You mean the Bell Riots that started September 1, 2024? I’m not sure how to tell you this, but that didn’t happen on schedule.

The biggest improvement in socks since the '80s was when they moved the seam from the end of the toe to the top of the toe. That seam was the bane of my existence.

You don’t need reclassification to lose a lake; you just need a drought.

Edit: I may have misunderstood you. It’s pretty late, and I should be sleeping…

Not everything is available on streaming. Even things that are available might not be on the services they have subscribed to. Also, while DVDs often have a “play all” option, you can typically play a single episode, and it will stop when it’s over, which is pretty useful for helping to limit how long the kids are watching TV.

A lot of milk replacements are common allergens. I can’t eat almonds. A lot of people can’t have soy. I’m guessing very few people are allergic to all of them, though.

the output is always going to be an average of the input recipes.

Yeah, that’s a problem for most recipes, especially baking.

That’s pretty good, but… how much pie crust does it make? The recipe only says to roll out one circle of crust, and then once the filling is in it, suddenly you’re crimping the edges of the top crust to the bottom. It’s missing crucial steps and information.

I would never knowingly use an AI-generated recipe. I’d much rather search for one that an actual human has used, and even then, I read through it to make sure it makes sense and steps aren’t missing.

Newton wasn’t the only one who developed calculus. Leibnitz developed it independently around the same time, and both of them had prior mathematicians’ work to base their work on. If it weren’t for Newton, we would still have calculus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus

That said, we can acknowledge Newton’s mathematical and scientific achievements while still acknowledging problematic or terrible things that he also did. We don’t need to whitewash history in order to recognize someone’s achievements.

As a kid, I had a small dictionary, so I checked whether “gullible” was in it in order to mess with my little sister. It wasn’t there, but I still got in trouble when my mom overheard me telling my sister, “Did you know gullible is not in this dictionary?”

I was miffed because I was telling the truth.

It’s eth, actually, not thorn.

I had thought that eth was used in Old English for the voiced “th” and thorn for the unvoiced “th”, but Wikipedia says they were used interchangeably for both sounds.

You’re right otherwise. Thorn was not available on printing presses because they were being made in countries that didn’t use the letter, which is why the letter Y was used instead until “th” became more common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

humans just put certain expectations into the word.

… which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.

By the common definition, it’s not “intelligence”. If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.

The cream would rehydrate them.

Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.

I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you’re supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it’s ambiguous.

When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

That article you linked was a really interesting read. Thanks!

I have it on pretty good authority that everyone

That’s where your comment went wrong. Just about everything that anyone claims “everyone” does is false. Maybe “lots of people,” “most people,” or even “by far, most people” do a thing, but literally “everyone”? BS.

I don’t like looking at breasts, and I have absolutely no interest in them.

5 years: pay what it costs now

It doesn’t cost anything to copyright something. You just automatically own the copyright to something you create.

(This may vary outside the US; I’m not familiar with international copyright law.)

Only a 2% yearly increase?!? Are you serious? I lived in an apartment for 8 years, and my ending rent was 70% higher than my starting rent. By your number, it should have ended up only about 15% higher.

Well, if Musk said it, it must be true. /s

You’re thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don’t repeat.