It’s common that VIP and celebrity conscriptions, where military service is voluntary, are mostly a propaganda stunt.
While the propaganda entices young people to go to the battle front because someone has to go, It’s also very common for celebrities to be sheltered from any real harm, since that could be detrimental to conscription.
OTOH, it’s understandable given the endless apettite tech has for profiling people. The Fediverse is not Big Tech, but Big Tech wants all the data anyway, and given its open nature, it will get it eventually. Temporary accounts are a way to make it a bit harder for Big Tech, at the cost of making it worse for legitimate users.
If the Fediverse had some protection against data greed, maybe less people would be wary of leaving a long data trail. The best it can do so far is using nicknames and multiple accounts.
Spanish is redundant. One house is “la casa”, several are “las casas”. It pluralizes both articles and nouns.
Also, like English, nouns are pluralized with several suffixes, but the rules are very clear. Any Spanish speaker can pluralize correctly nouns they’ve never seen before, none of that octopi/octopuses, virii/viruses weirdness.
English is schizo, but “the” is actually a very nice simplification, and It hardly impacts the communication.
This is just wanting a pretext to be depressed.
I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.
Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.
Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.
Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.
“There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist
Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.
Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.
Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.
He understood the wasp, maybe they’re so ornery because no one understands what they want. He’s The Wasperer.
OTOH, I’d bet it will return and harass and probably sting the next customer that doesn’t give it a piece of their tuna sushi.
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
But don’t blast me with hot air!
I’m sorry! As a large-language model, I have no capabilities to blast hot air at you. Would you like to talk about something else?