Assume they're asking because they want to make sure it's not imposing, in which case it's good to assert boundaries you need too. If they push it was just a manipulation tactic, in which case you're more than justified in walking.
I might be misremembering, but I think the universal translator operates on a basis of reading "brain wave" ✨vibes✨ so it is more about intended meaning than disambiguation of denoted meaning by context, which is why I think it would pick the right word to translate even if the listener isn't familiar with the contextual nuances... The listener is never familiar with those linguistic nuances.
For Darmok to work you kinda just have to accept that there's something fundamental about word-denotative meaning based language and allegorical meaning. Of course it falls apart if you think to hard about the specifics 😂
Humans do indeed contain multitudes, but I think this gives too much credit to the influence of corporate (and their political interference) interests. Enshittification is an active choice made in board rooms. Disinformation is an agenda. They're not inevitable grassroots outgrowths.
Lemmy, curated to avoid AI, curtail corporate news, and where the admins and community are fighting bots and trolls is an example of the reclamation attempt.
However, I'd argue that the meme-language in Darmok is not the same as slang. Slang is functionally the same as regular language, with words having particular meanings. The whole point of Darmok is that their language doesn't work like that.
Wouldn't the universal translator translate slang? I could see it standing down if people were already speaking the aame language, but Quark is probably speaking a Ferengi language, so the translator would be translating it to words that match the intended meaning
I'm no monarchist but this sort of ceremonial thing is way cheaper than the legal mess of revising the law to be Crown-less would be. It's harmless fun for some people.
As someone who went with the Mullvad suggestion despite having heard about port forwarding, I think a big part of why is because whenever it comes up people don't take the time to explain why port forwarding is important. Until I asked in this thread the only thing I'd seen is some vague handwaving about it being faster.
I've only just dipped my toes in so maybe this is off base, but the community seems to have an elitism problem. If the people who know are dismissive of ignorant noobs who want to learn, the long term health of the community suffers for it.
Maybe sometimes you gotta shitpost the shitpost with sincerity. Maybe sometimes you don't particularly care about loss references. Maybe it's Maybelline. I don't think we'll ever know.
It's a "fantasy football" miniatures/board game, except by fantasy I mean orcs and elves. There's a lot of violence.
Mechanically it's about positioning and risk management. Like chess, but the pieces are asymmetrical, unbalanced by design, and wildly incompetent. But it's ok you don't have to do probability math because "haha funny sports man trips on his feet just before the endzone, then dies" is all you need to understand to appreciate it as a spectator sport.
Assume they're asking because they want to make sure it's not imposing, in which case it's good to assert boundaries you need too. If they push it was just a manipulation tactic, in which case you're more than justified in walking.