syklemil

So, a mastodon user? :^)

Yeah, to my ESL ears man/woman are nouns, not adjectives, and using them as adjectives comes off as childish.

That said, "female X" can also sound clumsy, if it's implied that a bare X is male, e.g. "politician" and "female politician", vs male and female politician. There was a twitter account calling itself a "male programmer" which took the piss out of that trope.

I think I'll stick to alacritty, but options are always fun

Similarly, Steam has some option about "adult only games" that doesn't seem to mean "you don't have to keep asking me my birthday for 'grim' games", i.e. games you have to verify you're an adult to see, instead it seems to mean "show me porn games".

This kind of bowdlerised English or whatever it's called is usually weird and confusing to us non-natives. Like, it's apparently OK to have the puerile stuff, you just can't be normal about it?

"Adult" doesn't imply genital stuff to the rest of us, USA.

I could see the Borg as viewing the non-Borg universe as just something for their feed, though. Something like you can vote for a civilization to be put through Alice In Borderland or whatever, and watch them struggle.

Uh, don't we already have three? Dia-, ferro- and paramagnetism?

Yeah, I switched to deezer then, haven't had any trouble with it.

Induced (and latent) demand still holds. So if someone is enticed out of a car by this, they'll likely be replaced by another driver.

And in the case of enticing walkers and bikers into transit, nothing is really gained, and it might actually have a negative public health effect.

If you want to reduce car traffic, restricting it is the way to go—price signals on driving and parking work well, as do restrictions on where you can drive and park.

And to get people to use transit, it has to be efficient—not stuck in car traffic, frequent enough, reliable and reasonably direct. And of course, pricing is important as well.

So correct policy will vary by location and situation. E.g. if transit is already jam-packed, reducing the price will be the wrong way to budget; capacity increases should be the top priority. But if the other metrics are good but ridership kind of lacking, dropping the price should improve the ridership. It ain't exactly rocket science, but there's also no silver bullet.

Yeah, I've experienced that as well. A summer party is often nicer than a winter party too.

Depending on the country you might get some collision with midsummer celebrations though

You do sometimes have to worry about that weird g without the leg, though. But it's normal to them, so they don't guestion it. :^)

Nothing to be ashamed about! There's lots of stuff around the world that some people love but the majority shy away from. All the rest of us can ask is that you enjoy it responsibly and don't bother other people with the smell. :)

There are some more ways, usually involving fermentation. Us arctic types know some methods. But I get the impression rakfisk, lutefisk, hákarl, surströmming and kiviak would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.