"they could just as easily present them in a way that wouldn't be blocked" would be a more accurate way of phrasing it. Facebook is not the one blocking this content - rather, it's detecting that it has been blocked (clientside)

I feel like you're using "supercede" differently to the rest of us. You're getting a hostile reaction because it sounded like you're saying that EM is no longer at all useful because it has been obsoleted (superceded) by QM. Now you're (correctly) saying that EM is still useful within its domain, but continuing to say that QM supercedes it. To me, at least, that's a contradiction. QM extends EM, but does not supercede it. If EM were supercedes, there would be no situation in which it was useful.

Ah, a fellow VX Junkie?

All but the last four were new to me, so thank you!

If you don't enjoy practicing bosses, FromSoft games will probably not be for you.

This is not a dunk! There is nothing inherently superior or worthwhile about games that require practice. I personally enjoy Soulslike games, but people who claim they're they're the One True Genre are just fooling themselves.

Treat words as coordinates in the space of all possible concepts, and add a few together. I think that fulfils your constraint of not "taking inspiration from...words from a recent ongoing conversation" since you can, if you wish, pick the words in your own head.

Or - drugs. Drugs are good too. I don't know why you're applying these artificial constraints to this problem as if there is some notion of "purity" or "cheating" to the practice of idea-generation. Is an idea any less worthy, insightful, or useful because you came up with it while using a chemical tool to do so?

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IME it's a uniquely American joke.

nobody I deal with in RL ever implied something among the lines of "refer to me as ".

Most likely because they'd never experienced someone referring to them by the wrong gender. You can be pretty sure that if someone started doing so, they'd have something to say about it.

Which is what the other commenter was trying to communicate to you. Gender is already a key component of most cis people's personality - the way they think about themselves, the framework they use to make choices, and the way they want people to relate to them - but it's not noticed as such, because it's "normal", so no-one comments on it and they don't have to act to assert it.

They said unpopular opinions :P

Are you using type annotations and mypy? I strongly suggest them. Type systems are a great way to catch typos and errors!

The version I heard was that it was styled as a tribute to Poseidon (who was God of both horses, and the sea) that the Greeks gave, in hopes of a safe voyage home. The Trojans wouldn't want to piss off a God by disrespecting an offering to him.