El Barto

The honor is mine.

Bro. Nasa relied on Russian tech to bring supplies to astronauts and cosmonauts at the ISS for years.

I understand you don’t like Russia for political reasons. Neither do I. But science and space is a totally different thing.

Hate Elon, but don’t hate SpaceX. SpaceX is like an abused child.

Its* initial mission

I mean… I hate what the fucker is doing to Ukraine.

But Russians have their spot in history in terms of great space exploration advancements.

They had a space station up there first. Before everyone else. The MIR. So… I wouldn’t doubt on their capability to put their own space station again.

Why can’t it be horrifying and amazing?

I know, right?

When the whole AI generated art was sort of like a novelty a year ago, that’s exactly what I thought.

“Fuck. A lot of cool-looking things will be cheapened or devalued because they’ll be generated, not created.”

And sure, sure, there’s art in coming up with a nice prompt. I guess there’s art in coming up with tax exemptions too.

Thanks!

He was selling it to Al-Cateda.

A few, you say.

Care to list them, please? Or are they just Fairphone models?

I wasn’t going for an ethymological argument. Plenty of examples of words whose meaning veered away from its ethymology.

But the recent popularization of literally as a synonym of figuratively, well, it literally rustles my jimmies.

Interesting! Today I learned, then. Thanks.

Now, and this I’m going to say in a sort-of tongue-in-cheek manner, what’s your opinion on the recent change of the meaning of “literally”? Because that one is definitely less (ha!) than 200 years old.

I would normally agree with you.

But just as it’s okay for people to speak the way they want, it’s also okay for people to spread language knowledge. Then let the people decide whether they want to use that knowledge or not.

It’s not like OP said “it’s ‘fewer’, you idiot!” In that case, I’d say it’s elitism. Otherwise, it’s just a useful lemmy comment.

More.

Years in the making is correct. Whether it’s 5 years or 5 billion years, that’s years in the making.

I mean, if you lose the game, you lose the game. You don’t say “hey you made me lose the game! Don’t do that!” Because that’s not how the game works. If you “make” someone lose the game, tough luck.

By the way, you lost game again :)

Oh shit!!

Was this an elaborate way to make me lose the game? Ass!

Any specific examples?

Like what?