They said the child was using to “get out of anything and everything”, including wearing socks, which implicitly argues it to be a bad thing.

The child is more or less saying that because something is a social construct, that means that they do not have to follow it.

Who did the retraction is also important. An author voluntarily retracting their own paper is different from the journal retracting the paper.

Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.

It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.

Just because something is a social construct doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing to be ignored.

Being alive is a social construct. Humans decided that some things counted as alive, and other things did not. Nature doesn’t care if a bunch of chemical reactions are happening inside a cell, or in a glass tube. It has no objective definition of “alive”.

XKCD is literally stick figures, for example, and has more or less remained stick figures since its inception.

Sort of? Someone was editing his face to be more round and babylike. This was one of them.

On the bright side, the camera/Switch doesn’t use a proprietary connector, so you can plug a lot of cameras into the thing, and it will generally work.

It’s not like the DS days, where if you wanted to plug a microphone in in addition to your headphones, they had a special connector for the mic part.

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Exactly, scientists have been saying this forever but evil oversized bipedal crocs sell.

It honestly feels like a marketing issue more than anything. A non-zero amount of people think modern dinosaurs are “boring” because they don’t look like Jurassic Park.

Compared to big fluffy unicorn pigeons that eat each other.

Like people would happily be swooped by a magpie if given the chance.

A knee-high raptor who will happily leap up and bite chunks off of larger prey whilst they’re still alive and kicking seems like it would retain much of the terror.

Eve if he suddenly no longer had influence over Tesla, he’s ruined their reputation enough that others have had time to catch up and make better vehicles.

He’s also very particular about the factory and the chocolate it makes. Candy with a hint of gloop sounds about as appealing as Gloop fudge, and Wonka may just chuck out the whole batch.

Wonka didn’t defy the laws of reality just so he could cut corners in the factory.

They can demand it, but you can’t prove a negative.

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Didn’t Google replace the normal Google Assistant with Gemini on newer phones?

YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.

“Drill, baby, drill!” has always been an immensely stupid rallying cry, even if you don’t care about the environment.

But a funny one, if it was in an Austin Powers movie.

Fun fact #2: Not all oil is equal. Refineries are designed to process certain grades of oil into specific products, and different parts of the world have different grades. Refineries also often blend oils from different parts of the world to get the characteristics they need for their process.

And the infrastructure to do that doesn’t currently exist. Even if they could drill overnight, they don’t have the pumps, platforms, and refineries set up.

G - gumanities

Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.

I feel like people overblow the Elon Musk reference. Even putting aside the plot twist, it’s been nearly 200 years from now, and they had the whole nuclear apocalypse in the early 2000s, which would only further muddle things.

People today praise Thomas Edison, and he was not that much better in many respects.

It’s entirely reasonable for someone in the 23rd century to lose some of the details that we might have today.

You say that, but we seem to be at least on track to a better 2050 than they had.

We’ve not had a eugenics war, drug-controlled supersoldiers, nuclear conflagration, nor a mutant genocide campaign, and we may not get the second and fourth.

Other animals get zoomies too.