Pringles

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[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They (NYT) also did a similar one on election day in November 1999, where the answer could be both GWBUSH and ALGORE with the hint "The next president of the United States". Their crossword puzzle person/team is pretty clever.

Edit: I might have misremembered after a quick kagi search. This seems the one I had in mind: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zqn4o/til_that_the_new_york_times_published_a_crossword/

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea, and tomorrow Musk announces the imminent go live of his robot sales, predicts several million will be sold in a matter of months and the stock will bounce back up 10%.

Even if I was still an active investor I would not bet against Tesla. Musk has proven a master in stock manipulation.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They can call it New Flevoland

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

That's why I use mail relays.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Based on how it went with nutria in Europe, that is exactly what will happen.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I want everything as dumb as possible. I will register whatever I buy with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, but other than that: dumb toaster, dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb robot vacuum cleaner, dumb doorbell, dumb locks, etc...

If it doesn't need internet to function, it's not getting any.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago

That touches on a particularly nefarious part of guilt and why I tend to avoid it by being honest, because there always is that knowledge in the back of your mind and the consideration on whether you should come clean. I hate that feeling and it keeps my tendencies to take the easy route by being dishonest in check.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

True, good sport streams are a lot harder to find than they used to be.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 days ago (5 children)

A friend of mine is a professor in anthropology and he told me that he stayed in academia because he was afraid of change and academia was something he knew well.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Per merriam-webster:

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

crawl
creep
drag
poke
hang (around or out)
linger
lag
poke
dawdle
    loiter
    stroll
    tarry
    shuffle
    saunter
    amble
    slow (down or up)
    lumber
    decelerate
    plod
    dillydally
    dally
[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just do the dance in reverse

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.

I'm not saying it wasn't a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don't want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.

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