An important detail is that little dude delivered this while wearing a red dress that brings to mind nothing so much as Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights music video. A true icon.

Like, Gallery? Room 8? Breezed through. Boiler room? Took them hours. Sanctum? Baffled every time, haven't even tried it yet.

Anything that resembles a classic puzzle (word games, logic puzzles, anything with discrete recognisable rules) they get quite quickly, but anything that's more videogamey (find the code, find the lock, put code in lock, or interact with this machine to learn how it behaves) seems to baffle them.

Just got a reply from Pebble on the bug report, that this has been removed from the code (next time they push an update)

Like I said, I already have that setting turned off, this message is not gated by that (or any) settings, which I've spelled out in the big report.

So, dug into this a bit more... and found: github.com/google/pebbl...

Seems this is a hard-coded message that pops up 4 days after activation, not scraping health data, just was really unlucky coincidence for me.

Still shitty spam, but at least @repebble.com are off the hook for the other stuff?

So far their response on my bug report complaining about all this has been to deflect, and tell me to turn off a setting I already have turned off. So... not promising.

Who gave you the right to talk to me like that, putting ads in your several-hundred-dollar tech product?
Who gave you the right to scrape my health data to personalise your ad copy?
Who gave you the right to get fucking _catty_ about my _health_ you absolute ghouls?

It arrived right as I was crashing with exhaustion after DBfH, and prob also sick, it was bad. Like, multiple 12-hour sleep days in a row bad.

What did @repebble.com think was a cool response? An unsolicited "you like to sleep a lot, you should use the Pebble health app".

Which... Fuck right off.

Oh yeah, I've been living in Angel Island Zone basically my whole life. Though recently I've started visiting Balloon Park on occasion, just for the weekends, y'know? It's a nice place.

It's 100% true, I think this year, in terms of actual "mod actions", I deleted one accidental swear? Maybe two? In total for the whole run.

The mod team really is more like guides/CMs than enforcers, because chat is such cool people that we just don't need the latter. And that's so rewarding.

I honestly wish that "non-bino" would become real Aussie slang, it fits too well.

Instead, this is the sort of gender slang that actual Aussies are apparently using, like it's totally normal.

I'm lead to understand it's quite cold there right now...

I looked this up for context, and realised that my own mental model for gender was starting to develop ideas that kinda smelled like this, so now I know to throw out that mental model and start over. So that's one good thing to come out of it I guess?

Hard disagree. For a full rhyme, everything from the vowel in the last _stressed_ syllable, through to the end of the word, must match. Anything less is only a form of partial rhyme.

There is an art in its own to finding the correct Incorrect Font and I would argue you nailed it

What radicalized me?

No. What made you so inured you want only yours and for others to die? What brought you to the point where you can't share a crust of bread or a cup of water? What made you not able to bandage a wound, or lend a hand?

What calloused you? That's the real question.