Montreal is just a subspace of Montcomplex.

Saag paneer.

Probably the same way Putin feels about Dobby.

I ate the last one yesterday.

Did you really expect me to resist?

Sign language isn’t just another way of expressing English that can be picked up like learning a different alphabet or a secret code. It’s a full, independent language with its own complete vocabulary, syntax, inflectional system, etc. that takes as long to learn as any other natural language.

It would be great if more people knew it for the sake of communicating with the deaf, but as a means of foiling surveillance, there are many other approaches that would be more effective for less time investment. (Hell, you might as well learn a really obscure spoken language that would be less likely to be recognized or deciphered than ASL.)

Global Thermonuclear War.

Before trains, sea travel was the standard way to travel long distances even if a land route was available. Sea voyages came to represent any destination that was far enough away that communities wouldn’t be in regular contact.

Assuming that

• human phenotypic traits that correlate more closely with mouse traits have more-predictable outcomes with mouse-tested medicine, and

• more-predictable medical outcomes correlate with higher survival and reproductive rates,

can’t you plug that straight into the Price equation?

In the long run, using mice to test human medicines will result in selection pressure for humans whose physiology more and more closely resembles mice.

I don’t have any direct experience with that, and I can’t say if it’s a good or bad idea—but I’d say if you’re going to do it, it can’t hurt to do it with some friends and try to create some positive new experiences to overwrite the traumatic ones.

I’d say devices like metaphor and synecdoche are compression tools for meaning, and devices like rhyme and meter are checksums for error correction.

Yeah—Milton’s Paradise Lost seems closer to the modern conception.

It’s like a double negative: a cool dog is the opposite of a hot dog, but a cool cat is the opposite of a cool dog, so you end up back where you started.

I think that’s reversing cause and effect: the AI bubble is the result of the preexisting corporate practice of enshittification getting a new toy to play with.

Immediate civilizational collapse.

Yeah—ideally, fares only need to cover the marginal/fluctuating costs, not the fixed cost of the whole system.

For private transportation, fares need to pay for both, and generate a profit on top of that.

Being good and being cheap are both indications that public transit is being properly funded. When funding is short, they have to raise fares and cut services.

Beijing is actively cooperating with the international community. The Chinese authorities have confirmed their readiness to engage with all relevant parties to maintain the credibility of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

I assume this is a response to Trump’s decision to re-institute testing?

Additional weight makes it harder to accelerate, but once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make much difference.

On the other hand, using your arms as counterweights makes it possible to transfer more force from your foot to the ground with each step.

Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.