I need to add that to my quotes book, it’s great

If you like video essays, Dr Fatima on YouTube has a brilliant video about colonialism in astronomy which covers some recent Hawaiian protest movements

What do you have on it? I’ve considered setting one up, but I’m not sure what I’d put on it yet, and I don’t want to do the thing where I make something I never use.

It’s not the most robust analogy, but I actually really like your comparison to painting restoration; to do it well, one must understand the techniques and materials used in the original (even stuff below the visible surface).

Not a lawyer, but I think the original work is still copyrighted, and that restoration wouldn’t (or certainly shouldn’t) constitute a new artwork. Though now I’m wondering about that terrible Jesus painting restoration from a few years back — it’s certainly different from the original, and whilst it might not seem reasonable to call it a new piece of “art”, it’s certainly inspired a great many people(to make memes)

I think many people who are responsible for pushing the campaign forward would agree it’s a much bigger issue. It’s just that the bigger issue is big enough that there are multiple fronts one could fight on, and this is a politically useful opportunity to push forward. A victory from this campaign will be unlikely to lead to the larger developments without more of a fight, because achieving the general rule will take a few instances of arguing the specific case.

For now, I’m excited to see where this leads, even if the answer might be “nowhere”

TBF, that’s sort of my experience of pronouns due to finding queer community at university.

What have you found most useful from switching? I switched to emacs a while ago and still feel like a beginner (largely because I got too greedy with all the goodies at the beginning and ended up with loads of features I hadn’t learned to use yet and a messy init.el. I restarted and am adding features as I need them, to prevent that same complexity sprawl)

“I play both sides so I always come out on top!”

I really enjoyed the characters. When I think about Mass Effect 3, for example, I think of how I felt when making peace between the Quarians and the Geth, because of how I had gotten to know the characters of Tali and Legion. Or Wrex enthusiastically greeting Shepard as an old friend, something that’s only possible if you talk him down in the first game.

I was as disappointed as everyone else at the actual ending to Mass Effect 3, and I do think the plot goes a bit weird even before that (the ending boss fight of mass effect 2 is a bit weird, but again, I think more of the personal stakes that had been set up by good character writing (plus Jack Wall’s “Suicide Mission” makes what could’ve been overly cheesy instead feel grand and epic)), but I found the smaller, interpersonal stories that Mass Effect tells to be quite compelling.

Oh no.

Good thing I have like, 3 keyboards

And you’re not allowed to say something is a problem unless you know the solution. My comeback to this is about how you don’t need to be a chef to have an opinion on whether food tastes bad or not.

Women are the same way to get a new job in a different way

Especially as one potential “solution” to creating complex bugs in programming is to be less ambitious with the projects you choose. A friend suggested this to me once, when I was getting frustrated with how many bugs I was running into in a new problem domain. They knew better than I did at that point that the reason I kept diving into silly projects was because I did enjoy the challenge and the feeling of my capabilities expanding. That had gotten a little lost along the way.

It really is. Version control and branching is all over the place (many proteins with new functionality arise from a erroneous duplication event, which results in two copies of the same gene. This redundancy then allows mutations to accrue in one or both of these genes, as long as one is still functioning sufficiently)

As someone who is currently learning emacs, I gotta say, this comment has the energy of someone offering heroin to someone struggling to moderate their cannabis usage (given OP indicated that custom config if a thing they’re finding burdensome in a way)

Oh gosh, I’ve never actually seen the original before, only the countless memes. That hurt my heart, to see him become increasingly stressed out as he stumbled over his words, bless him. I was incredibly relieved to eventually get the sentence out and for him to relax into a smile.

Life imitates art, art imitates life, and here’s me unsure of what the difference is anymore.

This is brilliant, I love it. It’s a joke, but it actually captures my experience of my assigned gender at birth perfectly.

Galaxy brain: gender fluidity to keep the advertisers on their toes

On the flip side, I remember being like 8ish and my friend told me that I shouldn’t say “cheers” to say thank you, because that’s what boys say (indeed, I had picked it up from my brother and dad). Instead, I should say “ta” (or just “thanks”). That is so incredibly gender, I can scarcely believe it happened.