure Ubuntu is still far and away the most popular desktop distro. For servers I would have guessed it was something like RedHat/CentOS or possibly Debian.

Huh? It’s referenced by name right there in the screenshot…

I think it’s correct as-is. Inserting a “were” would make that clause read as independent. With how the sentence is currently structured, that doesn’t work.

That’s not to say you couldn’t have

The tracks are now unruley [sic] and wild—the people once tied to them were killed in crosswalks by giant trucks

if you want, but the comma needs to change to something like a dash or a semicolon. With a comma (i.e., as a subordinate clause), “were” doesn’t make sense.

WebPlotDigitizer! It’s a great tool.

Here is my attempt at digitizing that plot and then log-scaling the vertical axis.

That’s what the meme is saying too

You can definitely be downvoted… @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s comment is showing -3 points as of this writing.