In the UK, listening to music & scrolling

In regards to Leopold (Framework - "The Doctor") people always make him out to seem like this 'mad scientist,' or 'independent,' version of Fitz who wants nothing more than pain from every person he comes across. And that's just flat out wrong, if anything he's more dependent than Fitz was - his whole life within the framework revolved around his father and Ophelia, he was most likely abused, groomed, and manipulated from a young age (false memories) to comply and obey to orders given to him by those he needs to listen to (ex. Ophelia, Alistair, etc) Whenever he questioned their motives - he was shot down and shown to be 'stupid,' for even asking those questions in the first place. Leopold went to Ophelia or his father (mostly Ophelia) for orders, never to make a decision for himself.

Although, one of the only decisions he did make was to divert paths and disrupt an order given to him when his father was killed, despite Ophelia saying otherwise. Now that can be explained from him acting out emotionally, his father, who he loved very much - blinded from years of normalised abuse - was dead. And that obviously made a part of Leopold break. He grew a resentment towards Jemma because of such, to him it just seemed like his father who had done no harm (even though he had) was murdered for no reason by a woman he doesn't even know.

Carrying stuff is huge.

If you can put meat in a bag, you can carry more meat. If you can put something like nuts in a bag, then nuts abruptly become a food that you can bring back to the tribe or save for later and not a food that you're required to eat on the spot because they are tiresome and stupid to carry by hand. In both cases your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better.

If you can put your baby in a bag, you now have both your hands free to stick a spear into things, pick nuts, fish, dig tasty cicadas out of the ground, etc. Your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better, and so did your ability to defend yourself while you do it. (And let's face it, your babies were already getting downright ridiculous in terms of the time it takes them to be fully walking-ready, due to brain size and being essentially premature; inventing Multitasking With Baby is like, pure survival at this point, and your way to do that is to create a specialized bag.)

If you can put water in a bag (first water containers very well may have been animal bladders or stomachs, not pots) you can bring water to your sick tribe members and they have a much higher chance of recovering.

And then you have elaborations of the basic "thing that contains objects" idea. If you make an exceptionally loosely woven bag and put it in the water, you can on occasion finesse some fish into it. And then you have delicious fish. If you put yourself in a loose and flexible bag of animal skin, your tribe can operate in the cold better, which changes your entire migration pattern and opens up new environments to you. If you make a hard container and fill it with water and put it over your fire, you have invented a new type of cooking that unlocks whole new food types, such as vegetables that need softening in order for humans to eat them. (Of course at the same time your stomach is becoming steadily more dependent on being able to fuck with your food in this way, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, because the less energy you spend on digestion, the more energy you have to spend on other things, like brains. And big brains are good for unlocking whole new levels of communication, allowing for fantastic new levels of foraging cooperation, passing knowledge through generations, mate selection, and even various sorts of mental recreation where you imagine something that you don't see, and then convey that to your fellow beings.)

Oh, it’s even better than that.

What happened was the lease to The Theatre (actual name) was coming to an end, and the asshole landlord Giles Allen refused to extend it. He even tried to argue that since he owned the land, he also owned The Theatre itself (see: asshole).

So the Burbages and/or Shakespeare came up with a very clever solution: While they did not own the land The Theatre was on, they did in fact own The Theatre itself. So they hired people to dismantle The Theatre in Shoreditch on the sly and take the pieces to set up a new one in Southwark.

Across the Thames River.

In the winter when the Thames was frozen solid.

During Christmas.

The plan was successful, and they reconstructed their new playhouse by the summer of 1599: The Globe, now famous for being the home of Shakespeare’s later plays, from Henry V or Julius Caesar on.

Colonel Fitzwilliam: I went to an effort to improve your character to Miss Bennett.

Mr Darcy: What do you mean? In what way?

Colonel Fitzwilliam: I told her about the service you did Mr Bingley by separating him from that unsuitable match.

Mr Darcy: What.

Colonel Fitzwilliam: She seemed quite struck by the tale. You're welcome.

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

On the strength of Darcy’s regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgment the highest opinion.

Bingley knows that Darcy is a very good friend of his, so of course he trusts his judgement. The order matters! A person who likes you should give you advice that they sincerely believe will help you. I'm never one to accuse Bingley of being weak because he was convinced that Jane didn't love him (I love some modesty in a man), but many do and I think this is an important piece of the picture.

It means that we should compare Charles Bingley to Anne Elliot in Persuasion more than Harriet Smith from Emma. Harriet had only known Emma for a few weeks when she's talked out of accepting an engagement with Robert Martin. Charles is like Anne, who took the advice of a beloved godmother who despite her prejudices, wanted the best for her. Both of them are young and without a parent who can advise them (Bingley is an orphan, Anne's not getting anything good from Sir Walter). And neither Darcy nor Lady Russell are strictly wrong. They don't put love first, but considerations of wealth and status are important in this era and class.

It opens with the Enterprise being voluntold that they're testing out a revolutionary breakthrough in computing science, and 95% of the crew is put on leave because this new computer is going to do all of the work for them

(Little side note here that Bones expresses concern about sailing with a skeleton crew because the limited numbers will make manning the ship difficult if the computer doesn't work; his concern is barely acknowledged before being brushed aside)

Kirk doesn't like the new computer system from the beginning, but is struggling to figure out whether his gut-instinct concern is valid, or if he's allowing his fear of being replaced to stand in the way of genuinely helpful technological progress

The scientist who created the computer explicitly brings up the argument that by replacing people, the computer will save time and resources, freeing people to do undefined other things

Instead of saving resources it turns out the computer is actually drawing massive amounts of power from the ship

Obviously, the computer ends up making bad decisions, but now it's too intertwined with the Enterprise and they can't shut it down

Then the computer starts killing people in its efforts to carry out its objectives (at this point I am forcibly reminded of the AI-assisted suicide cases)

As Spock points out, this is not the 'logical' behavior that would be expected from a computer

Turns out, the only way to make a computer complex enough to replace human decision making is to map it to a human mind

Which means that it also includes all the logical and personality flaws that are intrinsic to being human

Therefore there is no way to create an infallible or perfectly logical computer that is meaningfully capable of replacing humans

The computer scientist ends the episode in pitiable disgrace, having caused the problems in the first place with his desperate attempts to prove that he's still making relevant and groundbreaking advancements