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the clip in all its glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGYXjMwS60

Nintendo used to have Nintendo Selects where the price of a game would be significantly reduced after hitting sales benchmarks, usually $20 when the original game was $50. During the whole run of the Nintendo Switch, no games were given this discount. So on top of charging more for game, they remain charging more for longer, or indefinitely. Breath of the Wild, a launch title for the switch from 2017 is still $59.99 on the eShop today. After Iwata passed away, Nintendo went from making games for everyone to making games for their shareholders.

You're getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it's your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you're trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you're correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.

So rephrasing your question to "why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?", it's mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with .gov being US Government websites, and .edu being US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like .uk, .au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use .co.uk or .com.au for example, rather than .com.

I assume that americans rarely encounter a .com.au or other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to .com websites. They probably assume that the .au TLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn't invent the internet.

I think the criteria is that both women talking need to be named. The point being that if the same rules were applied to men in film, it would be easy for everything to pass, but when applied to women, unfortunately it's difficult for many films to pass the criteria, or require a lot of scrutiny.

Fascinating episode. I remember vaguely the events playing out in real time, great to hear about it in more detail and from the primary source. This is one of the best podcasts out there.

TBH I don't remember much about this one, but the sendoff to Chadwick Boseman was very well done, and captured the emotion we all felt of his loss.

How many sites are we talking about? I have like 600 passwords in my password manager, it would be insane to try to remember each of the rules for when I changed the password last.

FTA:

The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome,

So it seems as though the test will basically be

    
if y_chromosome:
    return Male
else:
    return Female

  

I assume in both XXY and XYY, those would be classified as male under their criteria.

♫ Way way back in the 1980's

Secret government employees

Dug up famous guys and ladies

And made amuzing genetic copies

Now their clones are sexy teens

Now they're going to make it if they tried

Loving, learning, sharing, judging

Time to laugh, and shiver and cry

They actually teach Electrical Engineers to yell IEEE when shocked by high voltage

This was a triumph

I'm making a note here

"Huge success"

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA

A roofer listens to his heart and not his wallet.

I haven't played the Switch version in a few years, but it at least used to be cross platform multiplayer. Not sure if it still is?

Just remember if you need to do anything with subtitles in FFMpeg, you need to install libass

More than just upsetting to viewers, the messaging of Snuffleupagus was leading to kids thinking that adults wouldn't believe them if they were being harmed:

The fear was that if we represented adults not believing what kids said, they might not be motivated to tell the truth. That caused us to rethink the storyline: Is something we’ve been doing for 14 years—that seemed innocent enough—now something that’s become harmful?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-sesame-streets-snuffleupagus-iidentity-crisis-180957351/

This relevant XKCD is a teenager now

I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.

Here's the original clip from The Simpsons episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XZxHXSHko

Shhhh just be happy Google Voice still exists, and isn't in the graveyard. Personally I'd take RCS over webp in Google Voice.

Feels like a bug where someone forgot the 1 in 128kb. What chat app is this?? In Slack, custom emojis can be up to 128kb in filesize