If you're not using it to engage in navigation, Equal Earth is a sensible default.
Tools like Google maps are a bit thornier. They're used for navigation, but generally not in a way where angles matter. I could see someone getting themselves into trouble because the angles are screwy. But then again if Google cared about that sort of case, we wouldn't have the recent story of the Gemini hikers.
LinkedIn also has AI features. They ruined the job search a few weeks ago. It's now natural language, missing a bunch of filters, and doesn't even return the full text of a job post without additional clicks.
It also takes forever to load a post because it's trying to decide whether you're a match or not. It's not very good at figuring that out. It keeps saying I'm a great match for jobs that require languages I don't speak, or for jobs that require a master's.
I hope this is a sign they'll revert it, but I'm doubtful. LinkedIn was the least bad job search I've found.
Oh I didn't mean to imply French didn't use it. Just that it seemed to come up in a slightly more narrow set of circumstances. That could've been a misunderstanding though.
My experience starting with Spanish, and then trying French was that it still warded off most of the difficulty others in my class had.
There were loose patterns for grammatical gender for others to follow, but it mirrored Spanish well enough that it was ignorable. The next big thing that tripped classmates up was the subjunctive. French didn't seem to use it as often, but the concepts largely translated.
There were a few false friends, but it seemed rare. Hearing spelling may be harder in French, there are a lot of homophones or near homophones.
All that to say, French should still largely be a quick win (in as much a language ever can be).
One egregious example of this is the battle near the end of the book. My memory is a bit fuzzy, so please forgive if I slightly botch the details.
Bilbo has no reason to care about the fight. The audience has no reason to care. So Tolkien doesn't write the fight, and just knocks Bilbo unconscious at the start. One of the movies devotes a significant amount of runtime to the battle, despite the fact that audiences still have no reason to care. But you gotta have the big setpiece, right?
Space heater in the US refers to something different.
Home heating may be done using steam in radiators. As far as I'm aware this is most common in older buildings or in the north. New York has district heating that seems to resemble district heating found in parts of Europe.
A space heater in the US is a resistive electrical heater, that isn't usually connected to the main heating system for the home. Typically these are small portable units, and they're used to heat just the room they're put in. Your thermostat might control several rooms, but you might not intend to be in those, and night not want to pay to heat all of them. Or it's unusually cold, so you use a space heater and just stay in that room.
Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman. It's one sentence long, although it occupies 1,000 pages. It's well though done that it doesn't just feel like a creative writing exercise. It's not necessarily something I'd recommend, but it's surprisingly ok.
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino. It's about the reader (you) trying to read a book called "If on a winter's night a traveler" It's funny, and short enough to not push the bit too far. Every time you think you're onto its trick, it finds a new one.
Ulysses - James Joyce. A loose reframing of the Odyssey with the stakes massively lowered. Different chapters have different writing styles. Other works borrow ideas from this, so any individual attempt at innovation may be something you've seen elsewhere. For example, the single sentence stream of consciousness of Ducks, Newburyport was likely inspired by the 3 sentence closing chapter here. The book is kind of a lot. If you were to read it, it's worth at least considering if you want to use a guide. The Joyce Project has a good wiki-style guide embedded in the text.
Movies don't always do a great job of depicting things. I imagine they might skew towards depicting practices that are common in southern California, or where the creative team grew up. If the cafeteria set on the back lot is shaped a certain way, re-dressing it to change to another style might not make sense for your budget.
It's going to vary based on private/public, state, and then local school jurisdiction, wealth of the community, and wealth of the family.
My school experience had a mix of:
Kids bringing their own lunch. This would often be a sandwich, and might include additional items like fruit (apple or banana) or single serving snack packets (chips, cookies). Sometimes there wouldn't be a sandwich. Leftovers were rare, partially due to no microwaves being available for student use. Sometimes these items would be packed by a parent, or the kid might pack their own.
Kids buying lunch. A hot lunch had a fixed fee per day and there were usually several items of questionable culinary/nutritional value to choose from. There were also cookies, chips, or milk available for purchase. There may have been more options here, I didn't interact much with the paid lunches.
Kids bringing money for lunch and choosing to pocket some or all of it, and just eating later.
Kids not bringing money for lunch, and not bringing their own. This could be their choice, food insecurity, neglect, or any number of other reasons. Their friends may or may not feed them depending on the relationship.
Trading items with friends. It doesn't even have to be food for food.
Various mixing and matching of the above depending on external factors. A kid might bring lunch then buy milk or a snack on top of their other items. Or they might beg their parents to buy them lunch once a week so that they could have pizza when it was available on Fridays.
Most tables would be a mix of these choices. Some tables might only have kids buying items, or only bringing items from home. In one friend group it might be considered lame to buy lunch, or lame to have something packed by a parent. In some groups and age brackets trading might be prolific, rare, or non-existent.
I've avoided it so far. I struggle to enjoy a lot of TV that's made before the early 2000s. I can understand why people do, but I generally want more serialized rather than episodic stories.
MacGyver comes up a fair amount, but mostly in reference to bodging something together rather than people actually talking about the show, so I haven't felt much pressure to try it.
Do you think it's good enough to ignore my qualms and the rest of my giant backlog to jump the line?
It wasn't used here, but it's slightly better if the actual cross-post functionality is used. Then at least Piefed can maybe merge the comments sections.
AFAIK that doesn't help for Lemmy or other federated services.
I mean that's true for a lot of crossovers, even the ones where an actual character shows up. Tommy may be nonsense, but it's fun to see what you can link up.
