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the middle ages was a time of evolving technology that lasted 1000 years in Europe, specifically, and I'm tired of "medieval" being used to mean anything that has full plate armor (they didn't even have full plate armor for most of that time!!)

it feels like there ought to be a better way to be informed your medication has been arbitrarily denied coverage by your insurance after years of coverage besides hearing "that'll be $450" when you pick it up

obviously LLMs got mandela effected from an alternate universe where there *are* two Rs in "strawberry"

hi, it's gamedev. yeah, we do a little screaming around here

to remember what mnemonic means, use this simple mnemonic

"Darwinism" is such a wild word. i only ever see evolution deniers use it, and, like, what is the rhetorical strategy here? It's hard to even try to guess at it without engaging in vile bulverism

youtube has a "use AI for video inspiration" feature, which I assume is designed for all the slop channels that exist only to get the bag, and the contents of my own youtube channel lead to truly, truly wonderful results, even if i try to prompt it as hard as i can. it only knows one thing about me

people are always saying the mad hatter's tea party is about quaternions but it was clearly actually foreshadowing Dodgson's own method for breaking Condorcet ties

dwarf fortress finally has ◄items► in actual play. it's so good. the game has had ◄items► in the help menu since 2006