Reminds of poetry. I read somewhere that people love poetry that rhymes and want more of it, but modern poets won't give it to them.
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You can use it as supplement or do it standalone on your commute before a trip and end up with good pronunciation, vocab and a conversational skills.
>Cartoon illustration of a white pelican wearing a red scarf, riding a red bicycle along a gray road with white dashed lines; the pelican has a large orange beak and webbed orange feet pedaling, with white motion lines behind it; the background shows a light blue sky with white clouds, a yellow sun, two small black birds in flight, and green grass with tiny white flowers in the foreground
The problem with that podcast is that most of their selections are genuinely interesting - I even listened to them on long drives (e.g. "Origin of Species"). Even something I thought would boring like or "Farm Engines and how to Run" them turned out to be fascinating.
This one, on the other hand, seems to be genuinely boring. I couldn't get past the intro.
>Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game disappeared from Xbox and PlayStation stores in December 2014 when a license expired. Players campaigned for years before a remastered edition arrived in 2021.
I mean, physical stores can also stop selling a certain game. Existing sold games were unaffected. Why does this matter?
I think he wears a shirt with mirrored writing so it looks correct to the viewers.
Why does that matter? Who is trying to catch up with a billionaire? They are not even playing the same game as the rest of us.
That must be a comment, right?
In that case: "The critter [one of]slouches[or]slithers[or]shambles[or]lurches[at random] away.";
[one of] [or] [at random] are also comments?
Not even then. Neither third world country doctors nor 19th century physicians would confuse the liver for the spleen.
This sounds like a generic urban legend "A friend of a friend told me".
If something like this happened, it would have to be in the news, right?
For ChatGpt answers we reasonably expect to cite actual sources rather than "Source: ChatGPT".
For Wikipedia, most of us just stop at "Source: Wikipedia".
The first time it said "I just took a massive shit". Then I round-tripped it and it said "I just fired a bunch of people".
I chose "Telling you how it is cut the crap" and fed it some corp speak from other comments and it did pretty well.
Lisa needs braces.
Imagine you have a ruler. You want to cut it exactly at 10 cm mark.
Maybe you were able to cut at 10.000, but if you go more precise you'll start seeing other digits, and they will not be repeating. You just picked a real number.
Also, my intuition for why almost all numbers are irrational: if you break a ruler at any random part, and then measure it, the probability is zero that as you look at the decimal digits they are all zero or have a repeating pattern. They will basically be random digits.
I think of mafia as providing services that a government/legitimate private entities cannot provide.
Human trafficking - yup, I should have thought of that. In the counties listed in the link the governments does serve that mafia function. I was US centric in my thinking.
Prostitution - no. It can be legal, but the government does not engage in it.
Drug trafficking - I am sure some governments do it. I wouldn't put US in that list. Both the government investigations and the newspaper investigations found the allegations unsupported, according to the given link. I would say it could happen incidentally but organized crime does not need to worry about the government as a competitor in this space.
Gambling - the lottery is not illegal gambling. But you can argue that is tautologically true.
Racketeering - I don't see where in that link it says that the government engages in racketeering. Rico is a law that makes prosecuting racketeering easier.