Rich people

I would suddenly feel very sad for the one of them that bottled it up for 40 years, and for the other who obviously has known for many of those years…

Cultural, for sure. I had to tough it out for the first bit, only really liking the detective. But then when all the main characters got replaced over and over, I began to see humanity as the main character, collectively, and then I was hooked, which I’m sure was the intent as the story spans >!all of time in the universe 2 times over,!< It’s worth revisiting.

Other direction dude… 2nd dimension. Also that spoiler was for a reason.

Read the book please… The trillogy* is on Audible. Some truly terrifying stuff. Like, >!living in a dying universe that was once an infinite garden because of the dark forest attacks that flattened spacetime into fewer dimensions, which could happen again.!<

*the last book (or some 4th book, I forgot) isn’t written by Chixen Liu, but they liked it so much they wrote off on publishing it in the series as a means to wrap up some critical questions.

Underlegislation leads to a bloated, extortionate upper crust that weilds disproportionate power over those who rely on said financial system. There is a balance, and the problem you outline is the lesser of the two extremes.

How’re the kids?

Let’s take a page from Helldivers and call it “Managed Capitalism.” Surely far better than rootstock /s

That’s a smoke screen. Another is the “liberal brainwashing machine” school system scare. What they fear is the statistic that higher educated individuals trend towards populism and progressivism. They see higher education of youths as a threat to their political base, which turns into “spineless parents sending kids to liberul brainwashing camps funded by the gubmnt.”

The ghost of Reagan?

Which this probably is if they want to pack as much data as possible in one unit.

Hey OP, that site has enough trackers on it to give me cancer. Can you link an alt from a more consumer friendly source?

Clippy never had a voice and tbh the one that comes to mind for him is not very easy on the ears. Like downpitched spongebob.

You neglect the versatility of our tabboo language, too!

Take English’s favorite swear: Fuck.

Fuck is:

• Noun - “You sick fuck.”
• Verb - “I’d fuck it.”
• Adjective - “A fucked-up situation.”
• Superlative - “Un-fucking-believable.”

It can be used to express:

• Joy - “Fuck yes!”
• Horror - “Oh fuck…”
• Sensuality - “Fuck me~”
• Resignation - “Fuck me…”
• Anger - “Fuck you!”
• Condolences - “That’s fucked…”

And that’s just scratching the surface!

Some retired old fart who can’t be bothered to learn fancy-schmancy Web 2.0. Rock on like it’s '93

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We have that one. It’s a tiny indie gem called No Man’s Sky, and, get this, there’s no cutscene when you leave the planet!

But does it do Mando’A?

Ahoy should host

Yet language and abstraction are the core of intelligence. You cannot have intelligence without 2 way communication, and if anything, your brain contains exactly that dictionary you describe. Ask any verbal autistic person, and 90% of their conversations are scripted to a fault. However, there’s another component to intelligence that the Turing Test just scrapes against. I’m not philosophical enough to identify it, but it seems like the turing test is looking for lightning by listening for rumbling that might mean thunder.