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After I downloaded Fahrenheit 451 my hard drive caught fire.

I wonder if they have a new control technique up their sleeve. Innovative gameplay and pushing new control ideas is one of Nintendo’s signatures. That said, being the switch 2, not…

How could someone write a post like this and leave off the great book “Metaphors We Live By” by Lakoff and Johnson? Is particularly found the part about how metaphors “hide and hig…

This is a great addition next to my race car VHS rewinder.

You’re totally right. And it’s important to distinguish between the many forms of homelessness. There’s visible homeless, they are what most people think of. There are also invisib…

When I was in high school (ages ago) the boy’s bathrooms didn’t have doors. I guess it was to deter kids smoking, graffiti, and other bad things that happen. We were a middle class…

Will they really not let you use the bathroom? The same idea exists in the US, and often bathrooms have a PIN code to enter or a special key only the shop owner has. I’ve never bee…

The article has one good point: there’s diseases and conditions that cause people to need the bathroom, and even if you don’t have this upset stomachs are common enough that at som…

The words “public company” often carry a negative tone but ownership rules are complicated. It doesn’t mean much until you know the specifics. For example a non-tech example of a p…

“Addiction is a disease” is something I learned as a child of a (now sober) alcoholic parent. It’s a strange classification at first because addiction seems like a matter of will a…

I might have miscommunicated my idea. I certainly think everything that documentary shows happens and agree with everything you say. No dispute there. I just don’t know what percen…

Yes. He comes all the time. I haven’t been in this apartment for very long but he’s had this route for at least a year. I first met him on New Years Eve when ordering a board game …

Obviously not all of this is true. I chatted to Amazon driver for my apartment about some local Chicago sports and he talked to me forever. Ironically I had to end the conversation…

Thank you for saying Michigan is your state. Context matters a lot. It’s annoying when people generically use “in my state” or “in my country”.

Anyone know what the US market (no pun intended) is like? Similar games, different ones?

Restaurants, particularly fast food, also do the same.

Are there any guides or tutorials on how to do this kind of analysis on your own?

Hot take (as it applies to toasters): many appliances are crap, they break quickly and are not user repairable. The odds of buying a toaster a year later might be higher than it so…

On the flip side, I wish rat Japanese design allowed for middle names. It annoys me that my marriage certificate has my first and middle name concatenated together simply because m…

Anime faces seem very easy to draw. Granted I don’t watch anime, so I could be missing something, but it’s not like they are going for photorealism.

I wonder if smart toasters could be in this category if the technology and APIs were made open in the way that a car is open (maybe not modern cars). You can swap out and replace c…

Curious to what people think is actual innovation - hardware, software, anything.

All knowledge, by definition, had to be first learned by someone. That person didn’t have an exams or someone testing their knowledge. As a child I looked to exams and grades to va…