Kim‽ @kimpegasus@awoo.space

If, for some reason, you want to hear Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy and Rarity chastise you for making a bad comment on the internet, I made that. https://awoo.space/@kimpegasus/103827512748575682

So they updated that voice machine learning thing...

@ripp_ It doesn't go down consistently though. It keeps going up and down between episodes :P

@ripp_ It apparently bounces between about 154 and 127 between different episodes.

@ripp_ AFAIK the "five year mission" classes of ships were intended to make short jaunts out from a starbase and then back again. The Intrepid class was more dedicated to extended isolation.

@ripp_ It's generally implied that Voyager was forced into action before it was finished. Voyager's captain's yacht (shuttlecraft) is also never used for the same reason.

@ripp_ Yes. Voyager does, in fact.

They never use it though, because it was apparently not finished yet when it left spacedock.

That the government in the UK continually insists that their actions are right and the actions of nearly every other country on Earth are wrong, really speaks of the ludicrous attitude of English exceptionalism they have going on.

Barring legislation proposed in the budget today, the government response to all this has been hella weak, honestly.

Bit rich of Matt Hancock to say the government is strictly following expert medical advice, but also sees the need to "correct" England's Deputy CMO's professional opinion.

And now he's said that people who are symptomatic but haven't knowingly been in contact with an infected person should call 111—which is the exact opposite of what the NHS 111 website advises you do.

Health Secretary statement basically boiled down to "We are going to fight the virus, but also we aren't changing anything" despite the current advice being roundly criticised as inadequate by several medical professionals. 🤔️

Thinking of redesigning my bat fursona a little. 🤔

Science has gone too far.

Ruh roh. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-death/first-coronavirus-death-in-britain-confirmed-idUKKBN20S2CG?il=0

Is mine or their definition of these terms just way off? Or does the lexicon of the LGBTI+ community just ascribe totally different meanings to them?

I'd quite like some other views on this, if folks are willing to provide them.

There were a lot of other arguments that ultimately spun off that I didn't agree with and won't entertain here, but it is pretty interesting that so many people fell over one another on this single semantic difference.

And I had never really heard it described like that before. I, personally, have always seen gender *identity* and gender *roles* to be separate things. To me, gender and gender identity has always been a personal issue, largely unrelated to the social construct.