“개새끼” (pronounced gay sek ee) literally translates to “dog baby”. “Son of a bitch” in Korean. It’s honestly the only example I can think of in Korean. I guess you also hear “돼지” (pronounced dway ji) meaning “pig” for fat people. Pretty bog standard around here I guess.

We spent some time in Italy in the summer about fifteen years ago, and you genuinely had to be careful which cities you visited at which times because entire cities would go on vacation at the same time. We went to Bologna at the wrong time apparently because almost everything was closed except for a few things around the train station. While it was kind of nice having the place to ourselves and wandering the parks, it also sucked to have to eat convenience store food. Coming from a place where almost everything is open year round, 24 hours a day, it was wild.

Windows is so full of stupid little shit that should have been fixed years - if not decades - ago. Sleep mode broken, folder customize options don’t apply to subfolders despite offering that choice, the OP. Sigh.

She even failed at being incompetent I guess.

Good choice. The Scarlet Letter!

In Korea, people put “초보운정” stickers on their cars. “Beginner Driver”. They’ve been doing it for decades, so you see some pretty old ones. How long does one remain a beginner exactly?

There’s also 차사순, who is literally famous for failing her written driver’s test 950 times before passing.

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

It’s way longer than I remember. I think I only ever saw an abridged version or something.

I use saline I buy at the drug store for something like $1 a liter. No brain amoebas for me!

Like the US justice system gives a flying fuck about precedence anymore.

I got my first ever “YouTube doesn’t allow ad blockers” message on YouTube today. I hit the reload button and my ad blocker caught up and blocked that shit. How’s that approach going for you YouTube? I’d sooner stop using YouTube than watch it with ads.

Yeah, “spin” was a stupid thing to call it. We have a nice, hard definition of what “spin” is on a macro scale. Why take a complex property of matter that we don’t have a name for, and give it the same name as a fairly common, easy-to-understand phenomenon? Extraordinarily smart people being idiots, honestly.

The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When’s the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?

OK! We weren’t super active, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to just recreate what I had there. I’m happy to see a production community already here. There’s understandably a lot of overlap. 😄

Cool! Thanks! I’ll have a look.