I suppose I’m gonna have to be “that guy” again:

40 years ago, Microsoft did not “invent Excel”. They developed yet another spreadsheet application and called it “Excel”, presumably in a moment of coke-fueled hubris. (I mean, seriously, “Excel” as a product name? We don’t think about that much these days, because we have gotten used to that name, but if you didn’t already know about MS Excel, how high on your own supply do you need to be to call a software product that?)

The actual invention of the spreadsheet was done by other people. The earliest example was probably Visicalc for the Apple II, and a more prominent example predating Excel was Lotus 1-2-3.

Sorry to be so nitpicky, but urban legends like “Microsoft invented the spreadsheet”, “Microsoft invented word processors”, “MIcrosoft invented operating systems”, “Apple invented GUIs”, “Apple invented the computer mouse”, “Apple invented portable MP3 players”, “Apple invented smartphones” and the like form the base for some very distorted narratives about how our world works, and I don’t like it.

I have tried Doulingo for Japanese for a short time, after already knowing a bit of beginner’s Japanese. I cannot speak for all languages offered by Doulingo, but if you are trying to learn Japanese, stay away from Doulingo. Its lessons sometimes teach you things that are objectively wrong.

Also, Tokyo has two long "o"s (sometimes transliterated more correctly as Tōkyō), while Kyoto (more precise transliteration; Kyōto) only has one. They are not actually anagrams of each other.

I thought coffee was only discovered much later in present day Ethiopia. Are you sure he wasn’t talking about beer or wine?

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

How curiously pertinent in more than one way…

This woman could probably afford to just buy a new house if her current one is in need of a new coat of paint, let alone if it’s suffering from mold growth. Yet she chooses to live like this.

Also, I cannot get over that look on her face. That sheer barely hidden contempt oozing from it. The superiority complex behind it. The signature look of a narcissist.