Andy @ andrewrgross @slrpnk.net

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This sounds cool, but too technical for me to follow.

Yeah, good choices.

Have you watched Kaos, btw? I'm on the last episode. It's a shame that they didn't renew it for a second season, but it's great. I can't wait to see what happens to Orpheus and Riddy.

That makes a lot of sense.

That looks much more like a data artifact than an accurate representation of behavior.

I think that the trajectory of the three low dots matches the overall slope very closely in a way that looks far more like a flat subtraction of all three. If it was behavioral, I think you'd see the behavior come and go over the course of several days.

That's amazing

Everyone in that story is basically an asshole.

They're all somewhat sympathetic. But yeah, the Sith suck, but so do the Jedi. This was also kind of emphasized in the Acolyte. But even before that, yeah, if you look at the prequels the Jedi were kind of dicks.

I think what you and @mossyfeathers@MossyFeathers@pawb.social are picking up on is that youth-coded descriptors are often terms of endearment. They're often used flirtatiously and towards people of whom you feel protective.

Conversely, adult names imply responsibility. Is it a problem to describe men in a way that implies responsibility and women in a way that implies protectiveness? Not necessarily.

I just think this stuff is linguistically interesting. I think it's more grammatically typical to use equivalent terms to create parallel construction when comparing the sexes. Again, no judgment is intended.

@jacobcoffin@writing.exchange President deer

Alright.

I just like words and linguistics. No one needs to be the bad guy here.

I think it's interesting that you are comparing "men" and "girls" as opposed to either boys and girls or men and women.

No judgement. Just thought that was interesting.

This got a chuckle outta me.

But it do be true that Big Old runs the world.

A conspiracy among whom?

Who were the folks in a dark room saying, 'Listen boys: we're here to uphold outdated gender norms. But to work, it's all gotta be hush-hush, capiche?'

If the right story is there, I can see it.

I don't think it would work to try and shoehorn her into the next Avengers movie, but if a script calls for her, I think she'll be great in that kind of context.

I totally agree.

Frankly, Mozilla should be embarrassed to have released this statement.

It's basically 'Please don't harm our competitor for corruptly bribing rivals! We like those bribes very much!'

I don't love it. Like.... Yikes.

But it's not my country so whatchgonnado, you know?

First, I agree with all of the above: within existing lore it seems obvious that the transporter wouldn't be able to transport the one ring for several reasons having to do with magic.

But also, this is just a reminder that I think the transporters in Star Trek are so narratively uninteresting. I like Trek, but pretty much in spite of the tech writing. The degree of magic in their technology just does nothing for me. I wish we had more fiction that was like a cross between Star Trek and The Expanse.

YIIIIIIKES

Big oof

Am I crazy for assuming that they're in "go for broke" mode, and everyone else assumes this too?

Yeah, that was my thought.

I think it's clear that Biden and the west is banking on collapsing the country economically, which I totally understand as a reasonable idea. But I think that it fails to account for the incredibly unpredictable and negative consequences of collapsing a state. And that's before considering that it's a nuclear state.