For a system I worked on a few years ago I got the password requirement:

• Only upper case letters A-Z, no letter or symbols.

• Exactly 7 characters.

I was also recommended to make it a single word to make it memorable.

They were banned. There is a whole thing about why Russia is banned while Israel is not. I don’t have the facts, but comes down to something about membership in EBU (the european broadcasting union).

Maybe Animorphs was onto something with the Yeerk’s requirements.

I love how I know the name Bagger 288 because of a 16 year old meme

I have had a similar scenario. I was in the shower, letting the shower thoughts run. Then i suddenly flinched as I became unsure if I had taken the phone out of my pocket before entering the shower. I slapped my hand instinctively towards my naked leg to feel if my phone was there. Then I instantly realized how stupid I was.

But I’m guessing it also yields more exotic results, depending on the rest of the search term?

It had a good few first episodes with fun geeky jokes, but it quickly turned to bad jokes and lazy stereotypes and relied loosely on stereotypes to contain the geekyness.

It’s weird how the price drops when something "included’ gets removed. Am I misunderstanding that word?

During the big wave of Among Us, it was also interesting to see “sus” become a popular term, probably because people don’t know how to spell “suspisus”.

The tile placement game in Satisfactory is worth a mention. I never fully understood the points system, so I never really rode the game to decent scores, but it was a fun break from the vast size of the rest of the game.

I use it 100% of the time when the rules of traffic prompts me to use it.

Within a small single-lane housing area: I blink.

When exiting my driveway and the road reaches a dead end 100 meters in the one direction, so it should be very obvious which way I’ll go: I blink.

The roundabout in town which is so tiny that it looks more like an intersection, and when heading straight through it: I blink.

It’s so much better to have a habit of blinking and making unambiguous signals than to forget it. It helps with the flow of traffic and probably lets everyone get where they need to go quicker.

I have a great system where I load up a lot of bags into my car so I basically always have access to reusable bags when I drive to the store. And then I promptly forget the bags in the car when I shop and end up with freaking single use plastic anyways.

I live in Norway. Growing up, some days in school were reserved for diverse activities. Some of my friends and I decided to bike to the swimming park in the city ~20 miles away. We didn’t have to bike on car roads at all to get there, as bike lanes and good side paths lead us the whole way. Being able to get anywhere with a bike at the age of 14 is an amazing level of freedom.

Antimatter doesn’t really do anything by it’s own, but if we let 1 kg react with 1 kg of matter (non-anti-matter), we get E = mc² with m = 2 kg. So 1.8 * 10¹⁷ J, or 1.8 * 10¹¹ MJ. If we assume that 10 MJ/kg is represented by about 1 cm, the bar would have to be 1.8 * 10¹⁰ cm or about 1.8 * 10⁸ m. A standard A4 piece of paper is about 30 cm tall, so 6.0 * 10⁸ A4 papers are needed. I.e. 600 million papers.

So we definitely have enough paper, but it would be a very tall stack.

From a board game review standpoint, the slowness of the game is my biggest issue. Losing a game of monopoly isn’t just counting the score and shrugging off a “good game”. You realize that the game is lost way before you actually lose. Meanwhile, you will have to spend a long time - possibly hours - just going through the motions. Roll the dice, pay your dues. Every small gain is slowly erased by the grinding losses. I refuse to play monopoly again.

Even if he doesn’t live through his term, the action of evading term limits will surely have much longer impact as it opens new doors for dictators.

It works for screws, but as a kid, I was never sure if the clock on the wall should be visualized attached to the ceiling or on the floor when saying “clockwise”. So I was always a bit hessitant on that.

I started playing disk golf which has started to build up some sort of social network. Doing a physical activity with other people really seems to work.

I have replaced almost every light bulb in my house with smart bulbs which feature both bluetooth and zigbee connections. It’s around 40 devices. If your neighbour has smart bulbs or other devices, I guess that could be a large part of it.

Norway.

Cross country skiing. It’s basically expected for every kid in school to be adaquate at cross country skiing. P. E. classes during winter could often consist of a ski trip, and a couple times per year the schools would arrange ski days with different acrivities on skis.