Photography is in a separate entry to 'visual arts' because I know too many people on either side of that that will be quite offended if I lumped the two together.That of me which might get offended by your opposite disregard of Mathematics' plurality is the part of me which is sufficiently minded to understand (and quite enjoy), without irreverence, such. Not that I don't feel
If I'm being honest I might have done the same thing.
Has there been a character who has grown more than Yay?
My favorite bits of foreign slang I've learned so far in the last couple of weeks are 'plonker' (insult) and 'duguma' (a work in progress).Recently learned 'banjaxed' and 'bamjaxed' (the latter because I misheard the former). Not sure if I can work either into conversation on this side of the pond, but both would make for a good kobold or goblin name in D&D.
(Kind of bummed I can't include 'doska' (bored) in that since I've known it for years. Definitely applies since I've started my vacation, though.)
I hope Millefeuille at least pauses to put on some pants.Why does she need a second set?
In which we see the problems that can be triggered if one doesn't fully understand contexts or multiple meanings. I suppose that, in the end, Brun feels that she owes Millifeulle at least some social interaction in exchange for having been a pillow overnight. This is especially if she has post-party amnesia and thinks something happened that didn't.
I find myself wondering exactly where Jeph is taking this. A comedy "We ran into each other at a party; next morning, I wrongly thought that I'd had sex with her and later realised that I like her" scenario isn't impossible at this point. The funny part of it would be Milli's role. I mean, she probably knows what's really happened and will likely be entertainingly puzzled why Brun seems to think they did something more intimate!
And the owner of said robot butt made no attempt to get up in the meantime?Parsimony
So, Brun got up at 4 AM to go to the bathroom - then came back to fall asleep again on the same robot butt?Identity
while well aware that Brun had movedDissensosity?
No idea who this Vrun character isLiar
Or Brun's just being more literal minded about the phrasing of 'slept with'. She just woke up after all.
I like Brun's logic, going out for brunch when you have slept with (on) someone is just the polite thing to do.
Those glasses aren't gonna carry themselves.
Either that or the world leaders in QC opted for the 'no, that's bad' answer until they could get systems in place to support those who would be put out of work.Those glasses aren't gonna carry themselves.
Not yet at least.
I wonder if their impending automation apocalypse is being put off by their tendency to give every advanced machine a quirky and/or adorable personality?
RE: Automation Apocalypse. If I recall correctly, the AIs are also painfully aware this is going to happen, and have been working to mitigate this themselves in addition to xenophobes blocking AI from taking up service industry jobs (See post-Robot Jail May looking for employment where she was originally going to buy pants).
Jeph has said that the reason humans can still get jobs is that a lot of the employed AIs take jobs like being toasters and others are lazy.
Jeph has said that the reason humans can still get jobs is that a lot of the employed AIs take jobs like being toasters and others are lazy.
(fun fact, whether you agree on its implementation or not, universal basic income may very well be necessary when a huge amount of unskilled labor suddenly find out they're surplus to requirements)
I'd be curious to know when Jeph said that (as I always am whenever I hear something he has said about QC AI).
Thank you, Google, thank you Stack Exchange.
Roundup of Jeph Jacques comments on AIs and employment (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111574/what-jobs-do-droids-serve-in)
The one I remembered is just short of halfway down.
So does that mean her tears smell like licorice?I fully intended to post a variant on that, but I was too slow.
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Yes, funny you should mention that. I see both of these as very much complementary actions. If we as a society want to rid ourselves of dangerous of soul-destroyingly boring jobs, then a UBI means no-one needs to do them anymore and automation means they still get done.
So, Brun got up at 4 AM to go to the bathroom - then came back to fall asleep again on the same robot butt? :-D
And the owner of said robot butt, while well aware that Brun had moved, made no attempt to get up in the meantime? :laugh:
EDIT: No idea who this Vrun character is, this comic is about Brun and Millie.
myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothingProducion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.
...what?
I'd like to elucidate that, to day, I've gotten only one private message from Cornelius; that message contained only a generic question about the literary-stylistic ability of it's primary audience.
myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothingProducion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.
It looks to be a mix of a Latinate (probably Spanish or Portuguese] and English.myth that people would just stop working when they get an income for doing nothingProducion staying incentate sans nonproducion disincentive.
I am having trouble understanding that. Could you please rephrase?
I suspect this may have already been covered, but would it be safe to drink, or would it be mixed in with whatever else was in there?(click to show/hide)
Back on topic: it kinda makes sense that whatever liquid she drank ended up topping up some kind of tear duct reservoir.
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It's also worry sometimes my posting language in worse. I hope he stays though some not liking his post, because I like his post.Your English is understandable.
:facepalm:
for reasons we don't know communicates in a way we find hard to followAn my prime goal is faithful translation of ideas from my thoughts (which, naturally, are of my native ``language'') to these. I not for ``cleverness'' compose thus. Now I contort, despite my interpersonal-activity consul's advice to stay mutual ignorance, for here seem personae among my favourites, (Too are some my disfavourites---likely mostly merely proximitily.)
words out of orderEnglish' grammar factors intrasentencial order.
I will only add another nail in preparation to that coffin in that there was more than one private message to the person about a certain fun thread they have now usurped.Only two such from you to me private messages were. Of those, one (to which a response from me to you was) expressed delight about some posts, nonunderstanding (stricter---disambiguous---style I since for such threads use) about other posts (indication of which had been requested in that response from me to you; yet such indication I not have); another was merely notifiage of erratum (appropriate corrigendum issued)
It was something to do with not following the rules as explained and then more explicitly explained and then messaged without response before said hijack.
If you're worrying about my reactions to [TorporChambre], let me assure you, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, until their pm to me.
The other option was taking offense and reporting that message there and then.Of that message what might you take as offense, or violation? Another option:
not engage againe.g.
until there is some semblance ofWhy, flouting perspicacity, chose you Grice'?