Me too. Also I’ll often do the opposite where I make a joke but with no tone change to indicate it as such. People will either get mad at me for being wrong or else they will praise my brilliant deadpan humour.

You’re a couple hours late for it, but I just finished watching the CCTV Chinese New Year livestream broadcast for the first time and it was really cool. Apparently the whole country tunes in to watch this show and it’s like a variety show with a bunch of music and dancing and other performances. Maybe you can find a recording of it.

I’m Canadian, but I recently started dating a Chinese girl. We watched it and texted eachother as it was on. It was super interesting, even though I barely understood any of it. Music and dancing are pretty universal though, you can definitely get the vibe of a lot of it just by watching. Plus there was one performance that I did understand because it was in French (plus it was a song from a musical I’ve seen before). Highly recommend checking it out, it was an interesting window into the culture.

British cryptics feel impenetrable when you first learn about them, but I think in some ways they are actually easier than American style once you learn how they work. Each clue has two parts: the actual definition, and a wordplay or more cryptic explanation of the answer (like an anagram or a pun). The wordplay can be challenging to wrap your head around, but they have the advantage that the clues are self-confirming. Meaning as soon as you get it, you’ll know it’s correct because the answer will work for both the wordplay and for the definition. This is unlike American crosswords where you only know if you’re correct because the crossing entries all match up, which usually means you have to go back and change your answers as you go.

Xin nian kuaile! 新年快乐！

Firstly, sorry about your dad. Are you looking for American style quick crosswords or British style cryptic crosswords?

Also, if your step mom likes Sudoku, has she tried variant Sudoku? If you search “Cracking the Cryptic” in the play/app store, you will find some fun puzzle games for Sudoku lovers who want more challenge.

I really liked the way that was done in Ozark. Each episode would show the letter O, and then inside the O it would show 4 pictures of things that would happen in the episode. And the pictures were vaguely shaped like the letters ZARK.

Isn’t BCS just one of like four rotating clips? How are they relevant to the episode?

Basically any HBO show, they are always pretty iconic. Special shoutout to The Wire

AI chips are optimized for running large models right? They aren’t needed to do simple stuff if you have a decent CPU/GPU.

Redownloading booba mods for the umpteenth time because I keep switching PCs

The fact that you remember this is exactly why they will keep doing it. Remember: ads are psychological warfare.

Chris Nolan did it perfectly in The Dark Knight.

There are lots of different ND things out there. Just because you didn’t get the diagnosis you expected doesn’t mean you don’t have something

Given the horrible verbosity of PS utils, I’d expect they just abandon subtlety and call it Substitute-User-Do-Operation

Super Switch

It sounds superficialy benign, but keep in mind that “removing” behavior basically always ends up with shaming and manipulating people into masking, causing “hidden” harm.

It depends on whether someone is talking about the tools available right now, like ABA. Or, if they are talking about some magical hypothetical thought experiment “cure” that could reduce certain negative behaviours harmlessly.

The radio company playbook:

1. Realize that radio is not profitable because nobody is listening to it
2. Run more ads in order to get more revenue
3. More people stop listening to radio since there are too many ads
4. Return to step 1. repeat until the business is viable.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life, bright antenna bristle with the energy. Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength. Bearing a gift beyond price almost free.

• Rush, The Spirit of Radio

How did we take such an amazing thing as having music beamed into the air around us for free and enshittify it to the point that nobody believes it has value?

Thank God there’s still the CBC. For now at least

Maybe this is a hot take, but it’s really unfortunate that only the unhinged conservative lunatics are willing to have this discussion.

It’s because the US has no left wing. There are the Democrats, who are more than happy to see big corpos getting rich by exploiting people. And there are the Republicans, who basically believe the same thing, but with an extra helping of being super reactionary to any kind of societal change. Neither party would approach this question from the perspective of “what does the science say about this topic?”

I’d say your friend’s viewpoint is fine, as long as he isn’t advocating for forcing any specific treatment on people. Like maybe you don’t agree with him but it’s fine for friends to respectfully disagree about something. It sounds like he’s just saying it should be an option for people who feel that they are really suffering, and I don’t think that’s a particularly awful position.

It would be different if he said something like “every ND person should be forced have their ND-ness removed if there’s a medical way of doing so”

Nintendo is aware that every other console they release flops right? Maybe they should just accept the curse of even numbers and really phone it in for the next one.