I actually only read the first four. Felt like a natural stopping point there. Pretty cool series though :)

Tangent, there is a fun fantasy book series by Adrian Tchaikovsky where all the main characters are humanoids with bug qualities. So basically spiderman, antman, mantisman, etc. It is entertaining when you mix fantasy tropes (dueling for honour!) with mantis arm spikes…

This variant on the forkbomb brought to you by Google.

Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.

The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch

My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.

This concludes my TED talk.

Yeah, would be an interesting lawsuit if she had proof of that statement.

On the flip side, I like that our courts publish proceedings. If we’re having an open and transparent society, and we want to trust in our institutions, then this transparency is required. An conundrum, to be sure.

I mean, our courts publish proceedings. Wouldn’t be hard to assemble a database from that info.

The accuracy of such a database (particularly when interpreted by an AI) would be hugely suspect. Also, hard to argue with a database when you’re at the border being detained – the guy detaining you didn’t create the database.

Whole thing reeks.

He misjudged his centre of mass. As many men do. ;)

Do you have a program to help you count sheep to fall asleep? Asking for a friend

Eladrin, basically

Probably not. Reddit post from four years ago has this image, and that’s from before AI was good enough to do fingers. https://www.reddit.com/r/sbubby/comments/kgjoai/my_neighbor_baphomet/

From the comments: “This piece of artwork was made by Herdis @asep.h.thefallen”

Vicious

Chilean wine is great. I recommend the Emiliana Coyam. Mmm

Counterpoint. If she is high enough fey, this creates so many opportunities for the DM to fuck with the player in fun and creative ways.

Eg: spell fails, but she pretends it works. Discount applied, item is cursed. Etc. All charm spells cast by user now have inverse effects, and their feet smell bad.

Fair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?

Even Reddit didn’t start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.

This advice generalizes. There aren’t enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.

“space music” – I played Mass Effect 1 long ago and got hooked on the idea of musicians trying (and often failing) to make music for futuristic settings. This is like Star Trek episodes that reference classical music but some person has to predict what classical music will sound like in 2300. So they go with with future retro stuff and it just tickles me. So I seek out these sorts of experimental musical pre-trend predictions cause they’re often hilarious.

There are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things – and they’re pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.

Must be a leadership review coming up. Pandering to base.

I don’t know what 86° is in science units, but it sounds warm. It was +27°C today and the plants were loving it.

Daaaaad. Get off the internet