No, it's just how it's always been, same with all the other grammar constructs like stemming, prepositions, anything. Often it doesn't convey any additional information and it's just a bitch to learn.
I mean, if your native language (or one you know very well) has gendered nouns, you may tend to think of inanimate objects as male or female - not all the time, but say, when writing poems and such.
Research also shows that we tend to associate inanimate objects with gendered qualities based on language. So if in your language "bridge" is male, you're more likely to associate bridges with being strong and tough, while someone whose language has female bridges tends to think of them as lean and elegant. It's a bit of a feedback loop that way.
But logically, no, no real reason or meaning. When adapting foreign words into the language, the tendency is to follow the habits of the receiving language. Such as if in your language most female nouns end with -a, then you'll probably use new words ending with -a also in the context or grammar of female gender.
Ed: obviously there's meaning if it refers to people, e.g. if "customer" has two variants based on gender - that's additional information of the actual gender of the person. Of course then there's the opposite issue if the gender of the person isn't known. Usually there's a fallback of some sort.
I actually like it. TNG's theme was annoyingly bombastic to my ears, DS9's is basically nothing, Voy is okay I guess.
Not saying ENT song was the best choice there could be, but I don't know why it should be gospel that ST has to have orchestral tunes. And for a prequel that was about how it all started, I think it was fine to go with something different.
And it's not like an opening theme is a dealbreaker either way. I always skip the opening credits on the shows where they go for over a minute. I think for people who don't like ENT (it's not exactly popular) this is just another notch.
BTW I'm half way through SNW S02 and I'm not tired of its opening. First time ST nailed it in my book.
I'm just not a fan of the Metroid formula. Indeed the gameplay is good, love the responsive controls... I tried bot matches for a bit and that was quite fun. Pocket Quake 3.
And that makes me wonder what kind of a game could be built on this basis, just like the Quake 3 engine was used for great games like Star Trek Voyager Elite Force or Star Wars Jedi Outcast / Jedi Academy.
I kept thinking about STVEF in particular, because they have such a similar vibe in many aspects. But EF being shorter and more condensed is a more memorable experience that doesn't get annoying. MPH is 3 times as long, which could be taken asimpressive on a DS, but also feels that long (to me).
The attack in space angle was probably just to convince some manager.
The survival in Siberia is completely valid. US retrieves their astronauts in the ocean, but Soviet Russia didn't/doesn't have such a worldwide navy, so Siberia it is. It could take days for the cosmonauts to be recovered, so it was expected they might need to defend themselves against wildlife or even hunt.
Even AA batteries have been around for about a century now, and I think even button cells like CR2032 have been around since the 60's. These standards are ancient.
Have you seen how people do programming? We see lots of it in Voyager around holograms. It's basically today's AI programming assistants on steroids. everything probably uses some fucking 300 years JavaScript as a basis, and that's why everything keeps breaking all the time.
Any Android box. Install NewPipe and VLC and other such stuff. I hear Xiaomi are popular, although at this point I don't know if there's any brand I would trust. So I'd prefer to make my own with a Rasp Pi or something. Same idea.
Ok I don't really have an opinion on this particular thing, but in general - if the US forces people to do something and the UK doesn't, I'm willing to give UK the benefit of the doubt.
And more in general, if in doubt, then giving people more freedom is not a bad thing. It never happens these days though - citizen rights keep being constantly eroded everywhere, so it may be worth fighting even for little things like this to keep the idea in mind.
Lots of vitamins and additives are fairly simple chemistry. C vitamin for example is ascorbic acid, easy to synthetise. Although it does consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which technically makes it an organic compound, so it depends on your definition of organic. OLED screens aren't called organic because they're grown, but because there are organic compounds in their composition.
And that's really the case for everything. Life at the end uses just chemical processes like burning and dilution, and we can do almost anything in a lab. We're just usually not as effective. Glucose is the simplest sugar and easy to make, but just harvesting it from a plant is still much cheaper.
Anyway, you probably could ingest some tiny particles of iron oxide to get your iron, I guess.
It would be nice, but the important part is to apply for a loyalty card with fake credentials. If you apply for a card with your real name and then let somebody else use it, that just makes stuff weird.
Absolutely valid. If you're switching from Chrome to FF today, you may get a good feeling for a bit. People who've been supporting FF or Mozilla since way back, have a right to be both disgusted and worried.
I don't get that argument. Sometimes I just don't have the time or can't be bothered to write a comment, and a downvote serves as a perfect, fast replacement to indicate my disagreement.
Echo chambers are created exactly when you can't express youe disagreement easily. If all you need is an upvote to agree, but need to comment to disagree.
I hear there's this thing called ratio on Twitter, a comparison betwen something and something else, idk I don't use it. But you know what would be just as useful? Upvotes and downvotes.
I'm tired now, today I'll only be downvoting what I don't like :p
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I use ntfy for two Matrix clients and battery drain is negligible.