In my lab, we ALWAYS ask for nationality (and in some cases, parents’ and even grandparents’ nationalities), because we do psycholinguistics and native dialect is a super crucial factor.

I recently rewatched The Butterfly Effect (whyyyyy), and now I can’t stop seeing Eric Stoltz as a creepy pedophile.

The past thirty years have been a weird time for phrases like “some key context that’s missing for younger readers”.

I remember in ‘01 or ‘02, when I finally convinced my mom to shell out for DSL. I was SO EXCITED that the time it took to download a song from Kazaa was less than the duration of the song.

I realize I’m a pretty typical millennial in a lot of ways (taste in shows, refusing to pay for cable, etc.), but I don’t understand how Unbreakable would be expected to fail on network TV.

Except BSG went off Netflix just under a year ago...

I once had to do one of those implicit association tests for credit. They showed either a white person or a black person, then either a book or a gun, and I had to push the appropriate button for “book” or “gun”.

Marguerite Moreau is also still working. She had a minor role in a couple seasons of Shameless as the redhead’s boyfriend-boss’s wife, and she’s in the upcoming Wet Hot American Summer TV series.

That line is definitely from “Get Low”.

I’ll bet there’s a lot of variation in the number-of-glasses-broken per person per year. I’m in my late 20s and I swear I’ve only broken two glasses in my adult life... one was a cheap dollar store tumbler that cracked while I was washing it, and one was a cheap dollar store wine glass whose stem snapped when I…

This conversation is incomplete without a mention of POWERTHIRST

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate.

Python or Javascript should get you there.

I got followed by Gawker Newsfeed early on during the 15 minutes when that was a thing. I was so excited, then so disappointed when they shut it down :(

ended in a somewhat isolated house under construction in the nondescript Santa Juanita Sudden Valley neighborhood, surrounded by empty fields.

I was the drive-by punchee, and there’s not a lot of closure to be had.

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I would also happily subscribe to such a service, as someone who typically only pirates retro games (the most recent game I’ve stolen is, appropriately, the 2004 edition of Sid Meier’s Pirates!).

There was a This American Life episode recently where they talked about how vocal fry is taking over the minds of young women or something, and how people don’t take young women seriously when they use vocal fry.

Yeah, and the guy who said “The point stands you are effectively banning this player for little more then ruining your pixels.”