Worth pointing out that this is the shark lineage and not modern sharks. Sharks have evolved a lot over the last several hundred million years

In the same sense, jellyfish are older than sharks, and sponges are the oldest still-extant animal lineage. Or just sounds cooler to say sharks

6 years until demolition man? I’ll take that

A for Horses

B for Mutton

C for Yourself

D for Dumb

E for Brick

F for Vessence

G for

H for

I for One

J for Oranges

K for

L for Leather

M for

N for

O for God’s Sake

P for

Q for Ages

R for Mo

S for

T for Baghdad

U for Mism

V for

W for

X for Breakfast

Y for

Z for

Can’t remember the rest. I feel like Y should be really obvious, but I’ve not even thought about this since I was a kid

What I’m saying is that record sales have been unprofitable for artists for a long time, so Spotify hasn’t really moved the needle on that point

Metaprogression is the same, in many cases. You don’t advance because your skill is increasing or because you’ve accomplished anything, it’s essentially “you’ve played for x amount of time, we’re going to create the illusion of progression by allowing you to upgrade your stats”

Live shows and merch have been the way artists make money since before streaming was a thing

This Thursday is already in the future. It has no meaning of you say it on a Friday. Then it’s ”this Thursday coming“ or just “Thursday coming”

At least here in the UK that’s the only way I’ve ever heard it used

I used to go out with someone who lived in a commune, which operated how you describe here - everybody gets a say in every decision. It was very equitable, but nothing *ever * got done. Part of the roof was falling down and the exposure to the elements was damaging the building at that point. The longer it was exposed the more damage was being done. The wall was starting to crumble. If it fell down it could damage as-yet undamaged parts of the building. A couple of families had already had to move to a different part of the building

At that point it had been 10 years and no decisions had been made. No decisions were close to being made. Their home was literally being destroyed and potentially endangering people -they were and had been no issues more pressing - and nothing has been done for a decade

That was ~15 families living together. And you think it’s feasible to scale that up to millions of people by increasing the group size and number of steps?

I’m being the dude after 4 months

Hey

I tend to label rather than block. But it’s been a while and either I’ve forgotten how or voyager has removed the feature

Again, the question is can you demonstrate that this is actually something that is increasing?

The relevance of the second tweet is that it’s from the same person. They’re trying to get an angry reaction from people to help fuel culture war bullshit. And you provided exactly the reaction they were after

There ** was** no “focus on gender”. They just pretended there was so that people like you would amplify the signal. You fell for it without first stopping to check whether or not it was true

And yet your post is compressible

I mean, if you can provide data which shows that anthropomorphisation - specifically the unwarranted attribution of gender to things which are genderless - is on the rise and can demonstrate, or even articulate what the real-world harm of this is, then maybe I will agree that ranting about it in response to a tweet from an anti-woke twitter user lying about it in order to stir up tired “culture war” arguments isn’t silly

Perhaps we should also rant about the erosion of male-dominated spaces into spaces which are “lame and gay”, given that there are now women who play Warhammer?

Since Mozilla actually didn’t and the post is based on a lie, I’ll say congratulations, your reaction is almost certainly what they were hoping for

English is a living language

Llms tend not to put spaces around their em-dashes

A few years ago James Acaster did a bit in his stand-up about Gervaise: https://youtu.be/UHqma3rx-xI

If you want just the Gervaise bit without the lead-up, go to around 2:30

The magic word is Calibre

Given that Melanie has just made a completely unprompted speech about how she totally was never friends with Maxwell, i suspect that something new is about to drop