AernaLingus
What is blud yapping about 
I mean, apart from the Gamergate Mad Libs, he didn't actually articulate what it is about Godot that's woke. Genuinely WTF is he talking about?
Wow, I'm so upset that these people providing an invaluable service to the world have a modicum of comfort in their lives!
This is the author of I'm In Love With the Villainess, so I'm actually curious about the plot, especially if they've had trouble getting it published in Japan. Maybe it involves toppling the patriarchy and having science babies or something
In my case, my sister and my dad, but yeah. Truly amazing results: they have genetic compositions you would expect from any random person with their ethnic backgrounds! This information was definitely worth eroding the privacy of our entire family tree.
This is the first time I've seen the Haruhi manga adaptation and man, it's so weird not seeing the KyoAni character designs. The light novel designs are better, but even then the KyoAni designs are a major glow-up (see also: K-On!, Hibike! Euphonium).
CW: depressing
I looked up the character designers for the anime I mentioned and found out that 1. K-On! and Hibike! Euphonium have the same character designer, Shouko Ikeda and 2. she died in the arson attack 
That's actually a myth (it was quite successful in Japan), but a widely circulated one so I don't blame you. Textbook example of "a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Have you tried a cooling vest? I got one of those phase-change dealies this summer and it really made things bearable compared to when I was almost fainting after a 30 minute walk. I'm actually still wearing it now even though things have cooled down, since it's more comfy and I end up sweating a lot less.
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! 
Ever since I got introduced to the joys of Minesweeper by Girl_DM_ I've been having a lot of fun playing it as a little timewaster. I'm specifically playing the version from Simon Tatham's lovely Portable Puzzle Collection (more specifically the Android port via F-Droid) which unlike the original Minesweeper does NOT require guessing. Most of the time, I'm well-versed enough in patterns and testing candidate solutions that I'm able to clear a 16x16 board with 99 mines in about 3-5 minutes. But on a fairly regular basis I'll run into situations where I get stuck and it seems like I'd either have to calculate an inordinate amount of possible solutions or just make a random guess, neither of which are appealing. Here's one such example:
with annotations
without annotations
There's probably some cool Minesweeper shorthand I could use to describe the constraints, but what I tried to show with my annotations is how I understand that, for each of the annotated squares, there is a mutually-exclusive binary choice (or in the case of the 3, two choices) for where a mine could be located. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, while the choices are internally mutually exclusive, it doesn't seem like there's any permutation of those choices that is invalid so I can't eliminate any possibilities. My usual strategy is to fix one choice and see if it results in a contradiction. For instance, if the other mine for the 2 is the upper choice, we can clear the lower square. That means the lower square for the 1 must be a mine, and this still leaves either of the two bottom choices as valid for the 3 (so this is a possible configuration based on these constraints).
The only remaining sections have a lot of freedom which makes them daunting to analyze. Of the remaining unanalyzed squares, from top to bottom they have 2, 2, and 3 mines remaining, respectively, which is quite a lot of options to fully check, and I can only eliminate a few heuristically (e.g. the top 3 must have at least one mine in either the east or southeast space, since otherwise the 4 to the south can't be fulfilled; the 4 must not have the remaining mines all in the east column because otherwise the 2 and 1 can't be fulfilled). I'm sure if I went through them methodically I would eventually arrive at an answer, but that's pretty tedious, so I usually just give up and generate a new board in this kind of situation.
TL;DR: am I missing some neat heuristic(s) that will allow me to either slash the possible solutions to a more manageable number or eliminate individual solutions very quickly, or is this kind of difficult spot just an inevitable outcome for some boards?
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Comic with multiple panels. A small child stands with a yellow piece of paper with some writing on it.TEACHER: What's your report on?
STUDENT: "The most accurate telling of Australian history"!
TEACHER: In 5 minutes?
STUDENT: In 5 minutes!
TEACHER: LOL! Go for it! [pushing button on watch: BEEP!]
STUDENT: Aboriginal people first appeared in Australia around the Kimberlys where it's pretty nice. Over the next 10,000 years they settled the entire continent. This was good until an ice age started. It lasted for a few thousand years. A lot of people died but some people survived by sticking close to rivers and wet areas where things were a bit better. People in different spots stayed connected with each other through pathways that some think are the origins of 'songlines'—tracks believed to be created by dreaming beings like the Rainbow Serpent. The ice age ended and living in Australia was easier again. As the ice melted, the map of Australia changed to what it looks like today. This took a few thousand years. Tasmania became separate from the mainland. The Torres Strait Islands formed. Different lakes and rivers got created. In all of these different areas, different people found different ways of doing things—different tools, art, technology, diets, hunting and farming tactics, medicines, weapons, traditions, dances, gender roles. Different groups still interacted with each other for everyone's gain. They'd hold corroborees to share goods, exchange news, have fun, find love, and keep conflict between groups to a minimum. Then white people on boats came and took over. Thanks.
TEACHER: What? What about Captain Cook? Convicts? Anzacs? Multiculturalism?
STUDENT: I said this was the most accurate telling of history, Miss.
STUDENT: Indigenous people have been here for 40,000 years. All that stuff happened in the last 250 years.
STUDENT: [tapping on calculator] That's 0.6% of all Australia's history. So I gave it 0.6% of my time.
STUDENT: I didn't want to short-change anything.
TEACHER: Hmmm.
STUDENT: Is this too much maths for history?