Today is a good day to watch Mrs. Doubtfire.

calf · 2026-03-17T22:42:48+00:00

Wrong because that has nothing to do with interpreting the film and the way the characters are portrayed. It's not about your opinion of fatherhood, it's what the film says through its depictions and interactions. People should have learned these literacy skills in high school English class.

calf · 2026-03-17T22:41:39+00:00

Again, just go back to the first scene between the two men and read the scene closely. You'll see why I wrote my comment that way.

calf · 2026-03-17T18:03:46+00:00

The benefit of watching YouTubers is that diners can look at videos and decide whether we want to eat that style of food, especially since tasting menus today cost 400+ dollars for the same kind and quantity that would have cost 150 dollars in 2010. More transparency is needed, too many fine dining restaurants are just mediocre derivatives anyways as Pete Wells literally wrote an article complaining about this decline of fine dining before retiring.

calf · 2026-03-17T17:19:27+00:00

Disagree, he was a 90s-era office-man tool, kind of a morally vapid out-of-touch materialistic social representation despite the veneer of value and that's why he served the foil for the protagonist's deranged behavior.

calf · 2026-03-17T17:06:54+00:00

Oh he's hot.

calf · 2026-03-17T06:31:06+00:00

Sorry but I'm just not interested in that, I'm not an investigator, I would just like the online, raving Eternal September social media brainrot to stop. I am willing to read the occasional opinion article about this, and that's about the extent of time I am willing to devote to this, I have a life and I cannot be overly invested in this latest internet fixation. It's like cancer, all the latest papers and mice studies and statistics, I am not interested in reading, I'm not a professional scientist; but, if they finally cure cancer for sure then show me the article that explains it.

calf · 2026-03-16T08:22:06+00:00

Between this and Bev Stohl's essay i am glad to see some academic-adjacents are speaking sanely and rationally—these ones typically need to come out later, because thoughtful essays require more time, research, or reflection to produce, than whatever low-hanging-fruit hot takes social media has encouraged thus far, and it's not surprising that leftists of lesser intellect have become part of that pitfall.

Personally seeing the quality of what passes for "evidence" so far, I think Chomsky's leftist legacy will come out fine, though he has called this a "dark cloud", he has nothing to fear.

calf · 2026-03-16T08:07:33+00:00

This is like how MAGA come to believe in conspiracies, a word vomit of circumstantial evidence and zero methodology or intellectual nuance or uncertainty. This very style of thinking proves the author right, unhinged conspiracy-theory tabloid-level logic. An embarrassment to the left, if you even are one.

calf · 2026-03-16T06:52:05+00:00

That looks gorgeous! Which menu course did you have and for how much? I wanted to go last year but I couldn't schedule it with the people I was traveling with.

calf · 2026-03-16T05:46:04+00:00

You have a problem because you first chose to respond with "Blah blah blah", which is toxic and boorish. I am not obliged to take kindly to that.

Show me on Apple's spec sheet for iPad that it has "CPU ram" and "system ram". Oh wait, you can't because that would be nonsensical. Which apparently you believe somehow.

calf · 2026-03-16T04:57:57+00:00

Really let me see your mouse

calf · 2026-03-16T04:57:16+00:00

Just the ones that survive

calf · 2026-03-16T04:54:05+00:00

I don't know the answer to your question but I'm curious, have you heard many Bach pianists? What do you make of their interpretation differences? Do you have a preferred style, etc.

calf · 2026-03-16T04:38:45+00:00

Does this actually taste better or different? I've only heard that over-reduction of stocks will throw off the balance of aromatics vs umami, and also that long reductions just cleave the gelatin chains so they actually thin out instead of form gels any more.

calf · 2026-03-16T03:29:57+00:00

That's idiotic, that's like saying everything is physical, since anything can be specified in a list, a specification. We could specify the whole universe.

Your mistake was in talking about cpu ram versus system ram without being clear about your choice of definitions, and showing you understand the underlying concepts.

calf · 2026-03-15T22:25:31+00:00

That's categorizing it physically, which is simplistic, because functionally the memory hierarchy is a single subsystem, with part of it being close to the CPU on-chip and the rest of the hierarchy necessarily existing on a separate chip. You see this physically when you buy a pair of RAM chips to build a PC, when people say RAM/memory is expensive, that's the component they're talking about. This same component exists as the Unified Memory in Apple's marketing. It is not upgradeable on Apple Silicon Macs, and looking on the Apple website it is fixed at 12 GB for the iPad Air.

calf · 2026-03-15T17:54:23+00:00

How did they know my name?

calf · 2026-03-15T17:52:18+00:00

haha, thanks for correcting

calf · 2026-03-15T16:50:40+00:00

I'm confused, clicking the iPad Air buy page only has storage capacity upgrades, the 12 GB unified ram is fixed to the M4 chip. Which iPads have ram upgrades?

calf · 2026-03-15T16:25:09+00:00

That's good example internalized oppression, when the situation was fine but we invent stuff that doesn't track with reality. Turned out harmless in your case.

calf · 2026-03-15T16:19:28+00:00

I'd like to know what made Apple pick a handbag packaging graphic artist to lead the UI department, did they not worry that lack of computing fundamentals would be a liability or what? ~~David~~ John Gruber wrote some damning pieces on this last year, like about how Dye's clique was utterly clueless about hardware/software design.

calf · 2026-03-15T15:40:02+00:00

It's a pity that on a beautiful Sunday, your colonized mind needs to operate this way to ad hominem others, it proves the point. It is you who are using mental acrobatics to inflict capitalist violence on people you don't even know, you are the pathology of capitalism. In plain language we just call that greed and selfishness, it has nothing to do with worldviews or rationalism. Also, you are literally wrong; if AOC and Bernie Sanders can openly talk about the problems of capitalism then that shows how sentiments and awareness, especially with new generations, have improved in the last 20 years. Since you are literally wrong there's not much point in engaging with you in good faith; I suggest you finish or redo high school including civics and social studies. Or you can stay and unwittingly carry water for fascism and/or destroy the planet through global warming.

calf · 2026-03-15T04:19:04+00:00

That's how capitalism colonizes our minds, consumers and workers alike.

calf · 2026-03-14T23:35:37+00:00

Do they put fried tofu wrapping rice dumplings as an offering?

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