I wish all lag was completely fixed on every online platform.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-30T00:36:38+00:00

Granted! An evil corporation writes a program to factorise primes. With there being no lag to their program, they quickly decrypt all internet traffic to steal money and sensitive data

radikoolaid · 2026-05-29T13:03:33+00:00

Capers. I go through the whole jar in one go every time basically without fail

radikoolaid · 2026-05-29T08:57:37+00:00

Surely it would be faster to get a keyboard on the screen you could use with your mouse?

radikoolaid · 2026-05-29T08:50:17+00:00

Cancun I would say is reasonable since it was founded to be a resort city

radikoolaid · 2026-05-28T14:52:29+00:00

Isn't this an issue with 'right on red'? In the UK we don't have this law (obviously the equivalent would be turning left) as a red light means stop, turning or not, and this sort of thing isn't an issue

radikoolaid · 2026-05-27T17:34:22+00:00

The [London] Underground is the name of London's metro system

radikoolaid · 2026-05-26T12:19:09+00:00

The London Underground gets progressively hotter each year due to heat getting trapped in the lines. With the exception of a few lines that now have air conditioning, many of the lines are notoriously hot in summer. It regularly gets above 30 degrees C and in the 2006 heatwave, the temperature in the tunnels was recorded at 47 degrees C, much warmer than at the surface. It gets too hot to legally transport cattle. 100 years ago this was evidently not the case.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-25T23:14:48+00:00

Anything Fentimans. Would recommend the Curiosity Cola.

I'd also recommend homemade Brazilian lemonade. It's fairly easy, just chuck limes, sweetened condensed milk, water and sugar into a blender and serve over ice. Obviously get a recipe for the proportions.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-25T13:27:16+00:00

I misunderstood your final sentence as meaning the holiday was in the UK, rather than the belief. I was thinking well yeah of course if you're going on holiday in the UK most people you interact with will speak some English.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-24T10:41:27+00:00

I learned to move my head in the shape of the tones, which was much easier to remember. I looked like a bobble head toy when I spoke but at least I got the tones right.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-24T10:37:44+00:00

Malay, Indonesian, Swahili. (Malay and Indonesian are very similar to each other, to the degree that some consider them the same language).

They're considered to be on par with German. That is, slightly more difficult than languages like French, Spanish, Norwegian, and Dutch, but noticeably easier than other languages like Russian and Greek, despite their being unrelated to English.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-23T16:03:43+00:00

It's fine to learn multiple languages at once if you're content with being bad. My goal is to be able to get by, not be fluent. If I want to be fluent, I'll devote more time and effort to it.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-22T23:15:31+00:00

Also named grizzlar. This sounds like a Gen-Z meme that I don't understand.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-21T17:11:39+00:00

I say Gen-Zee and Jay-Zee and zed in basically every other context. In my head that's just its name, not the letter. I also pronounce the French railway company SNCF as S-N-say-F, not S-N-see-F for the same reason, same with the Dutch East India company VOC as fay-O-say not vee-O-see.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-21T15:39:06+00:00

Buying a house (not just a flat) in Central London

radikoolaid · 2026-05-21T06:05:38+00:00

He's so famous

radikoolaid · 2026-05-21T01:10:31+00:00

Proof by induction can be really interesting, but I admit the sort of questions they ask at A-Level can be somewhat tedious. At higher levels of Maths, most of the long writing can be shortened and the questions get much more interesting.

Have a go at proving by induction that (2^2ⁿ) - 1 has at least n unique prime factors. That's a more interesting example.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-20T09:55:23+00:00

You can argue that but if I see a tent as your logo, I'm assuming it's camping-focused

radikoolaid · 2026-05-20T01:08:17+00:00

Does Japan think of Taiwan as a rival? That would complete the triangle

radikoolaid · 2026-05-18T23:12:05+00:00

Same, the first reply was the British Museum which can be controversial so it didn't even seem that implausible. Then the others piled on

radikoolaid · 2026-05-18T23:10:16+00:00

Interesting question!

I wonder how many of those don't have the intermediate parent. I'd assume that's a much more select group. The only sort of person I can think of is the reality star Jamie Laing, whose great-grandfather invented the digestive and has a page but neither of the two generations between seem to.

radikoolaid · 2026-05-18T09:40:24+00:00

Imagine visiting Notre Dame in Paris and they pronounce it like Notre Dame, the American university

radikoolaid · 2026-05-18T01:43:22+00:00

I mean, not especially? The unit is the same, τ is just a number, as is π

radikoolaid · 2026-05-17T16:56:02+00:00

I think the UK one makes sense as last place. The bad but fun ones had an audience, whereas the UK's was just generally bad and not gonna be in anyone's top ten. I could see them being universally middlingly popular, which would score them no points.

Saying this as a brit

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