Seems like a self defeating strategy, but you do you.

Marie Antoinette would be proud.

The article pretty clearly explains what it means.

That anime chick takes off her clothes, and has sexy time talk with you. It is indeed a pornographic sex bot.

It kills me that this take is so hard to find online.

Did I think calling the main branch “master” was offensive before this controversy? No, I’d never even considered it.

Does switching to calling it “main” impact me, like… at all? Also no. It’s like the lowest effort change to make.

If I can make my industry more welcoming to a more diverse group of people, that is a solid victory and way more important than the name of my primary git branch.

I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.

So is plastic, apparently, but nobody is insisting that if I would only eat it prepared differently that I would love it.

So are you just trying to be an ass here, or are you genuinely just so invested that you can’t see you’re arguing in bad faith?

I carry around a 3x5 split keyboard with Colemak-dh mapped via firmware. Because I, too, am absolutely useless at a qwerty keyboard now.

Chocolate, cherry, pistachio is where it’s at.

The mind-boggling thing about Idaho to me is that they have convinced a bunch of people from Oregon that Idaho is so great that a bunch of counties should secede and join Idaho.

I’m not making this up. It’s called the Greater Idaho Movement. They want to take over about 2/3 of Oregon.

I learned about this after moving to Oregon and was relieved to hear that at least my county had already voted against it.

Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.

I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.

… as a TV show, right? Right?

I don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.

Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.

Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.

You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.

Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.

Edit: also, I gave my kids phones primarily so they could contact me in an emergency, and I am very much not ok with the state telling me they can’t have the phone in their backpack.

Also the whole incredible adaptable camouflage thing.

Edit: I’d probably be an Orca (the asshole of the sea) or a peregrine falcon. One gets to glide through the ocean, the other soar through the air. Both sound rad.

I agree that it’s not much of an argument.

I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

This is a very republican method of argument.

Edit: now tell them to go “do your own research”