Why do they wear shoes on the Enterprise? Who cleans the floors? What if the pastel carpets fade? Do they have huge replicators to make carpets? Why can't replicators be scaled up to make a starship? Why not make giant replicated warships to beat the Borg? These are the things that bother me.

Yin, I was taught this: Singing different pitches in succession as part of the same syllable is a "melisma." If you are changing vowels in succession, like singing a-e-i-o-u, that's a "diphthong." With a melisma your mouth does not move but your pitches change. With a diphthong your mouth moves.

NO EXCEPTIONS.

Fucking Confederates. Anti-American then, anti-American now. Lincoln should have let them go.

A term that makes sense: "Homophobia." It makes sense because those who are anti-gay are, deep down, afraid they are gay. None of us are really binary—we all have some gay feelings even if "straight." Accepting that with joy, committing to love whom you love, means not being homophobic. 1/2

see a crab, post a crab

Good thread. Every one of these wealthy "innovators" for whom I have taken the time to listen has been entirely disappointing. They are very much somewhat clever people just smart enough to sound like geniuses to not very clever people. None have the chops of a mid-level academic.

Seriously, this.

I don't know which is getting me blocked more, 1) dissing Woody Allen, or 2) suggesting that some coastals are pretentious pseudo-intellectuals. 🤣

0. If Israel is toxic in NYC, just imagine how toxic it is elsewhere.

What's the lesson here? Don't be stupid—make it count.

Why do people stop one or two car lengths behind the line at an intersection, and should we terminate them or merely send them to prison for life?