Ł Updated 2025-07-16
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Exploring! the Special Letters of the Polish Alphabet: L by Polish Girl Next Door (2021)
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The old man lost his horse Updated 2025-07-16
Another notable reference is in Lost Horse LLC, MacKenzie Bezos's charity instrument.
Breakdown:
  • 塞翁 sai4 weng1: TODO his name?
  • 失马 shi1 ma3: lost horse
  • 焉知 yan1 zhi1: who knows, literary
  • 非福 fei1 fu2: bad (or) good
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Zen master and the little boy scene from Charlie Wilson's War
. Source. This is how Ciro Santilli first heard the old man lost his horse! The scene happens after the Americans seem to have had sucess in arming the Taliban in the 1980s to fight the Soviets, and then they decide to stop all monetary help to rebuild the country, which then leads to a terrorism threat many years later.
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The Blessing of Bad Luck by Pursuit of Wonder (2022)
Source. A bit too long. But worth it.
Zebrafish Updated 2025-07-16
Brexit Updated 2025-07-16
There are valid reasons to be pro-Brexit, given the uselessness of the European Union.
The problem was how the campaign was conducted, in a purely nationalistic, populist and fake news manner, and largely supported by business leaders who immediately after still wanted to hire cheap foreign labour, use tax havens and move headquarters to other countries, e.g.:
Eight Chinese Cuisines Updated 2025-07-16
This classification is too restrictive, and too South-centered. But if is worth knowing.
eLearning provider Updated 2025-07-16
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Infomercial: For-Profit Online University by Adult Swim
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Interpreted programming language Updated 2025-07-16
Interestingly, the very first programming language with an actual implementation was interpreted: Short Code in 1950.
This is not surprising, as interpreters are easier to write than compilers.
And just like modern scripting languages, it reduced execution speed by about 50x.

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