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[oisenoise]

[discoursedrome]

The AI encyclical doesn't yet have a Latin translation, because even though the Latin version is "official", it takes six to twelve months longer to prepare than all the others, an issue exacerbated by the use of terms that don't already have established neolatin translations. Since the timing is important and they don't want to rush the Latinists, they seem to have decided a few years back to move the Latin versions "off the critical path", even though this adds a layer of absurdity to the whole business. Since the encyclicals are still issued simultaneously in like ten other languages, this leaves it uncertain which version should be considered official -- it's likely that it was first written in Italian or perhaps English, then translated, but when the Latin version finally comes out like a year from now, it will retroactively be considered the official copy, and all the others will be considered vernacular translations of it. Which is already a funny story about where pragmatism meets tradition, but in reading about this I found some commentary from someone formerly of the Vatican's Latin office, who mentioned something even better: that one benefit of this process was that the Vatican got to see the public discourse about the document while translating it, which gave them a chance to tailor it to any controversies or confusion that might arise, so that, for instance, if there were competing readings of a passage based on subtle differences between translations, they could pick which one to favour after the fact. This means that this is sort of like Steam Early Access for papal encyclicals.

[beardedmrbean]

[balioc]

I often have a lot of sympathy for the Lame Stodgy Sensible Center-Left types, but - it is hard to maintain much of that sympathy when I see them posting sneering takes about how only an idiot could fail to support important ideas like (ahem) "teen curfew zones."

[rideroftherange]

Are you seeing this opinion often?

Outside of elderly mall goers, that is.

[balioc]

Matt Yglesias in recent weeks, notably.

[jadagul]

To be fair we have had a serious problem with organized-crime gangs of teenagers. (And sometimes preteens!)

This sounds like a shitpost, but as I understand it, DC started charging people under 16 very leniently (good!) but then various criminal organizations responded to incentives (predictable!) and started specifically recruiting 14-year-olds to do carjackings because they would basically never get in serious trouble for it.

I think that specific problem has abated somewhat, but it did require a certain amount of targeted enforcement in response. I haven't looked into details but I assume the same thing is going on with the teen curfew—there's a specific uptick in violence and vandalism that they're trying to get under control.

(I viscerally hate the idea of curfews. I also viscerally hate the idea of jail. The latter is definitely sometimes necessary.)

[balioc]

I am aware that DC has an actual current crime problem related to teenagers doing terrible shit. I am in favor of the city finding effective ways to deal with that problem, some of which might be uncomfortably harsh (at least in theory). "Making public spaces inaccessible to people solely on the basis of age" should be about as acceptable a solution as "making public spaces inaccessible to people solely on the basis of race."

[goth-queen]

[vstheworld]

he got it

[bannertanks]

[sirfetchd]

my unique observation

[hieronymus-botch]

The conclusion to Jax's arc in the TADC finale was really beautiful and touching, but I think it was a mistake and didn't make sense to try to explain everything, give everyone except Jax a happy ending, and keep the Circus as a hermetically sealed environment all at the same time. If Caine was able to just download the social media posts from everyone's human versions, why aren't they able to contact the real world? Why hasn't anyone from the real world contacted them? If their minds are just files in a computer, why didn't Caine make backups to load after they abstracted? It would've made a lot more sense if they discovered that humanity had been wiped out by a virus or something, but the computer the Circus was running on was hooked up to some kind of self-sustaining nuclear generator built to last a thousand years without human input. I get how that might be seen as excessively dark, but like, Pomni said straight up that the gang's human selves are different people at this point, so if you're going to kill off a main cast member I don't think it should be off limits to kill off a bunch of characters we've never actually met.

[hieronymus-botch]

Oh yeah, also, were everyone's brains scanned at the same time and only loaded into the Circus on a staggered basis, or was the time gap between their appearance in the Circus also a time gap between their brains being scanned, because the live action bus stop shot at the end implies the former (but then why aren't any of the people who abstracted before the pilot there?), but it's apparently indicated at some point that Kinger was scanned in 1999 and Ragatha was in 2008 and Jax knows about Breaking Bad so that implies the latter, but if that's the case then why are they continuously dumping in mind files but not otherwise intervening?

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

When I first heard about "ultraprocessed foods" as a topic of nutritional concern, the terms was being used to refer to industrial junk food that a home cook couldn't make from scratch without a molecular gastronomy kit and some very specialized equipment. But recently I've seen it used for stuff like "anything made with refined flour and white sugar" or even "anything that contains added salt, fat, or sweetener to enhance the palatability," which would technically apply to some recipes from the literal Bronze Age.

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

I have nothing against Mr. Talarico and this is not intended as an insult, but something about him inescapably reminds me of Elder Price from the Book of Mormon musical.

[hieronymus-botch]

You should probably clarify you mean James, because my first thought when someone says "Mr. Talarico" is still Tommy.

[hieronymus-botch]

The conclusion to Jax's arc in the TADC finale was really beautiful and touching, but I think it was a mistake and didn't make sense to try to explain everything, give everyone except Jax a happy ending, and keep the Circus as a hermetically sealed environment all at the same time. If Caine was able to just download the social media posts from everyone's human versions, why aren't they able to contact the real world? Why hasn't anyone from the real world contacted them? If their minds are just files in a computer, why didn't Caine make backups to load after they abstracted? It would've made a lot more sense if they discovered that humanity had been wiped out by a virus or something, but the computer the Circus was running on was hooked up to some kind of self-sustaining nuclear generator built to last a thousand years without human input. I get how that might be seen as excessively dark, but like, Pomni said straight up that the gang's human selves are different people at this point, so if you're going to kill off a main cast member I don't think it should be off limits to kill off a bunch of characters we've never actually met.

[odddogs]

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[ggarbagee]

happy pride month :] here's freddie and his cats

[callalily-soup]

i think this has been done before but it doesn’t matter cuz IM DOING IT!!! more freak noelle representation pls

[importantcatpics]

[iraffiruse]

[tim-official]

see every time i see this status i get angry because i’ve played through literally every scenario in rct1 and there is no place where this is a thing. there is never more than one park per map. and in rct2 you can’t make that happen i the scenario editor either. it is not remotely within the game’s functionality to simulate two discrete parks and these games were coded in assembly for christ sake so it’s not like someone modded it in by adding the line “int const TOTAL_NUM_POSSIBLE_PARKS = 2;”. there is no conceivable way this post is anything close to true and even though i know how writing all this out reflects upon me as a person and even though i know exactly how meaningless and trifling of a takedown attempt this is on some random facebook screencap with hundreds of thousands of notes im going to post it anyway because i’m too petty to have any say in the matter

[bigtigers]

feed me glue