The pies are spheroid?

Typically circular, but there are some regional variations.

There is a whole Wikipedia article about mooncakes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake

I have another one that is not on the list, because the reason it was considered unusual has been slowly fading away.

It’s a neighbouring town called “Alf”.

During the Alf-TV-series craze in the 80s, the town sign regularly got stolen, similar to the Fucking one.

That was a serious problem, as those are standardized, but custom made signs, and are not only quite expensive, but serve multiple functions besides naming the town (e.g. setting the speed limit to 50km/h).
So they are mandatory to have installed (you also can’t just replace it with huge rocks or so, like the Shitterton people did).

So I fully understand the Fugging people for renaming their town.
Other options are just too expensive (and also dangerous, think of the speed limit function, which is similar in Austria as in Germany) in the long run…

Autsch… 🫣

That sounds a bit like a fatal infinite loop scenario…

In the olden days we used the TV to run our Playstations.

Now we can use the Playstations to run TV.

The future is here!

I still see a bunch of possible additional steps before the mandatory “Does it run Doom?” finally deep down at the bottom…

Sounds dope, and is probably what most are doing.

And regarding the “mockery” and atheists/christians/insert_believe_system_here:
Christmas has imo become mainly a secular event by now, and also somehow heavily mocks itself already, so whatever…

(I haven’t watched it)

But have you at least tried to reach the number?

The sub headline is kinda important here:

Seoul wants to direct use of homegrown AI chatbots to reduce reliance on U.S. or Chinese options, footing the bill and offering unlimited tokens

Also, it only seems to be access to special purpose chatbots, not e.g. unlimited API access for use with your own tools.

OK boomer.

Not quite, but just exchange LOTR with “Die Hard” and you are there!

Do you have any Christmas-equivalent in your life?

I guess most cultures do have at least some cozy family gathering event.

I am especially fond of the idea of the Chinese moon festival, love the idea of coming together, eating moon shaped pies and admiring the moon together! :-)

Well, not completely alone, 2 or three of my friends also stayed far from home, so not sure if this counts?

And it was in Munich while living only a few blocks from the Winter Tollwood Festival, which is one of the most interesting “Christmas Markets” (quotes are on purpose…) in Germany which also didn’t have its closing day on Christmas Eve already, but stayed open until Three Kings Day.

So, during daytime I was working in a relaxed way basically alone in the office, while during the evenings I was at a slightly crazy place eating exotic food and listening to strange, but top notch live bands.

I had a great time, did this twice or so!

Caveat:
I think that only worked because I am one of the lucky guys who have a stable family bond and also know that.
Gives you the safety to try stuff without fearing some none-recoverable loss.

Well, this is definitely not the complete negation of no thing that under no circumstances might not work out as not unexpectedly wrong.

What do Americans gain by changing the name of Lake Ontario?

International ridicule.

„Ich bin mit meinen 62 Jahren noch fit, und wir können nicht alles auf die Jungen schieben“, findet der Biophysiker. Conze hat familiäre Verbindungen zur Bundeswehr. Sein Sohn dient. „Man lernt hier, sein Zivilleben zu schätzen.“

Eigentlich ist er Rechtsanwalt. Etwas aktiv zu tun, um den Frieden in Deutschland zu erhalten, sei für Fuhrmann-Rüdlin irgendwann der einzige logische Schritt gewesen. Im Alltag wälzt er Gesetzestexte, hier in Fritzlar lässt er sich erklären, wie man aus messerscharfem Draht eine Barriere baut.

Respekt.

I don’t know… Looks blue to me…

Maybe that depiction depends on the sect telling the story.

Just skimmed his Wikipedia article: In some flavors of Christianity he apparently is even considered a saint.
And generally he is not seen as a bad person, but a necessary, if tragic one, and a human witness for the things Christ had to go through.
Actually interesting.

That’s exactly what I’ve been saying, my dear youngling! ;-)

The bike with which I had problems at my workplace had an aluminium frame.
The one at the blockaded turning lane already was my new steel bike, though.

But I guess the amount of ferromagnetic metal does make a difference nonetheless.

Here in Germany the induction loops are paved over with regular asphalt, so without a sign reminding them of their presence, you won’t notice them.