Exactly. “kids these days” don’t even know what a website is, all they know are apps.

In a thrift store??? How could someone give away such a magnificent candle

But maybe I enjoy that…

(Amazing saying, though)

In my experience it helps a lot.

When you give a talk, telling the audience what you’re going to cover and what themes you will explore helps get people engaged, and ready to hear what you have to say.

During the main body of the talk the audience respond better when they know what the “point” is going to be, rather than wondering “where the hell is this going?” - Given you’ve told them what the conclusion will be, they can see your information building towards it as you deliver the talk, and so are “with” you on the journey.

Then at the end you can have a chance to reinforce key points, let people know what thet can apply themselves in their own lives or work - “If there’s one single thing to remember from today, it should be this”

Preparation and repetition help so much with engagement and successfully transferring information, and that’s true in the written medium too.

Same rules apply to writing essays as to giving presentations.

Say what you are going to say, say it, and then say what you said.

That’s a very rude thing to do to that fish. Now he has to pay taxes.

On Linux I use mpv.

Also switched to it as my player of choice on Mac (and Windows too, when I was still using Windows)

https://mpv.io/

It doesn’t have a dedicated “next file” button like mpc-hc but it’s scriptable, so I added a simple one-liner so that shift+right or shift+left open the next or previous files in the folder, works great :)

On the rant subject, I’m with you. I had the exact same journey on my path to find an mpc-hc replacement. It’s fine for the VLC devs to not accept a request, they’re doing all the work after all. But it’s wild that they dismiss it completely and say there is “no use case” and you should just “make a playlist”

The very fact that lots of people are asking for it is clear evidence that there IS a use-case that’s not covered by existing functionality, or people wouldn’t be asking!

You don’t sit down at the PC and think “Okay I’m going to watch a few episodes, let’s create a playlist!” No - you sit down, double click a file, watch it, and then as the credits roll you think “I want to watch another”

Every streaming service on the planet figured out this is how people want to watch, not to exit back out and go to the menu (or in the OS case the folder) to find the next one.

It’s only the difference of a few seconds, but when you’re accustomed to having that functionality, it’s painful when it’s missing.

I may not have realised I was using a British English specific term :)

“High Street” does etymologically derive from the main shopping street(s) in a town where most shops would have premises, as you suggest.

In a contemporary usage it means physical retail (versus online) and also connotes city centre, versus places that have enormous out of town “big box” stores.

So economists might say “The high street saw the best Christmas profits in five years” and they mean all retail in that sector of business.

So when I said CVS were a “high-street pharmacy” what I really meant to imply by that was “they are a brick-and-mortar chain with physical stores on streets in towns and cities all over the place”

CVS is a high street pharmacy chain.

So the “CVS guy” is the cashier on checkout at the store.

Welcome to my TED talk

YARE YARE

The person you replied to isn’t entirely wrong, though.

“ricing” was a term in use in the car modding scene around the 80s and 90s especially, where among certain groups it was popular to modify Japanese import cars with kits and decals etc to mimic the look of the Japanese racing scene.

Some people considered these mods to be tacky and worthless because they usually tended to focus more on aesthetics than performance, purely tricking the car up visually with no other changes. Due to the Asian origin of these mods and the stereotype that Asians eat a lot of rice, the cars were insultingly dubbed “rice burners” or " ricers" and the process of doing it “ricing”

It was intended 100% as an insult, basically meaning “Your car looks like shit because of all that Japanese crap you put on it”

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

Like many insults of course, the insult is often “reclaimed” by the group it targets, who begin to use it between themselves in a favourable way, without any insult or negative connotation.

Ricing in the context of computers where people are styling, theming and “tricking out” their desktop almost certainly was borrowed from the car scene.

By this point there is basically no negative intent around the term at all, and especially not racist, but the place the term came from was.

I’m not into any sports at all, of any kind. I dont think I could even name 10 athletes in total - either male or female.

I’m also pretty sure that wouldn’t be a blocker on me having a meaningful discussion about trans inclusivity in sports

In the 90s, ‘Political Correctness’ was sweeping through the western world, and was big news in the public consciousness. And that brought along some strong sentiments.

At that time, ‘Political Correctness’ was seen by many as nothing more than “a list of things you shouldn’t say in polite company” - that is to say, purely performative rather than something that would actually change behaviours or meaningfully improve anyone’s lives in the way we see inclusive behaviours to be now. It was nothing more than lip gloss for public speakers and TV presenters, and people thought it pointless, and stifling of free expression.

In other words, Political Correctness felt to many like a top-down push to enforce change, spearheaded by people it didn’t actually affect. Very unlike modern inclusion where change originates from within communities who are themselves affected.

It created an environment where being offensive and “non-PC” was therefore a counter-culture challenge to authority, and especially among young people there was nothing cooler than challenging authority.

Given the young demographic of gaming magazines this created the ideal conditions for these wild ads. A lot of them were extremely ableist and mysogynistic, but a lot were also extreme simply by featuring violence and sex and drug use. Being extreme in any way was the whole point, because the purpose was to say “You want me to be ‘PC’? Well fuck you,” and throw up the middle finger.

Of course, there’s a tremendous amount of irony in advertisers jumping on this sentiment of anti-conformity to sell products… but that’s another point entirely.

It was a wierd time.

I wonder what the Large Penis test came back as

The instructions for Windows work just as well on Linux, to be fair.

19:00 somewhat ruined the illusion, bringing those modern Arabic numerals into the mix.

There’s a perfectly good “at sunset” hieroglyphic 🌄

(it’s technically sunrise, but okay)

What that phrase SHOULD mean: "I will refrain from having opinions on scientific matters, and leave those to actual scientists*

What the phrase ACTUALLY means: “I’ll ignore the science, and have opinions anyway.”

Club penguin ban speedrun Any %

This is the way it should be.

I already gave the whole damn week to my job. If I sleep all weekend just so I’m rested and ready for Monday, then I’m basically giving them my whole weekend, too!

No. The weekend is MINE.