Bit of a badge of honour, that.

aww geez

Unsure what texture or flavour to expect but I would be curious to try it.

Babylon Berlin is the only recent one (five seasons, 2017-2026) I can think of that I like, and not only is it German but I had to go in expecting to dislike it by the end due to direction of the books it is loosely based on and having a strong aversion to anything set during or as prelude to WWII.

Are you bad at finding suitable shows or have they become astonishingly bad at making or not cancelling good ones?

I also wonder if the US is importing fewer foreign (but still English language) shows which may effect Canada as American companies continue to buy up the world's media outlets.

I have never heard a single positive thing about the show that I have any reason to doubt ... yet I am holding steady at zero minutes in. But I'll watch it someday.

Probably.

It is truly wild the extent to which she was proven completely correct here.

(until we all drowned in the wave of retcons)

The only French comedy from my lifetime is the one remade into a Tom Hanks film? Surely you are shitting me, Mr Feynman.

This is fascinating to me because you and I would come in with different bugaboos but arrive at nearly the same conclusions. Why does the top five have two films I dislike or won't watch? I am a casual comedy fan: there should be more titles I have never heard of. Especially pre, say, 1970s.

attention teeming masses: I desire ✨engagement✨

no, not like that

Fresh flat bread is very important and can be made easily with a dedicated appliance (image 1) or a heavy pan inverted (image 2).

I don't own any large flat pans and don't want an arsenal of single function appliances, so a wok is particularly well suited.

I can't even process the LLM chatbot hallucination assisted form of this. It is like people filling out madlib books and insisting that in the process they found their way to essential or secret knowledge. I am deeply uncomfortable with it and try to not think about it.

It is a fairly mundane delusion but it seems to spread so easily and quickly, I find it alarming but don't have the specialised knowledge to do anything with this insight but fret fruitlessly.

I don't disagree, and I feel that way myself at times, but we cross into a different mental space once engaging with analysing the world and deciding, in defiance of all available evidence and decency, that we have a rare insight into its workings and some exclusive knowledge of how to advance.

At 14 I read a book written as a visitor's guide to a moonbase with a section on the material sciences history of the design and construction of the base. Then I recall The Pillars of the Earth being quite popular.

So many paths to even scraps of enlightenment, all avoided by these agile lads.