As I mentioned in another post, about the same topic, he’s tying a sinking ship to another. So both can sink together.

Musk said the combined company will “build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.”

The funniest part is that this might not be a lie - I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk genuinely believed that.

…let’s get real. xAI’s main product is Grok, a text and image generator. Twitter is basically a blog platform for the sort of people who whine “WAAAH! TL;DR!”. Merge both and you’ll get what? Automated shitposting!

Fuck the rules. Buongiorno, capra!
/me does visible gesture in violation of The Law

It depends mostly on my mood, but:

• pingado (a small glass of coffee with a drop of milk) - I just need my caffeine fix
• machiato - the above, but I’m treating myself
• orange juice - I’m lunching, and I’d rather not have alcohol
• chilled yerba mate tea - I’m lunching, I’d rather not have alcohol, and did I mention my caffeine fix?
• beer - I’m lunching, I don’t mind some alcohol; OR I’m drinking with my friends
• wine - I’m drinking with very specific friends who also enjoy chugging cheap wine
• campari - I don’t care about whatever you guys are drinking, I want my bitters; or, I’m in the bar alone writing

In my uni times I also drunk a lot of tubão (cheap spirit + soda, mixed in the soda bottle).

It’s pretty much ethnic anglo stuff.

If it’s for fish-and-chips lemon juice is a good sub. Otherwise white wine vinegar; note however that depending on the amounts the taste difference will be noticeable.

IMO the biggest appeal of Chrono Trigger is the balance between a well-made story and gameplay that encourages exploration,

This topic is not for me as it’s clearly focused on USA alone, but the mention of ambrosia salad reminded me a dessert with the same name:

Made with caramelised sugar, eggs, milk, citrus juice. Iberian in origin, still fairly popular here in southern Brazil.

On chicken Kiev: I know that the dish is supposed to be fancy and all of that, I’ve seen Marco Pierre preparing it, but frankly? The idea of a deed-fried dish filled with butter definitively does not please me.

Shakshouka: eggs cooked in a tomatoes and bell peppers sauce, with melted cheese (I used moz’) and siding some bread.

Which is also how Digg v4 ended up, the brands as content submitters.

Exactly. Almost like Reddit decision makers know how Digg died, and yet they’re unable to not follow its steps.

To be frank it’s only the start - I’ll need to plant and select at least five generations of the hybrid. But I’m really happy, the hardest part was done.

Thank you!

I was finally able to cross pollinate two pepper varieties! They are:

• yellow bell pepper - just some market variety.
• dedo-de-moça - Capsicum baccatum, red, 5k~15k Scoville heat units (hotter than a jalapeño, milder than a cayenne), great flavour.

I want the breed to be: yellow, large, mild but not heatless, finger-shaped. And hopefully more resistant to insects than bell peppers are.

In the meantime I’m still waiting for my chocolate-coloured habanero to grow flowers, so I can cross-breed it. Likely with dedo-de-moça too, I like the shape.

Props to the rooster - he’s afraid but still does what he needs to do. That guy is a champs.

I hope the dog issue gets solved. My former front neighbours had a half dozen dogs like this, who roamed my street, it is fucking terrifying. (The problem got solved when they moved away. One of the dogs stayed behind, another neighbour adopted him. He’s still a bit problematic but at least now he got attention and can’t roam the street any more. Thank you, local crazy cat/dog lady.)

Cordwell and Barker expect user growth for Reddit to stall in 2025 and, as a result, see revenue growth becoming more reliant on making the platform’s proposition more attractive for advertisers.

This won’t be even remotely fun for the people still using that platform. Because “making the platform’s proposition more attractive to advertisers” boils down to either more ads or ads that are more obnoxious, more disguised as content, more targetted.

When people leave home, Siegfrieda often meows loudly. Either towards the door or towards whoever is still home - as if saying “they’re abandoning us, do something about it!”.

But it’s really loud, to the point of being annoying. And this week Kika got enough of this shit: once Frieda started meowing, Kika jumped off her cardboard box, pawed Frieda on the head twice, then went back to her box. As if saying “enough of this drama dammit, the human is back soon.”

I cannot think of any language besides English in which an “f” can be written as “ph”.

Latin. In fact it’s where this mess started out.

Ancient Greek had a three-way distinction between the following sets of consonants:

• ⟨Φ Θ Χ⟩ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ - they sound like English pill, till, kill; there’s a clear asphhhhiration in them
• ⟨Π Τ Κ⟩ /p t k/ - they sound like English spill, still, skill; no aspiration
• ⟨Β Δ Γ⟩ /b d g/ - more like English bill, dill, give; instead of aspiration you vibrate the vocal folds before the consonant even starts

Latin borrowed a lot of Greek words. The words with the second and third set of consonants were no problem; they were mostly spelled in Latin with ⟨P T C⟩ and ⟨B D G⟩. But Latin didn’t have the sounds of the first set, and for Latin speaking ears they sounded like they had /h/. So they were spelled with ⟨PH TH CH⟩, to represent that /h/ sound.

So back then the digraphs still made sense… except that Greek changed over time. And what used to be pronounced /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ ended as /f θ x/ (like English fill, think, and Scottish loch). And Latin speakers started pronouncing those words with the “new” Greek sounds instead of the old ones. But they were still spelling them the same.

From that that ⟨PH⟩ spread out across a lot of orthographies using the Latin alphabet.

Italian and Spanish subbed ⟨PH⟩ with ⟨F⟩ ages ago; examples here and here. Portuguese stopped using it in 1911 (ACL / “European” standard) asd 1943 (ABL / “Brazilian”) standard.

In Portuguese it was part of a wider wave of orthographic reforms, that also got rid of etymological double consonants and ⟨Y⟩. A lot of people were hilariously annoyed, example stolen from Wikipedia:

Imaginem esta palavra phase, escripta assim: fase. Não nos parece uma palavra, parece-nos um esqueleto (…) Affligimo-nos extraordinariamente, quando pensamos que haveriamos de ser obrigados a escrever assim!

Imagine this word phase, written like this: fase. It doesn’t resemble us a word, it resemble us a skeleton. (…) We get profoundly afflicted, when we think that we would be required to write it like this!

It depends on the amount of errors and if you used the -verbose option.

The opposite, it ultimately comes from a Chinese language via Portuguese.

I’m binge watching all three seasons of Log Horizon. And already in the third one. Fuck, I forgot how fun that anime series was.

My bad, and thanks for the info! I’ll correct my comment, I kind of rushed checking the etymologies.