I used it to extract thousands of rows from tables in PDFs and generate enumerations for them in various programming languages. I had to do some pre-processing with the Python script, and review all the output to make sure it didn’t screw up, but it saved me a lot of time.

I’ll take what I can get.

I heard this.

27? 30. 37? 2.

I appreciate solid journalism.

Nope

Well, I was born here and it seemed like the thing to do.

I’ve read the series, and it’s not. The characters struggle with the (often nonsensical) established caste system and their role in it, and it’s intended as a mirror to real world caste systems and racial divisions rather than as a celebration of them.

Edit: from what I remember. It’s been a year or two since I read the Stormlight archives.

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This is literally what I do every day. I intermittent fast, so I don’t eat until dinner. I work through lunch, take breaks whenever I need to get up and stretch my legs, and leave at ~4:15.

She absolutely would

It’s a blast, honestly. I mean, sometimes the blast is alien cum.

Had a conversation with my kid the other day about a book I was reading and ended up discussing genetic modification and why people are concerned about it. We talked about the Chinese scientist who modified babies to resist HIV, issues with eugenics, racism, economic disparity, the whole bit. We were out getting some pizza, and I think the couple in the booth behind us was listening in lol.

We have odd conversations all the time though, to be fair.

The thread of fate is more like a frizzy ball of lint at this point.

Enby checking for updates on their recently purchased gender.

The real answer is whichever is easiest. If you’ve got a master branch and it’s a pain to switch, then I wouldn’t do it. If you’ve got a badass coder who is disturbed by the terminology, then I’d say to do it to keep the peace. It depends on the situation.

I hate to throw out this old chestnut, but “correlation does not equal causation.” Just because religion existed in one form or another in almost every single culture, does not mean it’s necessary for morality. As I mentioned previously, lots of social structures existed in early societies that had things to say about morality. That doesn’t mean they were necessary precursors.

For a moment I thought you said “unable to glow”. And I was like- I’m not sure they’ll be able to avoid it.

“Without the precursor of gender roles, there can be no morality.”

“Without the precursor of tradition there can be no morality.”

“Without the precursor of >insert social structure< there can be no morality.”

Some of our social structures have things to say about morality. Sometimes they’re saying"love your neighbor as yourself," and sometimes they’re saying “burn that city to the ground and keep all of the preteen girls as sex slaves.” Just because religion and spirituality have things to say about morality doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re worth listening too, and it doesn’t mean we couldn’t have developed a system of morality in their absence.

Without religion and spirituality, we may have developed a better, more universal system of morality, rather than the patchwork of haphazard and contradictory traditions we currently enjoy. We’ll never know, because religion was created early in our history, and for the rest of eternity, we get to listen to asinine armchair theologians tell us “without religion, there would be no real morality.”

Media targeted at a large audience tends to dumb moral and philosophical conundrums down to the simplest possible gesture instead of taking the ideas seriously.