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Bldck
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Spreadsheet? Why does it have to be an app?
I just started a spreadsheet for tracking coffee beans
Bonjour, parlez-vous anglais?
That’s my baseline for speaking French. 99% of the time the French are gracious and switch.
The few times someone has responded “non” we use pidgin franglish or pantomime whatever we need to discuss. Haven’t had someone be a jerk about French or English in France for almost 20 years.
- Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
- Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
- Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
- PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
- Phoenix Program: CIA led effort to infiltrate the Viet Cong
I think this was the single most impactful driver of the slowdown in the tech sector. I’ve seen reports of 90%+ reduction in postings.
Combine fewer postings with layoffs from big tech companies and the job market has been a bloodbath for 4 years.
An annual rewatch for me. Absolutely love that show. It’s so funny, poignant. Just A+ work from the team.
Cartesian geometry makes z up 🤷🏻♀️
There is a sequel of sorts. But it’s set 200 years later in Hong Kong
The first season is pretty bad. It feels so low budget, low stakes and boring.
I wonder if Better Call Saul would be a better entry point and then you’d be more invested in these characters and situations so you could deal with the slow pace of season one of BB
BCS knew what they were doing and had a larger budget from the get go, so you can feel the storylines immediately without revealing too much about the end of BB
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I found The Babadook deeply unsettling. I could never quite predict where the protagonist was going or what she was capable of. The creeping dread of ‘will she harm her child and blame this delusion?’ dominated the viewing for me.
Probably the only film I’ve ever literally watched from behind my fingers