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I wish all the best to Kat, and I hope she goes far

It's called pre-crime and Tom Cruise said it's illegal in his documentary, "Minority Report"

I don't think anybody is asking to measure his feet, but these measurement devices are practically everywhere that shoes are sold, so it's easy to check for yourself.

I wonder if it's a function of total surface area or if it's more about the weight pressing on your ankles...

Aaaannny second now...

As a funny challenge I like to come up with simplified, stupid-sounding, 3-word search queries for complex questions, and more often than not it's good enough to get me the information I'm looking for.

Apparently the phrase first showed up in 1968, but "drinking the koolaid" is more strongly associated with the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978, wherein 900 cult members all drank cyanide-laced Flavoraid, including young children, and the audio recordings of that event are haunting.

It sucks that koolaid gets roped in like that, but even more horrible are the recordings of what drinking poison sounds like. I try not to invoke the event through that phrase, either way.

"It's level 1 autism, what used to be called Asperger's," is normally enough for people to understand what I'm talking about. Of course, I'm not saying these things to every person passing by, but when a conversation goes there I try to be educational.

I find that I don't like full games of chess, but chess.com has these little chess puzzles that highlight the surprising deviousness of the rules that can turn a sure defeat into a swift victory.

They also have an algorithmic engine that will calculate the general effectiveness of each move so you can get instant feedback, which I like.

I guess I need more focus in the things I play, and chess is just too broad as a game.

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Chess is a logic puzzle that changes as you play it, with the randomness coming from player interaction. If you're not into solving those kinds of puzzles, you're probably not going to have fun.