Imagine you are doing a tarzan vine jump, and I cut your vine while you are jumping then say “See, you wouldn’t be able to do it without my vines!!!”. Yeah man, timing matters.

I checked the usage statistics and you are partially (85%?) right. Empirically is rarer unless you are(/were recently) in academia, then it is very common. Akin is rare in general but only in usage, everyone apparently knows it.

I really though you were gonna choose akin because I don’t hear that one as often as 10 years ago (and I never used it I think).

I’m a non-native speaker and I use empiric and empirically at least once a week. STEM though, maybe I’m biased.

Which word is big there? empiric? akin? or is it grocery? gas? station? middle? Did they edit it out and I missed it?

It is freeing really. I used to proof read my comments, then paste in google search to check for easy to catch typos. When AI arrived, I was even putting my text through them so they are more “common tongue” and not my personal shorthands.

Now I just post it.

If you are “strong” enough to commit genocide, you are usually “strong” enough to reject punishment.

Do we have surviving scientists and engineers, or books? Then everything is easy-ish: Progress took time because we didn’t know anything, everything was trial and error. Now we know the correct forms of physical laws or their usable approximations so rebuilding is just a matter of time (generations maybe).

If somehow the collective wisdom is lost, back to the stone ages with you.

edit: High school education brings you to the 1920s tech (era of elements and alloys, just before composites) so maybe if we have any surviving adults, you can have glasses?

or, you know, keep it to yourself unless asked? No one needs to know which planet you come from, why does it matter if I’m from Mars? Will you see me as inferior because I didn’t have a good atmosphere or liquid water in my childhood and my favorite color is red because that’s what we had?

I call myself mlm: mediocre language model

How can you sell it to people who “didn’t know they needed it” then? (“Bad” example -> luxury items, “good” example -> new tech which is actually helpful but hard to explain)

Monopolies are bad mmkay

(Actual inquiry, I don’t know): Really? There is no rupture or some sort of apocalyse in the new testament?