We need an emoji reaction ability. Except people would use it confusingly.

Like I don’t know why or how, but this is what I feel like my response to your comment should be:-)

A large part of the confusion is that dinosaurs did not emerge from birds in the same way that humans did not evolve from Chimpanzees (nor monkeys) - but rather, both groups in those pairs evolved from a common ancestor (but different ones:-).

Birds have feathers and for the most part fly, while alligators not so much. In attempting to simplify, e.g. Avians to “birds”, it causes confusion. Alligators also are not warm-blooded as birds are, not do they have beaks, all hallmarks of modern birds, but they do have four legs, long body with a tail, moveable eyelids - and don’t they have external ear openings as well? - all hallmarks of modern lizards.

Scientists use precision language like “non-Avian theropod”, but those don’t map perfectly to common words like “birds”, which everyone knows are just government drones anyway:-P.

Depends on their PDef and Mdef I would guess… and probably Agl too. :-P

Authority flows downhill though - isn’t it the manager who (when credit is assigned anyway) is “driving”?

Uh… what? Every definition of “several” that I’ve ever heard is more than two but less than many, with the latter usually defined as five or more, or sometimes rather less than “a lot”. So “several” means roughly 3 or 4, maybe 5 or even like 6 or higher but not yet “a lot”. See e.g. https://www.dictionary.com/e/few-vs-couple-vs-several/. It sounds like those books you are referring to were using it wrong.

Regional variations surely exist though. And there could be more abstract usages too like several chips meaning like 10 or 20 but bc of their small size if the speaker felt the it was still not “many” or “a lot”.

It’s just waiting for an injury 🤕.

It seems an apt wording choice, imho, however it was originally intended. Having seen and experienced it with my own eyes & ears, I now cannot go back to the way I was before where I believed what others said about it. It is like how women experience things that men refuse to acknowledge - “no, surely Chad would not do that, you simply must have imagined it, little missy - please don’t spread such nasty lies about my friend like that”, but whether we are women or men or whatever, we can LISTEN to those who experience it FIRST-hand and therefore KNOW what it is like. Or, hide out in the bushes (with permission) and watch - it’s not that hard to do these experiments and truly see what’s going on, if only we are open to them. Not blindly trusting, you see? Nor blind acceptance of any old story either, but open to being convinced by actual facts as to whatever they may teach us.

Also, regardless of what bullies may see, these words have actual defined meanings - e.g. read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke. So I guess I am a flaming liberal b/c:

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

As opposed to a conservative:

Traditionalist conservatism, often known as classical conservatism, is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of transcendent moral principles, manifested through certain posited natural laws to which it is claimed society should adhere.

since regardless of my personal beliefs, especially religious, I also believe in separation of church vs. state, or more importantly that Jesus/God Himself gave us that freedom to choose and told us to leave others the fuck alone (“Judge not lest ye be judged”), and also btw we are commanded to judge ourselves (“Judge ye by the fruit” - you know, of the vine?), so like judging the world but not ourselves (for a conservative this would be the likes of Trump and religious leaders etc.) is the precise opposite of the Biblical commands (which again, to be crystal clear, is to judge ourselves but not others).

And likewise I am woke:

Woke is a political slang adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.[1] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights.

So if you also are aware that these things are happening, and like, care about it, then you are too. Whether you want to advertise that fact locally where you are is another matter:-P. (Also, nuances are allowed to exist, e.g. Dave Chappelle is super-woke about everything except the T in the alphabet.)

Thank you for coming to my TED talk:-D.

Wow. It boggles my mind to think about how rapidly things have changed. As an extremely strong proponent of wokeness - bc wrong is wrong, regardless of time period - I also get how culture takes a moment to digest the changes happening all around us.

For example, 1974 wasn’t all that recent, but those 50 years ago seems so much more so than e.g. the 1920s of 100 years ago, in large part due to being able to see it on Television (even with wacky coloration & such:-). Every aspect of life - like taking a horse or walking rather than Uber or subterranean Metro - has changed since the 20s, but also a lot has changed since the 70s too. And even the people who lived through it may not realize all the various ways how.

Tbh I have no idea - it was decades before my time. But he did seem to have a problem with her, especially as a woman somehow, right? So that was just my guess as to why, whatever the in-universe explanation may have been.

Are you sure that you don’t have need of a uh… good, simple tailor? I hear that he makes problems of many kinds simply disappear, as if by magic! ✨ :-P

Probably to highlight exactly that tension on television, which at the time was shocking to people - hence the audience could sympathize, while learning that “hey, women can do this job too… oh yeah, they really can!?💡”

(j/k, it was funny, but this is also funny!:-P)

That’s bad…

Thank you for being the change that you want to see in the world. 🙏

hundred gross self-sealing stem bolt

Oh no, you were ripped off - a single datum is worth easily a thousand to several million times more of those! Was this the guy that sold them to you?

I dunno, I may need to see some more data before I’m convinced.

I for one hope that he goes back to what he seemed to enjoy the most: writing the code. Let someone else handle the admin duties, which he mostly abandoned anyway. We would get the non-Lemmy codebase enhanced, while he would get the fun of chasing his passion:-).

OMG I would watch that! Maybe. Assuming it tortures him sufficiently. :-P

“Please state the nature of the engineering class today?”