I like how your pronouns are “equipped”. Got you a pocket full of pronouns. DOn’t you drop them, or nobody will be allowed to talk about you!

Bloahai, since that’s his name

I’ve seen this probably a dozen times or more in cautionary scifi stories about why we don’t want that, but like, somehow I still want that.

Trueee. Just today I cooked a steak at 130 for 24 hours, and it was incredible (but since it was a blade, the connective tissue was still pretty tough, so I’m gonna try the other one from the pack at a higher temp to break it down)

Look up sous vide cooking times, those people are obsessed with finding the minimum amount of time to cook any given thing at any given temperature. “If you’re willing to cook your chicken for 4 hours, you can cook at 130 F. I don’t recommend it, because it has the texture of raw chicken, but you can.”

climate crisis

Nuclear winter in the wake of the Eugenics Wars. Cooled us right down. Even in Star Trek, our immediate future is… bleak.

Funny, I’ve seen light blue, but never oval

I never realized til now how trans D. Va’s bodysuit is

“I am annoyed when people correct me for using casual language. Doing so is stupid. Language isn’t static. The purpose of language is to be understood, so as long as you understood me, I did it ‘correctly’. Here is an analogy using plants.”

I translate:

be a biologist
research clovers
everyone says “clovers have 3 leaves”
its a law of nature
go outside
find 4-leaf clover
i better take it to court for violating laws of nature

This is obviously stupid. Discovering something that violates a descriptive ‘law’ means the law was wrong. And yet, people do this in conversation all the time.

Sometimes casual conversation begins with a “But”. E.g., someone might say “But anyway, have you seen that new movie Oppenheimer?”

Grammar nazis react to this by saying “You can’t say ‘but’ at the start of a sentence if that sentence isn’t a rebuttal of the previous sentence! It’s a law of english!”

‘Laws’ of english are meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. But alas, we live in a society 😔

It’s probably C.O.P., short for capitalist oligarchic pig

Is it a bit vague?

Ultimately, ray tracing was used for most graphics elements, allowing for more realistic lighting.

[Reviewers cited] its use of ray tracing

Source article: “Ray tracing is so crucial to Teardown that the world goes black if you turn it off”

I think it’s pretty clear, tbh.

I actually tried this after seeing it on QI, and it’s wayyy better than it has any right to be. Hit the toast with butter and pepper, use super soft bread for the sandwich, and I’ll eat that any day.

Not 'how tf (the fuck)", an expression of shock, but “How? tf? (transformation)?”, a question of the precise mechanism of this transgender breastfeeding scene.

Presumably, they assumed the person in question was a trans woman, (which may not be the case, it may be a trans man, I do not know), and wondered if this was a case of them being physically transformed into a female with functional milk glands, or just handwaved. (Because, while trans women can lactate in real life, it usually requires an experimental drug regimen.)

I got a refurb Thinkpad T495s at a business sale, and I was astonished to realize they still have the nipple mouse

*PWOMM*

I can’t believe Gentoo isn’t based

“Embrace” is a strong damn word

Do you think there’s such a thing as species dysphoria in the Star Trek universe? God knows we saw them trivially change the crew’s race and back for every random survey mission, I’d love to try being a cute Andorian for a few weeks.

Star Trek Socialism

End scarcity, deconstruct currency, and put me in space 😎