I was looking up how Battlestar Galactica gets pulled in. Partway through the connections the link is Yoyodyne. I suppose that means the Crying of Lot 49 and the rest of Pynchon also get roped in. I wouldn't be surprised if that means a lot more links, although I'm not sure if linking through literature instead of TV & movies is done.
It's also plausibly enough money to make a new labor of love game for quite a while.
Like even if you are in a position where you want to take care of the players or whatever, $650k helps towards doing that. Even with your priorities in a weird order like that, it still seems obvious that you'd take the money and start a new project.
It may vary by region. I don't think I've ever seen a fight in the US. I'm sure someone I've known at some point probably has witnessed one, but I doubt I could pick them out of a lineup.
For teaching kids Equal Earth is a reasonable choice. Scale and relative global position are conveyed better.
A side effect of Mercator massively distorting size near the poles, neither Europe nor Canada don't feel as North as they actually are.
Kids don't have much of a reason to care about specific angles.
Pick one that suits your application.
If you're not using it to engage in navigation, Equal Earth is a sensible default.
Tools like Google maps are a bit thornier. They're used for navigation, but generally not in a way where angles matter. I could see someone getting themselves into trouble because the angles are screwy. But then again if Google cared about that sort of case, we wouldn't have the recent story of the Gemini hikers.
LinkedIn also has AI features. They ruined the job search a few weeks ago. It's now natural language, missing a bunch of filters, and doesn't even return the full text of a job post without additional clicks.
It also takes forever to load a post because it's trying to decide whether you're a match or not. It's not very good at figuring that out. It keeps saying I'm a great match for jobs that require languages I don't speak, or for jobs that require a master's.
I hope this is a sign they'll revert it, but I'm doubtful. LinkedIn was the least bad job search I've found.
Oh I didn't mean to imply French didn't use it. Just that it seemed to come up in a slightly more narrow set of circumstances. That could've been a misunderstanding though.
My experience starting with Spanish, and then trying French was that it still warded off most of the difficulty others in my class had.
There were loose patterns for grammatical gender for others to follow, but it mirrored Spanish well enough that it was ignorable. The next big thing that tripped classmates up was the subjunctive. French didn't seem to use it as often, but the concepts largely translated.
There were a few false friends, but it seemed rare. Hearing spelling may be harder in French, there are a lot of homophones or near homophones.
All that to say, French should still largely be a quick win (in as much a language ever can be).
One egregious example of this is the battle near the end of the book. My memory is a bit fuzzy, so please forgive if I slightly botch the details.
Bilbo has no reason to care about the fight. The audience has no reason to care. So Tolkien doesn't write the fight, and just knocks Bilbo unconscious at the start. One of the movies devotes a significant amount of runtime to the battle, despite the fact that audiences still have no reason to care. But you gotta have the big setpiece, right?
Y'all have no respect for the Quebecois. First order of business should be their favorite vacation state, Vermont.
Space heater in the US refers to something different.
Home heating may be done using steam in radiators. As far as I'm aware this is most common in older buildings or in the north. New York has district heating that seems to resemble district heating found in parts of Europe.
A space heater in the US is a resistive electrical heater, that isn't usually connected to the main heating system for the home. Typically these are small portable units, and they're used to heat just the room they're put in. Your thermostat might control several rooms, but you might not intend to be in those, and night not want to pay to heat all of them. Or it's unusually cold, so you use a space heater and just stay in that room.
A few I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet:
Movies don't always do a great job of depicting things. I imagine they might skew towards depicting practices that are common in southern California, or where the creative team grew up. If the cafeteria set on the back lot is shaped a certain way, re-dressing it to change to another style might not make sense for your budget.
It's going to vary based on private/public, state, and then local school jurisdiction, wealth of the community, and wealth of the family.
My school experience had a mix of:
Most tables would be a mix of these choices. Some tables might only have kids buying items, or only bringing items from home. In one friend group it might be considered lame to buy lunch, or lame to have something packed by a parent. In some groups and age brackets trading might be prolific, rare, or non-existent.
I've avoided it so far. I struggle to enjoy a lot of TV that's made before the early 2000s. I can understand why people do, but I generally want more serialized rather than episodic stories.
MacGyver comes up a fair amount, but mostly in reference to bodging something together rather than people actually talking about the show, so I haven't felt much pressure to try it.
Do you think it's good enough to ignore my qualms and the rest of my giant backlog to jump the line?
It wasn't used here, but it's slightly better if the actual cross-post functionality is used. Then at least Piefed can maybe merge the comments sections.
AFAIK that doesn't help for Lemmy or other federated services.
It might be implying she didn't fully fall asleep. Instead of Zs to indicate sleep it used Ys, the letter before.
I still feel like I'm missing something, but I think that's at least a starting point.
I mean that's true for a lot of crossovers, even the ones where an actual character shows up. Tommy may be nonsense, but it's fun to see what you can link up.
I was looking up how Battlestar Galactica gets pulled in. Partway through the connections the link is Yoyodyne. I suppose that means the Crying of Lot 49 and the rest of Pynchon also get roped in. I wouldn't be surprised if that means a lot more links, although I'm not sure if linking through literature instead of TV & movies is done.
It's also plausibly enough money to make a new labor of love game for quite a while.
Like even if you are in a position where you want to take care of the players or whatever, $650k helps towards doing that. Even with your priorities in a weird order like that, it still seems obvious that you'd take the money and start a new project.
The barrier is concrete. The street is asphalt. Those are not remotely the same color.
It's marked as not available in my region. Probably GDPR related
It is my first language. Hardwiring with no hyphen is fine. It was even perfectly happy to be swiped into the keyboard
It may vary by region. I don't think I've ever seen a fight in the US. I'm sure someone I've known at some point probably has witnessed one, but I doubt I could pick them out of a lineup.