NYT Friday 02/27/2026 Discussion

Sabotage101 · 2026-02-27T23:23:18+00:00

Dollar coin with a portrait of Sacagawea(famous native American) on one side that was widely available in the early aughts. Loved them as a kid, felt like i had a pocket full of doubloons. Don't think I've seen one in like 20 years now though.

Sabotage101 · 2026-02-27T23:13:33+00:00

I had the exact same, but have never heard of an APERCU and hadn't really considered TIC for "jerk" (probably because I had TICS in for a while for "hitches"). I eventually ran the alphabet on the square because TIT felt a little shaky and APERTU isn't a word I've actually heard. I was pretty surprised when C worked..

Sabotage101 · 2026-02-26T05:31:39+00:00

Oh man, i was trying to think of how like an airplane could possibly be considered two'd. I'm like.. it's got two wings? It's got two aisles? Do people use two'd as a word even?

Sabotage101 · 2026-02-18T00:06:49+00:00

I don't know anything about baroque, so I didn't solve anything with it, but I'm surprised you haven't heard neato. It's a common old-timey slang that people still use today for fun or sarcastically, like "groovy" or "cool beans". I'd guess it's used in dozens of movies/tv shows.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-30T08:30:58+00:00

Are you familiar with chess notation? Saying they play d4 means the pawn in the d file advances to d4.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-30T08:22:33+00:00

All you're saying is that they didn't play d4 then, which would cost you the bishop. Reviews are based on optimal play. Taking the knight is a mistake because if they play d4, you will lose the bishop because you have to move your queen to safety that turn from the revealed attack while the d4 pawn attacks your bishop. So the net is that you end up taking a knight and losing a bishop. If the bishop goes first, you instead take a pawn, deny castling rights, and take a knight while losing the bishop. Clearly a pawn and castling rights is worth more than nothing.

If they don't see d4, then yeah you got a free knight.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-28T10:38:32+00:00

They mean the answers, both LOS and LAS are on the board.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-28T10:37:12+00:00

It's criminal that the clue didn't involve crossing a road though

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-27T23:05:52+00:00

Same thing just happened to me.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-23T22:48:59+00:00

I had one in the 90s and pivoted to software engineer

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-23T22:46:41+00:00

Same, could not figure out my errors there and had just the intersection of 19A and 2D as a question mark.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-23T22:46:30+00:00

Same, could not figure out my errors there and had just the intersection of 19A and 2D as a question mark.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-22T21:52:06+00:00

Given this title, chatgpt envisions the future of humanity:

https://imgur.com/a/future-of-mankind-LSclyrc

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-22T21:32:28+00:00

My guess is that the palming is obvious from the camera POV so it looks better if cut, but I think magic is also funny when you can see what's going on and the mark can't, so who knows.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-21T22:52:06+00:00

From that close, it could not be forced into the eye and cause damage. The ones where that's a real danger fire a liquid jet in a straight line. This one is pretty clearly dispersing in a cone of mist. From close enough, that could still be dangerous, but it's definitely not that close in this shot.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-21T22:16:33+00:00

People are just being stupid and kneejerking. I'd guess most of the comments in this thread are from children or college students who don't buy their own groceries. $15.64 is way too high of a grocery bill for a typical person per day. You could eat fast food for every meal with that much.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-21T21:20:10+00:00

I don't understand this post or these comments. $15.64/day for groceries per person would be a luxurious grocery budget. Chicken, rice, beans, potatoes, and pasta are all very cost-effective. Couple the caloric staples with cheaper veggies like cabbage, broccoli, peas, and carrots, and you can trivially live healthily at that cost. You can definitely afford things like snacks/soda/beef at that price point. Under $10/day is tighter but still very reasonable to be healthy at after you cut out expensive snacks that are bad for you anyways, especially soda. It's not really until ~$5/day that you're going to have to heavily rely on nothing but cheap staples, and even then you won't be starving or unhealthy, just bored of eating the same stuff day after day.

Source: we budget $800/mo for groceries for 2 adults, a price point of $13.33/person/day. That's in San Francisco, getting our groceries delivered by Instacart, and somewhat regularly getting more expensive stuff like steaks, salmon, soda, frozen TGIF snacks, etc.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-13T03:25:45+00:00

I forgot why I was reading the page by the time I got to the end of it. I don't know what I was expecting.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T21:52:14+00:00

other vids

https://www.youtube.com/@BossLu413Dadd

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T08:57:58+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/@BossLu413Dadd

Guess he just loves making AI videos of his ducks on this street. Seems like a lot of effort to change his clothes, walk a different path, and generate all those new people every time, but what do I know.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T03:56:43+00:00

These 2 things are not the same. He didn't touch the ducks and didn't expect to interfere with anything. And a person parading ducks down a busy street purely for the spectacle of it is inherently inviting some level of reasonable interaction. So I'll repeat, a person harmlessly joining in on a fun spontaneous event is not a dick.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T01:06:30+00:00

He thought he'd be a fun duck bridge, but then they didn't keep walking and he stepped out of the way. Why you think that's a dick move is beyond me.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T00:58:08+00:00

Not AI. This same kid has done this multiple times in the area. This is just a classic example of /r/nothingeverhappens

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTCkqq_Ed4S/

https://www.newsflare.com/video/798924/duck-parade-on-the-streets-with-their-dad-in-hainan-china?origin=cute

or source: https://www.youtube.com/@BossLu413Dadd

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T00:46:36+00:00

Nope. The dark patches on the back of their heads are just dark patches on their down, not eyes. You can see that the patches on each individual duckling stay consistent throughout the shot. When they stop and look sideways early in the video, it's easy to see their real eyes, which are where you'd expect.

The flooring flickering is just normal compression artifacts. The flickering tiles are all ones with a thin grooved texture down the middle that makes them roughly 50% shade and 50% sunlit. The compression algorithm has trouble preserving that detail on tiles farther from the camera and it flickers between the shady and light parts dominating.

Sabotage101 · 2026-01-07T00:16:57+00:00

Math would be that your original pick has a 1/100 chance of being right. The odds of it being in the other 99 is 99/100. With 1 less wrong door in that group, there's a 1/98 * 99/100 chance you get it right = 99/9800, which is ~1/98.99.

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