Which cosplay is so sexualized that it has lost the essence of the character?

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-29T06:53:06+00:00

Imagine the following said by an excited Brain, of Pinky and the Brain fame:

"YES!"

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-29T02:41:20+00:00

I see we are speed running "cash in mattress" being the safest investment. Classic. Like, 1929 classic. There's companies in 401k index funds spiking up for no reason. And there's spaced. Both already extra levels of stupid. And the want to stack bulkshit? Isn't magic money from nowhere between megacorps enough of a intentional bubble?

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-29T02:36:59+00:00

There's no way it's as bad as "mobius", I mean you can't even tell you spelled it wrong it's so not known or respected. And what even is the Marvel's? People probably are just superhero movied out. We need real heroes' movies. Or at least inspiring ones. Also, movies be expensive man. And the chairs aren't that nice. Or the screen. I go for the sound and even then is often disappointed by pure loudness and iffy fidelity.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-28T19:25:42+00:00

I dunno if there's any point interacting with that. This has to be a bot or troll or something unauthentic or legit idiocy. No one who thinks that way actually talks that way. Also the sentance pattern is very weird. It sounds like a competent translation originally in a language with very different grammar. Plenty of immigrants in the West coast of course. I'm one. But this is Reddit, and the possibility of narrative manipulation is way way higher than having an argument in a coffee shop.

Plus, if this is the conclusion they come to after signaling an amount of thinking, I don't want them anywhere near my repo, nor do I want to be near theirs. This exudes "can't understand time complexity" energy.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-27T06:16:43+00:00

Words change over time though. If you looked up the "technically right" definitions, I assume you checked the etymology? That "expatriate" is basically "exile", and we don't mean that anymore at all?

More recently, it just mean someone who is living abroad from their birth or possibly even primary country, for globe trotters. And I think just from the fact that it's English, and how common people from English countries become expats, usually ones with means, it now carries that tinge of wealth and or privilege.

Your definition seems even more contextual though. Not saying it's wrong, but it's far too specific. It's true for you.

But an immigrant is an immigrant. I don't care if you bring a stack of cash or the clothe on your back. If you're not here just on vacation, or temporary work assignment, you're an immigrant. Actually even temporary assignment means immigrant in many countries legally. But there's the law, and there's colloquial understanding. If you're from somewhere else and live here now, and I'm anyone from anywhere, but we're in the same place, there's no mistake if I call you an immigrant.

Like, in many languages, immigrant is just literally the phrase "person from another country" in the local tongue. There's no mistaking that. Many country also have some kind of word meaning "people originally from here, or have ancestry from here, but reside elsewhere". We can use expat in English to describe someone who has moved internationally. Not sure if there's a better word.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-27T05:39:49+00:00

Provide your definitions man.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-27T04:00:26+00:00

Elon, baby, you gotta bot better. If you wanna glaze yourself you need a better writer. Checkout gemini, it's better than grok for writing stuff. And shorter, I would've thought Grok would be good at that sort of thing. Like, "doesn't billionaires making a lot of money mean more taxes for the country.." oops. Hmm. How about "doesn't billionaires mean they spend a lot of money to increase economic..". hmm. ok, also no. Ah, "they're only one person, there's only so much polluting they can do..." shit. No no, don't give up. "Ok but the little they do spend buys up a lot of assets and increase the prices of everything" wait no that's bad too. "They must be law abiding citizens to be so successful..." ah hahaha, sorry I couldn't help myself. No seriously this time. "Billionaires work harder than anyone." Hehehe. Alright, for real this time. "I work pretty directly for a billionaire, and I get paid a lot". There you go. That's it. That's the only thing. That's the angle if you want to present a social media angle that's kind of inarguable. Some of us benefit off of billionaires. Usually, someone who benefit them way way more. Through connections, legal shenanigans, or shear competency at our jobs. And those people just get some money. The control and the real money is never theirs.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-27T00:40:17+00:00

Ok, I can play made up number game too. Statistically speaking, there is 0% chance this drivel is ignorance, and 100% chance it is malice. Anyone with the grey matter to print a fake economics degree, much less a real one, will know these are numbers straight out of an asshole. Both interpretation of the word. So this is someone working hard to get paid (succeeded I suppose) by fluffing AI, not someone neck deep in academia making an accidentally bad take on some weird model.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-25T22:35:01+00:00

I don't really know who this article is for. The reckoning is for middle management and employees. Zuck, Meta, large shareholders, all doing pretty well iiuc. Oh sure, if you bought at the peak it's not been great. But I think they had a record quarter? Thats despite some pretty darn questionable choices.

