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fwiw I feel like I pretty frequently see those kinds of errors in rtf and doc parsing (a profusion of Âs is the classic example)

although maybe that's a different thing

The Â thing in particular is a symptom of reading text in one character encoding as if it’s in another character encoding, see here.

Character encoding problems are common, but they’re at a lower level than what I’m talking about -- the level of “what sequence of characters do these bytes even represent” rather than “given this sequence of characters, which ones are special control sequences.”  So they have the potential to come up in any kind of text processing, even in the hypothetical utopia where I have my ideal tabular data file format.

you’re smart and cool and your interests are deep and exciting, imo

how’s that for an own bitch

it seems plausible that some of the horniness and less of the niceness would be preserved over the ensuing millennia

tis my fear as well. I’d hope to keep them bundled together by, I don’t know, making annual sex rituals where you have to

verbally recite a pledge of niceness or do some ritual q/a where the sex ritual organizer (who should be, ideally, chosen for sex appeal – they should be hot priest types) asks you questions and you give full sentence answers like “[variations on specific statements whose spirit = I will not be racist]” and “I will not be violent to people without their consent” and “I will never rape anyone” and “I will not to escalate a conflict without a good reason” while looking at a high status person you probably want to impress. I think this kind of thing might keep the niceness riding along.

And if you mess the answers up the book says very clearly the nice sex ritual you want to do can be denied to you. No one may want to enforce it, but if your lowest status enemy notices you skipping or bungling answers, they can say ‘this guy should not be permitted to continue to the fun part’, and the book will be on their side. Since I’m guessing people will generally choose “just make the person say the ritual affirmations right, it’s not hard” over “okay, no one’s making us enforce this, exactly, so we could continue on without kicking them out (but that would technically make this ritual heretical, which puts me in a theoretically punishable position as a bystander...)”, the requirement could stay in place, especially if it were poetic and memorable and didn’t take too long to get through. That’s my first pass solution, at any rate.

western europe at least :p

Aha, so that's you! I was wondering who this viktornowalsk person was

yep! I’m sort of trying to transition away from the dhominis username, and I guess if the diaspora’s happening, this is the right time

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text adventures dude