Please, you think this question is some kind of honeypot?

If it was, that wouldn’t work. 80% of his most loyal staff (especially the secret service) are part of the revolution, playing the long game to undermine his administration from within. Basically, everyone he truly relies on is plotting against him.

I try to avoid any kind of scroll-type behavior on my desktop. Desktop is for actual work, or hobbies that require actual focus and labor.

If I infect the big screen with mindless content consumption, I’ll ruin the quarantine.

I went Canon for color laser, no complaints so far.

This is true, but Fahrenheit is directly based on climate norms (though thanks to global warming there’s an argument to be made for recalibration). For F, 0 is as cold as it typically gets most places, 100 is as hot as it typically gets most places. By that metric it’s a useful measure for climate temperatures. For that purpose, measured temperature norms make more sense than the freezing and boiling points of water.

It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language

Maybe, but I think it’s mostly just that it’s my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn’t, like, actively choose English.

Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!

Eh, like I said, that’s a future me problem. I think the “fun” way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I’m not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I’ll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.

English, and quite well.

I’ve tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don’t have the mental temperament for language learning, I’m a math guy. I’m already very proficient in arguably the most useful one, and I just can’t justify the time and effort that I could be using to learn other more broadly useful topics.

I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.

Same as you. I agree on Fahrenheit on the same principle, but it’s not that big of a deal and °C isn’t that hard to adjust to.

Heads of state actually just do that, and in the process eject projectiles which look just like bullets into the muzzles of nearby firearms. It truly is crazy how nature do that.

Have you seen a superhighway? It’s still accurate.

As long as he’s shaking his speare

I am pretty hard now that you’re asking the tuff questions, if that counts.

The only ones I found wouldn’t do anything off-menu :'(

Quinoa sounds awful on a sandwich, it’s gonna be all over the floor. Why not queso?

People who prefer using a spoon for (non ice cream) cake are the type of people who make a song and dance out of succumbing to temptation when they order it.

Oh, I got mixed up in the comment chain, I was talking about OP

Even then, I feel like it takes way less time and effort to learn to crochet than to code.

I think she said Swiss in another post? There’s a lot of cultural cross-pollination

As much as I hate advertisements and avoid them as much as possible, watching the evolution is somewhat fascinating in an anthropological sense. It’s like an arms race between companies and consumers, accelerated by consumer adaptation to previous ad strategies.

You’ve got the old days, when ads mostly seemed to be about describing the features of products in a relatively factual manner.

Then when most products have the same basic features you start focusing on single metric comparisons to competitors.

Then when all the competitors are finding metrics where they’re the best you start leaning into mascots and brand loyalty and slogans.

Then when everyone has branding and mascots you focus on how all the Cool People prefer your brand because it makes them Cool and Sexy

Then when everyone assumes the content of ads can’t really be trusted as a useful metric you enter the fever-dream era where you shift to memorable skits about the product.

Then when everyone gets used to memorable depictions of your product you enter the surrealist fever-dream era where the skits aren’t even really about the product anymore.

Now it seems like we’re in the brainrot “flash your logo in the midst of visual overstimulation” era, but that’s about where I only see ads by accident anymore.

I’d love to hear about how advertisements have evolved in recent years if anyone can fill me in, but not enough to watch them

Capitalism excels at breeding innovation. Not in like, useful technology or anything, but in constructing labyrinthine bureaucratic structures to bypass regulations.

You misspelled liek