Of all the stuff people do for cosmetic reasons, I think I will never get poisoning your face muscles with a deadly neurotoxin.

Are you? I’m pretty sure you can replace “high-level marketing execs” with houseplants, with zero impact on productivity.

I can’t check the link directly, that store’s site might be geolocked for some reason… But yeah, good one.

Not sure, but I don’t think so… I think it might have been the opening from Ouran Host Club. IIRC that’s what my sister was watching back then, and she showed me that video.

There’s a line about beautiful spring in there, maybe it’s not a perfect fit but obviously the person doing that started from an English translation, and there might have been some creative liberty here and there.

Long ago, I watched a youtube video of a girl singing a song from an anime that I’m assuming she’d translated herself in French. A bit bold because she didn’t speak French. It was a nice try, but overall quite funny.

The part that really got me was a line about “a beautiful blooming spring” that she translated as “un beau ressort qui fleurit”.

“Ressort” is the mecanical part that goes “boing”. The season is “printemps”.

Technically only the first four generations are set in “Japan”.

The ones after them are set in fantasy New York, France, Hawaii, Great Britain, and Spain.

Maybe I haven’t understood your point but it sounds like you’re describing people both acting maliciously and being stupid about it, so I don’t see it as a case of Hanlon’s razor.

Exchanging the item for another one that’s cheaper, even if it’s only $6 total, is still dishonest. The fact that it may not even be worth it for them in the end doesn’t change the fact it was an attempt to mislead. They were listing a product, and delivered another one.

What the hell was that excuse in the quote?

“We tried to tell our employees not to work on sundays, and then one guy told us once he couldn’t work on that friday and that he’d prefer to work on sunday!”

This is absolute bad faith, it has nothing to do with resorting to crunch. You may make your schedules more flexible, for convenience. It’s nice, but it’s comparatively not a huge deal.

Problem is when you’re making your employees work 12-hour days or a whole week with no rest day. Making it sound like one anecdote is ruining all your attempts to have an healthy work schedule is insulting to everyone.

Though by pushing grandpa to become hot shit, they make his family rich and thus give the grandkid the resources he needed to start WW3.

Hmm. Looks like it.

The wikipedia article on Homo floresiensis is wrong then. It quotes another article that says the lawyers were representing the Tolkien estate, but that article too was quoting Alloway, who apparently got it wrong. Unlike the Guardian they probably didn’t bother to check and correct the article.

For some reason, the Tolkien estate had to tell paleontologists who nicknamed an homo species “hobbits” they had to stop doing so.

But a corporation is committing pure evil under the name “Palantir” or “Anduril” and, nevermind any kind of legal action, you can’t even hear a strong word from the estate.

I guess some targets are easier than others.

You can totally enjoy something interestingly terrible. You just need the right angle.

Boring is unhealthy though.

Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

I built a decent PC a couple years ago, and I don’t need to upgrade often since I don’t really care about cutting edge. So I kinda dodged a bullet, but, this sucks.

Yeah, sounds like bullshit. I don’t even see why that particular concern would create more work on the OS’s part.

If an application fits “wonderfully” into the space it’s given, Windows did nothing but telling it the dimensions it needs to fill. And as you said those dimensions can vary wildly.

It’s what is referenced here, yes.

Though really, I’ve visited quite a few old castles, and every time the historian guides told the same story : the medieval boiling oil dropping thing is a myth.

Oil was way too precious to waste like that. Those murderholes did exist, especially over the gates, but boiling water did the job just right, along with whatever rocks they could use for impact.

Also, in a coastal fortress I visited, apparently heated sand was a thing too. Quite vicious since it got caught and stayed in armour joints. As a famous person once said “it’s coarse, rough and irritating and it gets everywhere”.

The 1991 movie was my introduction to the Addams family, and, yeah, I had a VHS of it that I watched way too many times as a kid.

You don’t really see the result of that scene, or have to deal with any actual murder or on-screen violence, everything is played for laugh.

It’s very similar in humour to the first Men in Black movie, also by Barry Sonnenfeld. Very cool cast, especially Raul Julia.

Not sure about other adaptations, but the first Barry Sonnenfeld movie literally begins with that exact scene.

https://youtu.be/_A_aLgc9bJ8

The reason they’re cheaper is because the carrier is expecting to keep you locked in their network.

Not worth it IMO. Similar to cheaper phones with loads of preinstalled crap, you’re not getting a discount, you’re signing a deal to be farmed.

I don’t buy very expensive phones, but I try to find ones that are mostly free of crap (not easy), and I’m ready to pay a bit extra for that.

Most people are indoctrined into fear of the afterlife. It’s obvious it doesn’t work.

Echo, your “boyfriend” was so vain and stupid that he literally invented narcissism, and then died from it.