If you drive around fast enough, you might make one.

Sriracha sauce and ice cream. Probably also works with any hot sauce that isn’t just spicy vinegar.

Now I’m curious what ice cream and wasabi is like…

Cable management: are they plugged in? Yes? Ok, great, now it’s time to use the device!

It took me a couple of tries to get into it but it gets so good. Between BB and BCS, I think BCS is the better of the two shows, but it does start a lot slower.

Fun fact: the first capitalist ventures were colonial missions (Spanish missions to the Americas). The first publicly traded corporation was the Dutch East Indian company.

Though I’d say the root of all evil is imperialism or the desire of some to spread and maximize their control and wealth.

I’ve recently started reading a bunch and have mangas and manwhas I like, but the manhua I’ve tried so far was too heavy on the propaganda for my tastes. I’m not sure if that was specific to the one I was reading or if the CCP requires all art to be pro Chinese nationalist and imperialist.

My top mangas:
Hunter x Hunter (keeps going where the anime stopped, though it doesn’t finish the story and I’m not sure it ever will)
Dandadan (holy shit this one is so good, goes way past the one season of anime, which is very faithful to the manga, it’s still ongoing with weekly updates)

My top manwhas:
Hero Killer (I love the characters and art, though the action and story can be difficult to follow)
A Returner’s Magic Should be Special (this one is the first one I found after deciding I wanted to read a completed story and it delivered)
Solo Levelling (this one’s pretty fun, especially early on)

And the manhua I started but gave up on:
Way to be the Evil Emperor (some speculated in the comments that the CCP friendly stuff was to gain some leeway with the rest of the story but it was just too overt for me to enjoy. And the writing isn’t that great outside of the propaganda, too. The art was good though)

Or burning.

Unless it’s java.

I don’t have the patience to keep it up for a long time but I barely get any scam calls after pushing the button to talk to someone and then just asking about the plot holes in their script. Like the one claiming there’s going to be a warrant for me, why does the guy need to ask for my name and other information? Why would revenue Canada (of anyone who isn’t a scammer of some sort) ever want any kind of payment in gift cards? I’ll use a tone of voice on the verge of laughter, too.

One time, after I asked, the guy just asked me why I even pressed the button to talk to a person and then hung up. Most of the time they just hang up. Sometimes the English option seems to only be there to make it seem more realistic for those who would pick the Chinese option because the call disconnects right after picking English.

Though more recently I’ve just been hanging up early in the recording when I do get the odd scam call. They might filter that, too, because even the volume of those calls stays low. Which makes sense because even just making the calls probably costs them something, even if it’s just pennies.

And the major action item is to do some internet videos with whatever video games are popular with those millennial kids these days playing in the background. Shot in Nancy Pelosi’s beautiful home–oh nm, she doesn’t want any dirty YouTube filmographers in her home but W is willing to let them use his ranch and his copy of EA Football Game 202425. See if we can get Joe Rogan to make a guest appearance, and we’re sure to recapture the millennial under 30 crowd!

Oh good, the corporate sponsorship money arrived, let’s split that up and go home. Don’t forget to set aside the King’s fifth!

If you remember this the next time we loop around, ask her what 100 times 10 is supposed to be then.

It’s interesting that they are able to come up with creative and intelligent experiments that would serve as evidence or proof one way or another but then often won’t even trust their own results.

The ones just trolling I can understand. Maybe it’s all of the ones doing experiments.

I haven’t read the piece but apparently he didn’t even go into the why.

He punched a guy in 2015 over available food options, which got him fired from BBC. His popularity didn’t take that much of a hit from this incident despite him clearly being in the wrong (Hammond and May both left BBC with him and they started a new show The Grand Tour, which wasn’t as popular as Top Gear, but was still popular.

Then, in 2022, he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun about how much he hates Megan Merkle and included a bit where he said she should be paraded naked through the town. Amazon decided to not start any new projects with him after this, though they continued with the plans to wind down The Grand Tour which had already been established.

He’s got a farming show now, so he wasn’t cancelled over this, despite burning some bridges.

There was an observatory that was picking up these mysterious spikes in radiation that they couldn’t explain. They thought it might be something new but couldn’t see any events on other spectrums that would go along with this random event.

Eventually they figured out that the spikes were caused by people opening the microwave in the break room while it was still going.

So I don’t do that anymore after hearing that story.

If the authors believed magic and the gods to be real, would ancient works like The Epic of Gilgamesh or The Iliad count as science fiction?

It depends on why you want to avoid being wrong.

If it’s just about being a good person by your own standards, then I’d agree that you can follow a moral code that doesn’t line up with any community you’re a part of.

If you want to avoid your communities turning on you, which could mean anything from silent looks of disapproval, reduced willingness to cooperate with you, complete shunning/exile/boycott, being targeted for others’ immoral acts, or legal consequences, then it’s a good idea to at least be aware of the differences between your personal morality and that of those around you.

And even if it’s relatively safe to follow your own moral code today, that doesn’t mean it will still be tomorrow. Even for “sins” committed today.

Yeah, words aren’t determined by dictionary committees or English teachers. They are determined by people using and understanding them.

All languages (other than ones designed deliberately, like Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s elvish) started from the same root and diverged when populations reduced regular contact and all words and grammars were made up along the way.

If a shortcut creates ambiguity, then the only way to avoid that ambiguity is to avoid the shortcut.

You can try to define it a certain way, but it won’t work if it depends on people seeing your definition because most people won’t see it. And even if they did see it, they’d need to agree with it.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of interpreting single letters as the name of the letter instead of the sound, unless it’s an initial. I don’t feel strongly enough to complain about it if I see someone use “u” instead of “you”, but your post made me realize I don’t even think of “why” when I see y, I just think “yes”, though context probably affects that.

Oh yeah, you just reminded me of how unusable teams was for scrolling back up in a chat to look at older messages on a slower machine. Skype was at least capable of that because it had the history stored locally. But teams unloads the message as soon as it was out of view and needs to fetch it from the server and must have done it very inefficiently because I started giving up on checking chat history until I got my newer machine.