Higgs boson

obviously.

I can walk out any door and be in the forest, so overall I’d say forest…but if you’re teleporting me there and back for thr day, I’d pick a bit of beach.

Planet Money interviewed the professor who wrote the book from which Ben Stein is reading in that scene.

It is an older episode they re-air periodically. I think this one:

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/1218506684/worst-tariffs-ever-update

It is not always feasible to differentiate. I only know a dozen or so Japanese or Korean words. Fewer Chinese. Some of the rudest people Ive seen in public were probably Chinese tourists in Myanmar, but I only had my guide’s word on their nationality. IMO, Japanese are usually much more polite in small numbers. By the busloads, less so. I cant reliably tell Chinese from Korean without hearing them speak a bit.

More, though, I just feel like cultural norms like personal space are just very different in Asia in general, so I find it strange.

Another one that has gotten me is that Eastern Europe doesnt smile in public. They literally think you’re mentally ill if you smile like an idiot in public.

Ive not noticed that at all. In my experience, Russians are absolute shitheels when abroad. Americans aren’t much better. Most Asian tourists are super rude by Western standards of behavior. Europeans are mostly fine unless theyre very old or visiting the US.

Make noise. They will hear you coming and gtfo. They’ll leave on their own, so let them. Dont corner them.

Stick a bowl of water on top of it.

Neither, really.

I take a moment to appreciate medical science for bringing us H1 antagonists (2nd generation anti-histamines.)

Sorry it came to this. We sane few who remain will miss you; we will undoubtedly be worse for losing the diversity of thought (and snarky humor) expats like you bring.

The best advice in the thread so far was to freeze your credit. And I’d add: don’t assume you’ll never want to come back just because your current self doesn’t forsee it. For your own sake, don’t burn bridges out of spite.

Possibly a broken adblocker

Took me longer than I care to admit.

Literate.

Hyperlexia is a thing, kids with super-reading.

I might have nerve damage. Hmm. Do I seek the opinion of a qualified medical professional? Nah. I’ll ask Lemmy.

Dude. Just go to the urgent care or whatever you have where you live.

I… guess I didn’t watch anything. My kids tend to monopoloze the TV

Well mine saw it the same way.

I run Pihole+Unbound, Debian baremetal on a tinypc. RPi was too unreliable. I was too often dealing with issues.

My router is the failback, as it has blocking too.

I prefer his full name: “The Father of Behavioral Economics, the Great Danny Kahneman,PhD and his lifelong co-collaborator, Amos Tversky.”

Sorry. He gets mentioned so often in the podcasts I listen to, all that is queued up in my brain upon hearing his name. There is literally a drinking game based on how often he is mentioned.

They’re obviously trying to imply that environmentalists want us all to go back to the Stone Age.

Hey that could be me in this image.

yeah, I’m “grateful” for it. Albeit, about as grateful as I’d be for a kick in the nuts instead of a bullet in the head.