aebletrae

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[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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~~I don't recognize the translation. What language only has 'a' and 'i' for vowels?~~

Edit: Reading comprehension strikes again: it's "words", not letters.

Spoiler, since it's technically giving away the end.

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An important message for us all to struggle-session over its proper interpretation. Remember to blame the punctuation I've had to infer.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The end of "Cogenitor", where Archer blames Trip for the death of Charles.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, so that's why aristocrats get coats of arms.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Helping one another out is invisibilized, not rare. A good chunk of what I know comes from other people taking the time to explain why something works the way it does and how you can see that for yourself. The rest is from curiosity, experimentation, and hammering away at something until it fits. It's not professionally specialized knowledge.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

It's particularly interesting that someone concerned enough with logical fallacies to complain of ad hominem attacks can have "[he may be a Nazi sympathizer but let's listen to what else he has to say]" happily coexist with "[Some Hexbears say mean things so no one should listen to anything else that any of them have to say]".

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Admittedly, I have much less experience with i3, so I fired up a virtual machine with Debian 11.6 and installed i3 (along with lightdm) and was able to recreate the problem of .profile not being executed when logging in, so this isn't unique to your particular setup. Great!

Fortunately, this combination does execute commands in ~/.xsessionrc, so I added:—

. $HOME/.profile

to that file, then logged out and back in again. That did the trick for me, with the commands in .profile then successfully modifying the PATH variable (and writing additional lines to the execution log files), so I suggest you try creating/modifying .xsessionrc in the same way.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks. I looked up the artist to help narrow things down and found houses in Denver that are similar. The exported image of two-storey suburban housing always seems to have bigger, busier rooflines.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even though I know incongruity is a part of these things, the combination of small roof and gable end—making the house look British—with an AC unit labelled as "trusty"—implying a long history—bothers me. Does anywhere else have houses like this?

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I don't see them in the app, so not yet, I guess.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Uh, the XiBucks, obviously.

Look, I get it. Hexbear is a demanding place to be. It expects you to not be a complete asshole almost all the time. You're regularly tested on knowledge of an emoji system so complex, it's been known to make London cab drivers cry. If you unthinkingly parrot talking points, you'll be pounced on with annoying facts and aggressive reasonable concern for the value of other people. And if you emit the slightest Hitler particle, you'll be outright banned. How authoritarian! Honesty, sometimes I wonder why I signed up, never mind stay around.

But then I remember that the folks there are a deeply caring lot, who see the problems in the world and actually want to do something about it—even though the goal often seems barely possible—and, in spite of everything, retain a sense of humour and try to make improvements for each other, even if, for now at least, it can only be a :meow-hug:.

Oh, and the XiBucks, of course. Some of us even get roubles, too!

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I saw The Wrath of Khan as a kid, quite possibly before seeing any of the series, so there's never been any question of it not being representative of Star Trek for me, though I can see how someone approaching chronologically might see more of a disparity.

However, TOS had plenty of deaths, including destruction of starships, as did V'Ger's, uh, collection of data, so does TWoK really stand apart in that regard? Chekov and Terrell kick off the plot while surveying planets, encountering a strange alien creature, and Kirk and co. find an underground paradise; I see that as fitting the explorative aspects of the show, at least somewhat. The villain is defeated with teamwork, deception, and by outplaying him, common to the original series. And the story raises some ethical questions regarding cheating, playing god, and marooning, again in the tradition of the show. I see the differences as more stylistic than substantial, but as I said, personal history affects my perspective.

As far as general movie principles go, music can be a strong influence on audiences, and Wrath of Khan has a great score.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Everyone's all like "we've got to get cars off the road, take a train" but if you live miles from the nearest railroad, sometimes you need to grab a rock instead.

You may not like it, but this is what peak anti-car praxis looks like.

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