The user always lies. Or even if they don’t, they can’t intimidate the ghosts in the machine like you can.

We are nowhere near advanced enough to say that life, complex or intelligent, doesn’t exist anywhere near us. There is no reason to believe an intelligent spacefaring race would make themselves so obviously detectable that us stupid primates could see them. And for non-intelligent life, we’ve been able to confirm mere thousands of planets. We have a very long way to go before we can start talking about the meaningfulness of a lack of life signatures in the atmosphere.

We haven’t progressed far enough to be detectable by intelligent life in other star systems, even the closest ones. The filter can easily be in front of us. It could just simply be that interstellar space travel is too infeasible, so intelligent species never reach beyond their home system.

Getting screenshots or videos off the Switch is laughably arcane. Nintendo is so weird about modern tech conveniences.

I disagree that that’s what it means, IMO “shuffle” explicitly means each track exactly once. Pedantry aside, what I meant was a truly randomized order when you shuffle a playlist. It’s a major critique of Spotify among users and has been for a very long time.

I really don’t get it. Users have been begging for a true random shuffle for years. It’s not a hard thing to implement.

This is probably just my layperson showing, but I honestly wouldn’t be all that afraid of a cheetah. If I were in that situation in any other big cat habitat I would be absolutely terrified. Smaller cats like lynx I wouldn’t really be afraid for my life but I would be fearful of attack and injury.

Cheetah I wouldn’t really feel much fear, more just confusion about what I’m supposed to do. They really don’t have the same cat software that all the others have. Much more chill.

While true, it’s also true that cats of all sizes behave very similarly. Cheetahs are probably the least similar to the other cats.

If you’ve had pet cats and gotten to know their behavior, it’s remarkable how familiar the behavior of big cats can be.

In memoriam: Viggo Mortensen’s unbroken toe. You may not have bested that orc helmet, but you didn’t let that ruin the take.

I love this totally sincere reply to a completely insincere joke. I would love to visit New Zealand for a lot of reasons.

Whoa, what a cool fun fact! I better bring that one up next time I’m watching LOTR with people.

Too bad you’ve never had a close bond with a cat. They’re a lot more cuddly and affectionate than non-cat folk give them credit for. Not to say they wouldn’t be dangerous, those claws and teeth are killing weapons. But they wouldn’t intentionally kill their person.

Almost all of this would be true if we celebrated a day (or two) each year that were outside of the months and weeks, except events tied to points in our orbit would stay put a lot more. We would still have the same calendar every year. In your version we have a full extra week every 6 or so years, in mine every year we have a dedicated New Year’s Day that isn’t in a regular month or a day of the week, and every 4 or so years (same rules as now) we have 2 New Year’s Days.

Though I would argue for Sunday being the 1st day of each month/year. IMO weekends should be like bookends, one on either side.

Edit: your Wiki link contained a link to the International Fixed Calendar, which I’ve been inadvertently arguing for. This is almost identical to what I’ve been proposing, except they put the leap day at the end of June. But it fixes the major disadvantage of your system: that a year isn’t a year. In your system 1/1 is never one year away from 1/1. In mine it is within leap day drift, just like the current calendar.

Isn’t that what I said?

Lmfao, that would totally be the solution the US would implement. “How can we do this in the most complicated, error-prone way?”

Ahh, that makes sense. Here I was thinking it would be fun to have a day or two every year that weren’t any day of the week.

The leap week is a little bit of an unsatisfying solution since it means solstices and equinoxes will shift around a lot more. Also not as likely to get governments and employers to be willing to treat them as holidays.

I highly doubt we’ll move from our current calendar anytime soon. Its flaws aren’t bad enough to justify the effort, but I would really love a more symmetrical calendar. And payroll folks would probably love it too. Hourly and salary structures would be a lot more in sync.

And the extra day is a special interstitial holiday in the “14th” month, right? And leap days go into that holiday month as well.