BluesF @ BluesF @lemmy.world

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Neither of these looks good

From the article you linked:

The "Eye of the Needle" has been claimed to be a gate in Jerusalem, which opened after the main gate was closed at night. A camel could not pass through the smaller gate unless it was stooped and had its baggage removed. The story has been put forth since at least the 11th century and possibly as far back as the 9th century. However, there is no widely accepted evidence for the existence of such a gate.

It seems so unlikely that this is the case. Why would anyone write a metaphor so convoluted about a gate? It's an attempt to weasel out of the fact that Jesus outright tells rich people to give away all their shit.

Culture behaves like a gas and expands to fill any space it is provided with

That is not the only form of slavery, and modern slavery very rarely resembles the specifics of the Atlantic slave trade.

Regardless, neither has very much to do with wage slavery, but it nonetheless remains a term in use and not a totally random use of the word.

"Giving" is ballroom slang from like, the 80s. Extra is also LGBT slang that has been around at least since I was a teenager > a decade ago.

I was intrigued by this so I had a look in the good ol' dictionary, and whelmed is a word... Although it's meaning is closer to overwhelmed than it is to, say, nonplussed as you might assume. The "over" has been added for emphasis rather than to change the meaning, and I assume underwhelmed came later.

Smart. I like the idea of replacing biometrics with something that can't easily be cloned - learned behaviour. Perhaps with a robust ML approach you could use analysis of gait, expressions, and other subtle behavioural tics rather than or in addition to facial/fingerprint/iris recognition. I suspect that would be very hard to fake - although perhaps vulnerable to, idk, having a bad day and acting "off".

Ooh, like it pulls out of a little scroll case, and is stiff once it comes out like a tape measure.

No

I'm sorry they force you to watch certain streamers? I don't use twitch, wtf is that about?

I'm not sure any linear scale will quite accurately represent how people feel.

Yeah, but I've never had a phone stolen, but I've broken a whole bunch of them.

Ah, XII the Hanged Man. Not as ominous as it might appear. It represents self sacrifice, yes, but the Hanged Man is usually protrayed as placid or even cheerful, he is not afraid of his circumstances.

If you don't like grindy monotony it is not the game for you.

I love emojis for this, although they can certainly come across as cringy.

Or the dizzying high resulting from tasting 2,3,4,5-tetramethoxyamphetamine

It's explicit, isn't it? Some of the characters on the super destroyer mention it.

I think a lot of people played Dark Arisen which came with everything packaged.

Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work

The sensible way, of course, is to take this into account when planning your mission. Send ahead a big, slow, minimally crewed or autonomous spaceship, totally full to the brim with equipment, supplies, etc. Some years later, send your faster ship full of people and whatever newer technology you just can't do without, catch up and intercept the big slow boi, and then land to start your colony.