Aleksei

We do have two words, mirti and dvėsti, where the latter is frequently used for animals and people you really don't like, but I definitely heard people say mirti about animals other than bees.

This idea (not under this name, though) was one of the main points of a 2017 Cracked article by Christine Hsu, www.cracked.com/blog/what-he... . Probably not the source you were trying to remember, but a source nonetheless. (Also, it completely changed the way I view internet discussions.)

Only when combined with a high enough temperature. Our humidity is at 92% now, but since the temperature is just 16°C, it feels really nice. (Pardon my metric system.)

To be fair, ACAB was an opinion of a character, while the Musk barb was from the author, and thus carries more weight.

"Since the laws of physics cannot be altered"? There's your belief system right there.

Me: argh my daughter is so picky, I have no idea how to feed her
Also me, at the restaurant: after discarding everything that has onions, red meat, coriander, shellfish, asparagus, minced meat, sweet potatoes, and freshwater fish, I think I'll have three portions of garlic bread, again

The way to seek confirmation in Japanese (similar to the English "isn't it") is to end the sentence with ね [ne], while in German, you can do the same by ending the sentence in "nee?". Similarly, exclamation in Japanese can be expressed by ending the sentence with よ [yo], like in English, yo.

Same here. People in the café kept staring. I'm considering suing Mr. Pargin for emotional damage.

Was looking for a bike shop today. Found one not far from me, with a good selection. Opened the web page and saw an AI picture, complete with that AI's impression of text that looks like you're having a stroke.

Closed the page and never came back. Do better.

I'd add that sacrificing oneself gives one a broader license to do questionable things. Tony Stark's snap pulverized millions of sentient beings, but it's okay since he went down too. So, including the sacrifice in the fantasy expands the potential for epicness.

While we're here, could you explain why in the movie's title "of" is written as オブ instead of オフ?

Live and learn, huh. Still, I'd expect a restaurant called "Kushi-Tei of Tokyo" to go for a more traditional impression instead of appealing to the recent language trends.

It might well be that the joke is on me, but why would anyone use katakana for Japanese words here? So far, it looks like they wanted the restaurant name to sound Japanese, but the use of katakana to directly transcribe the English sounds serves a somewhat opposite purpose.

A somewhat inverted example: I once saw this restaurant in Munich and had a really hard time explaining why I was laughing so much.

For me, a bare minimum prerequisite of being wealthy is being able to buy a place to live without selling your soul to the bank for 50 years. Which is impossible on a low six-figure salary.

Now, a high six-figure salary is a different thing entirely. To lump them together is, quite clearly, mad.

Me (sigh): okay, what _do_ you remember?
Brain: Earth's orbital speed is 30 km/s.
Me: so, considering 86400 seconds a day, 365 days a year, and circumference of 2 pi r, we get...
Brain: about 150 mln km! Now you can google it.

(Amazingly enough, I got it right.)

My hobby: deriving important physical numbers from random facts.
Brain: oh no, I forgot the distance to the Sun
Me: if it's so important to you, let's google it
Brain: certainly not, where's the fun in that?!

my ancestors survived the Great Oxidation Event, the Late Devonian Extinction, and the Chicxulub impact, not to mention a few ice ages. it sure sounds like I shouldn't need those artificial chemicals to not feel sleepy all the time! yet here we are!

like, my body is a product of billions of years of evolution. myriads of living things, most of them long lost to the sands of times, have persevered, survived, and procreated so that I could be born.

for some reason I can't really explain I low-key hate the fact that I feel tangibly better when taking vitamins.

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