Star trek! Vulcan mind melds (not to mention betazoids and other telepaths) are absolutely psychic

Oh, for sure. For some reason, I keep thinking that’s just a common thing for some people to do :D

That actually makes me wonder if one or a few of the script writers have some autistic tendencies. I read something similar happened with the author of The Murderbot Diaries.

But yeah, given how Zoey seems to have more tells, I suspect she got that treatment more intentionally

…How the hell did I miss that Zoey is coded autistic? I just had her pegged as “the creative one”, never mind the 700 2-second videos of turtles, or her very specific insecurities!

And conversely, learn to appreciate periods of stillness!

(I’m not disagreeing with you, both are valuable!)

Seizure, maybe?

That’s just an obstacle, and not an insurmountable one

My kids both go to a Kansas school. One is lactose intolerant, so we often pack his lunch - yogurts and cheeses figure fairly heavily into the meal options. My other kid usually grabs whatever’s being served, which includes hot options along with things similar to what you listed.

They have a school-issued card that they scan whenever they get the school lunch, which is linked to an account we top up online. I believe that qualifying families get either reduced pricing or funds for the account. Our kids actually keep assuming everything is free, because they just go through and get to pick so much from this station, so much from that station, etc.

I don’t think this has been the state of society for millenia.

Tolkien had Frodo break down in front of Sam in Lord of the Rings. Sam literally carried him after. This was written not even a century ago, and wasn’t seen as all that remarkable or groundbreaking. Hell, it wasn’t unusual that they held hands, it was just a thing bros did.

The current level of toxic masculinity is a new phenomenon, it’s not a feature of a stable society

Out of curiosity, how do those stats look if you exclude white cis males?

Was that apoemforyoursprog?

I like a good story, with interesting characters, multiple coherent worldviews, and interesting conflicts. The sci-to-fi spectrum certainly grabs my attention and holds it while I learn about the characters and world, but ultimately, it’s about compelling people, from James Holden and Jean-Luc Picard through Cassian Andor to Taylor Hebert.

I do enjoy when the science is accurate, but it feels more like an impressive artistic flourish to me. I realized a while back that if I insist on accuracy in my media, I’ll miss out on a lot of good, fun, even classic entertainment. It irks me when something isn’t internally consistent, but a miss on scientific accuracy is more like spotting the boom mike in a shot - mildly annoying, but usually worth focusing on what they’re trying to say.

Ugh, do you know where they’ve been??!

That’s their dirty sink?! In this house, it stacks up until the faucet can’t swivel past them. Then you might start figuring out when to make time for them!

We run into this because we like to pre-soak things. Then we get busy with something else, another meal happens, those dishes also need to soak, and pretty soon everything is blocked by everything else.

The alternatives we see are:

• Don’t pre-soak: Maybe, but some things do kinda need it
• Only put things in that need soaked: Would be nice, but we also don’t always agree on what needs it. Plus, counter space is also at a premium in our house
• Finish the damn dishes every meal!: Would be nice! But, we have a lot of ADHD in our house, and kids besides - we have a lot of “and then life happened”

Right now our main upgrade we’re looking at one of those faucets that hangs over the sink, so it doesn’t get blocked by dishes so easily. Then it can stack higher before it’s a problem! :D

It reads to me as an AI-driven follow-up chat

I don’t disagree, but I’ve also been wondering how much very high quality medical care is throwing off those guesses

Tech savvy groups have always included a significant amount of well established people unhappy with how technology is being implemented or used - who then, yes, yell at clouds. Hell, a lot of us still literally yell about the Cloud.

Paraphrasing a management quote I found a few decades ago - if the engineers aren’t complaining about something, it’s not because they’re happy. It means they’re complaining where you can’t hear them.

There’s control freaks, and people whose kids think they’re control freaks

I mean, for half a billion years, the Earth’s surface was largely molten. Earth’ll be fiiiine…

Seriously, we’re getting as hot as it’s ever been while humans were around, and the change is accelerating.

(edit - got -> hot)