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https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ has to go on the list for contrast against expectations of the home page of a $700B company. It does load fast.
Warren Buffett is practically a Luddite.
https://zombo.com
A little confusing, but it allows advanced searching across multiple image search sites - set your filters then it shows you all the sites you can search with those settings and deep links to the search results for each one.
I love https://www.luigicases.com - it's the web site for an Italian gentleman who makes leather cases and straps for Leica cameras. But the web design is straight out of the 90's, along with loads of extraneous text and even some family photos. And you can't actually buy anything via the website - you send the guy an email and a corresponding Paypal payment ( https://www.luigicases.com/a000-PURCHASE-info.htm ). Basi…
I think we might be hugging it to death. Oops.
> we are working to settle it correctly ASAP !
Probably
I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but yo…
In common contexts "unique" just means "unusual." It's like how "theory" can just mean "hypothesis" in normal discussion, but in strictly scientific contexts it only applies to explanations that are supported by a large body of evidence. So if one is in a rare context that is sensitive to the strict boolean definition of "unique," then you are correct. All other times (i.e., most of the time) you are incorrect.
When it comes to language, the most common usage is the correct usage. This may occasionally annoy us (see: "literally", "begging the question", etc.), but the fact is that languages are fluid and evolving, and there was no moment in history when the English language was frozen and declared perfect. Language is inherently democratic, and sometimes one is outvoted.
Granted, it's fine to try to realign the language to match your preferences, but more often than not this is a fool's errand.
How many hours are there in a day? (Not 24!) What is the shape of the earth? (Neither flat nor a sphere!) For 'answers' to these deep questions, see: https://timecube.2enp.com/
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Just cos someone is missing an arm is no reason not to ask them to go for a walk
Mental health issues can often be unpredictable and dangerous. A missing arm is almost never a sign of danger. A missing arm could be the result of many things, birth defect, boating accident, or dangerous behavior, but is not a commonly accept indication of danger to self or others. Mental illness is.
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Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.
Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…
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Wow! I've been using the internet since the 90s and I have never had my hair blown back by a webpage before. The isometric view certainly hits the nostalgia button. Edit (from the site): "Japan was once globally renowned for its people's quality of unique creativity teamed with a pioneering mindset. Their innovation and inventions changed the world. But that golden era has long been gone. It seems that the quality Ja…
It's bold of the Nintendo family to make such statements about Japanese society when they can't even get their own company under control themselves. Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company and it's true of other Japanese companies as well. They seem to be scared of the internet and goes out of their way to claim copyright infringement on anything fan made having to do with their intellectual pr…
So expanding from that, they (rightfully, from a business culture perspective) don't want their IP being tampered with, nor associated with a product they themselves did not create. Nintendo probably spends a much higher percentage on R&D than the average video game company. They don't want all their efforts to be watered down from mimicry. They don't want someone to see Mario in a meme post on YouTube and associate Mario with that video. They want Mario to equate to the production quality they work really hard to produce again and again.
You're wrong about Nintendo being hated. People love them, because they trust Nintendo. And Nintendo in turn works extremely hard at building and maintaining that trust.