“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions” JD Vance probably

These things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish

Why not 5000% at this point? We all know you’re not gonna stick to your word and change your mind tomorrow morning to whatever crazy idea sparks in your senile brain. So why stop at 50%? Get mad! Sky’s the limit when you don’t give a shit!

Wait so Richard isn’t his direct ancestor? Just that Richard’s great-great grandparents are the same as Cumberbatch’ great-…-great grandparents. Do I understand it right?

I remember I was surprised about that when doing my family tree. I didn’t get to middle ages but even in 1700 - 1800, the common age of my ancestors when they got married was 22 - 23 for women and 25 - 26 for men. I expected much younger ages, like 18 - 19.

Note that all my ancestors were farmers or workers from rural Slavic part of the world so don’t imagine it like 1800 London or something

Omg he’s just one year in the office? How are we going to survive this?

I don’t know man. For the past 6 months we went with approach “Fuck scrum, let’s just work”. It didn’t go well. We were really disorganized, everyone going their own direction, things being overlooked, …

When a new colleague joined recently, he suggested taking more structured (scrum-like) approach. Things improved immediately.

Like I don’t know how you want to call it - scrum, kanban, whatever, I don’t care. But you need some structure in your team and you need some meetings where you talk about status, about looking back at things, about plans for next weeks, …

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Iran Maiden

Baby Medal

Deer Purple

Afaik yes, although I remember reading that (I think) Koko sort of asked something (I think it was “what color” or something like that). But at the same time I remember reading about similar criticism you mentioned, that Koko’s signs were often quite random and the caretakers often tried to make fun of the situation that “she’s just joking”.

I should find that article …

Edit: I don’t know if it was exactly this artice but it was similar

https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/

Edit 2: or this

https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/koko-kanzi-and-ape-language-research-criticism-of-working-conditions-and-animal-care.html

She’s sending thoughts and prayers

Yes! I planned to make a library of christmas movies for my wife, each year adding new releases. But very soon I realized my naivity because there are so! Many! Of them! Every single year there are like 50 new releases of copy-paste romantic commedies

Always reminds me this great piece with Ricky Gervais

https://youtu.be/vNW3W6s0vyw

Context for the younger generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

(19 years ago huh? … I’m not crying)

It wasn’t necessary, he was staying alive

Maybe it’s just nostalgia but in my opinion, with youtube it went all to shit the moment the money started to be involved. Algorithm chasing, advertisement, reactive content, sponsors, quickly generated videos, … and all the other shit.

So if monetization, then let’s try to avoid same mistakes

I mean … in a way? When one looks at it from nature’s point of view, no organism has some “given right to live”, all organisms try to survive. But do we, as a society, really want to live like animals, each for themself, without empathy, without solidarity?

He’s just a dude and he’s on fire

No, what you experienced is called apophenia - you see connections between things that are unrelated. Your friend is fine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia