Here's how they came up with the ranking:

>Researchers analyzed Google searches across 30 cities for 28 love-themed terms, including “romantic getaways,” “date night ideas,” “proposal locations,” “anniversary ideas,” and “romantic restaurants,” then adjusted the results based on population.

>The investigators discovered that NYC produces over 212 romance-related searches per 100,000 residents

Funniest, wittiest, most appropriate, most inappropriate, frightening, obnoxious, generally amazing? What, in your opinion, is the best character name in any TV show (comedy or drama)?

For me, it’s Bob Loblaw in Arrested Development.

EDIT: From the top comments, the favorites to make up the Top-5 are:

- Uncle Baby Billy (The Righteous Gemstones)
- Dr. Leo Spaceman (30 Rock)
- Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul)
- Jackie Daytona (What We Do In The Shadows)
- Bob Loblaw (Arrested Development)

In case you are unfamiliar with any of them, you are welcome - for giving you something to binge this weekend.

Harvard and Yale Universities, in independent statements, announced today that they are revoking any degrees and certificates ever awarded to any person who works as a “College Counselor” or “College Admissions Advisor”.

Announcing the move, the Reverend Dick McDweeb, the Dean of Propriety at Harvard, said “College Counselors add absolutely nothing of value to society. If they didn’t exist, exactly the same number of rich white kids will get admitted to Harvard, and we will make exactly the same amount of money.”

When asked to comment on this, College Counselor Reginald Rockefeller Kushner Jr, MD, JD, CFA, MBA, PhD (Harvard), responded with a scathing, “McDweeb thinks we don’t add value to society? Harvard has given me top-class training in medicine, law, business, physics, statistics and philosophy, and I use all of that knowledge to guide students through tricky decisions like which topics to fake a research paper in, and which internship at their parents’ friend’s companies will look best on their resumes. What’s he doing with his stupid Sociology and Theology degrees? Changing the world sitting at his desk in Cambridge?”

At Yale, Dr. Karen van der Sneeden the Third, the Head of Etiquette, commented that “College Counselors are a cancer in the admissions process. Yale does not want counselors to claim that they are somehow associated with the university just because they did an executive part-time MBA here 20 years ago. We will revoke all such degrees until the day they see the light and cut us in for 15%.”

These announcements have caused great consternation among Harvard and Yale’s undergraduate class, approximately 50% of whom had dreams of achieving influencer-status through advising high schoolers on how to “make it to HYPSM”. According to Yale freshman Divya Shaniqua Chang, “My Chinese-Hmong father and Indian-African-American mother sacrificed everything that they had (except their NVIDIA stock), and even moved the family to godforsaken Wyoming, just so I could become valedictorian in a school of 10 students and show growth in farming (literally) extracurriculars. Now Yale is telling me that I can’t spread my deep insight into the Yale admissions process to benefit future generations? My heroes are all the College Counselors that my parents paid for these last 12 years, and I am being robbed of my dream to follow in their footsteps.”

Quakeshake N’Challa, the recently appointed Chief of Yale’s Careers Department, responded to this with: “A Yale education is meant to prepare students for meaningful, worthy careers that effect lasting change in society and the world at large. Hopefully this decision will mean that our students will give up on the zero-net-impact career path of College Counseling, and instead focus on the transformative and socially beneficial careers that a Yale education is really intended for: Private Equity and Wealth Management.”

Student is from a well-known private school in NYC with below-average stats/ECs but full pay. Historically, students with similar stats from this school get admitted to the following:

1. Mid tier LAC (Bucknell, Lafayette, Colby, etc.)
2. T50 publics (UCI, UCD, UWM, etc.)
3. T100 privates (Tulane, Wake Forest, SMU, UMiami, Villanova, etc.)

End goal is finance/IB/consulting. What would you pick in their position and why?

I’m Pro Life and Pro Choice. I support a woman’s right to Choose Life. Or Not.

She was in zero danger. The Soviets would have questioned her and sent her back to India (the Indian government was pro-USSR at the time). After landing she could just have delayed Roskova and her crew while Sasha got away. Makes no sense at all.

Not very familiar with this, but is the problem that high schools are inflating predicted scores for students to help them with college admissions? And is this factored in by admissions teams?

Presenting exhibit A:

https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/s/DfiRlBFZhm

Anyone and anything ever associated with Spurs is cursed. 😅

This is a question for someone at the John Locke Institute (in case anyone there is on this sub lol). This could also be a topic suggestion for next year’s essays.

Let’s say one of the interviewees (below 17) takes off their clothes in the middle of the AI video interview.

Are you, the JLI, then in possession of child pornography? If one of you opens the video file to watch it, does it mean you automatically get to be sued or prosecuted?

(Note: this is a hypothetical only. I am NOT recommending anyone do this).

Just to refresh everyone’s memory (or if you didn’t know about these, go look them up):

- Maradona’s “hand of god” (1986).
- Italy and Spain goals disallowed against South Korea (2002).
- Schumaker tackle on Battison (1982).
- Three yellow cards on Simunic (2006).
- Hurst goal in 1966 final.
- Lampard non-goal against Germany (2010).
- Battle of Nuremberg - Portugal-Netherlands in 2006 where ref randomly handed out yellow/red cards to everyone.
- De Jong’s kung-fu kick in the 2010 final.

These are just the more famous incidents. The list of refereeing blunders is long - every tournament has had its fair share.

Unpopular opinion, but VAR has eliminated or at least significantly reduced the absolutely crazy errors (see above). Yes - there will be borderline calls like always, and we will keep arguing about them. But that’s just on us and not the technology.

In the true spirit of the thing I asked ChatGPT how to confuse an AI interviewer. Here are the suggestions:

The absolute best way to confuse an AI interview app is to break its structural, semantic, and sensory patterns. AI platforms evaluate interviews by transcribing audio and checking for specific keywords, logical consistency, response lengths, and standard behavioral frameworks (like STAR).

Core Strategies to Disrupt AI Interview Software

Speak in Circular Logic: Use words that constantly redirect back into themselves. Avoid a clear start, middle, and end.

Employ Extreme Sarcasm: Deliver absurd or contradictory sentences with completely flat, professional neutrality. This breaks sentiment analysis engines.

Abruptly Change Context: Switch topics completely mid-sentence without using transitional words or phrases.

Provide Length Extremes: Give a single-sentence response or a massive, rambling monologue. Algorithms are trained to heavily penalize data falling outside standard paragraph lengths.

Ditch Structured Frameworks: Purposely ignore standard conversational models like STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Start with the conclusion, tell a random story, and skip the action steps.

Manipulate the Audio Feed: Speak with an unnaturally robotic cadence or stutter heavily. This forces the transcription model to misinterpret or drop keywords.

Why This Breaks the Algorithm
AI interview software relies heavily on Natural Language Processing (NLP). It cross-references your spoken transcripts against highly rigid grading rubrics. By stripping away logical progressions, predictable keywords, and standard response lengths, the AI fails to map your answers to its evaluation metrics, rendering its automated score completely useless.

This Switzerland-Bosnia game is a prime example. No real quality in either team, but drilled/coached to not make any mistakes or take any risks. These are by far the worst matches in any World Cup.

Jon and Sansa get married. He rules the South, she rules the North.

They grew up as brother and sister, you say? Scoff - like this matters in got-world.

It’s a known phenomenon that the birth rate of a country/city spikes exactly nine months after they win some major sports championship (e.g. Spain after they won the World Cup in 2010). With the Knicks winning the NBA title last night and the associated festivities, how many babies would you estimate were conceived and will be born in March 2027?