ThisIsNotHim @ ThisIsNotHim @sopuli.xyz

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You may have missed the point of the example. It asks about steering wheels, and immediately transitions to vehicles that don't have steering wheels.

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum were both great. If you've read more of his work and have a recommendation for where to go next I'd love to hear it.

On the topic of Italian authors, I loved Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" as well. I didn't really expect it to pay off as a cohesive work. I was mostly along for the ride and was pleasantly surprised.

Cheerios and Bugles (each separately). Nothing in either item should make them smell like death. But every flavor of either I've encountered always has. They're not even the same kind of grain.

I'll eat most ingredients in a wide variety of contexts. It's pretty rare that I'll find something that I don't like, and can't eventually find a way to like.

I'm not expecting them to be amazing, but them being substantially worse than bland and boring is still a surprise.

I had a vegetarian sausage that had a close-ish flavor recently. It might have been Beyond? The texture was surprisingly awful though. Far from inedible, but I'd expect all parts of the texture to be closer, especially the casing.

That does sound great! Ham isn't necessarily a bad ingredient, it's just unusually difficult to tell if it'll be good or it'll suit your tastes, especially with more inexpensive kinds.

It's hard to see where I'd choose it over another topping, but I imagine with most pizzas I don't really care about ham's failings.

Pineapple and anchovies might be the two stanard toppings that are really build-arounds. Most other standard pizza toppings seem closer to "do whatever, it'll be fine"

The ham used on pizzas around here (northeast US), usually isn't salty enough to work on a Hawaiian pizza. It's often deli ham, which runs the risk of being sweet, but otherwise flavorless.

Bacon or pepperoni work better. Jalapeno also helps.

Slightly hotter, but still quite tame take:

Ham is the problem with Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is innocent.

You've moved away from the part which specifies long-haul trucking. To my understanding this is an area where trains are a reasonable solution.

Last mile coverage we also have room for improvement with much smaller vehicles, like bikes.

I'm not sure I'd say it's exact, but some of the political norms you're describing appear to have been extremely short-lived. That's not to say we shouldn't try to get them back or rue their loss.

Machine politics with power structures like in Tammany hall seem to have been popular for quite a while.

Boulders are the best kind of decorative bollard

I assume you're talking about not defining PFLAG? Acronyms widely understood by the target audience aren't always defined. The LA Blade is an LGBTQ publication so PFLAG not being defined makes sense.

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I don't know if that does exactly what you're asking for, I just turned it on myself

I had read (in a comment here, so take with a grain of salt) that some had started doing Proof of Work.

I.E. they ask the visiting computer to do some math. This is potentially less annoying to people than clicking on traffic lights or typing unreadable text, but could get costly if you're using bots.

The More sweeping forgiveness attempt was blocked.

He seems pretty committed to forgiving whatever he can get through. It wouldn't be unusual to give up after the initial attempt was blocked, but now he seems to be breaking it apart into more manageable chunks. I'm still slightly hopeful that more forgiveness is coming for those who need it.

That could explain the difference in experiences. I filter out those communities as best I can given the tools available.

It's a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I'll find it more distracting than useful, so I'll turn it off.

Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

New features often aren't helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I'm perfectly happy to see them.

I didn't see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:

• Wild Seed- Octavia E Butler
• The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K LeGuin
• Dhalgren- Samuel Delaney
• Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe
• A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick
• Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:

• The Terror- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, seems to be free of his politics
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union- Michael Chabon
• Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
• Fictions- Jorge Luis Borges
• Machine of Death- collection of short stories from various authors
• Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace

I'm not sure why you mention government cheese here. Government cheese was cheddar, and not made from waste products/offcuts. It's entirely unrelated, but fascinating story.

I don't think they're confused by times like 1pm.

At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.

As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn't anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.

With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it's really the start of the new day. The Latin isn't confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.

I'm clearly overthinking things, but I don't always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn't help.

With 00 it's clear which time we're talking about, and which calendar date it's part of. It's also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.