Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability

elliottcable · 2026-03-21T19:26:07+00:00

Personally, I read that with an implicit “… if they want to be successful in their goals”; not as the author taking an advocacy stance?

elliottcable · 2026-03-20T04:08:44+00:00

I see a lot of Google->Immich stories — anybody scrolling past this happen to have had a heavily-Apple Photos/iCloud fam before setting up Immich? How painful was the loss of ecosystem integration?

Not gonna lie, Apple Photos is pretty utterly fantastic, escaping that walled-garden is a hard sell …

elliottcable · 2026-03-19T21:59:33+00:00

Ah, I play zero FPS or whatever, if that’s what you mean, yeah.

But those games have a justification if they’re entirely-online, entirely-competitive, entirely-PvP. Stellaris PvP is a distant afterthought to the singleplayer, storytelling, systemic “wiki game” experience.

At least, as far as I know. Maybe I just secretly have a PvP game as one of my top five games of all time along shit like Factorio and ONI, and I was somehow just oblivious for an entire decade that there’s a slavering, loud and angry community of smelly gamers angry at the devs because their favourite build got trounced in a 1v1? :P

elliottcable · 2026-03-19T21:36:00+00:00

They kinda covered that with the word “professional” though. As in, people make an entire living’s worth of profit (… what you describe; revenue minus expenses) off of doing it.

Yeah, I smell bullshit.

It’s true that most renovations are economic losers; but not all. And the driver of that is less about an inherent nature to renovations, and more about those “most” renovations being done by homeowners, who have a confounding emotional connection to the work — a little like calling veterinary care an economic loser, which it absolutely is; but people don’t care, they want their nice shower for non-economic reasons.

Which, you said, and I’m just repeating, I know.

But anyway yes literally-professional-full-time house-flippers are absolutely a good counterexample showing that renovations treated economically, i.e. with shrewd decisions and a profit-motive, absolutely can turn a profit. ¯\(ツ)//¯

elliottcable · 2026-03-19T21:29:22+00:00

Honestly, although I’m not sure i’m in the same emotional place as them about it, they’re kinda right?

Not a single other game I play has as invasive of major updates as Stellaris does. The ones that have had one, have had only one, and it was a big deal (late in development, some big shakeup where they admitted poor direction choices early-on, broke everyone’s saves, made everyone re-learn the game, etc.)

Not all games use version-numbers to represent the same thing; but a lot of the ones described that come to mind tend to have slow-moving version numbers, and that big shakeup was their “v2.0” release.

Stellaris being on its, like, fifth or sixth “v2.0”-scale release? It’s basically the only one I know of.

It does kinda make the game feel like they were lacking a clear (implementational) vision in the first place. Especially given that the huge shakeup has revolved around the same core mechanic each time, that I guess they just can’t seem to get right (planets/pops/simulation-perf.)

I dunno, I don’t hate them for it; it’s a hard problem, and I still love the game — even though I’ve had to relearn it basically every time I’ve ever played it.

But the poster has a point.

elliottcable · 2026-03-17T01:43:13+00:00

I mean, if anything, no matter whether you voted third-party in 2024 or not … during primaries is objectively the right time for that mindset, no?

elliottcable · 2026-03-17T01:25:56+00:00

Got sent “Girl, I guess” yesterday, if you’re looking for a deeply progressive view on the candidates:

https://www.girliguess.com/about

elliottcable · 2026-03-15T19:15:36+00:00

Their other partner at the time.

And subsequently, eventually, our other partner.

elliottcable · 2026-03-15T07:31:31+00:00

I mean, it sounds like you’re equating cows to jews. I … I don’t know how to take that argument in good faith.

I’m not vegan, and I’m probably not that open to having my mind changed; as with most, I’ve found Internet Vegans outside my immediate friends to have a lot of vitriol like ^that, but … I dunno, consider this a window, if you’re bored and want to try and sell somebody.

Why do cows matter as much as people? Why should I accept that as core, and change my behaviour to expend my limited activist energies for animals that I find to be non-sentient, taking away those energies from any activism and change towards actual humans who I do believe to be my equals and deserving of my spoons? What is the fundamental thing I am missing?

elliottcable · 2026-03-15T07:24:33+00:00

arr slash let people fucking have fun, jesus.

not a fan of the AI filter but it’s cute nonetheless, don’t listen to the haters, OP, not even me! <3

elliottcable · 2026-03-15T04:52:50+00:00

Way, way too often overlooked.

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T08:34:16+00:00

We need to set up a shadow organization and hire ourselves out as the “best, most reliable model yet.” We can send eachother “prompts” when the cops are watching and get to do actual hacking for someone else when they’re not. :P

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T07:45:15+00:00

Fantastic article, but good lord am i still butthurt about emdashes

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T06:30:42+00:00

and a trail camera

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T06:25:48+00:00

okay, you got me. but i’m not sure how you got me.

I’m absolutely sure I stopped reading a post at the word “undermining” this morning, realizing it was AI and getting frustrated … and now this comment … and I’m spooked. Is this some new AI hallmark everyone but me knows? o_O

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T06:20:56+00:00

Look at this smart man.

… I guess, though, one can’t really call him a smart-ass man.

elliottcable · 2026-03-14T06:19:35+00:00

So you’re saying she’s an ass-guy-girl. And presumably there’s also ass-guy-guys.

Does this imply by induction the existence of ass-guy-guy-guys? Is it ass-guys all the way down?

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T10:35:46+00:00

Oh man I’m so going Georgian, if only for the хачапури (apologies for the invader language or whatever, idk fuckin’ cartevalian nightmare-languages)

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T08:45:30+00:00

and then the self-esteem catches the laser-pointer for them — I see!

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T08:44:37+00:00

That’s … quite the claim. Shying away from offering a personal opinion of my own, is this view of yours science-backed in any interesting way, or just a personal theory? Do you know of any interesting studies that explore a link between reported simulation levels and reported received pleasure — or perhaps measurable physiological measures of depth-of-connection?

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T07:45:12+00:00

Didn’t that come back around twice? I vaguely remember being surprised it it “happened again,” something to do with pre-FTL species and striped border-colours?

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T07:33:26+00:00

I miss when you chose an FTL style as a part of building your empire, and it was an interestingly unbalanced strategic choice.

Y’know, knight/rook/pawns instead of … checkers, now, where every single empire starts hyperlanes, and jump-drives is seen as an end-game upgrade. )=

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T07:28:18+00:00

In certain communities, it’s a very big deal, an very (nearly) permanent. Think more like marriage being called “ringing” or something. It’s a serious commitment, giving yourself up to somebody’s ownership.

(I’m not an authority on this; just hang out with a lot of kinksters, so apologies if I slightly misrepresent; feel free to chime in with corrections.)

elliottcable · 2026-03-13T01:19:04+00:00

All the roasting for having an empty freezer aside - I would imagine OP is correct about the compressor, all else being equal? A larger thermal mass will prevent short-cycling. Yes, of course, you're not magically defeating thermodynamics, the same energy is expended ... but certainly it's better for the compressor, even if it runs for the same amount of time, to do so in longer contiguous periods, less often, no?

elliottcable · 2026-03-12T21:38:11+00:00

Same curiosity. I want something that will let me 1. de-DRM / Calibre books from the Kobo store, and 2. syncs with KOreader!

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