DragonTypeWyvern
@DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
- Comment on Is the m-word a slur for people with dwarfism? If so, what are more appropriate terms to use other than dwarf? 3 days ago:
Yes. That’s literally the most offensive term you can use.
If it’s a fantasy world make up a fantasy term. You can either create a word from scratch or just create a more complex term.
For example, insert god name here-favored. Just because modern society considers it a disability with historical persecution doesn’t mean it has to be the case for your setting, or that or has to follow the same patterns.
Of course, you could also make the term everyone uses for her a slur in their world as well. Depends on what you’re going for.
I’d just avoid real world slurs, personally, at least in a fantasy.
- Comment on To Quote Contact. If alien life does not exist then why is there so much space out there? 3 days ago:
Because God isn’t real and the universe isn’t designed to support life, that’s just an accident of chemistry and opportunity.
That said, it is a bit of statistical certainty imo. What isn’t certain is that it’s intelligent and conscious, that FTL travel is possible, or that it’s within a million light years of us. Hell, the most reasonable (imo) hypothetical numbers of the Drake equation aren’t even that great for there being intelligent life within our species lifetime in the Milky Way, and that’s with assumptions like “all planets capable of supporting life do.”
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
That’s the joke they’re making about the joke being made
- Comment on "Fixing this will look more like Sociology than Computer Science": the OpenAI Hugging Face hack 4 days ago:
Bullshit.
- Comment on “Tf???” 4 days ago:
Well it’s the attachment point for the muscles that do that and other balance related movements.
- Comment on “Tf???” 4 days ago:
Actual source: fibular free flap reconstruction.
myoms.org/…/fibula-free-flap-reconstruction/
Tl;Dr the fibula doesn’t hold weight, it’s just there to provide a connection point for tissue and ligaments, so when you need a long, straight length of bone that isn’t doing anything important they just cut out a section of fibula. Plus if you get really really lucky (or are a child) it might even grow back.
- Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film 1 week ago:
Your “points” are entitled egoist nonsense whose only purpose is to avoid accepting that maybe you shouldn’t be using a slur just because you LOVE saying it much because your shallow, entitled racist ass doesn’t have the capacity for self reflection.
- Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film 1 week ago:
Yes, because you’re a dumb fucking bastard complaining that being called a dumb fucking bastard is a slur equivalent to calling someone a white n-word, you
Dumb
Fuck
- Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film 1 week ago:
Say, out loud, what that word means.
- Comment on Australia wants more data centres. A disagreement over power sources stands in the way 1 week ago:
You’re going to be absolutely floored if you Google “funny jokes” then
- Comment on New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name 1 week ago:
You guys are so negative. Critical support for our Twitter comrades is necessary in their quest to annoy the absolute shit out of Musk.
- Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film 1 week ago:
… Bro believe it or not that’s a slur, and you know which one if you think for one second about what it literally means.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Spain did it first
- Comment on I will never understand how brain rot got it's way to Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
Validation slop comes for everything
And then people repost it to get their opinion that it’s bad validated
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
Claude’s dumb that only works if you put them in reverse
- Comment on Buying new trends is a choice 2 weeks ago:
That’s incredibly expected from Rimworld. Hell the base mechanics encourage colonists pairing up.
- Comment on Firebombs thrown at supercars outside Birmingham wedding venue 2 weeks ago:
Unless they’re Martian supercars and then it’s a hate crime
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure they have a PowerPoint ready to go explaining why just because most people died young of infections the fact that the respected elders survived in the Before Times means he doesn’t have to wear deodorant
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
I think in the grand scheme of things this would only work by slowly stripping the atmosphere but I thought the plan was to use the combined reaction force part of an action-reaction pair to slowly push Earth farther away from the son.
Sort of a decentralized propeller engine idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck was the “race realist” no suspended already - Belgian university
Ah. Yeah that makes sense.
- Comment on Bring it on 2 weeks ago:
Just because you’re on the clock doesn’t mean things have to happen.
- Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi 2 weeks ago:
Must have been hysteria
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Jesus at least was clearly into feet
- Comment on More women will die if domestic abusers leave prison early, victim’s parents warn 2 weeks ago:
This is an argument for life sentences, not letting theoretically reformed prisoners out on parole.
If you want to talk about how Anglosphere prisons are about punishment and not correction and reform…
- Comment on Shitcoin 3 weeks ago:
The date used is 2013, not 2019, so it’s closer to 50 than 30 at 43%
- Comment on Come to Brazil 3 weeks ago:
Who do you think sent him?
- Comment on Yeah let's play 3 weeks ago:
Just tell them you don’t care about their nintendos, take out the garbage
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on CAH at it again 3 weeks ago:
Domain name seems like a trap tbh
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
Don’t infantilize the guy while ignoring that this lynch mob was whipped up and directed as part of a systemic and deliberate conspiracy.
As is tradition, btw.