We saw what happened when Internet platforms tried to be inclusive of differing viewpoints:

Nazis

Is it any surprise, then, that people started doubling-down on their echo chambers?

I’m really confused what this could be referring to.

Because the folks who’ve been around the longest and remember the early days of the Internet are currently in utter dismay over how their fun international sandbox has become a Black Mirror-esque horror show, while everyone else seems to just shrug and obediently upload their face scans so they can watch AI videos of uncanny-valley cats playing cruel pranks on facsimiles of political figures in-between unskippable ads for applying to be an ICE agent under promises that it’ll be like COD but in your own backyard with living, breathing brown people.

The Good Place. Highly recommended if you haven’t seen it.

Yet somehow manages to be among the smartest TV shows ever

This is really good! I really like the use of color and the painting style is pleasing. The subtle shades of the background blending into her top are especially well done.

If you’re looking for constructive criticism, the only two things that stood out were:

• the earrings look to be different lengths (but I know earrings like that can appear asymmetrical in real life, so maybe it’s just an illusion of the angle)

• I think the lower lip highlight is a touch too harsh and makes the lip look a bit flat and cartoonish; maybe needs a little smoothing, a thinner brush, or an additional “mid-light” layer?

But these were little nitpicks after staring at the image for a while. Overall, very nice piece!

I don’t care, I’m not giving up the em-dash in my own writing. Good luck reading half of my run-on sentences without it~~~

You and I have very different definitions of “mildly”

For Japanese cooking the resource I’ve been very happy with is https://www.justonecookbook.com/

But I’ll have to check yours out too!

Giving you an upvote because I think this is a legitimate position, but I strongly disagree. AI has become so pervasive in our lives that it’s extremely difficult to avoid even offline, so I see no problem with someone saying in an irl conversation, “I wish my mom would stop sending me AI slop videos” or “I can’t help but feel paranoid I’m going to wake up one morning and find out I’ve lost my thesis work to the latest microslop update” or “I’ve started dreading work ever since they hired ‘workslop Bill’”

My comment was more about the use of “female” as a noun, but your comment about which to use as an adjective raises an interesting point, especially because, as you mention, the generation to regularly say things like “woman doctor” in a not-so-great way has mostly died out. I’m not sure where things stand currently on which adjective is preferred; I think it’s mostly contextual at the moment? (Like “I would feel more comfortable being examined by a woman doctor” sounds grammatically a touch clunky but connotatively fine to me, whereas “I can’t believe what that idiot female doctor diagnosed me with” sounds grammatically correct but otherwise awful)

I agree that

“Female” instead of woman or girl.

Edit: as in, where “woman” or “girl” would be grammatically correct. e.g. “a lot of females work at that company” vs “a lot of women work at that company” or “that company has a lot of female employees”

I actually thought the ending to S1 was brilliant, especially for a cliff hanger, and that the first arc of S1 was the weakest of the three (although E3 was quite good), and that S2E7 was just okay, so it’s likely that we have different tastes.

S1 did an excellent job of its storytelling, such as show don’t tell; character actions driving the plot, not the other way around; and well-written villains with clear motives. S2 fell flat on a lot of those fronts. I’d need to rewatch it for a proper write-up, but some examples from what I remember:

A lot of what made S1 great continues over into S2, such as the soundtrack and animation. But the character development, writing, and little details just didn’t match up in S2.

Re: Bee and Puppycat – YouTube or TV show version?

I thought the short-form YouTube version had much better pacing.

Archer was great until the South Pacific season (S9). It’s like they fired all their writers and hired new ones off temu. I stopped watching there; does it get better after that?

I thought S1 Arcane was brilliant, but S2 (especially starting with E4) fell apart. Still had some good moments though.

Your two anime picks are Cowboy Bebop and… Future Boy Conan!?

Ngl, didn’t know anyone else even knew that series existed.

I’m over here wondering if the same people tanking Battlestar Galactica are also elevating Lucifer to one of the best-rated shows on the list (not that there’s anything wrong with Lucifer per se, but it’s a police procedural! A far cry from a cinematic masterpiece)

You got newts and salamanders (somewhat) backward:

From Wikipedia: Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Not all aquatic salamanders are considered newts, however.