My point was more that they will believe they have created a scalpel but it’s actually a cudgel. They aren’t as clever as they think they are and will mess up here.

I hadn’t considered that, but looking at Elon as an example, yes, this is likely.

I have no faith in their AI efforts. They are going to flag so many random accounts.

You already succeeded by noticing and asking this question. People who are old or stubborn in this way were born that way and never grew out of it.

Damn that was my exact experience

If they were different when new then it likely has to do with what threads were available at the time of production.

There’s a huge pet trade for ants. Really big hobby.

The argument is symbolic. He’s still a foreigner and will always look and sound like a foreigner. His Thai friends will consider him part of the community, but he’s just some expat to everyone else.

It seems like every 10 years or so a story like this comes up.

I remember in the 90s there was a case of a teenager who vandalized or put graffiti on a building in some place like Singapore and was sentenced to caning. There was this huge outcry about how cruel it was and such, and I remember (I was in high school) thinking that the guy was an idiot who made how own bed.

Then you get Otto Warmbier who somehow was allowed into North Korea and then decided it was a good idea to rip a post of the country’s founder off the wall.

The lesson? Know where you are. When you’re not in Kansas, then don’t do Kansas things. Consequences are different in different parts of the world. It’s really easy to be a respectful traveler.

He was getting on or off a plane as I recall. In something like 2017 or 2018.

Yes. They will also sacrifice their own children and their wellbeing.

This will impact the stock price. Tesla will lose more than the fine in total.

Even the billionaires are going to lose money. It’s just unjustifiably stupid.

The ones sold in supermarkets are not the same as what are distributed to restaurants. Plus, you don’t have the right equipment to make it the same way as the restaurant.

The ones that require you to insert the switch into them make sense. There are no excuses for the remainder.

Masters in classics here. They literally are, even the number 4. Look at a watch with Roman numerals and notice that the 4 is “IIII”.

I = 1 finger

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V = open hand

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X = two open hands next to each other

Edit to add:

Why do you get “L” for 50 and “C” for 100? The C “centum” was written with two reversed “L” shapes. Take away half of that, and you are left with L.

Why do you get “M” for 1,000 and “D” for 500? Same reason–doubled up reversed D shapes. Take away half and you’re left with a D.

Money. Someone was making money off of it somehow, and was willing to do terrible things to get more.

I agree with you. The cultural export is fine. If you were rich, being there would be fine. If you are a worker in an office, it sounds awful.

Keep repeating to yourself: they have an “external locus of identity”. This is why they are angry, because an attack on Trump is an attack at their personal identities.

Put things in the iCloud folder. You can optionally sync to any other device that is signed in to the same account.