Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I had occasion to be introduced to Leftist General Ripper today and, as I do not have the time nor patience nor stiff upper lip to be cast as Leftist Mandrake, I will instead be taking the appropriate measures to make sure I am never exposed to this person again.

@woozle I keep trying, and keep getting told by my Sensible Radical friends that anything but greyfaced organizing and bracing for violence is going to be like spitting in the ocean.

But I'm gonna do it anyhow. Because July 4th is just another day for me and why NOT indulge in my usual breakfast of leaving insulting messages on Boebert and Taylor-Greene's answering machines?

I personally have been enjoying this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldt5lVWX1rs

@spottyfox 😾

@Leucrotta *inserts obligatory Bill Hicks quote and hugs you*

("War, Famine, Death, AIDS, homeless, recession, depression... and you look at your window and it's just... *cricket sounds* " Although the original in its full context has such a Roganesque vibe I did not want to link to it. Sigh. Bill used to be such a hero of mine. Sic transit...)

today is a good day for going back to bed and hoping everything will just take care of itself if you ignore it long enough

apparently

@chimerror i hate to be the bearer of bad news hun but you missed the velveeta nail polish ;_;

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/velveeta-nail-polish-cheese-scented-nails-inc

@Phorm I got one for every occasion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A57gjZuONE

@Phorm i

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@Owlor Haha, a recent Cat Situation has obliged me to brush up quickly on my Spanish and I was giggling the other day about how much I can get away with just by speaking in the fanciest, most Latinesque Spanglish I can, because THAT MOSTLY WORKS ACTUALLY.

There's a good story about it in RIchard Feynman's "Surely You're Joking" autobiography, too. He got remarkably far in Brazil on words like "consequentamente" and people just thought he was super-literate instead of a dumb American. :D :D :D

@Owlor Sympathies. Have had people think for my whole life that I was trying to impress them or show off with my speech patterns, and it's like NO YOU DON'T GET IT, MY MIND IS AN 24/7 DYNAMO OF BIZARRE OCD WORD GAMES, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF IT I SHUT DOWN FOR YOU NEUROTYPICAL FUCKERS :> I have to really FIGHT to speak simply and plainly.

@Austin_Dern I love Peebles but she does not strike me as the type who has read The Art of War. :>

@monsterblue @anthracite Listen, I know it's different for dragons and stuff, but if your food is making any claims at all, you might want to at least give it a good mauling before you swallow it. And this is a tiger talking.

I just saw Peebles lose a fight with a backpack. She got spooked and bolted, which is clearly a forfeit.

Nice job, kid.

@relee My first hunch based on what I've seen at my day job (geography researcher for HERE Technologies) was no, since India is *so* densely populated and when I do India tasks I usually just see endless tightly-packed housing without room for front yards. And it looks like that hunch might be true? https://www.quora.com/Do-they-have-lawn-mowers-in-India

@xinjinmeng They did an episode that's basically Reservoir Dogs with the Commedia Dell'Arte characters. There's a very interesting Columbine.

@xinjinmeng Have you seen the "Wuthering Heist" episode of Inside No. 9?

@chimerror "There are more things on the number line, Ada / Than are dreamt of in their philosophy." :)

Let's put it this way: I did a quickie search for "could the value of pi have been different," and while the VAST majority of replies were the neepery you were braced for, the discussions fell REAL quick into "well, pi is DEFINED as the ratio of the circumference and diameter of a circle IN A EUCLIDEAN PLANE."

So IMHO all you'd have to do is say "well, screw you, this ISN'T set in a perfectly Euclidean universe AND the locals have quite reasonably defined pi as the ratio of circumference to diameter IN THIS FUCKED UP SKEWED PLACE. Your pi still exists in a hypothetical but USELESS Euclidean plane; our characters will stick with what actually keeps machines working in this universe kthxbai."

They can nitpick all they like; it's no more meaningful than taking your alien riding beasts you called "horses" for convenience and nitpicking that they don't have hooves like "real horses." Well, they're NOT real horses, and you never claimed they were. Pi is a standard, a defined concept, and "well, we're removing the Euclidean plane part because people are gonna need to ACTUALLY USE THIS" is IMHO totally cromulent.

@chimerror It's a really interesting idea, regardless, and I think it's *well* within the realm of "listen, it's a damn fantasy premise." FWIW, I've seen no less than Charlie Stross play at least as wooishly with math... (See his FANTASTIC story of memetic subversion, "Antibodies," which I believe was in his "Toast" anthology, which plays REAL fast & loose with the consequences of P = NP...)

@JulieSqveakaroo (Admittedly, Peg is fairly calm about the whole thing and most likely none of this implies actual serious life danger to any cats. The lede here is "MARTIAN EMPRESS'S CLINICAL-GRADE OCD IS BACK, HEAD FOR THE HILLS.")