when i have to do the captchas that ask you to pick all squares that have, say, a bus in them, but the bus is broken up over different squares, my brain goes through a horrible detour of a mix between Wittgenstein’s duckrabbit and Quine’s gavagai: is a square that has the edge of a bus’s mirror “a square with a bus”? surely it’s a) a question of interpretation as to when a piece of a bus becomes enough of a bus to call it a bus and b) a question of idiolect, mediated through common usage, as to whether that detached bus part is a bus. this all takes about half a second. then i fuck up the captcha for unrelated reasons.
“average star trek character has a normal relationship with their dad” factoid is actualy just statistical error. average star trek character is not on speaking terms with their dad. Fathers Benjamin, who lives on space station and has loving, mutually respectful relationships with both his son and his father, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
