We don’t need to, but I noticed at one point that he’s mostly seeing female leads. We read a bunch of the books in your list, many others we avoided because they’re no longer in line with current times (and they’re not old enough to understand the historical context), and a bunch of them are not for their age yet.

Same for kids books. It’s great for my daughter, but it’s hard to find good movies and books for her younger brother.

I ignore any calls that are not from my contacts. If it’s important they’ll leave a message. I have DND on at night. Calls and messages from my wife have separate sounds and exception from DND.

Samsung galaxy has the same feature (at least on the S25, I don’t recall if I had it on the S10)

“Care e diferența dintre un porc și o râmă? Porcul râmă, dar râma nu porc”.

It’s not translatable directly because in Romanian there’s a word for digging with the snout. That word is the same word as the word for earthworm. So it goes like “What’s the difference between a pig and an earthworm? The pig digs (earthworms), but the earthworm doesn’t pig.”

In English there’s one very similar in concept: “What is the difference between a fly and a flea? A fly can flee, but a flea can’t fly.”

Ok, that’s absurd. I thought it makes sense to change the name for people in the US if that’s the official name in the US (according to the USGS data, which has always been the official source for this info). But translating the US name into other languages that already have a name for it makes no sense.

There are studies about how other tools reduced various capacities. Our memory capacity has decreased and how we use it has changed. People used to store a lot of information, now we only store a sort of index (we remember where to look it up, not the information itself). Our attention span has also greatly decreased with the shift to short form content (not a useful tool, but just another cognitive change).

I’m too lazy to double check now, but afaik the problem with his voyage was the exact opposite. People knew that the earth was round and its approximate radius, so they knew that going all the way around the other side to India would be much too long of a voyage. What they didn’t know was that there was a whole other continent in the way.

I wrote my next essay in highlighter

When I went to school that would have been an automatic fail. We had clear rules about what we can and cannot write with (fountain pen was the standard, but some teachers were fine with ballpoint pens too).

It’s never difficult. Wikipedia cites sources. It’s very easy to check if any piece of information has citations and what those citations are.

That means that the gas above the boiling water is colder than the boiling water itself.

But if it’s colder then it’s not steam. It’s air mixed with water vapor. Steam is by definition hotter than boiling water.

2024-12-07 is not “American style”, it’s ISO standard date format.