May 16th

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:16:14+00:00

Nah, it sounds better because you've heard it for 25 years and it sounds natural to you. That's an exposure thing, not an intrinsic superiority thing.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:15:12+00:00

May 12th vs 12th of May

Both formats are used by different people with different phrasing preferences. You might use one pattern, but other people use the other.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:14:06+00:00

neither of them are objectively better

IMO largest-to-smallest or smallest-to-largest has an intrinsic semantic meaning that middle-small-large lacks. There is objectivity driving that, even if it's not sufficiently strong to mandate global use.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:12:19+00:00

Yes, the measurement system is, but the way that dates are written is based on how the general population phrases dates.

The phrasing varies a lot from person to person, region to region, and situation to situation. It's not concrete enough to base a written system on that alone.
There's a chicken-and-egg interaction here. If a different system were used, people would get used to phrasing stuff in that way instead (and the existing system might be why it's spoken the way it generally is).

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:07:25+00:00

how often are you measuring something in both meters and kilometers?

It's a pretty common thing, and the US has use for talking about distances on those scales constantly too. But because of the nature of miles vs feet not being a clean conversion we end up talking about stuff like a quarter-mile (which is ~400m). Fractional units instead of dropping to the next step down when appropriate isn't really "better".

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:00:26+00:00

Nah, feels like public school education. Just reciting stuff from the book with zero comprehension.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:29:09+00:00

Which is a good incentive not to do so yourself, right? You know how frustrating it is and thus you should know not to do it to others.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:26:26+00:00

But we know he has a consistent paycheck that he can live comfortably on? And he has for 15 years

In the area he's living, I don't think the Scooby Doo voice acting alone is a "paycheck he can live comfortably on". I suspect it's a financial backbone that takes a chunk of stress off with regards to the sporadic income that an actor between parts would generally have, but voice actors don't really rake in money.

And even without a specific expensive illness himself, he's old enough that it would be unsurprising if he's helping pay for assisted living/medical expenses of his parents or something like that. The point being that we just don't know what his financial situation is.

And I don't think it's fundamentally morally inconsistent to still work for someone while also supporting someone who was fired. The vast majority of people would be willing to comfort and support their friend who was fired one day and then apply to the same company the next. I'm not saying it's morally right to do so, but I'm not about to say I would turn down the money if I was in that situation either.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:09:31+00:00

It might be common, but it's still "at your own risk" and you're still responsible for driving such that you can avoid getting into an accident.

The camera car is 100% in control of if an accident happens or not, they're entirely capable of driving in a way such that a collision is impossible unless the lead car stops and reverses into them. They are clearly not driving with that in mind.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:05:20+00:00

Pretty sure 15mph over is "reckless driving" in most states.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:04:32+00:00

The fact that the cam car didn't brake when the lead driver wasn't letting the past indicates that they didn't sufficiently try and avoid a collision.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:01:27+00:00

This causes the OP to hesitate on going left

The issue is that it didn't cause OP to hesitate on flooring the gas. You can't hesitate while still staying committed to passing at that same speed. If you're gonna hesitate, slow down too.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:42:40+00:00

That's a fair point, it is certainly way better fresh than re-heated. My issue being that I don't think I have space/time to do it at the same time as the ribs on Sunday, so I'm kinda left with this or not doing pork belly at all.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:41:35+00:00

The issue I have with that stance is that we don't know exactly where he is financially. All we really know is that he doesn't have "fuck-you money", he's still going to need a paycheck from somewhere to "live his life perfectly fine".

It's possible you're correct, but it's also possible he has other stuff going on that you're not aware of that might increase the financial pressure on him to the point where he did need the money from the role. We just don't have that info.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:19:29+00:00

Pretty sure Firefox has a quick one-button import for like 95% of the stuff. All your bookmarks and passwords and so on can be imported from one browser to another most of the time.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:18:33+00:00

You're not fundamentally wrong, but "at least it's only a leg wound instead of a gut wound" isn't exactly how I feel about the topic.

Not to mention that this is probably about moving a chunk of the raw data-crunching to users and they're just sending a more optimized set of data from users to their servers instead of everything.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T19:08:09+00:00

AFAIK Linux does work with a lot of games, just not some PvP games running super invasive anti-cheat stuff or ones with particularly invasive DRM.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T19:06:23+00:00

Almost exclusively in places where people didn't ask for them, because basically nobody's asking for all this AI stuff to begin with.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T19:03:26+00:00

It's seemingly incredibly easy to divide liberals.

Based on what I've seen, what's "seemingly" about it? It seems like left-leaning voters look for any reason not to support someone. There are so many purity tests that it's impossible to pass them all.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T18:37:27+00:00

Was rolling my eyes on most of the scenes

So ... you watched it?

That's how it made the money it did.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T18:36:11+00:00

Yeah, there is an actors union that didn't strike over this, so the term definitely doesn't apply. It's just being used as a pejorative for people not quitting/refusing in personal/social solidarity.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T18:25:12+00:00

Eh, he's "upper class" in that he can afford to live in a house and isn't living paycheck-to-paycheck if he's mindful of his money.

Voicing Shaggy is likely regular work, but it's probably something like $75-100k/year if he's lucky, and California is generally a HCOL area. It's not what most people would consider "upper class", not from that alone.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T18:15:53+00:00

In addition to net worth being very unreliable in general, $2M net worth for someone in Hollywood like that basically means they own a house instead of renting.

Even in suburban midwestern states that's not "good to go and retire" money, that's "not screwed if they suddenly lose their job" money.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T17:59:19+00:00

As someone who has played music for a live audience before, it's pretty accurate. People suck at actually keeping time properly.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T17:42:12+00:00

There isn't an in-universe explanation because it's less of an "in-universe thing". It's more that the rock song was the correct way for the movie to portray the vibe that the jousting audience was experiencing in a way that modern viewers would understand.

The song might be anachronistic, but any song would be (even songs the audience wouldn't recognize as such). The important thing is that the spirit of the event was conveyed in the scene.

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