American football has become absolutely terrible. It feels like 50% ad time and the commentary is complete shit.

Like Joe Rogan

Well if his self-inflicted suffering makes him stop an iota of what he’s doing on Xitter or with DOGE, then yes, it will improve the lives of others.

Yeah I definitely don’t know enough to say. You can definitely translate please in translators for those languages, but for whatever reason I just haven’t been seeing it in language basics. Once I spend more time there I’ll learn more.

For Thai specifically, you say “ka” (if you’re a woman) or “kraub”/“kaub”/“kaup” (if you’re a man) at the end of everything you say. Whenever you finish a sentence you say it. I saw a woman relating a phone number, and she would say “ka” after every number. It’s all about politeness.

Insurers always look at whether you’ve been denied coverage previously by another insurer as part of the decision whether to insure you and at what level and rate. Collusion is built into the system.

That said, I certainly wouldn’t want to insure anyone in that area either. Not in this climate…

Yeah, I’m not sure on the quality either. Try to get one with a wired mic to avoid latency as much as possible.

Good luck.

I like the Bluetooth speaker idea, but if that doesn’t work I’ve seen tour guides on buses/boats use portable karaoke machines for this. One problem might be that they add reverb by default which may not be desirable in this scenario, and I’m not sure if you can turn it off.

Edit: just thinking about this, there are systems like you’re talking about designed specifically for tour guides or teachers. It’s a mic attached to a speaker that can sit on your hip (for example.) They’re probably well under your budget, even for a good quality one.

“The Manchurian Candidate”

Yeah boiii!

So, this is an odd one because I travel a lot and try to learn basic words in local languages, usually hello, please, thank you, sorry/excuse me, and numbers are my basic go to. For some reason, in a number of languages “please” isn’t something you get by default. I’ve found this particularly in southeast Asia.

I can say please and thank you (and generally converse and read) in French and Spanish. In Spanish I find myself using “por favor” a lot. “You’re welcome” takes different forms in Spanish depending where your are, and what’s polite in one place can be confusing or even rude in another.

I can say hello, please, and thank you in German, Italian, and Greek. I mostly said hello and thank you in Greece and Italy, rarely please. I’ve never actually used German in situ, I just know it from pop culture I think.

I can say hello and thank you (and various other things) in Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, Thai, Lao, Khmer, and Vietnamese. I might need to think hard for a minute or get a quick refresher so that I don’t mix some of them up sometimes, especially when I’m moving from one country to the next… I don’t think I ever learned please specifically in any of these, though I think it’s kind of built into the other things you say in a lot of them (especially Thai).

So, please and thank you, 6 for sure. But if the goal is to talk about language basics for getting around as a visitor, I would say 13 :)

Won’t somebody think of the poor haul video people?

Why isn’t this one getting more attention?

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She said Trump’s rhetoric is unfortunate and she wants prospective Canadian visitors to know they are welcome in California.

They don’t even get what the issue is apparently.

We’re being warned to leave our phones at home when crossing the border. People are being detained for weeks for visa issues. Our government has issued a travel advisory about how US border guards are screening travellers.

This isn’t just “oh, we’re upset you hosers are calling us the 51st state, eh.”

This is genuine fear of what might happen if we go to your country. A friend of mine was almost in tears because she had non-refundable tickets to go to the states to see a friend and was worried about crossing the border.

Sorry, but it’s going to take more than, “please come visit because we like you, really.”

Yes, but I’m saying the algorithm for layoffs factors in “performance”, which can be factored from past bonus allocations.

The algorithm isn’t going to lay off 150’s, but might preferentially select 100’s.

I don’t have inside info, I’m just making assumptions that the data has to come from somewhere.

Who is waiting in the wings to take over?

Sort of. Managers still get in a room and decide how the bonus pool should be distributed by ranking people.

Having a more aggressive manager is important for getting a better bonus.

I could see this factoring into layoff decisions.

Does this mean the other products they ship aren’t hit with tariffs? Are they somehow wholly made in the US vs the ones that were dropped?

Edit: found my own answer:

“We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss.”

Aww that’s cute, you already made a friend.

Wait 'til you see their retaliation!