I really liked it. and it doesn’t hurt that it’s only about 80 minutes long, but there was a lot of good animation and fun storytelling, and I was laughing out loud at Martin Short.

I just watched treasure planet like 3 days ago, so…cool.

https://archive.is/VayyH

rump, of course. I refer to him as dumps, but rump is perfect. much more efficient. thanks.

Great review, I am sold. I actually kind of skimmed over the end of it because I didn’t want to spoil anything and just go in blind, I love the initial description of inhabiting hand-drawn animated world and am eager to check it out.

good call, thanks for the rundown

Why? they’ve released regular updates this entire time with obvious documented progress.

has anyone asked what Luigi thinks about this?

half the time they just give you the article, but half the time they do captcha.

if you complete the captcha, it always provide you with a full article, though.

archive.is

Just throw the website in there and you can read it free.

eh.

especially against your closest allies.

a speck of evidence for homemade laotian whiskey being popular?

there are hundreds of homemade bottles at every market.

each market seller or restaurant that has whiskey offers their own homemade laotian whiskey as well.

I’m not from Laos, but I lived there for a while.

easy to avoid if you want to avoid it.

I think you have a higher regard for the stringent ethics of poverty-stricken moonshiners than I do.

but what you’re saying certainly could have happened also.

I tasted it and immediately I had red flags go up in my mind, the bottles I tried(had to make sure) definitely tasted homemade and not completely divorced from methanol

The article keeps mentioning that the drinks could have been spiked, but that seems very unlikely and a weird way to poison someone, especially since there doesn’t seem to be a motive or relationship between the victims.

what’s much more likely, given it’s Laos, is that the whiskey was poorly homemade and the bar sourced their whiskey from that. unskillful distiller, laotian whiskey is a cultural tradition and whiskey is pretty easy to make. all you need is a still, but if you keep all of the distillation, the beginning of the liquid coming out is methanol, which is very poisonous. after the methanol is gone then it’s all ethanol, which is the alcohol you’re used to drinking and is less poisonous.

it sounds like this was in a bar, so the supplier of the bar probably got lazy or didn’t want to waste any of the distillate they were making and kept the methanol in through negligence or greed.

yep, I did a deep dive into the scientific paper mill industry and you are exactly correct.

the only other metric I have heard about(besides just buildings being built) for scientific advancement within China comes from the sheer volume of papers they submit which have been studied again and again and at least 20% are entirely fabricated, but the number is probably much higher and the academics don’t have time to weed out all the irrelevant ones so they just let the irrelevant ones go through, but there’s a dearth of innovative progressive science coming out of China as far as anyone can still tell.

they straight up have paper mills and it’s openly known that those papers are one either based on completely fabricated data, or two based on irrelevant already known data.

as far as editors trying to check all of these false papers out of China have reported, it’s sort of like if you were submitting an article to an automotive mechanics magazine, and you just did a book report on what a piston is.

like yeah, that’s what a piston is, but no knowledge is being gained from a report on an already known technology and its known applications.

so how do those papers get into the magazines?

very often those paper mills offer a grant to a legitimate scientist who needs to get a project done and they’ll agree to be credited as a co-author on these ersatz Chinese papers so that they’re more widely accepted.

there’s six different related articles about the same thing on that website, and the metric of declaring them “science cities” seems to be the amount of buildings they have built in the cities, rather than verified scientific advancement.

I never heard about this, thanks for sharing!

I still dual boot with Windows for gaming, so I can’t comment on the next gaming as much, but I will say that LTSC is everything that it seems to be (or not be).

Windows without any bullshit, I used it for years.

I use windows solely for ease of gaming so I haven’t bothered to replace the stock, but if you do keep using Windows, LTSC is definitely the way to go.

as far as the articles going around, Linux is catching up but is not yet as effortless less as Windows for gaming specifically.