Days of the week in Spanish follow almost the exact same pattern as they do in English, with the exception of the weekend.

Specifically, Friday in Japanese translates to Gold Day, which also has a lot of cultural connotations with it being the lucky day of the week

Damn that website is probably the most frustrating mobile experience I've had. Demands you use the app, automatically and quickly redirects you to an app store page, then the app store page automatically tries to open in the store application

It's the title of an article?

In dry climates, the water actually will dry itself relatively quickly as long as there's not an overwhelming amount. In more humid areas though, yup.

The case is basically a guillotine for the tip of your pinky finger.

Early voting is an option in many places too!

Voting early is usually less stressful, and you can schedule it easier (because election day isn't a national holiday for some reason). Look up the dates early voting is running in your county, read up on what polling stations you can vote early at, and make a plan!

As far as changing minds though... yeah, everyone is pretty much locked in at this point. I just hope people in the US cast a ballot even if they don't plan on voting for the president. There are so many downballot positions for local offices that one's vote can have a huge impact on.

I think if people are resigned to not pick between outright vs lite genocide (understandably), the best thing they can do is research their local elections, make a list on who they plan on choosing for each office, and make the decision on the president (including the choice to do a write-in or leave it blank) when they get to the ballot box.

Angular, caffeinated and round?

I feel like there's a point to be made about the historical use of the term transracial, which described the experiences of people who were adopted into families of a different race than oneself as a child. In these cases, even though there may be superficial differences present, the culture the person was raised into is that of the adoptive family, and as a result it's what they tend to identify with based on lived experience.

I think there's a difference between idolizing a different race or its culture thereof, and having formative experiences as a member of that community, even if there were indicators that marked you as an "other" both to those within and without. I don't know if it's really worthwhile to tell people how they can and can't feel about their identity in this way, but there are definitely nuances that make racial identity experiences distinct from gender identity experiences.

Is that a Roland Quad Capture I spy?

Without scarcity, artificial or not, the ruling class loses their grip on power. Capital will manufacture scarcity to whatever degree it is capable of, because without it there's even less justification for owners to exist at the top of this neat little hierarchy they desperately cling to. They need to have their gated fortresses and their toys, cleanly separated from the rest of us undesirables.

They'll use AI to bolster the security of their bunkers while drying up the rivers to run them. The whole while, they'll blame any economic decline on the claim that "nobody wants to work anymore" after having automated all the jobs and offering no replacements.

I'd like to believe an alternative is possible. Perhaps we can come together and push for a better future, but that doesn't seem to be the way things are going currently.

I've heard there are hyper-reflective stickers you can put on/near the plate that basically blind a traffic camera's view when trying to read it

I believe the wording is "drinks which burn the throat" which naturally means:

• ❌ Coffee
• ❌ Alcoholic drinks
• ❌ Coca Cola
• ❌ Hot tea
• ❌ Chai lattes
• ✅ Sprite, other non-caffeinated soft drinks
• ✅ Hot Chocolate
• ✅ Kombucha
• ✅ Energy drinks???
• ✅ Herbal Tea (even while hot, but mostly if you're sick as a home remedy)

Most of the focus is interpreted as "contains caffeine and/or alcohol" but the wording is vague enough that it leaves for a lot of weird wiggle room people try to argue (based on convenience usually). It's quite silly

If they were conscripted tho?

Cyberpunk is considered a sub genre of sci-fi because a bunch of people got together and said that's what it is. Doesn't make it a 100% hard set rule. You just like putting things in boxes. A piece of creative work is what it contains, not whatever categories you shove it into.

I accept that the intersubjective framework of literary genres exists, but have my disagreements with it. You can do that. It doesn't make you wrong, just unpopular.

Advertising is like the Kudzu vine: neat and potentially useful if maintained responsibly, but beyond capable of growing out of control and strangling the very landscape if you don't constantly keep it in check. I think, for instance, that a podcast or over-the-air show running an ad-read with an affiliate link is fine for the most part, as long as it's relatively unobtrusive and doesn't put limitations on what the content would otherwise go over.

The problem is that there needs to be a reset of advertiser expectations. Right now, they expect the return on investment that comes from hyper-specific and invasive data, and I don't think you can get that same level of effectiveness without it. The current advertising model is entrenched, and the parasitic roots have eroded the foundation. Those roots will always be parasitic because that's the nature of advertising, and the profit motive in general when unchecked.

You're being prescriptive and not descriptive with the definitions. Superficially it is the case, and people have created a neat little categorical hierarchy you can keep pointing back to, but I'm telling you that a lot of cyberpunk creative work is sci-fi in the same way that people say Star Wars is sci-fi (it's a space opera, at least the movies are)

Science fiction usually carries with it a desire to rationalize and explain the technology it's built upon, to try and paint a world plausible from a scientific standpoint. You see this a lot with the technobabble in Star Trek.

Cyberpunk has a lot of overlap with science fiction, but usually dives more into the social commentary on society and capitalism, using the technology within as a vehicle to amplify those criticisms. Some cyberpunk works seek to explain their technology and make it seem grounded in the same way sci-fi does, but that is usually secondary to the social and political themes.

Also, legality doesn't change the odds of some old white dude taking pot shots from his porch at strange noises, because of precisely the same popular myth

Does anyone know what happened in the early 1960's that led to that smaller, but still noticeable diversion?