The article on waypoint naming is interesting. Some of the renames are pretty obvious, while in other cases it just seems like people don't like fun. Pity they weren't able to obtain the official list of reasons behind each rename.
The most recent news I can find in a quick search is "We're hoping our podcast platform will support full video in the early part of this year" from 4 months ago. Though another comment on that post said "We're still actively working on full video podcasts. Hoping to have some news on that in the coming weeks", soooo.....
Before even getting into the episode, I must complain about the episode art: The highway sign says "ROUTE" and has the shape of a US Highway shield (which is often called "route", so that's correct), but is then colored like an Interstate Highway shield, which is a very different system and should not be confused (US (and state) routes are basically just normal roads, just higher priority, and Interstate highways are major controlled-access thoroughfares with much stricter design standards)
I solved the triangular number question before they did, and felt quite pleased with myself.
Stuart solved the football question so quickly that I didn't even have time to think.
I already knew answer to the Rubik's cube question, but really enjoyed hearing them speculate about the potential competitive advantages of nodding during inspection time or starting/stopping the timer with one's head!
Well, looks like it works so far! @Demigodrick I was about to suggest not posting the backlog, or at least limiting it, but seeing as there were only 3 posted here and the feed goes back 10, I take it you already though of that
Now that I think about it, it would also be nice to add some title formatting kinda like the autoposts. Then these could be tagged as "[Newsletter] Feb 26: ...."
That would be the now-convicted Sam Bankman-Fried, I imagine
Knowing some Russian/Cyrillic, I beat them to the actual meaning, but was still annoyed I didn't make that jump myself. Though maybe if I had written it down, it would've been more obvious: Kohuept / Концерт.
Thanks for posting these again! I do think they jumped to the answer a bit too quickly on the bunker question. I would have enjoyed listening to them struggle a wee bit longer. Overall still an enjoyable episode though.
How do people here feel on Lateral highlights now?
I used to make posts for each episode (like this one), but stopped as they hardly got any engagement and just weren't worth the effort I was putting in. Should I bring them back? Does Lateral hold more interest now with main channel videos out of the way?
Honestly, just more than 5 upvotes would be appreciated. I know this is a small community on a small platform, but when I can count the number of people who like the Lateral posts on one hand, while videos tend to get at least 20 points, that's a notable underperformance.
Even this post is +19, I'll take that as a sign and try again for the next episode this Friday
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3gNGRhEA3g
Video of the ship passing below the bridge, pulled from the comments.
It does have spoilers for the question posed, if you want to try to answer it yourself first.
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