Long form educational YT videos are amazing. It makes my brain work hard, and I feel like I learn more.

Short form pop content like TikTok doesn't give my brain enough time to engage the thinking muscle.

I think it's better to identify the characteristics of the media we consume, rather than lumping all of them together.

VSCode is based on Chromium. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/v...

I wouldn't say the Vietnamese alphabet is "transliteration". Vietnamese is one of the most, if not the most tonal language in the world. The same word, speaking with different tones will convey different meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)

The modern Vietnamese alphabet was developed in 17th century (so it's not a transliteration) with tonal marks as a core feature. The writing language is very phonetic. Within a region with similar accent, if you hear a word, you can write it. And if you see a word, you can pronounce it.

The tonal marks are very important to the language. It allows for rich poetic rules that makes Vietnamese poem fun and musical to read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E1%BB%A5c_b%C3%A1t

One explanation could be: many humans (including me) mistakenly think a seahorse emoji exists. My mind can even construct a picture of how it should look like, despite me also knowing it's very unlikely I've seen one myself.

And those text got into the training set: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/qbvbrm/anyon...

I think you're conflating between 2 different things: the USD and US stocks from US companies.

- The USD is definitely losing value. That also means stocks from US companies would be cheaper from a foreigner's point of view.

- That means it represents good investment opportunity as long as the fundamentals of those companies are not affected too much (e.g. AI companies not directly affected by workers' raid, or pay tarrifs). Nothing is contradictory here.