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My understanding is that the Dr. was referring to her glasses prescription, but the numbers he provided were misinterpreted as some sort of rating on her appearance (or perhaps basketball performance).

He didn’t intend to cause that confusion, which is why he acknowledged that his choice of wording was not ideal. I hope that clears things up.

Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind.

Oof I forgot about that. Well written entertainment (not at all) surprisingly depends on talented and sufficiently compensated writers.

Theres also the fact that it didn’t really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show.

I wish they would have found some way to tie up the whole conspiracy and end the show with the conclusion of the first season. We didn’t need to see what happened afterwards, leave that to our imaginations. Unfortunately what followed was a clumsy attempt to reconcile the more fantastical elements with reality. We could have had another brilliant prison story like Shawshank, but instead we got a conspiracy theory soap opera.

I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.

I don’t think that kind of entertainment is entirely gone today, but it’s certainly the exception rather than the rule. Outside of a few niches, I agree that you don’t really see the same level of the week by week theory crafting and speculation that used to be so fun at the time. I hope someday that experience will be the norm again.

Absolutely agree with The Owl House, such an amazing show. On the other hand, it’s definitely not for everyone, especially the character Hooty.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Gravity Falls
• Psych
• Steven Universe (Rough beginning but so worth it)
• Ted Lasso

I loved season 1 of Prison Break, season 2 was mostly ok but had a lot of wasted potential, and everything after that was completely off of the rails.

I felt very similarly to Heroes. It started very strong, but fizzled out quickly and eventually became a caricature of itself.

Check smoke detectors, clocks, plants near desks, anything that’s always been there and nobody questions.

To add to this as someone who has seen behind the curtain of how much of this tech is set up, lights are a common hiding place for cameras. Exit signs, parking lot lights, motion sensor lights, and the like. These are unfortunately also very difficult to detect by design, since they are expected to consume electricity, are almost always closed circuit with data wires parallel to the power wires, are practically impossible to observe in low light, and generate some heat even without any included surveillance equipment.

You mean spam trap? Outside of 2FA or a few other small things, which even those are using it less. Who actively engages with it on a regular basis.

And those that do actively engage with it are often using HTML hypertext interfaces. (Proton Gmail etc)

My first paragraph was a direct response to these sentences.

It’s easy to imagine a world without email. So many other apps and services easily slot in to replace it. And already have in many places. Now, try to imagine a world without HTML or HTTP servers. What would that even look like?

My second and third paragraphs were a direct response to this.

My generalized interpretation of your comment was that laypeople don’t use email anymore, their only interaction with the internet is through HTTP, and HTTP is the only internet protocol that could not be easily replaced.

My counter argument was that laypeople in the business world absolutely still use email daily, almost always through a client like Outlook, and there are a number of other protocols with varying degrees of usage (among laypeople and enthusiasts) that would also be very difficult to replace.

I apologize if I misunderstood your comment, but hopefully this clarifies my point and intentions.

Email is absolutely still used massively, especially in the business world. Even if someone is accessing their emails in a browser, they are still being sent with SMTP behind the scenes.

There’s also SSH, NTP, VOIP, FTP, BitTorrent, and probably more that I’m forgetting, that all have varying degrees of usage today.

Don’t get me wrong, HTTP is certainly by far the most used protocol, but it is in no way the only important one that would be difficult to replace.

Thank you for the clarification, I see that now. What I also see from further research is that he and his family were taken by force and have not been seen publicly since. Whether or not that would be technically considered kidnapping or abduction feels like splitting hairs.

Forcibly relocating a child away from their parents is the literal definition of kidnapping. Whether or not he ended up having a good life afterwards does not change that fact.

Archive link.

This apparently isn’t even the “real” Panchen Lama, but is the one chosen by China to replace the one that was kidnapped and was chosen by the Dalai Lama.