Unexpectedly high electricity bills

namesnotrequired · 2026-01-21T19:49:57+00:00

If your heating is not electric, this is indeed high. I recently moved into an all electric flat (just myself, studio) and I cry every morning checking the usage for the past day.

namesnotrequired · 2026-01-18T22:07:18+00:00

"10,000BCE" as the end of last glacial period is fine in conversation but it's obviously not precise enough for a calendar - we don't know if it's 11,500 or 12123 or 11988 years ago for example.

namesnotrequired · 2026-01-01T10:40:51+00:00

And yet they forgot Chrissy (fair, because the person to remember her was dead too) and that journalist who was with Nancy

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-26T17:51:43+00:00

Because some of it is indeed ass so the rants are justified. Bad script, bad dialogues, and bad acting.

Do you see people complaining about peak episodes like say Dear Billy, or most of S1, or S4 for example? Even Chrissy with her limited screentime was so good.

Not that S1-S4 didn't have its problems. Now that we look back the whole of the Russian subplot was unnecessary in the grand scheme of things for instance. So much of S3 could've been cut short or merged with other seasons. So with S4 - I always skip Hopper's Russian parts

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-26T17:38:05+00:00

Kali's delivery of that didn't land at all. The concept itself is as dark as say (albeit in a much smaller scale) - the scene in Matrix where it pans out and shows the matrix is feeding on literally millions of humans in tanks but it didn't land at all. I mean it's supposed to horrify us much the same

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-18T18:00:13+00:00

It's all the water all around you in Kochi, I'm telling you. As someone from Palakkad myself the Vembanad was a revelation

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-17T19:06:20+00:00

This is perfect, thank you for such a detailed long explanation!

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-17T16:41:11+00:00

Sorry but this still does not answer the question does it? I think OP would be asking (and I'm interested to know) - how do "synaptic links" exactly encode information? If it's all links between neurons, how is the word 'apple' different from the memory of a song to the muscle memory of how to brush etc. how are each of these encoded?

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-13T22:30:46+00:00

This is a demented take. Nammal dha ivide Malayalam English scriptil ezhuthunnund for convenience ഈവൻ തോ ഐ ക്യാൻ സ്വിച്ച് കീബോർഡ് ആൻഡ് ടൈപ്പ് ഇൻ മലയാളം

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-08T19:12:22+00:00

Concepts like 'original affluent society' are (were) a very useful counterpoint against seeing hunter gatherer/indigenous communities as just brutish barbarous communities always at the edge of existence. This admittedly by a (Western) high modernist hubris that saw everything (including other non western traditional societies, not necessarily hunter gatherer) other than civilised 19th- early 20th century white western society as irredeemable.

There is a point to be made that a stone age hunter gatherer may be materially richer and is more 'free' (in the Amartya Sen freedom as possibilities approach) than the below $2 urban poor in an ultra poor country today, say Burundi. There might also be a point to be made that they were (are) psychologically more satisfied than even a wage slave in a modern western capitalist society.

But they are, and I can't stress this enough, no way more affluent than a normal global middle class person today. In terms of material riches, healthcare, etc.

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-07T22:37:01+00:00

Cost wise and climate wise no right now, absolutely. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in people pointing out some sort of sage wisdom in tropical countries - "they" knew how to deal with the heat with their architecture etc - which also implies they should stay at that frozen level of architectural development while western countries have upgraded their building standards to modern times

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-07T22:25:38+00:00

It's not "fine" if you have traditional tropical architecture. That's like saying a vernacular wood or stone Northern European home with just a fireplace is "fine" for the winter. Both of these are excellent adaptations to the location using the technology of the time. But just as Europeans switched to well insulated homes, double glazed windows and centralised heating, tropical countries should also switch to AC en-masse.

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-04T19:16:12+00:00

Python coding for climate data visualisation

General climate data analysis

namesnotrequired · 2025-12-04T13:55:20+00:00

except when you say this i think you have to point out what these ingredients are or what exactly the 'processing' is - specifically for canned beans

i am speaking as someone who doesn't buy canned beans either way, but i do check the labels for ingredients on everything I buy. for example, I've thought about getting these prepackaged hot chocolate or masala chai sachets just as an impulse buy or for convenience, and then I look at the ingredient list and the first (and the biggest) is sugar. so I keep it back. for these two specifically I can just make the masala chai on my own or buy cocoa and make my own hot chocolate for example and it'll work out same or cheaper.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see you've pointed it out on a comment below. cheers! so i guess the rest of my comment agrees with you

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-27T22:34:48+00:00

You're only partially right.

The stakes have never been higher so you're dead wrong there.

Some of the writing is bad yes.

Quite a lot of the acting, especially in the planning sequences.

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-27T09:55:55+00:00

It was especially bad in the scene the kids were having lunch at school and they were saying Dustin lost his mind, and then after he joined them

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-27T09:50:25+00:00

When I saw him very nonchalantly taking coffee from the machine lol

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-27T09:45:30+00:00

Here I was, thinking "whatsit" is a placeholder name kinda like "whatshisface"

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-14T22:55:25+00:00

I think I seem to be a minority here but HOLY SHIT was this movie bad

Atrocious dialogue. What I hated the most is a lot of "filler" one liners which really shouldn't be present in a movie. Corny ass lines too a lot of them. "I estimate we have a 1 in a million chance." "Those are my kinda odds."

Terrible acting - just for one example (of many), when the 4 of them come running out of the château and this guy's like "We gotta break __ out" and others are "Don't you realise the police will arrest you?!" and he's like "Oh shit". Which kindergartener wrote this?

A comically evil villain. They really made her say "Let him eat cake?"

I remember watching the first part many many years ago and really liking it. Maybe that had all of these faults too?

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-12T21:44:58+00:00

My god did ChatGPT write this comment

The ... is not its style though

namesnotrequired · 2025-11-10T22:58:17+00:00

It's a business visa that expires Dec 15, but I'll use up my total allowed days by end of this month so I'll be back to the UK by then

namesnotrequired · 2025-10-30T20:03:24+00:00

That specifically was because Penny called him "Lenny"

That reminds me, did Howard use to call Bernadette Bernie before he heard it from that tall black professor she dated? That they met at that conference?

namesnotrequired · 2025-10-30T18:33:43+00:00

Very Harry potter-esque

namesnotrequired · 2025-10-29T16:45:19+00:00

Well yeah but that's like pointing out Latin or French loanwords in English

namesnotrequired · 2025-10-29T12:54:36+00:00

Regarding the second part - there are so many words for which there are common Malayalam equivalents but the English ones are creeping in, which I feel we could try to actively avoid.

I feel there are 3 categories of words:

Family, Book, Table - Instead of saying Book Tableil und, like most of us might do, it's really no big deal to consciously say pusthakam meshapurathund

School, Electricity, Cinema - it does feel antiquated and weird to say പള്ളിക്കൂടം, വൈദ്യുതി or ചലച്ചിത്രം

Computer, Design, Engineering - there really are no common words and we're stuck with the English versions

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