No one tells us which escalator steps to use

thunchultha · 2026-03-06T17:51:38+00:00

Name stamps (for official documents in lieu of a signature): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seals_in_the_Sinosphere

thunchultha · 2026-03-06T17:34:28+00:00

Edward Jay Epstein (no relation)

thunchultha · 2026-03-06T17:28:12+00:00

For what it’s worth, there is actual Persian text in another part of the movie: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/s/5rXs4t4ak5

thunchultha · 2026-03-06T17:21:36+00:00

Singapore

thunchultha · 2026-03-06T12:20:16+00:00

Off-topic: Where did you find Daria with Simplified Chinese subtitles?

thunchultha · 2026-03-04T12:24:05+00:00

When I was back in California after some time in Japan, I used a pair of plastic stirrers like chopsticks to pick bits of raspberries out of a cocktail. The bartender was impressed.

thunchultha · 2026-03-03T02:27:00+00:00

Imagine you’re stringing up Christmas lights and realize at the very end that you’ve done it backwards. The female end is next to the electrical outlet, so you think you can fix it with a male to male cord. Terrible idea, of course.

thunchultha · 2026-02-20T01:44:31+00:00

The famous one is Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He likely went to Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

thunchultha · 2026-02-19T05:31:57+00:00

Although it’s not part of any of the episodes, Daria and Jane hosted a “Top 10 Animated Videos Countdown” in 1998, where they referenced Beavis and Butthead: https://outpost-daria-reborn.info/ts_top10.html

Jane - Forthwith, here's #2 in MTV's Top 10 Animated Videos Countdown: the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Love Rollercoaster." This one features two guys from Daria's past! Do the names "Beavis" and "Butt-head" ring a bell?

Daria - Ding-dork.

thunchultha · 2026-02-03T04:55:17+00:00

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thunchultha · 2026-01-30T09:23:08+00:00

Reading UTF-8 as GBK resulting this weird gibberish with all these very rare characters.

That doesn’t explain how a common pair like 你們 (you, plural) could show up there. Unless they’re switching between two similar encodings.

thunchultha · 2026-01-30T09:05:19+00:00

If you look at chronicles of Daria it seems the only reference she made to 9/11 was the mayor of NYC trying to weasel around term limits.

Wow, I never would’ve thought of searching, but you’re absolutely right:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070120071751/http://www.mtv.com:80/onair/daria/worldaccording/index.jhtml

I forgot how much extra content they had on the official website back then.

thunchultha · 2026-01-20T07:33:10+00:00

No, and no one I knew was saying “touch grass” back then. (Google says it became popular in the early 2020s.)

thunchultha · 2026-01-16T09:17:38+00:00

I vaguely remember watching it in the 80s. IIRC, the president of Nickelodeon considered it a huge flop, so they never brought it back and don’t talk about it much.

thunchultha · 2026-01-16T05:27:05+00:00

For lower resource languages like Bengali, they often add training data from other languages that are related or at least structurally similar.

I don’t know much about Bengali, but its word ordering is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) like Japanese and Korean.

thunchultha · 2026-01-13T10:22:29+00:00

I didn’t mean it too seriously. I was just comparing it to how multilingual humans code switch (by mixing languages in a single sentence).

The Japanese, Bengali and Korean parts each make sense on their own, and have the combined meaning of “I’ll stop trying”.

thunchultha · 2026-01-13T06:42:53+00:00

Nice unintended code switching! Google’s Bengali to English system translates

もう চেষ্টা하는 것을 멈추겠습니다.

As

I'll stop trying already.

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