mbg721

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by mbg721 2y ago
Boustrophedon (alternating left-to-right and right-to-left) was used sometimes in ancient Greek, so that your eyes didn't have to jump to the beginning of the next line.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Because the Graboids sense sound vibrations rather than sight?
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by mbg721 2y ago
Didn't Doug Ford get elected repeatedly?
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by mbg721 2y ago
To me there's an uncanny-valley effect. Maybe it's the Looneys or the kilometres on the road signs, but it definitely feels the tiniest bit different.
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by mbg721 2y ago
The sick days people don't take are probably more damaging to the company than the ones they do.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Is Canada's NHL deficit the fault of the nanny-state, or the fault of big money in sports? I don't like what our kids are reduced to either, but I don't think that's the main cause.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Fairly recently (maybe in the last five years or so), Greyhound in some cities has been selling their city-center land and moving their stations to much less convenient places. Near me it's a side-of-the-highway industrial area with o
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by mbg721 2y ago
That pesky L...
69.
by mbg721 2y ago
There's also the instruments themselves, for a lot of 60s-80s pop music. A guy on the street corner with a money hat today can make any electronic sound that Kraftwerk blew people's minds with.
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by mbg721 2y ago
I thought that was more actual demand than speculation. Consumers have relatively inelastic demand for cars in general, but 1) their real income took a hit post-COVID and hasn't recovered, and 2) simply being used makes a car cheaper,
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by mbg721 2y ago
They don't get it in the language they speak at all! Puns are shitty in translation, and Shakespeare is loaded with them. Modern English isn't good enough, you need the allusions, the little nods, the things that make it human.
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by mbg721 2y ago
This is in line with the joke, "How do get the NYPD to catch a rabbit?" You ask them, and a week later they bring in a badly beaten bear, who shouts "Okay, I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!!"
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by mbg721 2y ago
I saw an ad once for a convention of Bobs, with a keynote speech from Bob Newhart and the Jamaican bobsled team as special guests.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Sure, but the AI fails as much as it needs to, and nobody starves. It can have awful output forever. That's the polluting machine.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Laundry and dishes don't pay well. Art does, but only once in a great while, and AI gives you a ton of attempts for little cost. Since rapid iteration is the biggest strength of advanced computing, people just invented cultural pollu
76.
by mbg721 2y ago
...At which point the panicky parent needs to have enough restraint to sit and stew and get the story later, rather than immediately phoning a teenager who's driving fast in a life-saving situation.
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by mbg721 2y ago
I guess it depends whether you trust the software more than your kid. I personally wouldn't, but my kids are pretty risk-averse compared to their friends.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Sure, why not? We have a bedtime ritual of physical books every night, her mom takes her outside to play daily, and she gets extra playground time on the weekends. She's a regular kid, it's just that a lot of her screen voices a
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by mbg721 2y ago
I live in an area where the prevailing accent is a flat US midwestern one, and watching Bluey has led my toddler to derhoticize her R's some of the time. (The sound ends up like a muddled Australian-Boston mix.) I assume the reverse h
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by mbg721 2y ago
The only part that doesn't hold up for me is the typical 90s-sitcom nervous-giggly writing about anything sex-related. The ensemble cast is pure gold, especially Phil and Stephen Root. I still find myself thinking about the cane and
81.
by mbg721 2y ago
From that point of view, you could just have your flavor scientists whip up some MSG and garlic and make "Mammoth In A Biskit," zero actual mammoth required.
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by mbg721 2y ago
In my junior-high classes, it was something of a tease for the unfortunate late bloomers. Kids at that age are total assholes.
83.
by mbg721 2y ago
I wish my old floppies were in good enough shape for that. They got to an unreadable state before I thought to copy them.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Their customers clearly objected; you can call that "culture war hysteria", but that's the die-by-the-sword of mega company marketing.
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by mbg721 2y ago
How many double-majors have AP or other high-school credit completing their gen-eds before they even walk in the door?
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by mbg721 2y ago
I do actually have a strong opinion about microwaves, specifically about the keypads. I have a perfectly good microwave that's a few years old, and the keypad is a cruddy, worn-out mess that's harder and harder to use every day.
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by mbg721 2y ago
Yeah, anonymity in this kind of case isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem. I would never review a workplace on something like Glassdoor for the same reason; "worked in x department and wasn't happy" is
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by mbg721 2y ago
It's not like they'd be involved in fashion design in any way.
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by mbg721 3y ago
This confused me a little, because the commute is traditionally the tradeoff to avoid big city real estate. And then I saw "Bay Area". Ah.
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by mbg721 3y ago
There is, afaik, exactly one other American with my first and last name. Fortunately, we're both reasonably upstanding citizens, so the scenario you mention has not come up.

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