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I also love the erhu like the Butterfly Lover's Concerto.

It kind of looks like ours. The flower only blooms for a very short time and then dies out, so the flower dying like this seems normal to me.

I don't know if there's a way to tell if it will bear fruit except just waiting, which is probably not comforting.

They finally found a way to make money off of AI

Thanks so much for writing this. They are always so good and make me nostalgic for the old gaming magazines.

Harder words for charades tend to be abstract concepts because they are hard to figure out concrete geatures for.

Some of these words could be:

• Hierarchy
• Government
• Hypothesis
• Friendship

A great clue will be one that is difficult to guess at the time, but will be obvious in hindsight. Inside jokes from the group, or references that everyone in the group will know.

In terms of rules, typically the group will have a list of words to guess. These words could come from an online list or sources from the group (e.g. everyone playing writes 10 words on a slip of paper). The group is then typically split into teams.

During play, a player from a team will choose a word at random and then try to get their team to guess the word (no sounds or noises at all), within the time limit (typically a minute or less).

Play continues until a certain score is reached, the words run out, or players stop having fun.

Typical variations:

• Players have a set amount of time (e.g. 90 seconds) and try to get their team to guess as many words as possible in turn to allow for multiple points to be scored per round.
• A non-competitive version of the game can be played where there are no teams and no time limits.
• Opposing teams can guess the word as well and if they do the player's team doesn't score.

Notes & Tips:

• A common vocabulary has developed over time for certain concepts (e.g. "movie", "book", "# of syllables"). If you want to be competitive you can try to learn some these.
• Pointing at objects in the room to help your team guess is sometimes allowed and sometimes not.
• Try not to take it to seriously. It's meant to be a fun way to socialize and interact with your friends / family, so teams or words will likely be unbalanced.

Hope this helps!

I like that we don't have to put quotes around reciprocal this time.

Most Americans would act like those kids in Ben Stein's classroom from Ferris Bueler's Day Off if you tried to discuss the Smoot-Hawley tariffs with them.

It's also weird because if they get rid of Elon then people would start looking at the actual fundamentals of Tesla which would lead to a much much lower stock price. In December, Tesla was valued at roughly the same as the rest of the worlds auto manufacturers combined, despite selling only 3% of the worlds cars in 2023.

I think this is 4.4 specific, so you could just go back to 4.3 instead of all the way back to 3

I agree. The thing is also that Ukraine has absolutely no motive to carry out a DDOS of Twitter.

What would the positive outcome even be? Piss off the leader of the country that your asking for money/weapons?

I don't think you should get a job in public service if you don't want to deal with members of the public.

Is this why Trump always cites $300B as theoney given to Ukraine? Because that's the amount of frozen Russian assets and he hears about it from the Russians all the time?