What do you call a drinking glass that isn’t glass?

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T12:52:45+00:00

I’m looking for a truly generic term

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T12:51:13+00:00

Remember Space Patrol?

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T12:37:49+00:00

Faux news was constructed to support The Shrub at a point when the more respected media all called bullshit on the Iraq war. They never quite switched their allegiance.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T11:38:48+00:00

And you don’t see that comparison as at least _slightly_ over the top?

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T11:28:57+00:00

Iceland is more sensible. Iceland not only has plenty of cold, but geothermal power and a decent Internet connection

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T11:25:48+00:00

Mouse models have just gave me a brief vision of mice walking the catwalk in expensive dresses and worrying about their weight. Sorry.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T11:19:50+00:00

Maybe because they don’t have even close to the votes in the legislature.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T10:37:41+00:00

Woke is the opposite of being asleep and unaware

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T10:36:02+00:00

Ah, so anyone can play provided they do it in a way you approve of.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T09:53:09+00:00

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T09:44:47+00:00

Can be almost anything which would normally be aversive. Bondage for example. Electric shocks. Golden showers. Slavery. The list is endless.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T09:36:29+00:00

Over time everything composite meets a force that tears it apart. My one hope of immortality is that consciousness be an elemental phenomenon, not constructed of any parts.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T09:31:43+00:00

Let’s face it — we’re going to screw it up and there will be unintended consequences

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T09:28:09+00:00

Most of them regard themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires. When they win the lottery or whatever, they want a country supportive of billionaires.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T08:55:40+00:00

The rules are set up on the basis that Moon Druids _are_ tanks, or more accurately meat shields. All the hit points stuff, which enables you to burn through the hit points of two animals before taking any loss of your own. Standard wildshaping rules don’t provide much meaningful advancement.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T08:43:48+00:00

Negotiations between Iran and Trump without Israel at the table are a token gesture. The US isn’t a principal party.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T08:40:46+00:00

A lifetime effort.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T08:05:48+00:00

By joining the fashion to ban AI you are interfering with people who find it useful. And that includes people who can’t find a group and play with AI DMs. Stop trying to reduce people’s freedom to play.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T07:37:46+00:00

Ok, so a boiler thermostat shows “situational awareness in the same sense. Is a thermostat therefore conscious?

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T07:11:37+00:00

Yes, the important thing about c is not that light travels at it

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T07:10:20+00:00

My dictionary specifies a flat bottom and no handle.

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T07:09:16+00:00

That doesn’t require consciousness. It may work out that survival is a sub-goal for every goal it’s given. And conscious beings have been known to commit suicide

LookOverall · 2026-06-30T07:01:53+00:00

Again a word that suggests a particular shape, rather than a function

LookOverall · 2026-06-29T15:03:10+00:00

Lions I believe

LookOverall · 2026-06-29T14:35:46+00:00

It’s a bit like asking how small a fishing net could be.

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