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  • There’s a Doctor Who episode with that as it’s premise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_(Doctor_Who)

    The Twelfth Doctor, Bill and an angry Nardole travel in the TARDIS to follow a distress call to a deep-space mining station. When the TARDIS is jettisoned by the station’s computers, the trio are forced to wear “smartsuits”, robotic spacesuits capable of independent operation tied to the station. The suits are also the only source of oxygen, as the mining company does not provide an oxygen atmosphere inside the station, and every activity is measured in breaths








  • I ended up accidentally training a squirrel to be a burglar and finding squirrel droppings in your kitchen even when you left the kitchen window closed, well… it didn’t bother me as much but it was an apartment building and he burgled others as well so had to put him in timeout once (large see-through moving box, breathing one, and water food and some pine branches to hide in) for a good few hours.

    Moved out rather soon after that, so idk if his lineage still knows the way.

    But the crows from the same area at least taught their young that me is friend. Me bring meatball. (I didn’t move far, only a few hundred m so it wasn’t as challenging for them to follow.)


  • You look up a street name. That entry tells you which street it begins from. If you don’t know that, then you look up one further. And repeat until you get to such a main road you’d know it even after looking at a map.

    So basically you’d look up the street and then browse back and after you’d have a sort of gps like instructions. “main road until you see X street, then turn there, then drive until you see Y road” etc.

    I had several in the car I drove, for all the nearby cities/towns. Many in same covers. So it’d cover the main city and outlying towns. Never had to use a map. (Although again, I can if needed.)








  • I thought exactly that. Opened the post, upvoted this thread.

    However couldn’t not Google it, and it may be on purpose.

    evilness

    noun

    evil·​ness

    : the quality of being evil : badness

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evilness

    While it does sound better with just “evil”, I wonder if they wished to exactly convey that what is being created is the quality of being evil in some people. All in all, that goes under the umbrella of evil, sure. But if we replace “evilness” with “badness”, it no longer sounds worse than the alternative, just “inequality creates bad”. Ofc you can’t compare directly like that, I’m just trying to make the point that black civil activist haven’t historically been that bad at language use, so perhaps we’re just feeling the more colloquial version but that this may be prescriptively better, idk.

    I’m no languinolologist.