For things involving payments, the info should probably be real but I might use only a first name if I can get away with it. And if it’s asking for an address for no good reason I’ll give a fake address in the same city. No one’s ever asked me for a name in a restaurant.

But it does keep people from leaving due to lack of content. And these people may bring more at some point. It depends on the actual content of course.

Maybe you like the US because most media comes from there? If you feel you don’t belong in Germany you can try other cultures too. From there you have access to A LOT of countries just a train trip away. And at some point you could go to the US too to see what it’s really like.

Shower scene theme from psycho. The idea was it would be shocking enough to wake me up every time. After some years it doesn’t work anymore but it’s still annoying enough to force my brain to wake up and turn it off (eventually).

So I had nothing to do tonight and went back and rewatched it.

Why these languages specifically? If it’s for different reasons you should pick what’s most important to you. Also, with Spanish and Portuguese, Italian and French should be much easier than the others but don’t you already understand a good part of them?

Ideally you shouldn’t completely trust the characters either way. But ok it might be easier for the movie to avoid issues when there’s little info. It gives more work to the viewer too.

We still know what we see. Many movies are equally vague about the actual mechanics and still introduce contradictions.

Tbf the characters don’t have to understand or explain anything. If there is a way for the internal logic of the movie to work without contradicting itself, that should be good enough for no plot holes.

Primer is one of those movies that needs like 3 rewatches to spot a plot hole and no one’s got time for that. Another good show of this type is Steins;Gate (totally watch it if you like time travel stuff)

Assuming you can change the future, you can send a message with your location history every x minutes to your 1-day (or more) ago self. You will have to encode it (and I guess this should be done outside the phone) in a way that the assassin can’t spoof a message. You’ll have to figure out that encoding as soon as you find out about the assassin since that’s your message travel limit anyway. When you start receiving messages you follow that location history and then stop following it when you stop receiving them because something went wrong there. Eventually some instance of you might make it 7 days.

In every device it’s a photo I took and different from the wallpaper. They’re both edited to match a color theme, usually grayscale+one more color (currently orange). The photos are usually of buildings, flowers or cats but right now I have a combo of a bicycle for lock screen and building for wallpaper.

Do you get to choose it with a budget or they buy whatever cheap, uncomfortable thing was available? I’d much rather use my own equipment if I’m gonna be using it everyday.

It’s worse when you’re a pedestrian. If you swerve towards me and expect me to get out of your way you kinda have to tell me where you’re going. But if you walk a lot you get better at judging intentions by the changing speed of the car and distrasting blinkers.

*then we’ll have code that may or may not be ok and no more senior programmers to check it.

It might happen with non-crt screens too. I remember a flat screen (LCD?) that made a different noise depending on the color it displayed. White and light colors made a lot more noise and if you had good ears you could tell the difference without looking. Not sure how they work though to explain this.

It’s ok in some salads and things pickled in vinegar are good. I don’t like apple cider vinegar though.

But salt and vinegar chips are amazing. Best way to destroy your mouth without going spicy.

Some of these choices are a bit weird. I selected cybersecurity expecting to see my instance but it returns sh.itjust.works instead. But infosec.pub does appear in general technology sometimes so the site knows about it.

Yeah it’s not a great example, the difference could be on whether you’d have to do y and z before getting there or they’d give you the materials to do them on the spot. Say signing a form they provide vs finding it, printing it and bringing it with you.

A parentheses-like mark to group parts of a sentence when it’s not clear which part a word belongs to. An example I saw lately that may not translate very well: “You are required to arrive an hour early so there’s time to do x, do y and do z”. Are you required to do y and z or do you just need the extra time to do them? You can usually tell from context but this type of mixup does happen sometimes.