Here’s a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not “rotate” you. So how can you see your front?

There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)…

Sir, there is no speed setting labelled “ramming”…

I hope it’s not “worse than useless” (which would mean “misleading”), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research beyond those provided: norway, thorium, 1959…

According to GPT-4.1:

In 1959, Norway achieved a notable milestone by starting up its first nuclear reactor, the JEEP I (Joint Establishment Experimental Pile), located at Kjeller. This reactor was primarily used for research purposes, including early experiments with alternative nuclear fuels such as thorium. While JEEP I itself was not a thorium reactor per se, it laid the groundwork for subsequent Norwegian research into thorium as a nuclear fuel. This early phase demonstrated Norway’s scientific interest in thorium, leveraging its domestic thorium resources and contributing to later thorium reactor experiments.

odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);

Missing person alert? :)

Yeah, I can’t wait for this to blow over.

Wooden chairs may appear still, but science tells us that they move imperceptable amounts all the time at room temperature. It’s statistically unlikely that all the wooden chairs would suddenly lurch into a single chair-void, but the probability is non-zero.

Thanks, that helps. That’s not the context/situation that I was imagining.

I’m not 100% sure I get this. Is the point the added effort/latency/overhead, too many neopronouns, or that someone might change their gender on a daily/hourly basis?

Thanks for sharing. I’m always on the lookout for non-attention-grabbing ambient music. Here is one in return (basically a 21m loop of simple organ-like chord changes):

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUzBlT9ncoU

😅 😀 ⏳ 🫠 😤 👉 🌍 🟰 🦻 2️⃣ 🫒 📍.

As a thought experiment, imagine a newborn growing up in this hypothetical culture a metaphors.

It may be that nobody alive remembers who Darmok is, but they learn it “because that’s what we say to mean <X>”… sorta like each word is just a huge number of syllables.

So i think in principal such a language could perpetuate one generation to the next (with some interesting consequnces or exceptions regarding names), but the more interesting thing is how new words and phrases would come into being… which AFAIK would be impossible.

So maybe it’s more interesting to consider it a disease or failure mode of language or thought itself.

As I recall picard was eventually able to pickup the metaphor concept, and it would surely be easy to clue-in the translator to translate mega-syllable-with-vocal-pauses words, but the other guy did not pickup any of picard’s words.

In my head-canon that makes them a stagnant or dying race, absent a medical solution.

Bever-ly

Even “chronically online” seems a bit euphemistic… it’s like we’re all living under oppressive technofascism.

Salsa chicken. It’s chicken, a bit of taco seasoning, then salsa. Cooked for 4 hours on high.

Tactical emojis are classified as a force-multiplier until they can be weaponized.

So the military uses Signal…

I was just watching a youtube video with humans literally walking into murals this same way.