I missed that whole meme, but back then my fiancée was working at a firm that was representing someone trying to assert IP rights on the dance. It didn’t make much sense to me why an Australian firm would be involved.

Reading up the history now to see how it started, I’m just more confused. I guess the Aussie channel that kicked off the meme wanted credit for making it big, even though they copied Filthy Frank?

There’s no way Techno Mechanicus is 100% organic.

It didn’t even occur to me that Deadloch is mostly about women, even though that shouldn’t be surprising, given who made it.

I had a similar revelation after I played through Forspoken. I assumed it would be a target for the anti-woke brigade since the protagonist is a black woman, but it was only after finishing it clicked that every character of consequence is a woman (with one exception I won’t mention for spoiler reasons).

If the story keeps you invested, genders are pretty irrelevant. I think genre expectations can shift if we don’t draw attention to them.

Purescript targeting the Erlang VM

Have you tried Gleam?

Some want a levelling of the playing field, others want an opportunity to seize absolute power.

It doesn’t seem to make sense, but I gave pCloud a chance years ago, and I’ve been using the lifetime plan ever since. I feel like I got my money’s worth, so not too worried if I eventually have to migrate elsewhere.

This is the main reason, in my opinion. It also explains why most of these fan theories aren’t very imaginative. People at that age haven’t consumed enough actual darker material to know these concepts are overdone.

Something like Adventure Time is interesting because it wholly embraces this idea and dials it to 11.

Maybe a controversial opinion, but I think the problem with your modern blockbusters, especially in the Star Wars and Marvel universes, is that they can’t decide where they lie on this transition point. They absolutely have that childish element, but too many people are afraid to accept that and take it too seriously. They can do both, they just need to be honest about it.

Sure.

I have wondered if “o” suffixes are mostly used for negative connotations, but that doesn’t work for:

Alcohol store = bottle-o

Afternoon = arvo

If a shortened word will end in “r”, we have to get around being a non-rhotic accent so it will sometimes end in “za”:

Barry = Bazza

Sharon = Shazza

But then you have “dero”, short for “derelict”. I’m guessing the difference is the other vowel sound affecting the flow. There might be something to that… if the last syllable has a hard “a” vowel I can’t imagine using anything but an “a” suffix.

MacDonald’s = Maccas

AC/DC = Accadacca

Sandwich = Sanger (noting we pronounce terminating “er” as “ah”)

Similarly, a hard “i” in the last syllable will usually give it a hard suffix:

Breakfast = brekkie

Sick day off work = sickie

Can of beer, or small aluminium boat = tinny

Hm… now you got me doing a deep dive on this. I won’t be satisfied until I figure out these unspoken rules.

There really should be a pitchfork emoji.

If they want forks, they’ll get forks. Just not in the road.

Edit: I should have said, “fork in the chode”. It was right there.

You also noticed he’s suddenly talking about securing rare earths every day now? I’m hoping someone asks him why they’re so important because he clearly doesn’t know what they are, and is just following orders from Twitler.

I’m also confused about the anonymous interview scenario. Does this actually occur enough to require a complex rule?

If we’re using text, why use accents instead of just labelling the text as “Participant A”, or similar, like we already do for subtitles when disambiguation is required?

If we’re using voices morphed to sound the same, could we similarly have a visual indicator of who is talking? If no visuals are possible, use different morphs so they sound different. If that’s not possible, just conduct the interview by addressing participants with their pseudonym so we know which response to expect. Like anyone would naturally do.

This feels like a solution looking for a problem.

In Australian English we have an instinct for acceptable ways to end abbreviations, but I couldn’t tell you what the rules are, exactly.

For example, “povo” is obviously right for “poverty”, and could never be “povy”. But, “sparky” is right for an electrician, not “sparko”.

It’s not because of familiarity, because we know we naturally invent these abbreviations all the time with no resistance, as long as the unknowable rule is followed.

For now, I’ll ignore the eternal debate surrounding parmigiana.

As an Australian, I have no idea how my country would respond to this officially. The US alliance is basically our entire defence strategy, and we have fostered that by supporting the US in every conflict they’re involved in. On the other hand, we could never go against another Commonwealth nation. The cultural weight is too great.

Perhaps the best we could offer is assurance that any Canadian visitors (refugees) to Australia can probably overstay your visas for as long as necessary. For some reason we only care when immigrants arrive by boat. Just follow all the Aussies when they start leaving your ski fields.

Someone please frame several copies, and distribute them like Easter eggs around Mar-a-lago.

I would love to see things get more active over here. It’s a pretty good community on Reddit, but the mods are way too heavy handed.

If you watch “new” when a big update drops, you’ll see almost every post about it get removed. Only the special chosen post gets to stay up, and it’s never the first one. I can’t help wondering if it’s a karma grab.

NMSCoordinatesExchange has some annoying rules, too. If you post a gallery of finds it can get removed for not being split into multiple posts. If I post a gallery, it’s because I don’t have the time or inclination to spam the sub with dozens of related items. Would they rather nobody sees them at all? Seems like a poorly considered rule for a place that’s supposed to encourage sharing of content.

Good reading. Thanks.

Oh, ewe.

This is a really good write up. It reflects my experience and understanding well.

If I can offer my opinion on the J6 types, I think we have to be careful not to present them as antithetical to the autistic way of thinking, because a lot of autistic people end up in those spaces. For some, the world and its norms become so inscrutable that they seek other sources of order. Religion and strictly defined politics can become a comfort, as illusory as they are.

So it may seem contradictory, but autistic people can swing hard away from social norms, but they can also swing hard into it. Because it’s a spectrum, defined by divergence, which can happen in any direction.

Or Bluefin, depending on desktop preference. I’ve been using both and can recommend either.

I think they want real users because they want to sell their data for LLM training, but that might mean purging accounts that are “too political” to be of use.