Boustrophedon (alternating left-to-right and right-to-left) was used sometimes in ancient Greek, so that your eyes didn't have to jump to the beginning of the next line.
Is Canada's NHL deficit the fault of the nanny-state, or the fault of big money in sports? I don't like what our kids are reduced to either, but I don't think that's the main cause.
Fairly recently (maybe in the last five years or so), Greyhound in some cities has been selling their city-center land and moving their stations to much less convenient places. Near me it's a side-of-the-highway industrial area with occasional local buses downtown.
There's also the instruments themselves, for a lot of 60s-80s pop music. A guy on the street corner with a money hat today can make any electronic sound that Kraftwerk blew people's minds with.
I thought that was more actual demand than speculation. Consumers have relatively inelastic demand for cars in general, but 1) their real income took a hit post-COVID and hasn't recovered, and 2) simply being used makes a car cheaper, since they are such poor assets to hold.
They don't get it in the language they speak at all! Puns are shitty in translation, and Shakespeare is loaded with them. Modern English isn't good enough, you need the allusions, the little nods, the things that make it human.
Laundry and dishes don't pay well. Art does, but only once in a great while, and AI gives you a ton of attempts for little cost. Since rapid iteration is the biggest strength of advanced computing, people just invented cultural pollution machines in the hope of striking it rich.
...At which point the panicky parent needs to have enough restraint to sit and stew and get the story later, rather than immediately phoning a teenager who's driving fast in a life-saving situation.
I guess it depends whether you trust the software more than your kid. I personally wouldn't, but my kids are pretty risk-averse compared to their friends.
Sure, why not? We have a bedtime ritual of physical books every night, her mom takes her outside to play daily, and she gets extra playground time on the weekends. She's a regular kid, it's just that a lot of her screen voices are 'Strayan, and that's what's captivating her right now.
I live in an area where the prevailing accent is a flat US midwestern one, and watching Bluey has led my toddler to derhoticize her R's some of the time. (The sound ends up like a muddled Australian-Boston mix.) I assume the reverse happens all the time with kids from other countries who see American TV, but it's something amusing that I didn't expect. Her mom and I are both unable to roll R's, so I wonder if playing a lot of Spanish audio will help her be able to do so.
The only part that doesn't hold up for me is the typical 90s-sitcom nervous-giggly writing about anything sex-related. The ensemble cast is pure gold, especially Phil and Stephen Root. I still find myself thinking about the cane and quitting-smoking episodes.
From that point of view, you could just have your flavor scientists whip up some MSG and garlic and make "Mammoth In A Biskit," zero actual mammoth required.
I do actually have a strong opinion about microwaves, specifically about the keypads. I have a perfectly good microwave that's a few years old, and the keypad is a cruddy, worn-out mess that's harder and harder to use every day. The microwaving part is fine, but the cheaped-out UI is making a solved technology unusable.
Yeah, anonymity in this kind of case isn't a technical problem, it's a social problem. I would never review a workplace on something like Glassdoor for the same reason; "worked in x department and wasn't happy" is easy to narrow down.
There is, afaik, exactly one other American with my first and last name. Fortunately, we're both reasonably upstanding citizens, so the scenario you mention has not come up.