Bah! I knew it didn’t look right when I wrote it.

I believe that’s the origin of the current trend. Typing on a T9 keypad.

There was a parallel ‘733t sp34k’ trend on bulletin boards around the same time.

I imagine that they merged to some degree.

Some people just want to see the world burn.

post-instrumentality fuckery

It is hard to distinguish that from the pre-instrumentality fuckery.

It’s an affectation of The Register they like reporting real news with a sometimes quirky voice. It’s also British so some of the language and humour doesn’t quite work as well in other parts of the world.

Probably. It does happen.

Fun fact. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, orbits the wrong way which means it was gravitationally captured by Neptune at some point.

Really weird book that one, even for Banks. Tangents or is it Inversions?

Both Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos) are asteroids. They’re really small.

“Hydrostatic equilibrium” is the term (I think) for when a body is massive enough for its gravity to pull it into a spheroid. E.g. Ceres is about 950km in diameter and is ‘round’.

Recipes should actually be tested before being published.

Half of them I get half way through and realize that it’s half backwards or uses twice as many dishes or utensils than it needs to.

This is the way.

It’s a tough watch alright.

But cousin, why a spoon? Why not an axe or a knife?

Watch Whiplash?

Specifically Villenueve’s Dune Part 2

Look at the size difference between the engines.

The A380’s are enormous.

I can’t think of one that would be as universal as the sir/ma’am pair.

I think it’s probably most polite to ask them.

Or at least to assume one or the other, use it with an enquiring tone, apologise if corrected and move on.

You’re looking for rationality in a bag of insane geese…

Please don’t lump the rest of us in with your shitty christofacist state.

By all means self destruct within your own borders.

That all seems entirely reasonable.

Have you discovered Gamma Ray Bursts yet?