The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.

At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.

Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.

Me, waiting for my ADHD partner to circle back to the original topic before they got distracted by tangents.

Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.

Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.

“Leftist” isn’t an identity, it’s a description of political philosophy. An objective adjective.

Stop this ecofascist shit.

We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.

Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.

Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.

We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.

“keikaku means plan”

It should probably be a smear that extends the entire height of the graph. I like birding, which can be totally free, and Magic:TG, which can be a pit that consumes many thousands of dollars.

You are a violent and irrepressible miracle.

I think “agendered” is the best description for me as well and I share your perspective. AMAB and kinda lazy so dude stuff is the default but I can’t internalize the idea of gender dys/euphoria. (Body dysphoria makes sense to me, it seems to me like an entirely different thing than gender presentation which has a huge spectrum and varies wildly across cultures)

Education existed before capitalism. Or are you going to tell me that Socrates was an industrial shill?

When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?

Also NT but an introvert: I don’t want my co-workers to understand more than the superficial layer I project. It’s fucking exhausting to exist socially all the time but hiding behind a facade helps.

Nah, if someone on my PvE team is cheating/exploiting that still ruins the experience. I play games like that to get better, the skill improvement is a huge part of the experience for me.

They don’t just put it in there for fun, you can bet that milk powder affects the eating experience in a way most people enjoy. Snack companies invest a ton of money refining every nuance of their recipes.

Very nice supervisor though, the everyday compassion makes big impact.

(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)

That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.

How are patents not intellectual property?