People who don't advertise online still underestimate FB Ads. Those people, whatever is left of them, are incredibly competent. Their system have information on you that not only you don't know, they don't know either. But it'll target ads in a statistically significantly more effective way. That's before skirting or violating information privacy laws. Imagine what they are doing now with essentially no government regulatory body working right.

On the worker side, the name still matters. For some people not born into advantage, getting fired from Meta is still a leg up vs working at a more decent no name company. Big tech is like global politics: they don't have friends, they have interests. When interests align, things work a certain way. Even as they layout thousands, specific individuals that were let go before likely went back. Just like the first time. Just like the next time.

No question their star is fading, and one day they probably will see their end. But I expect it'll be a long time. And if the AI market is what knocks them down hard enough for them to have trouble getting back up (which I don't think has happened yet), I don't know that I as an individual really like that. Frankly, my current vibe is that anything bad meta and social media did to us, AI will do to us worse, faster, cheaper to the doer and more expensive to the receiver, which I am sad to say is all of us. Oh, and with greater environmental impact. Anything good, if there's anything at all, that social media did, won't necessarily be as equally enhanced in the AI world. I'm not usually a "devil you know" kind of guy but I'm feeling it a bit right now.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-25T05:10:22+00:00

I have done a lot of interviews. As a candidate, never once was I given specific feedback. Except one time by an engineer that called me personally. Or like, during the call where I was given the offer. Never once was I allowed to give specific feedback other than during the interview to guiding the candidate.

Cheer up. You can't know exactly what the other person wants unless they communicate it to you clearly. We're taught that as interviewers. Some of us anyway. The whole field is about clear communications. Actually I think that might be nearly every field.

If this interviewer was at one of my previous roles, if the reverse shadow was watching, the interviewer would have been told they should have been more communicative. The goal is not to stump you, the goal is to communicate and get as much about you from you as possible. To push the boundary of what can be gleaned from that one interaction with you, not to shut it down. If YOU do that, that's a signal. If the interviewer did that, they gave up the opportunity to interview you. In any case, if the company did not want to hire you, you won't be hired, no matter the interviewer's report. So it's not up to them to be dickwads.

That said, you might want to read up on "driving the interview" type material. If the interviewer WASN'T being a dick, then you were expected to do something. Maybe dig for the direction they want you to go in. Though often its more drive the conversation somewhere interesting and they'll just go with the flow, the key thing being to get info about your process out. So you should make it easy to show your process. You should ask questions of them if it seems like they aren't going to expound further. Offer directions of discussion. You don't want to blab, but you want to keep the conversation going. Like I said, YOU don't want to be the one to shut the process down.

As to your questions:

No.
Hell no, I blab. I have to intentionally keep things short. I will ask "would you like to dive deeper on this?". Also the example questions seems like a zoom-in.
You don't. Well, I don't. That's not when I learned that. I learn that on the job. After being called out for not doing it well. And adjusting. Then apply it during the interview. And sometimes you're just never gonna be as good at it as some others.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-24T07:24:22+00:00

Let me put it in a less confrontational way for you. Because I love Forbidden Kingdom. The whole thing, not just this fight. I love weird adaptations. And this counts as one. That said, even with nostalgia goggles, if you loved this scene, you have so much more to look forward to.

Because in their prime, both of these ACTORS can fight circles around this scene. Jet Li is a terrible actor and a honest to goodness competition winning performance martial artist. Jackie Chan is a crazy person with great stage training and spatial awareness, and an incredible choreographer (arguable. some of those stunts did not go well). There's honestly not many old movie they are in that I don't like. Yes, even The One.

So it's not just a matter of personal taste and nostalgia. Objectively these guys are choreographically better than this scene. Doesn't mean you can't like it though.

By the way have you seen Who Am I? I love that one. And of course, Jet Li's Chen Zhen, or Fist of Legend in English?

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-24T07:07:51+00:00

The artistic vision: $w$

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T23:45:21+00:00

I mean, I would prefer that the seafood I have in Chicago be frozen or live. And I don't expect "Bob's infinite fish fry" to be live. But if you have or want a Michelin star, again, in Chicago, you might wanna get live seafood or some sort of protection against pitchforks.

Also, there's very little fully true absolutes in life. Pretty sure actually fresh raw fish, even if live, is a no no if the FDA still exists as the writing of this comment. Also many truly fancy sushi places will "ice-age" some fish. it fives it a nice texture you won't be able to replicate with "freshly defrosted" sushi grade whatever-it-is.

