The way it was explained to me was that regardless of gender, if you see someone in the woods, there might be other people nearby and they might pose a serious threat to you. Bears don’t really gang up on people, so you should be okay if you keep your distance.

I don’t know whether or not I agree with that risk assessment, but I can see that it comes from a logical standpoint.

Everyone else:

“Pardon me, do you have the time?”

“OH MY GOD A TALKING DODO BIRD!”

There are multiple Borg queens.

I don’t really remember SQL, does it prevent you from using a range of values? I can understand why leap seconds would be an issue.

I don’t really get why people use any time other than ms/seconds since the epoch for anything other than displaying that time to the end user. Having time just be a single number with no time zone shenanigans makes writing logic like that so much easier.

Orb of Enhancement?

I don’t really get how that worked. If I was in a group of people arriving to a new and mysterious land and our leader decided to order the ships burned so that we couldn’t head back, I’d assume he’d lost his marbles and elect a new leader.

Not quite the same, but amusing peripheral issues can happen on Windows, too.

That’s crazy lol, it was soooooo bad! I felt like that and some of the attempts to appeal specifically to straight men were the things that ruined an otherwise very interesting show.

Disabled people: (X) doubt

I felt like ENT had potential for greatness given its premise, but every single time time travel was involved, it actively made the show worse. It was supposed to be all about the early beginnings of the Federation and the first Enterprise’s journey into the unknown, but they kept interrupting it with random temporal cold war bullshit that nobody cares about.

Maybe they already knew about Q. It’d be kinda funny if they didn’t and were completely perplexed.

Are you seriously trying to argue that fungi have a level of consciousness or sentience because they have simple chemical processes that guide their growth based on external stimulus?

I suppose you must also believe that growing Chorus Plants in Minecraft are self-aware because they don’t grow through blocks.

I am not saying bacteria are conscious. I am saying that as a fungus (or bacterium), you wouldn’t be aware of environmental collapse because you wouldn’t be aware of anything. You wouldn’t suffer.

only to be keenly aware at all moments of how pollution, deforestation, and climate change is damaging the forest in real time.

There is no evidence to suggest that fungi are conscious.

W take. I have no problem with my public comments being used as training data for AI as long as they’re public. I just don’t want some shitty private company to hoard them like they fucking own them when they don’t.

With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.

You can’t convince me there’s anything wrong with wearing Crocs.

It’s an Android app, too. The screenshot you’re seeing is from the app. For the website, I wouldn’t have to worry thanks to uBlock Origin.

And this is why I leave automatic updates off and stopped updating Gmail as soon as I heard they were inserting ads. I know something will probably break to force me to update eventually, but not today!