“Viens ici!” or “Viens ici, s’il te plaît!” if you’re being proper.

“Minouminouminou!” if you’re being Cajun, where a cat is a minou and “Meow” is also minou.

Thalidomide, the Y2K bug and the Challenger disaster came to mind when I read the question. There’s nothing to say the person who found the flaw isn’t an expert, themselves.

I was merely explaining my thoughts and intent with a little personal experience in the mix.

Sorry about your back, that sucks. Isolation can drive a person to unusual places.

Writing is a practice, like cooking, both art and science. Big words don’t mean big thoughts, as Hemmingway has taught us. “Fuck it,” is a full sentence.

I legit came here to comment about The Gods Themselves. Stellar novel. Everyone should read it.

Great points about the commercial pressures on science, cults of personality and perceived intelligence of successful people, too. Rumor has it Asimov wrote the book out of spite for another sci-fi writer who willy-nilly used an impossible isotope in his novel and did not care when corrected.

Not a spoiler: there are trisexual interdimensional trans people.

Edit: Zodiak by Neal Stephenson has a similar theme.

I would pay good money to attend a drag show with paid actors who talked like this.

I’d be happy if they just stayed out of the bike lanes.

A deep dive research task right after I took my Adderall? Don’t mind if I do.

I got my cat during the covid lockdown, around the same time I decided to refresh my French with the downtime. Now I have a french cat.

You mean natural selection? This isn’t a good example since environmental pressures aren’t selecting traits. The lack of education and affordable health care combined with predatory algorithms have fomented a space for misinformation to flourish. And babies have died.

If you’re going to make a terrible joke you can at least try to be accurate.

I was trying to make a disgusting joke. I failed.

But I have a visceral, dreamlike memory of dissecting a sea slug while high on codeine for my intense cramps (it did nothing,) where the image of gelly-like brown flesh and rusty, marbled organs was reinforced immediately after when using the washroom.

Thank you for sharing your visceral memory, it raises a lot of questions. I’m happy you’ve embraced peace because slugs are neat.

Fun facts:

• A few mollusks do have haemoglobin, so their haemolymph(blood-stuff) is red. The reason most mollusk blood is green/gray/blue is because they have copper while we have iron.

• Slugs are all creamy because they don’t have a circulatory system, they’re more of a bag of fluids with some organs sloshing around inside.

• Banana slugs have the highest penis volume to body-volume ratio of any animal. When they mate, they generate flesh spears to stab into each other, which serve no apparent purpose. Whoever wins the mating (gets pregnant first) gets to eat their partner’s penis for nutrients, but it grows back.

Used tampons are supposed to be red?

You’re fine, used tampons look more like filleted slugs.

To make them more like cigarettes you could use a bit of cocoa or food grade activated charcoal for ash, or just burn the ends with a lighter. Bright yellow or orange sprinkles could be embers. Wrap brown paper around the other end for the filter.

To make them more like tampons, use them to skewer marshmallows, lightly roast over a flame until marshmallows melt together and turn yellowish with a few bubbles, then slather in cranberry sauce.

I get that ASD can make communication difficult. I can’t say enough how much therapy can ease that burden as someone with a chinese take-out menu of diagnoses.

Allow me to translate.

My first comment was about how ownership and value are ephemeral. I used a joke with a positive twist to show you, an unfamiliar ape, that I’m a friendly ape.

I took your response as “You don’t take this seriously, and are not a serious person.” But then I thought maybe this person is using “you” in the broad sense.

My second comment was “should I take this personally?” Followed by a clarification that I don’t agree with the way things are, either. Ape tells another ape “We can both see the weather sucks, we have something in common.”

Your response sounded like “you still don’t take this seriously, here are some big words because I’m more serious than you.” But then I thought maybe this person is neurodivergent. I shouldn’t read malice into this.

I reponded to say “This is how I communicate with new apes. I put thought and consideration into it. Also, I understand your big words but choose not to use them (in case you’re being a dick.)”

The method of understanding any communication is inference, and heuristics are practical because not all tasks take the maximum effort to get to a workable result.

Regardless, I may have poked, but I meant no harm, strange ape.

Storytelling, metaphor and jokes are great ways to convey meaning and vibe test in a casual space. The ability to extract fact from nuance and condense it quickly and relatably takes more skill and effort than simply saying what is.

All words are abstractions.

That’s not very cool. Babies died. People lost their babies.

What exists because I support it? I’m not sure if this is directed at me or society as a whole.

If it’s me, I’m firmly on the side of revolution. Opting out isn’t viable because the labyrinth is infinite and well funded.

If it’s society? Also revolution.

I cycle between high and low/no sex drive.

Open relationships work best for me. I know it’s not for everyone, but I support my partners sharing a sexual relationship with someone else while keeping a romantic one going with me, rather than fuck just to keep them happy. Sex without desire rarely makes anyone happy.

Which one means butt? The bird, the ladle, or the squash on an 80° angle?

The bank owns my house and money is just a contract with the economy. I carry my gold on my person at all times and my calves look amazing.

Yeah, without a strong educational platform it’s very difficult for someone to separate good information from bad. Public schools in a lot of countries aren’t much better.