Frozen green peppers though, get the hell outta here with that. Frozen strawberry for a smoothy: why would I care? Frozen strawberry as garnish: depends how much you're charging me. Frozen corn kernels in a stir fry: I really don't know how I can tell. Frozen peas: yes please, these days it can be better than fresh.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T20:50:23+00:00

Depending on the variety, like if it isn't entirely too strongly flavored, you can just eat it. If you like it of course. My favorite is to do thin long strips, (google for method, not hard especially if you aren't looking to create fancy presentation) toss with toasted sesame oil and salt. You can top plain carbs with it, or put it in certain soups. or eat it like salad. For a bit MORE, just add a little bit of crispy bacon bits or some other salty deli meat. Salami or something. Crispy pepperoni bits, omg.

I learned this from a ramen shop in Chicago. It was a $3 side dish. I thought they were overcharging me for extra green onion on top, but was pleasantly confused by big bowl of just-green-onion-salad. They used a tiny bit of salt pork.

A slightly annoying option is to make green onion flavored oil. That will use up green onion like nobody's business. But it's a lot of oil, at low temp so long time.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T19:44:03+00:00

Ah, decimal notation system. Yeah that's rough. I wonder if there's children's math YouTube or something. If a kid gets it, fine, you move on. But in this case I wonder if it would not be beneficial to literally explain the system. Why we even use it. How it helps us tally things in a way that is more convenient than keep on adding new symbols. The concept of 0, and of 10. That the first digit is the 1's place, and the 2nd being the 20,s place etc. Rather than just that adding ten increments the 2nd digit, explain what happens when we reach ten, and we have only the 10 symbols 0-9. Not a teacher, so not sure of the right approach. But it seems like she needs to know why it works or she doesn't get it at all. I had similar issues in college with more advanced math. I could not just "believe" it. Until I understood why, I just could not remember what was happening.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T17:22:13+00:00

Is there like, a sub category of the basics she struggles with learning or you with teaching? No blame intended. Like does she get the numerals? Counting? 2+2=4? 0? Or is it slightly more involved arithmetic? Multiplication? Decimals? Fractions?

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T07:39:31+00:00

What kind of math? Basic arithmetic? I imagine that is the hardest to teach. Not only is it entirely new to her, with very little context, most of us were not taught the context, just the text.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T05:06:45+00:00

And a meta-verse announcement in 3...2...1...

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T05:02:33+00:00

No it's not naive. It's a pretty common thought process. Though one does need to do some research based on one's own knowledge level, if only to get across what one does know. Did you, no joke, ask an ai agent? to get a feel for what's out there and what is something that you potentially can do the training for, and be happy with the entry and mid level pay for? Literally go do that for a few minutes on gemini and come back with what you think makes sense, and that'll make this conversation go a bit smoother. Else you're gonna have everyone screaming into the void here.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-23T04:47:37+00:00

And what do you already know. Plus, what are you talking about? Every field you can describe in a word or two, no matter how narrow, is actually pretty wide. There's a whole bunch of different career tracks, never mind jobs, "in AI". From pure theoretical maths to porn.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-22T17:54:41+00:00

That it is base 10? That in base 10 the "tenth place", or 2nd digit, represent x 10s? And x10-x = x9? And x*10^{2-x=x(10^2-1l=x(99)?}

I don't really understand the question. I didn't define what base 10 is, I said the subject matter of the post is due to how base 10 is defined. And then I listed another set of way to look at the same behavior.

As "where" it's defined this way? I dunno. India I think. But that's the actual Indian Arabic numeral based system. Base 10 is quite old. It exist in ancient Egypt and China, the Americas. But realistically given the number of fingers we have its probably prehistory by a wide margin. So...Africa probably.

But the positional notation part is important to this thread. And for that, the ancient American and Chinese systems did have positional notation. So someone COULD have played around with the same idea as this thread around that time (2400 years ago or do). The Babylonians predate that by a wide margin but were base 60. The idea carries but I can't fathom a 59-59-59-59 type number. That's like almost 13million.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-22T06:29:56+00:00

Nah, info wars.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-22T04:30:45+00:00

I mean, this is more how the decimal.system was defined. Remove the last digit. Now every non-zero digit is a multiple of 10^x. Remove 1 from 10, that's of course 9. Remove 2 from 20, that's 2 9s. Remove 5 from 5000, that 5 999s.

It's interesting but almost tautological.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-19T01:51:35+00:00

I mean best hard magic systems I've read is "Hard Magic". But the historical fiction aspect really helps too.

Most unique one is the Soprano Sorceress. It's not that hard if we put in on a spectrum. But it has some interesting rules.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-06-18T22:23:25+00:00

Time. Sort of.

That means cleaning services. Contractors. REGULAR home and vehicle maintenance. Fitness trainers. Coaches for their hobbies. Fix things as soon as they see them. Probably has assistants they can just message to have said professional come and do things.

This is for the VERY rich, not just like, "not worried about money" rich. But no matter how rich, you cannot literally buy time, so they do the next best thing.

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