Well, sure. Even Russia still has elections.

What does Puerto Rico have to do with this?

I doubt it, but ok

I’m not sure I’d count Frankenstein, tbh. I think it’s more horror than sci-fi.

LitRpg

I don’t think this is new; The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg was published in 1983 where players in a tabletop RPG get whooshed into the game world at the beginning of the book. Fun series.

it takes labor to collect the carts

It’s not about that. I was making a reference to the Shopping Cart Theory as a way of responding to the post.

potentially reduce price hikes on food

I admire your boundless optimism! I rather think we’d simply see richer grocery store owners if there were a sudden outbreak of common decency and everyone consistently returned the cart.

You get it

Why should we return the shopping cart when no one else does?

Edit: /s for people that took this too earnestly. I was alluding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_theory.

I thought OP meant that the clothes smell LIKE us in this one.

Ha, I was tempted to make basically the same comment. I’m super weary of people mixing the two up!

Interesting! So the part we pick is and eat is like a strawberry more than, say, lettuce.

Naively, it’s easy to think: it grows in the ground, therefore, it’s a plant. There’s a lot more than meets the eye, though.

Mushrooms are the closest things we have to aliens

Star Trek: Let’s figure out how to hook up the translator to Data so we can talk to them. Real life: Let’s see whether they’re tasty.

Mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants

How? At first blush, this seems absurd.

Disclaimer, it’s been a while since middle school biology class where we might have talked about this subject.

Central park?

Wait, we are? TIL.

We all have caturday!

Interesting metaphor. I’ve never really gotten that idea – I’ve never seen the connection demonstrated between the “big stuff” and seemingly innocuous things like ‘main’ vs. ‘master’.

Also, a lot of this feels misplaced. IMO, the root problem is one of attitude where the minorities are viewed as less-human, not deserving of equal treatment or equal rights. Change will happen as those attitudes shift. I haven’t seen a connection demonstrated between those attitudes and…well, pretty much any terminology issue that’s come up in recent memory.

Yeah, I can’t really explain it. Seems kinda silly, doesn’t it?

just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.

I don’t really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?

I’m a dev, and I’m the opposite. At my work, we use main over master. I thought it was a little silly when we first switched, but now I’m used to it. It’s an arbitrary label anyway – could easily use trunk/branch from SVN or release/develop or any number of other labels to keep track of code.

Hell, we got a new dev on the team a month or two ago, and he tends to name things ‘feat/do-the-thing’ instead of ‘feature/make-it-go’.

It’s not as big a deal as people online make it out to be.

Bypass the whole debate, adopt SVN’s ‘trunk/branch’ terms.