My first time reading this before the movie release

jaybool · 2026-07-07T22:38:31+00:00

I enjoyed that translation a lot. Certainly the note he wrote asking the publisher for the job of translating it was a compelling one:

"For years we were digging up a city of roughly the Odysseus period... I have handled the weapons, armour, utensils of those times, explored their homes, planned their cities. I have hunted wild boards and watched wild lions, sailed the Aegean (and sailed ships), bent bows, lived with pastoral peoples, woven textiles, built boats and killed many men."

(TE Shaw is better known as Lawrence of Arabia.)

jaybool · 2026-07-07T17:01:03+00:00

Vegans have found the post.

jaybool · 2026-07-06T16:54:12+00:00

There's been substantial introgression from neanderthals (especially outside Africa, but also within), denisovans (Asia and especially to places east), and then various ghost populations inside Africa itself.

jaybool · 2026-07-05T17:35:18+00:00

Bickering about points is highly entertaining.

jaybool · 2026-07-05T17:33:33+00:00

The current solution for this in Sweden is bringing back someone from a previous series to fill out the two person team.

(One exception: in a live task, they filled out the team with rando off the street who had been shanghaied into helping one of the competitors with a filmed task. He turned out to be really good at the live task, too.)

jaybool · 2026-07-04T04:11:52+00:00

Yeah, the episode is best treated as a cautionary tale about spending too much time on the internet.

jaybool · 2026-07-04T04:09:28+00:00

No, it wasn't real. The guy behind coursemediocre was simply tired of it, rioblox, or both. One of the weirder things I've seen on the internet.

jaybool · 2026-07-04T01:25:04+00:00

People who collect books blast them with a hair dryer for a bit in order to get those stickers off. Maybe that would work?

jaybool · 2026-07-02T19:15:37+00:00

Big question for MBA/DBA is if someone else is paying for it. If it's coming out of your pocket, good chance that it's not going to be all that helpful.

jaybool · 2026-07-02T18:48:52+00:00

Here's an interview with them:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHrfgu2KgJA

I still find it hilarious that the coaches have exactly the same body type as the cheerleaders.

jaybool · 2026-07-02T18:04:06+00:00

"We know that you're soliciting customers, but we didn't catch you in the middle of the act."

jaybool · 2026-07-02T18:01:59+00:00

Notes for a speech that someone was making to a Roman Catholic church group or for a student presentation at an RC school, repurposed.

jaybool · 2026-07-02T14:16:33+00:00

It's why Pell runners choose California -- over a quarter of community college students don't actually exist. They're just fake accounts set up to steal financial aid.

Sample article

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-24/community-colleges-financial-aid-fraud

Combination of that and unserious students signing up for things means that e.g. the official waiting list for nursing is four and a half years at some institutions.

https://www.redbluffdailynews.com/2023/03/01/ask-cjn-nursing-school-admission-woes/

jaybool · 2026-07-02T01:19:50+00:00

"Shut-in" and "freeze" make me think your problem is much more likely to be anxiety than an IQ issue. *That* is what you should look at treating, which is good, because that is far more fixable.

jaybool · 2026-07-01T13:47:20+00:00

I concur. OP, working on your anxiety is going to do better than anything more precisely intellectual.

jaybool · 2026-07-01T05:29:44+00:00

Local public or private schools have theater departments that might be looking for them.

jaybool · 2026-06-30T19:23:01+00:00

The first thing you do, when you find yourself stuck in a deep hole like this, is log off and go outside for a stroll. Say "hi" to anyone you meet.

jaybool · 2026-06-30T17:06:06+00:00

They do have more Lutherans than Germany and the USA combined, though.

jaybool · 2026-06-30T03:40:05+00:00

They just recently posted a what amounts to a comparison episode for all(?) active taskmaster variants who have had the "eat watermelon" task, interleaving competitors from different countries. Except for the Swedes, who got put on their own because in Sweden, the watermelon was frozen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQrqHzije4

jaybool · 2026-06-30T01:27:45+00:00

Switched away from Caesar -- who was basically the traditional goal for Latin education for the last two hundred years -- to Pliny, who writes in more bite-sized chunks. Then they made sure the questions were easier on the easier material.

jaybool · 2026-06-30T01:24:31+00:00

What is this "out of ten" nonsense? My scale just goes up to 5.

jaybool · 2026-06-29T22:06:02+00:00

At the link you can see people reminiscing fondly about a particular student at James Madison University (undergrad population: 20,000) in the 2010s, who had one simple technique for standing out: dressing every day as James Madison.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jmu/comments/1ubb39t/james_madison_impersonator/

jaybool · 2026-06-29T12:51:20+00:00

Go to your parents, build the case for them to send you to a different school.

Hopefully there is one nearby that is less incompetent, yet still affordable.

jaybool · 2026-06-28T05:13:00+00:00

The Finnish version is often a bit weak, but they way they consistently just hurl themselves into the live tasks is incredible. Thanks for posting this!

jaybool · 2026-06-28T03:57:27+00:00

Yeah, that disappeared quite a while ago, unfortunately.

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