Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt
- Fiction
- https://eldraeverse.com/
- Tech Blog
- https://randombytes.substack.com/
- Random Stuff Blog
- https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/
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Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
My To-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/09/my-to-fu-is-stronger-than-yours/
Regardless of your underlying views, if you ever find yourself unironically thinking "to stop fascism, we obviously need strict state-controlled censorship", please put the brain down and don't attempt to think again.
I've got 99 problems, and the inability of Starcraft II to load save files if your home directory is on a network share is definitely one of them.
The Earth King has invited me to Lake Laogai. I may be some time.
@avatar tl;dr I'm looking to free myself from WordPress for my birthday.
Suggestions that meet the criteria in the post welcomed.
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SpaceX is talking about variants of the Starship for different missions--cargo, passenger, tanker, lunar lander.
What we really need down the line is a Starship version of the Traveller modular cutter, so you can show up with your module and have it launched.
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I'm listening to the audiobook of The Martian. Just SpaceX's capability now totally trashes the plot.
"Sure, we'll bump StarLink launches to do an extra Falcon Heavy. And we'll schedule a back up Falcon Heavy in case there's a problem. Watney will get all the food he needs."
The difference in medical student performance when graphed by Kinsey score implies that you should, under no circumstances, be heterodox.
Having been demolishing things again now the weather has turned, I find myself wondering if pry bars also serve as a universal permission, in the same fashion as patch cables, when accompanied by a sufficiently done-with-this-shit expression.
...what if I had both?
Today I learned that UN food standards are published as the Codex Alimentarius, which really sounds like something that came out of the Vatican or WH40K.
Still, I applaud their commitment to a proper language.
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Speak Eldraeic Like A Semi-Literate Barbarian (3.5): Some Érélar
https://eldraeverse.com/2024/10/14/speak-eldraeic-like-a-semi-literate-barbarian-3-5-some-erelar/
#conlang #eldraeicLanguage #eldraeverse #érélar #linguistics #pronouns #SpeakEldraeicLikeASemiLiterateBarbarian #variables
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Shorter Duverger's Law Enthusiast:
"If you just play it enough, you can *totally* win the shell game!"
Shorter Duverger's Law:
We get dumb outcomes because we do dumb things because we assume everyone else will also do dumb things.
Which, to be fair, they do.
Okay, that's actually longer. Ahem.
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Today I have heard the term "the Devil's lettuce" for the first time.
Man, if I were a grower, I would name all my strains after progressively sillier snowclones. The Devil's Lettuce. Satan's Cabbage. Lucifer's Cauliflower. Beelzebub's Cumin.
- Fiction
- https://eldraeverse.com/
- Tech Blog
- https://randombytes.substack.com/
- Random Stuff Blog
- https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/
- avatar@arkane-systems.net
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
