Nah, the US one is more correct because it’s much closer to the original Japanese.

Yes, but what we want is the correct pronunciation, so for that you have to go see the French version.

I did, and all but the very heavily accented Quebecois one say it the way it should be said, similar to crept.

Yeah. I’d encourage communities to do it, but not the instance itself.

In particular, there may be a community dedicated to pointing out the crazy shit Elon says, or laughing at various right-wing bootlickers. Those communities can’t really exist without linking to, or at least sharing images from Twitter. I see the value in those existing, even if they’re not somewhere I’d want to spend a lot of my time. Occasionally something is so hilarious or important that it might break through, and it couldn’t if those communities were effectively banned.

OTOH if various politics, football, gaming, etc. communities want to ban content from Twitter, I’d definitely encourage that. Even if it means that someone has to look a little harder for an alternate source for something they saw on Twitter, it’s worth it because it shows Twitter isn’t essential and gets people to move away.

I and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth

Nope!

The French version of the word has a circumflex over the e (crêpe)

Which makes it sound like the “e” in crept or crepuscular. Both of which, unsurprisingly, sound exactly like the way the e in “crepe” is supposed to be pronounced.

Now, I could see someone getting confused by the spelling, and assuming the weird English rule about silent "e"s applies, meaning it should be pronounced “creep”. But, that’s not the mistake people are making, for some reason they’re saying “crayp”, which is just stupid.

No, in some very backwards dialects it might, but they should be ashamed of how they mispronounce it.

What’s annoying about this is to make the joke work you have to mangle the pronunciation of “crepes”. It’s a French word and it rhymes with “step”. I don’t know how you can get an “ay” sound out of a word containing only “e” as a vowel.

Their exhausted, well-flushed kidneys.

Your poor kidneys.

If the US ever gets a reasonable privacy law, I really think smart toilets that measured and analyzed your waste could be very helpful tools. In the current world it would be a privacy nightmare though.

A glass of water isn’t necessarily a “cup” in US cooking units.

Let’s say that he’s drinking from small glasses, only 200 mL each. 37 drinks of 200 mL is 7.4 L of water (1501 teaspoons in American units).

That’s a ridiculous amount of water. 7L of water has a mass approximately of 7 kg. Apparently Brady weighs about 100 kg, so if he’s not lying he’s drinking 7.5% of his body weight every day? My bet is that even the biggest NFL player playing in sweltering summer heat isn’t going to need more than 7 L of water per day.

Try getting in your car and telling a random shop you don’t have cash but you’ll pay them back.

What do you think a credit card is?

You say something stupid (hypothesis), your friend dares you to do it

What’s the hypothesis there?

“I’m going to piss on that window.” doesn’t involve a testable hypothesis.

I don’t know if it would work, but what I’d try to do in that situation is to make it clear the kids will get more of your time and attention if they put in more effort themselves.

Like, the kid asking how far away Paris is: get the kid to come up with an estimate and how he/she’d check that estimate. Once they put in the work like that, you give them more time to get to the answer.

The kid asking about microwaving a fork, tell them it’s a dangerous thing to do, tell them you might be able to find a video showing what happens. But, first, ask them to come up with 5 other things they shouldn’t touch in the kitchen without a parent’s permission and a reason why and write them down.

I don’t have kids, but my dad did something a bit like that with me, and my uncle did something like that with his kids. It seemed to work. I was too young to really remember exactly how it worked with me, but I do remember happily doing research on things and then getting attention from my dad about what I’d figured out. With my uncle, I got to watch his kids (5-6 years younger than me) and how this sort of thing worked. He’d spend about 5 seconds deflecting them, they’d go off and do some things on their own, and he’d have more time to relax. Sometimes they got bored or distracted and didn’t come back. When they did come back, they’d come back with something more than just a random question, and he’d spend time with them about what they’d discovered.

Mythbusters embodied the scientific method, but I do wish they’d stopped to actually properly explain it at some point. “Writing it down” is definitely part of the process, but it’s not the whole process. The whole process is what they actually did in most of their episodes:

1. Make a prediction
2. Design an experiment to test that prediction
3. Run the experiment and observe the results
4. Come up with a conclusion

Sometimes they played fast and loose with some of these steps to make entertaining TV. But, fundamentally, they were doing science.

“Evil” people have motivations too. There’s no overthinking needed. He’s frequently played by Putin, and this makes the most sense.

There is one and only one reason Trump/US wants Greenland.

There’s more than one. To me, the most plausible one is that Putin has played on his insecurities. He probably told Trump that a president / king / emperor is remembered when they expand their territory, otherwise they’re forgotten. So, off Trump goes, trying to cement his legacy as a great president by expanding US territory. By doing that, he plays right into Putin’s hands by destabilizing the world.

Right, like I said, you can make it more and more complicated, depending if the kid wants more detail. I just don’t think tariffs are any more complicated than any other subject. Everything gets complicated as you dig into it more and more.

You have a goat and I have 50 apples. You want my apples but I don’t want your goat. OK. Bye bye, good luck finding the next customer.

In the real world:

Ok, I’ll let you have my apples, but you owe me.

Or

You want some apples? Sure, have some!

The world operated on debt and gifts for a long time before monetary systems were common. Debt was sometimes formal, sometimes informal. Gifts were sometimes pure acts of generosity, sometimes they were rituals.