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This applies both in high-tech and more prosaic areas like restaurants and gas stations.

"x is bad and I can draw some prosaic analogies between y and x therefore y is bad!"Wait...

"It is also useful for more prosaic cases like, in a Campfire room, "Hey, I have a new design on localhost.

A nice implementation should read almost like a spec of the language, except maybe for the more prosaic parsing part.

Activists like to construct scary hypotheticals, but the truth is rather more prosaic.

It says that very prosaic, existing technology for daily life on Earth was adapted for use in the space program.

In the case of the radar transponder there is the very prosaic reason that ATC doesn't want their screen filled with all the aircraft sitting at gates.

Having worked there I don't think of Google as a shining light, nor is it an evil conspiracy; there are a lot of aspects that are just normal and prosaic.

I'm probably being too prosaic, but do note that plants don't actually use any matter from the soil they grow on besides water plus some minerals and micronutrients.

Just try arguing that, say, widespread financial shenanigans have anything other than prosaic and innocent explanations.

I like the more prosaic interpretation, which is that certain graphical idioms have become so commonplace that in order to stand out visually, you need to do something different.

But that provides little evidence as to what that object might actually be. There are many prosaic explanations: illusions, imaging artifacts, really good hoaxes, top-secret experimental aircraft built by us, ball lightning, etc.

Only later was it applied by private corporations for far more prosaic, some would say more dipshit, reasons than the original one of keeping nation states secure in times of war. Moving potatoes to fryers to help give people heart attacks just doesn't have the same level of importance in comparison, quite frankly.> AWS as "dipshit innovation"Yep.

I wonder if the OP considered the effect of the Internet on news organizations' business model as a possible reason why there seems to be less substantive news, or is that just too prosaic of an explanation?

Trouble is, without evidence it's hard to distinguish between plausible-but-true and plausible-but-false theories, and Occam's razor usually finds the prosaic explanations simpler.

There is a lot of potential chemical energy in a gas tank that's even a quarter full...So while the casual evidence might suggest otherwise, the prosaic reality is that cars involved in high-speed crashes often go up in flamesedit: boo, beaten to the punch by 2 minutes with the same cite.