It is in one sense and isn’t in another. Someone saying “basic biology” is generally ignorant of the wide world of biology out there, either through lack of exposure or purposefully so.

The truth is that biology’s definitions are all humans’ ways of dividing up phenomena into neat little categories, but nature just exists as it is and doesn’t need to follow our linguistic rules.

For every definition we come up with, there are invariably multiple exceptions that don’t cleanly fit, because that’s just not how nature works. Even basic definitions like “sex,” “species,” and “life” itself start to get shaky the moment we try to eliminate all the exceptions.

The truth is that for humans there is no single, universally accepted definition of sex or gender. And even attempts to reduce them to something tangentially related like genotype quickly fall apart when you start looking at the exceptions. The person who says that there being two human sexes (usually to the exclusion of gender identity) is “basic biology” is not only categorically wrong, but they’re either ignorant of or ignoring the granularity of our own species. The whole of human sex and gender identity cannot be neatly summed up as “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina” from Kindergarten Cop.

So are the slugs relevant? I would say yes, because if you’re not aware of the variation in nature on the obvious macro scale you have no prayer of appreciating it on the more subtle micro scale.

But it’s not, though. It’s the watered down children’s version of biology people half remember from elementary school. It’s not actual human biology.

Epictetus. “Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.”

It’s actually a reference to the blockbuster bomb.

Freezing cold

I’m playing it right now and enjoying it. Not sure what the person you replied to disliked.

I didn’t say it was HL3. I replied to a post implying the series hasn’t had an update in 20 years.

It’d be like a Star Wars fan wondering why there’s buzz about the movie coming out next year despite it being 42 years since Return of the Jedi. And the answer is that even if that’s the last one that particular fan personally cared about, there has been Star Wars media since then.

Also, Alyx did resolve the HL2E2 ending. It didn’t add a whole lot on past that, but the cliffhanger was very much addressed.

They’re trying Google Glass again?

That cliffhanger got addressed in Half-Life: Alyx. And replaced with a different cliffhanger.

Half-Life: Alyx came out 5 years ago…

I remember on a browser-based multiplayer game in the early 2000s, the vets would tell annoying or cheating newbies that they were using the “CTRL+WIN” to see their moves. Of course, as soon as they hit CTRL+W…

There were multiple possible endings for both Geralt and Ciri, including endings where Ciri survives.

Kevin was in trouble at the start of the film. They could have very easily had his mom take his phone away before sending him to his room.

After arriving in Paris, Kevin’s mom frantically calls his phone… only for a suitcase to start ringing. Oops!

Marketing team: “There must be some combination of colors and letters that will make our brand a smash hit. We just need to find them!”

Kristi Noem will be personally hosting the final challenge: a shooting competition at a puppy mill.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Horror has always been a source of social commentary, though. Going all the way back to at least Frankenstein, published in 1818.

Ah. I haven’t switched to Wayland yet so I wasn’t aware of that issue.

There’s also the unofficial flatpak, which works rather well.

Which aircraft? What are the flight numbers?

There’s no answer because the title is misleading.