At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.

When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with “Joe”. For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also firstname.lastname@example.com. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just joe@example.com.

Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he’s only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

Meh, spacetime curvature has so little effect that it actually does come down to measurement accuracy. And if you go to the scale of the whole universe it is flat as far as we currently know.

Now I wonder how LISA will handle curvature changes due to sun, earth and moon moving around, or if they won’t make enough of a difference.

The universe being non euclidian needs some extraordinary evidence.

Wat?

Obligatory reminder that defensive lawyers are an important part of the judiciary system to ensure that there is no doubt in a person’s guilt.

I always get the weird issues I can’t reliably reproduce. I’m still getting this one and I still don’t know what triggers it.

Hmm, I almost never block anything. That’s not it.

But it does feel like it’s related to refreshing.

I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.

Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.

Light sabers follow a similar overall principle of ‘plasma bolt contained by some kind of coherence field’… but they use totally different internals to generate both the plasma and coherence field, and can seemingly just… do this nearly infinitely, never needing to ‘reload’, never running out of energy.

In the comics taking place tens of thousands of years before the movies the Jedi have to carry large energy cells with them. They are attached with long cables to the hilts.

They aren’t lasers, though. That’s just a colloquial term. Like how we call large language models AI.

There are probably tons of shows that were never translated to other languages. Most often happens with children’s shows.

Like “Die Sendung mit der Maus” or “Löwenzahn”. Two very popular children shows in Germany. They explained soooo much about the world, always in an approachable manner, never condescending. That’s why they are still popular with adults.

The moderator of Löwenzahn said he usually found the topic for the next episode by just wanting to know about something himself. Like how a purification plant works, how a big ship enters a harbour, how glass is recycled.

More or less the same with Die Sendung mit der Maus. Through them I learned how holes form in cheese (farting bacteria), how batteries work or how money is printed.

Through all of that they show funny cartoons, stories or songs. Shaun the Sheep was a staple on Die Sendung mit der Maus for many years, might still be.

I wish there was a blacklist in Sponsorblock. I mostly just need it for one channel, in others I don’t mind as much.

Put it on Amazon Prime! With ads!

I heard you should always buy it.

Well, wasn’t that character’s name effectively just a short form of Voyager as well?

Wasn’t that a stupid study where they didn’t cover the heads and then concluded that people lost most of their heat through the head?

Is there some kind of employment (or unemployment) office from the government in your country? They could have their own job board. It might suck, but sometimes you’re lucky and find something.

They don’t pop as quickly as water bubbles.

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