That one’s so good it makes me want to learn French.

I live in the US South and “folks” is a normal word for “people” here. I’m intentional not looking it up and trying to go from memory to get my dialect. I don’t use it for “humanity”, but will for any subset. “The folks who live in that house.” “White folk.” “City folk.” I dunno. There’s a shit ton of dialects in the US South East and they differ by geography and income and race and all kinds of stuff. And maybe they aren’t dialects. I’ve heard “register”. I’m not a language knower.

Should you use the term “black folks”? Ask a couple black folks if it makes em feel bad. Do what they say. Don’t listen to this white boy.

It’s built into my dialect so I’d use it. But if folks told me it made them feel bad if stop.

I have no idea when I pluralize it and when I don’t.

In the Alpha Cenauri game there was a wonder you could build called The Longevity Vaccine. If you were a planned economy two sad citizens were made happy at every city. Amazing. If you were Green economy it made happy one per base. Amazing.

If you were capitalists, the base that built it made a bunch of money and nothing else. It’s a lot of money, but isn’t global.

It’s the only wonder like that. And I’ve been thinking of it more lately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

I believe they are talking about Harder Drive: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

I’m not a concert person but a band I liked in high school was touring and I figure I’d try it. Everyone was all dressed in black with glowing horns and stuff. Is that goth? I don’t know anything.

Had a great time though. I’ll go the next time they’re in town.

I never really liked the hard songs but the guy next to me. He just flung himself into dancing with the song. He showed me how to love it. Eye opening.

I felt the same way about the characterization. I thought it might be a translation thing. I don’t know that many folks that read it in Chinese, but I’m leaning towards “no, it’s just like that.”

It’s a fun series to read a wiki about.

It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.

It’s not for everyone. I like it because I’m old and grumpy.

I like it more than pineapple anywhere else.

Not sure why tasty is cheating, but cool.

Sounds right.

I have an in-law who’s a vegan and explained it as “if I consume less there’s a tiny bit less cruelty. A tiny bit less demand.” I like that. It’s not about purity. It’s about trying.

I’m still not vegan. I suppose that doesn’t say good things about me.

Bitter gourd curry. Was so so so bitter. I’ll bet it tastes different to different folks.

Reminds me of a migraine medicine. I have to eat candy for a few hours after taking that.

I worked for a self publishing company long, long ago. It turns out, most of our best selling authors made NSFW stuff. Eventually our payment processor complained. So our CFO called around to a bunch of big porn companies and asked them which payment processors they used. Those companies were fine.

A guide book to female domination. Some sissy stuff with mature cover art. Right next to history books and Earthbound fan art. I felt good about it. Serving a real need.

A shame we never got Chuck.

I use Arch and i3. It’s old but it’s set up the way I like it. I’ve spent maybe an hour in the past year poking at os stuff. Seems plenty stable to me.

Oh that hurts to read.

I got halfway through the second book and it just wasn’t what I wanted anymore. My brother told me to keep going but it’s been a while.

That was fucking fantastic.

Maybe this?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/sunscreen-corals.html

Seems bad for coral.