ThisIsNotHim @ ThisIsNotHim @sopuli.xyz

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It took me like half the movie to understand the pidgin for New Hawaii.

The book doesn't jump around. Each story is like a book opened to the halfway point, with another book inserted. They're all nested like this down to New Hawaii, which plays through straight, before finishing each story in turn.

I love ambitious (if somewhat failed) movies like this, and I'm not really sure if the Wachowskis could have done a better job.

Unless the policy changed recently: Brooklyn doesn't require a NY address. I had a Brooklyn card for years, but have never lived in NY. It was about $50 a year.

I had attributed that to our fuzzy food categories. Some of which are due to how ingredient usage doesn't map well to botany, some is just marketing.

I suspect the perception of eggs as dairy could have shifted for practical reasons: lactose intolerance became more visible, and we needed a short way to say milk and milk products, without using the word milk.

When poorly written or complex, maybe. I don't know how often I've had to focus on a headline.

Headlines are also written to be attention grabbing. I'd rather headline-specific grammar over clickbait. Maybe there's a different attention grabbing technique, but for now I'll gladly settle for headlines if given a choice.

Thanks for this. As a native speaker, it never occurred to me that headlines had separate rules that would be hard to parse as a non-native speaker.

The sulfury water may be part of the appeal to those who like it.

There's a handful of other sulfury foods that I love, but usually avoid if I know I won't have enough alone time for the embarrassing afterparty.

That's a wonderful eggcorn.

I was watching a video talking about how eggcorns are an unusual category of error because they require intelligence and creativity to make. The argument was that the process goes like this:

A new word or phrase is heard, but not understood. The brain makes sense of it using existing vocabulary that has sounds that are close enough. This is accompanied an explanation for why those specific words make sense in this new context.

For example: the original eggcorn was a mishearing of acorn. Egg because it's roughly egg shaped, and corn is sometimes used to describe small objects similar to how grain can be.

All this to say, it's maybe not something to feel dumb about. Your brain did something neat.

Valve doesn't have a management team.

Maybe they could transition to being a worker-owned collective when Gabe wants to retire. I'm not sure what else keeps Valve as we know it alive post Gabe.

It doesn't look like a hardware issue. Yes, the less powerful hardware is what forced graphical changes, but it looks like an art direction problem.

The changes mostly fail to capture the essence of the original design. The characters look like they were ripped from the SIMs.

No one is expecting the same lighting, textures, or poly counts, but they do expect something that looks like Mortal Combat. That isn't an unreasonable expectation.

You're right that this may be a budgeting issue of sorts, but if they can't set aside enough resources to make it look like some sort of Mortal Combat game, then maybe they shouldn't have made the port.

Weisswurst looks very similar to the Swiss St Galler style bratwurst, but I've never had Weisswurst to compare.

I'm not who you're responding to, but you may wish to check the first comment in the thread again.

The first comment says "running theme," which most people would interpret to mean generally.

Max Brod claimed he told Kaka he wasn't going to burn his works and that he needed to appoint a different executor if he wanted that. We don't have anything more than Brod's word, but if it's true, that makes it hard to feel bad about him getting Kafka published.

At the start of the word it's an acute accent. Like in école or état.

Also, if you've got that kind of money surely you can find someone to bring a crate or take the dog elsewhere.

I don't have quite the same issues, but I am fairly regularly running into issues where software on the other device is asking to play audio, and stealing focus. Make sure to mute unpredictable sources of sound (like Windows sounds or phone notifications).

Bluetooth devices and/or software implementations of audio are incredibly buggy.

Examples:

• Saying "OK Google" does this, and sometimes detects other sounds. I have to try to never say Google if I'm on Discord for example.
• Google Photos: the memories have audio, and will steal focus even if the audio is off.
• Spotify will sometimes get in a mode where it will constantly lose focus, even though nothing else appears to be demanding audio. When this is happening playback in other apps on my phone will continue to work as expected. This only appears to occur when my computer is on and connected to the headset via Bluetooth.

Other Bluetooth issues:

• Old games may not reliably play audio over Bluetooth. Fallout New Vegas would regularly get into a state where sound effects & voice wouldn't play, but the radio might continue. Plugging in speakers and using those for New Vegas worked, but introduced other buggy behavior.
• Calls may request exclusive access to the Bluetooth device. Like if you're on Discord, game audio may fail to play, rather than just playing in a degraded quality, or some other more graceful failover. This may be fixed, I've had it work at least once with other headphones, but haven't tested it further. I just have an external microphone now, and have disabled the "headset" functionality in Windows.

Multi-point may solve your issue, but be aware that what you're asking for may introduce a bunch of new problems. I still use Bluetooth headphones frequently, and in the way OP seems to want, but there are still significant growing pains, and I'm not sure I can recommend it.

This was recommended when I made my account. There weren't any regional communities for where I'm from, so Finland seems as good a choice as any.

I'm not sure I made an informed decision, but if there are real downsides to my choice I haven't noticed them yet. I seem to be able to see the things I want to. I have to use the block button liberally, but I can't see that being instance related. It's largely due to using All at times, and not having strong enough tagging/filtering tools to make that workable without blocking tons of communities that are fine, but not for me.

Here I took part of the point being that you can practice, and to some extent you may be unwittingly doing so. That's part of the upward trend. That's part of having to localized the test for a culture. We're to some extent practicing just due to the world immediately around us.

Should you or your kid intentionally practice? Probably not, but I took practicing and mentioning that to be part of the larger point that the test can be predictive for some things, but isn't destiny.

Good note on mold. I considered saying black mold, and for whatever reason decided against it.

Great recommendation! I've made this many times.

Some additional notes:

With the limited budget, I would recommend eating the onion halves rather than discarding them.

And if an onion is too much produce, onion powder will work. Both onion and garlic powder are reasonable options, especially in any recipe that cooks a while. Especially given your limited budget, do not shake any spices directly into the pot (they'll start to clump). Always put spices in another dish (like your bowl, you can always rinse it if you feel the need), or your hand and then add them to the pot.

Onions will keep for quite a while in a cool dark place, and can still be used even if they start to go off.

• Soft spot? Cut it off
• Sprouting? That's edible, chuck it in too
• Mold? If it's black mold, Peel off all layers with evidence of mold, or wash it off, it's probably only on the top layer

In any of these cases, you might consider using twice as much onion as the recipe calls for, to try and use up as much as you can.

Carrots and celery can also keep for similar amounts of time in the fridge, and bad spots can be cut out. They can also be added in a lot of places where they're not asked for. I understand that produce might be challenging, but even if you only make it to the grocery store once a month, these may still be an option.

If you read the article, yes.

Debt forgiveness occurs after 10 years in an income-driven repayment plan (down from 20-25 years). Payments in these plans is now capped at 5% of discretionary income (down from 10%). Unspecified improvements to tracking progress towards loan forgiveness (historically this has been done by the company servicing the loan, and they are beyond awful at it, so this might just be not relying on them for this decision anymore).