✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town

@Angle @Qwyrdo I second your recommendation, then, yeah. I really liked that perspective.

@Angle @Qwyrdo Is that also the one that talks about the USSR's impact on other socialist experiments across the globe and how that sort of... hindered the variations of that system that we tried?

@webinista Pfffft. Well, that makes me sound way more legit than I feel! Hahaha!

@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle Oooooh that's nice. And makes me think of things like "bitsmith", too. Which has a nice look AND sound.

@st_dympna 👋🏻

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@ThisQueerBashesBack @BadWrongFun @HTHR Well, shit. Clearly we need to reorder it to make an acrostic poem for, uh... CS UNDER SCAM? 😕

@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle I don't know what H and A mean here.

Also, this is pretty interesting: https://www.etymonline.com/word/monger The verb is younger than the noun and that's why it's "monger" as well and not "mong". But the -er really is the agentive suffix , so expecting "mong" is silly sounding but also right in it's own way. Which I find delightful.

@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle Oh I believe you. I've just never come across it.

I think one of the central realizations required to be an adult, at least it has been for me, is that fault matters almost not at all. Responsibility and fault are almost entirely decoupled. If something is a way and you want it to be another way, there is often no one else that will make it that other way except you.

When younger, I felt a deep injustice had been done to me if I was being held responsible for something that wasn't my fault. But now I see that this is sort of the whole idea of responsibility: You're on the hook, no matter whose fault it is. And that sort of sucks, but it's also sorta zen once you get it.

@dredmorbius @bgcarlisle I've never heard of scandalmonger or goosemonger. Hmm.

Fish (or many other very old animal words) are semi-uncountable. When you say, "I'm going to hunt deer" it's not really equivalent to "I'm going to hunt buttons." They have a collective/uncountable form that's also the same as the singular and the plural and it has to do with originally having been uncountable, IIRC.

@anthracite Ah. Reasonable.

@bgcarlisle Iron, I think.

Also, I think it's the collective, you monger: "war" not "wars". Obviously, "killmonger" is ridiculous. It should be Deathmonger, since "death" is uncountable. 😜

@green @anthracite According to the MCU wiki, Erik Stevens and N'Jadaka. http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Erik_Killmonger

Wait. Killgrave is the Jessica Jones villain. KillMONGER is the Black Panther villain. So confusing. Wish they'd used his Wakandan name more in the film so I'd have a chance at remembering it.

@anthracite I feel like this is what makes him such a good villain. He had some really good points. He was also wrong about some things and those things were pretty fundamental. But, yeah.

Also, side note: Is "Killraven" an autocorrupt artifact or something? AFAIK, his name is Killmonger (well, among others).

@Trev How many lights are there?

@Trev What am do?

@KitRedgrave @thegibson We had a vendor in for a thing at work that we'd be interacting programmatically with. I asked, "How does billing work? Like if billing is O(n) what's n? In other words, what would I have to do to astronomically blow up our bill?"

I was asking with the idea that then I'd know to avoid doing that thing and understand what might drive costs up or down, but apparently they'd never been walked that in that way. I was somewhat surprised.