This makes me want to play Primal Rage. BRB.

I love them, too. Specially sautéed with a tasty fat (lard, EVOO, butter, all three work great), salt, black pepper, and a bit of lime juice.

Just make sure the cats don’t track it everywhere.

I might, uh, err… have a bit too many cats to check if they’re tracking it. Sorry.

TIL the Fediverse connects to the world of the dead, and Himmel shitposts here.

• Buy my sister and nephew gifts (BIL and mum’s are ready)
• Stop myself from drinking the homemade anisette
• Prepare some Stolle (I’m glad they didn’t insist on panettone)
• Control my desires so I don’t chug the anise liqueur
• Finish decorating the new cardboard tank aka Panzerfrieda
• Prevent Lvxferre from drinking the vodka flavoured with star anise and the likes
• Grab some ingredients for the brie and funghi secchi risotto
• NO DRINK BOOZE.

So it’s a lot, but most of them are “don’t”.

“The more you hurt at the parting… the more it proves the depth of your love. And if you always fear sorrow… you’ll never be able to love at all.” — Belldandy, a literal goddess who’ll live longer than any knife-eared tree hugger.

Also tell your whyfoo and her folks that I’ll keep cutting trees, goblinite does not drop charcoal and I need it for steel. If they keep whining I’m going to open the circus and unleash the clowns on them, not even Frieren and Fern would be able to get rid of all of them. I am not joking, I’m going to open the circus! And butcher some mermaids for the bones.

Now shoo. I’m not listening to them babbling about a ring to be destroyed, or how they’re taking Chilchuck to Isengard-gard-gagagagard-gard or whatever. Nor should you. Touch grass, even if you’re isekai’d.

The origin of the name is even sillier.

In 1849, a pharmacist called Garot discovered a new sugar, that gives rhubarb stalks that red colour. They proposed the name “erythrose”, because “ἐρῠθραίνω” erythraínō means “to redden” in Greek, and you got to have that -ose for sugars. Fine name, right?

Later on, it was discovered erythrose was two substances: one a mirrored version of the other. So they got named D-erythrose and L-erythrose.

But then half a century later, a chemist called Otto Ruff discovered another compound. Same atoms as both D- and L-erythrose. Same chemical bonds: C goes to O that goes to H etc. But it was neither identical to the erythroses, nor a mirrored version of them.

So Ruff picked the prefix erythr-, clipped the -ry-, and jumbled the leftover letters — because the new compound was like a jumbled erythrose. Then he added the suffix -ose, and you got “threose”. And guess what, later on it was discovered threose was two compounds.

For reference, here’s the chemical structure of all four molecules. The bonds looking like thick triangles have atoms closer to the viewer than the rest of the molecule, and the dashed bonds are for atoms further behind.

You’re you. And you’re human. Everything else is secondary.

It’s the same for all of us — eight billion apes with a weird fur pattern, walking on the back legs like chickens and eating random stuff like rats. We’re all unique, and yet all the same.

I’m impressed by the mood of the game. The way you force the player to rely on audio clues, and then turn off the light to avoid “the threat”, makes it even scarier than just seeing it.

The game is fun. I easily get lost, but it could be worse (like Minecraft without F3 or a minimap mode).

I finished the game in ambient mode, after dying thrice in normal mode (2x hypothermia, 1x deep wounds). Not having a certain threat helps; I can keep the lantern on, and focus on not getting lost. I’ll retry it later on in normal mode.

The footprints, even if temporary, helped me wonders: once I found a minigame, I turned 180°, aligning my view with the footprints. Then I made a mental picture of the way back, before solving the minigame.

From the credits I’ve seen two cat pics, is the other one (Noire, I think?) in the game too?

Aaaaand I found the cat!

Struggling a bit with the game, to be honest. My sense of direction is… well, not good.

And I just got a new wallpaper, because this looks awesome.

If I made a game I’d totally add Kika and Siegfrieda (my cats) to it. Probably other that already passed away, dogs and cats. Fuck, even my aunt’s German Shepherd, I remember her being a sweetheart.

CW: metalinguistic usage of slurs. Also, bear in mind I’m not black, I’m just some random nobody.

Unless you’re using a slur metalinguistically¹, or quoting someone who used it², you probably won’t be able to erase its negative associations; they’re there by default, you’d need to actively erase/contradict them.

