Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

@martinsuntals

(Those paying extra attention will also note the sub-footnote that the former isn't cognate to the way 'race' is used in English, either: biological races have to breed true, which human races don't. Humans have ethnies and clines, and the Imperial Exobiological Institute is more than pedantic enough to make this point repeatedly, and with emphatic hand gestures.)

@martinsuntals

Oh, my, this is a fun one.

When writing for my (English-speaking) readers, I use "race" for both "subspecies" and "a sophont quote-species-unquote". Those who read my linguistic appendices and/or footnotes will find the note that those uses are translations of completely different words in the in-world language; English broken, please fix.

Oh, the Galaxy’s wars are frightful,
But the Shroud is so delightful
So while there’s no place to go
Take some Zro!
Take some Zro!
Take some Zro!

#stellaris

Reminder that "Tumblr/Wordpress selling user posts to AI companies" actually means "Oh, that stuff freely available to anyone on the Internet? Here, let me put that on a disk for you."

Those concerned with the Internet becoming flooded with vast quantities of AI-generated garbage content not worth the reading appear not to have noticed that it has managed to survive being flooded with vast quantities of human-generated garbage content not worth the reading.

This is just history repeating itself with robophobia.

On another note, I am rather surprised to learn that there doesn't appear to be a dedicated ICD-10 code for "Fall through ceiling".

(Floor, yes, but floors and ceilings are not isomorphic. If my attic had had a floor, this whole issue would have never arisen.)

((I hasten to reassure that this was because I looked it up myself, not because I needed medical treatment.))

(I am expecting this to trend low, on the grounds that once you take the plunge, you get even more fuckin' careful than you thought you were being previously, but it's not like I'm sitting on a wealth of data points here.)

So, since my ridiculous sitcom-worthy accident, people have been telling me stories about professional attic-workers falling through ceilings.

This gives me a statistical curiosity, so, folks: if you spend time in attics, how many times have you fallen through a ceiling in your career?

Achievement unlocked: fell through the ceiling.

(I won, but not without cost.)

@mcc

No need to use the type name: map the Type object you get from typeof() to the attribute value; GetHashCode() on that is cheaper than going via the string.

Then you can hide the details in an extension method on IParent to automatically grab the attr object from the cache, generating it if it doesn't exist.

Today I saw a reminder of the number of "God-killed" zygotes that fail to implant or spontaneously abort early in pregnancy (something around 60-70% of the total), and I am shocked my own self that no-one is yet screaming about how this is eugenics.

Because it is, you know.

It's literal, if natural, eugenics.

Our state fish is the channel catfish, and our state phish is fake calls from your credit card provider.

@foone

Well, I happen to have an old nanofic in which it is explained why such starships are usually not welcome anywhere inside the orbit of, say, Uranus:

https://eldraeverse.com/2012/06/10/ask-dr-science/

From a discussion of importing cars from the #eldraeverse to Earth today:

"I'd think cars would be one of the less likely export products myself, for a couple of reasons.

(Leaving aside trying to get the State of California to allow anything powered by a radiothermal generator on the roads, obviously, and also throwing a dozen hissy fits about how the space tech bros are broing the space tech. Bro.)

((Gods, I hate that abbrev.))"

@swope

I think that’s a screenshot from Lower Decks S04E02 (“I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”) where Boimler’s new quarters are in an unfortunate location. Don’t have a copy of the meme, but maybe that’ll help track it down.