Well. I did find that book, but not the story about it. Also, TIL Orson Scott Card is rather a bit of a homophobe.
Well. I did find that book, but not the story about it. Also, TIL Orson Scott Card is rather a bit of a homophobe.
Whaaaaat!? Grooming? But Humbert isn’t trans? This is just normal behavior, it only becomes wrong when you are already a persecuted minority.
/s obvs
…in Points of Origin
Okay, I think you need to be more specific? I really don’t know what story you’re referring to.
I believe you. I meant more that it “won” conceptually than phonetically. To an American ear it sounds more like “aw” or “ah” than “o”.
Pretty sure “caught” won and “cot” lost in the caught-cot merger. I don’t think most Americans would conceive of it as an “o” sound
Wait, wait, wait. You’re telling me people leave their homes?!
Yeah, it’s trans masc instead, but it did give us the very fun trans masc trans mask.
You engage with the skip button
When is interrupting my viewing experience to show me an ad ever actually relevant?
Fuck, these days even in shows that are edited for commercials, they’ll ignore those breaks and just put ads wherever they feel like it
The bearings combined with the wrenches made me think, like, roboticist. So maybe they make fishing robots that double as sexbots?
I dunno, if I have to process my own e pills, I’m gonna mess something up. Maybe if it comes with a cute live-in pharmacist or something
I second this question. How am I even supposed to clean it?
Brake dust is pretty well-mitigated by EVs too, on account of regenerative breaking.
Or, just, like,
“Pretty warm but I’m not complaining, you?”
You’re the one that brought units into it in your example. Maybe you’re the bad friend?
I mean if you need to be using precise temperature units just to have a conversation… Maybe find less particular friends?
It felt good to live in a world where being legit was reasonable.
They’re so much quieter, too. Not as easy to notice when you’re the one using the tool, but compare how it sounds to be nearby someone else using one and it’s a biiiig difference