And that’s not what you did. In fact, your comment only works because of that negative connotation; note how silly it would sound like, if you said instead something like “Granted. Your username is now /u/bananapotato”, or “/u/ninjapiratezombierobot”, or whatever.

It would be different, for example, if you were using the word ⟨nigger⟩³ as African-American Vernacular English speakers do; because then the meaning being conveyed is not “a black person, implied to be inferior to other people”; it’s more like “mate, bro, chap”, specially in a positive context.

Same deal with the words ⟨fag⟩ — I don’t think it should be treated as a slur if you’re clearly referring to a cigarette.

So. While I typically criticise Reddit moderation (from mods and admins) as insane, and coming from people and systems with the reading comprehension of a green potato, in this specific case, I think they acted correctly.

Just my two cents.

1. Language being used to talk about language; e.g. if I say “the word «orange» replaced «yellowred»”, I’m using the word “orange” metalinguistically.
2. Even then it gets tricky, as you need to ensure your quoting doesn’t endorse what the negative connotations in the quote.
3. This is an example of metalinguistic usage. I’m talking about the word.

Crimea has a mountain range up south, really close to the sea, so it has a bunch of really short rivers. Chile is the same.

That said the river from the “Crimea river” meme is the Salğır/Салгир:

Brand identity.

Corporations, and even some open source groups, hate highly visible customisation; they behave as if your computer shouldn’t look like your computer, it should look like their software’s computer.

Of course, this conflicts with what users want. So sometimes they’re forced to provide you at least some highly visible customisation. More at the start, as they advertise their software as “flexible”, “powerful”, “customisable”, whatever. Then they remove it later, when they believe the loss of the customisation won’t make users leave.

But then people ask why. And they can’t simply say “it damages our brand identity”, or “you computer is not yours; it’s our billboard for our software, that you paid for”. And sometimes they can’t ignore the question either, because that would make them look distant and uncommunicative and user-hostile.

The solution is bullshit galore. You disguise the removal as necessary, telling users things like:

• “We had to redo it from the scratch, and we couldn’t readd the feature”
• “The feature gets in the way of another feature we’re planning to add”
• “The feature wasn’t popular, so it was bloating our code”
• etc.

Sometimes they aren’t even lying that they redid it from the scratch, or that the feature wasn’t popular. The truth doesn’t matter here; that’s why it’s bullshit instead of a simple lie. The goal was always to get rid of that bit of customisation, and if you keep using their software without it, mission accomplished.

There’s also what you mentioned in the thread, the “playbook”: USA elites emulating the ones from 1920~30 Germany, and trying to provoke similar conditions there. I’m paranoid enough to think the AI bubble might have to do with this — if they can’t predict when a Great Depression will happen, they cause one instead.

I think I got a name for the beard: “similar historical conditions”.

This is just an informal observation from my part, as an external observer (to USA, Italy and Germany), but I’ve noticed two “patterns” behind countries falling into fascism. The relevant one here is the same as you see in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany:

1. quick expansion in territory and population
2. stagnation due to external forces preventing it from expanding further
3. the State keeping its “we need more power!” mode boiling its engines for a century or so
4. an internal shift from “we need to control more people” to “we need to control people more”
5. the erosion of democratic institutions and power checks, since they “get in the way”
6. the acceptance of increasingly more authoritarian leaders, as the democratically-minded ones are seen as “weak” and “inept”
7. the population shifting its Overton window towards authoritarianism, and further tolerating extremist groups and agendas

When the fascist coup happens, people don’t ask “why”. They ask “why bother” — because the coup replaces an elite like “nooo, we aren’t fascists! We do everything fascists do, except $small_thing” with one that is like “yes, we are fascists. We do everything other fascists do, including $small_thing”.

Similarities between #7 and that “America first”, IMO, are not a coincidence.

Mozilla shoving AI into Firefox.

Mon français était bon… il y a 20? 15? ans. Aujourd’hui, me souviens pas merde.

Trying to use French to guess how to spell it and I end with “bourgoisie”. Because then PT/IT start interfering and the word has /g/ in both, not /dʒ/ or /ʒ/. At least they force me to remember the “r”, since I don’t use it in English (non-rhotic accent).