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Comment · 1 month ago
Reminds of poetry. I read somewhere that people love poetry that rhymes and want more of it, but modern poets won't give it to them.
Comment · 1 month ago
Some cassette tapes work very well. Pimsleur for example.

You can use it as supplement or do it standalone on your commute before a trip and end up with good pronunciation, vocab and a conversational skills.

Comment · 1 month ago
Might be helpful for people who have never flown.
Comment · 2 months ago
I had this idea for forever. Thank you for making it!
Comment · 3 months ago
Bicycle color, grass color and sky color are all part of the prompt.

>Cartoon illustration of a white pelican wearing a red scarf, riding a red bicycle along a gray road with white dashed lines; the pelican has a large orange beak and webbed orange feet pedaling, with white motion lines behind it; the background shows a light blue sky with white clouds, a yellow sun, two small black birds in flight, and green grass with tiny white flowers in the foreground

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
There is a similar podcast, "Boring Books for Bedtime": https://www.boringbookspod.com/episodes.

The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating.

This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely boring. I couldn't get past the intro.

Comment · 4 months ago
Good examples, but this one didn't make sense to me:

>Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game disappeared from Xbox and PlayStation stores in December 2014 when a license expired. Players campaigned for years before a remastered edition arrived in 2021.

I mean, physical stores can also stop selling a certain game. Existing sold games were unaffected. Why does this matter?

Comment · 4 months ago
Isn't that the system working as expected? Presumably a more just outcome is more likely because of your colleague's testimony.
Comment · 5 months ago
All the Google examples you cite still exist.
Comment · 5 months ago
https://www.lightboard.info/

I think he wears a shirt with mirrored writing so it looks correct to the viewers.

Comment · 5 months ago
>Unfortunately the billionaires are running away from us exponentially faster than we are catching up.

Why does that matter? Who is trying to catch up with a billionaire? They are not even playing the same game as the rest of us.

Comment · 6 months ago
You can reverse the charges on debit cards, but the money is withdrawn at the time the charge is made. This is not the case for credit cards.
Comment · 6 months ago
> [Whether or not the critter has moved, we need to adjust the sword-glow, because the player may have moved.]

That must be a comment, right?

In that case: "The critter [one of]slouches[or]slithers[or]shambles[or]lurches[at random] away.";

[one of] [or] [at random] are also comments?

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