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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recognize that “female” is sometimes taken this way now, but I seem to remember a time when it was the use of “woman” as an adjective that seemed more problematic. I grew up watching TV reruns from the 50s & 60s, and in shows from that era, you’d hear characters intended to be seen as sexist railing about “women drivers”, “women reporters”, etc. To my (admittedly young) ear, part of the insult or intended derision in these terms came from the intentional clunkiness of the terms. As no one would say “man driver” or “man reporter”, it made the phrase “woman driver” seem unnatural, and by extension then the idea of a woman driver unnatural. If the characters had used the more clinical sounding “female driver”, it would likely only come off as equivalent the “male driver”, and so lose much of its punch.

  I realize that there is now some ick associated with some uses of the word female, but if efforts aren’t made to reclaim it, I think we are doomed to it becoming strictly pejorative - and who wants that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save the planet, hold your breath⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over the years, I’ve put on a few pounds. The way I figure it, I’m sequestering carbon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agreed, but it bothers me that you changed the order of the resulting names

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good catch. It seems bad. My only hope, here, is that the lost depth is due to some other need for the volume behind it, volume that is either accessible from the side of the cabinet, or volume lost to some need to accommodate something that has to be there (pipes, ducts, etc). If this is the case, then what could you display in such limited space bit books, pictures, or the like?

  This reading seems pretty charitable, I know, but alleviates some of the infuriating for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Physics Girl] My first science video in 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was. Glad to see her doing this again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christina Chong Has a Wild Idea for a 'Doctor Who' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Crossover⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If, if, it had to be done, I’d like to remind everyone that William Shatner and Tom Baker are both still with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your suggestion seems the most likely to me, and I am sure the truth runs somewhere along these lines. It seems possible to me that a certain amount of guilt or sense of responsibility might come along with these clothing choices, which might help explain why the wearers are so well prepared to mitigate sartorial harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max has the world’s brightest phone screen⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, god, why would anyone care? I have my screen dimmed to maybe 20% of max as is. This is like hyping how thin a phone is – past a certain point, who cares?

  Give me better battery life, or a removable battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is fine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza Hut falls into administration with 68 restaurants at risk⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pizza Hut still exists? I had no idea. I haven’t been to one since the 1980s. Do they still have tabletop arcade games you can play while you wait to be seated? Those are great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 100x?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Later, the same official was quoted as saying “The Larch”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all those ones and zeros. They’re stressing the system. Well, mainly it’s the ones. The zeros aren’t really a problem at all, except when they interrupt the ones, which admittedly they often do.

  • some official
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cybuns!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SNAIL PRO TIPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This description of the food web seems a little dated. I haven’t seen bird-eating spider in years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine says no machine wash. I threw it in the bathtub with some detergent and “hand washed” it. Took some effort, but wasn’t as bad as you might think. Let it hang from the shower curtain rod until dry (pointed a fan at it the hasten drying). Nothing I’d do too often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re suggesting a daring heist at the Smithsonian, I’m in!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes? But there are many kinds of desert, and not all of them are dry.

  No, being dry is really what makes a desert. Deserts can be hot, cold, even seasonally wet, but overall they must have low yearly precipitation.

  In fact, those spreading across Britain are clustered in the wettest places.

  Obviously, no.

  Yet they harbour fewer species than some dry deserts do, and are just as hostile to humans.

  Few species and hostile, sure, but these are not defining attributes of desert.

  Another useful term is terrestrial dead zones.

  Well, it is closer to accuracy.

  This twat is using desert figuratively in an article on ecology while chastising readers for thinking that deserts are dry.

  Idiot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads when you’re pumping gas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you’re holding a nozzle that sprays liquid. Just douse the speaker in gasoline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No case, no problems so far. I’ve had numerous phones over the last 20 years, never had a case, and never had an issue. Don’t drop your phones.

  I did buy a case for my son’s first phones, but I wouldn’t suggest he need one now. He is certainly old enough to take care with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women are the devil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

  You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn’t scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women are the devil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly a misremembering of what happened, yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should talk more about air-conditioning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could do without a few of those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Resident Alien' Season 4 Filming Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Farmer is absolutely great in it. Alan is good in it but for me Gary steals every scene he’s in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Villains or heroes isn’t the issue. It’s the argument that we need a group that doesn’t play by the rules that apply to the rest of society that I find problematic.

  Shouldn’t we strive for a world in which the rules really do apply to all? Can’t we hope to conceive of a set of laws standards by which we should all be judged? Isn’t the world of Star Trek meant in some way to be aspirational, rather than just a reflection of what we have now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Reading the article, Section 31 seems great if you just want to just shit on everything else in the franchise. Nope, not for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, a colorful sorting would only negatively affect you when you are actively looking for a book.

  No, unfortunately, it would remind me every time that I looked at it that I had somehow married someone who thought this was acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, Ms Allen is neither sly nor clever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While a tool that extends your reach is useful, when dealing with a difficult to reach spider, your best asset is the element of surprise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I still think his point could have been made twice as convincingly through the magic of buying two of them