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I'm imagining what it must have felt like to be a Czech drama nerd in 1990. Like, WTF (laudatory)

pls don't tempt me with the idea of a timeline that is THAT much better

Best news I've heard this year!

Currently holding the manilla folder full of documentation related to My Great Grandfather the WWI Canadian War Hero, and doing a goofy little dance.

WAIT WAIT WAIT are you telling me I've been SECRETLY CANADIAN the whole time?

the major implication LLMs have for sentience is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it

Posting "Weird Bummer Of A Spiritual Shield" because it's my favorite songs off of Lazy Magnet's album "He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory And Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - Or - Is Music Even Good?"

yes I am posting this song title so I can post the album title

what of it

The whole species is en bloc 100% of the time

Sealed vinyl of "1982" by A Certain Ratio

My child, upon seeing the cover of 1982 by A Certain Ratio: "that album is a perfect hot dog. The ratio... is perfect."

it might just be a more civilized way to imply some much nastier going on, aka "seitan's kiss"

Gonna need approx 10k of raw text to even summarize, here. Shortest version possible is that Folks In A Position To Know all have positions of strong linguistic relativity and also think that Whorf is BS. This includes 2 linguistics profs from Burma lol.

i've talked to a lot of people about this one but the only conversations that really hit, for me, were with people who had a good grasp on a language NOT from the indo-aryan language superfamily, well enough to think in it, and who had spent serious time living in another culture.

haha, maybe, no

(in heavy rotation rn: The Fun Years - Baby, it's Cold Inside)

[If you see this, QRP with a character that permanently altered your brain chemistry]

The image that pops into my head when I remind myself to "choose love over hatred":

I was barely old enough at the time to figure out that he wasn't nearly as smart as his speech-writers. He sounded like he was... a mid-grade B-movie actor who had been cast as a Great Orator! Good job Central Casting.

Perhaps they simply held the idea of the Epstein Files in their hand and asked themselves, according to their owner's Marie-Kondo-inspired evaluative critera, "Does this concern free markets? Does this concern personal liberties?"

Then they round-filed that ish

I love the Otto Sax story, but I am compelled to reply with a mention of the sarrusophone, a French competitor to the saxophone, back when it was new. It was like a double-reed version of the sax - so, we just missed having a whole family of big brass jazz oboes.

We do this with directors and producers in our household, eg "oh yeah, that's Werner Herzog, he narrated that dinosaur CGI thing you wanted to watch daily at age four"

(Dinotasia, 2014)

We should move the capital of the United States to Chicago.

Eggbug died for our sins

Sorely underappreciated comment. "No sir, but I do detect that the scent of POLITICS has just entered the room."

I actually experienced this in links in my Chrome new tab feed. I always have lots of renewable energy suggestions, but one day I started seeing "This new tech DESTROYS solar in the US" storiesand it was about gas turbines or whatever 🤔 Constant use of the word "destroy" from many sources.

Give the Lorax a Gundam

I don't know how I would live without Mexican food

but I would find a way

Thanks for this! it is Extremely My Shit, and I'm all out of My Shit That I've Already Downloaded due to being isolated in the basement w/COVID for days. So not only do I get to watch a cool docco, but I also get to sample the '70s BBC music, and pretend I'm Boards of Canada, you 100% made my day.

shirtless dudes don't do that much for me, but, hey, let me put down the drugs for just a sec.

> brain feels blurred all the time

really? mmm

> wild north sea

really? mmmm-hmmmm

> 687

predates the Age of Sail by a bit, but... SOLD, I'm in.

I like to make it in the crockpot, and I set up the crockpot in the basement sitting in one of the recessed windowsills, right in front of an exhaust fan.

I like the outdoor kitchen idea better, tbh, but the prep time and cost are rather higher than the crockpot/exhast fan combo.

I suggest: transparencies, that can be layered, so that your syncretic practicioners can project multiple glyph systems.

"Is it a djinn, or a dybbuk?"

...

"No idea, but" <speaker slots antother gel into the projector> "we're covered, in any case."

Grateful Deadpool

Yes, they were drunk