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- Thu May 16, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Well it's from a leftist, so they're not using it as a brainless offhand for "progressive thing I don't like" The brainless use is so common I'm afraid using either term about instantly loses my attention :) ...about America (and Israel) using progressive politics based on identity to dec...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Frankly, I can't decide if this goes in here or the us politics thread (because both are relevant), but I saw this video by the Kavernacle about the rise of "woke fascism" or the use of progressive identity politics in service of illiberal policies. I'm very dubious of the 'woke' and 'ide...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1422
- Views: 445210
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Moving back a recent discussion where it belongs :) PS There are other explanations for preferring a fascist or similar: being misguided, misinformed, short-sighted, opportunistic among others. Another factor -- and possibly the main one is that fascists are just way better at propaganda. Here havin...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716403
Re: Happy things thread!
So did I, and I'm happy about it too!sasasha wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:00 amI received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!zompist wrote:in a rather lovely editionRaphael wrote: a really interesting collection of essays
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I don't think that guy was against the idea of protests or saying protests do nothing though. Now we can object to the content of the protest, ie what some of the protesters happen to be currently doing or saying... But it's another debate that we've already had and again, I'm pretty sure no one's g...
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I didn't really see your point or Torco's and it's now much clearer. Could you perhaps explain it to me, then? I still don’t really see how any of what they’re saying makes much sense. I don't know if I'll be any good at that sort of thing! The idea is that given the situation, there's no place for...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Twin Aster
- Replies: 307
- Views: 259646
Re: Twin Aster
I’ve just discovered the existence of hemerythrin. Lots of iron in it, makes for violet/magenta-ish blood, apparently. Íröd is lousy with iron, especially in the water. I think the adasar will use that as the bloodborne oxygen carrier. I really liked the theory of humors you made out of that and th...
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 168
Re: A scratchpad
Interesting! If you're looking for things to provide more detail on, I'd like to see how the direct-inverse logic works.
- Wed May 15, 2024 3:47 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Now I've read this several times and I can't quite tell if you're being disingenuous or not. Absent sustained intense pressure not to, Israel will continue to kill Palestinians en masse . Thus any rhetoric which appears to advocate for reducing pressure on Israel will likely lead to the deaths of m...
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
feels like this guy is selling out the lives of palestinians for civility tbh. Same. And the whole "we're all really from Africa" is the "All Lives Matter" defence of settler colonialism. As for 'selling out the lives of palestinians', I really don't see what it's about. I'm pre...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451427
Re: Random Thread
I'm not sure. I think it's true but increasingly less so. You still find a lot of people loving tripe here, but less so than one or two generations ago.
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:25 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
I don't think that means people should stop protesting, or debate on <insert social network of your choice> But actual solutions or peace plans will be found by people who are directly involved and knowledgeable about the issue. We're not going to come up with a peace settlement and constitution her...
- Mon May 13, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451427
Re: Random Thread
Anyone interested in reading about Irish/British history in German? Perhaps your first language is something else, and you want to brush up on your German, or specifically on a pseudo-scholarly register of German? Earlier this year, for no good reason, I wrote this it-was-meant-to-be-brief-but-ende...
- Mon May 13, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Very good indeed!bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:44 am I was linked to this wonderfully refreshing view of the whole situation: 50 Completely True Things (by a Palestinian American).
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 733
- Views: 137372
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
agreed on the more peaceful front: I don't know about "freer", but because I probably have a thicker concept of freedom here: since the start of the decline of the soviet union (let's say from andropov on) wages are stagnant vis a vis, inflation, productivity, and housing prices meaning a...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 452
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
ChatGPT can, when pushed quite hard, speak really really bad Verdurian straight out of the box. I got it to tell me about Verdurian, which it could do quite well, and then insisted that for the rest of the conversation, it would exclusively use that language to communicate with me. It’s quite ‘lazy...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
many jewish kids apparently come to patagonia after their period of exterminating palestininans on vacation, and plenty buy land there, and a lot of locals are starting to wonder are we going to start getting genocided in our own country too? EDIT: my apologies. I completely missed the bit about la...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 453
- Views: 74828
Re: War in the Middle East, again
Anti-semitism is specifically hatred of Jews. Which is why, incidentally, I always write it without a hyphen. It’s really not a great term: in fact its early use was mostly by antisemites themselves, who were looking for a more ‘scientific’ word than ‘Jew-hate’. The orthography of antisemitism is o...
- Tue May 07, 2024 5:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 2989
- Views: 2850448
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Flavor conlang idea for my novel: Standard Intramural (Let me know if this conlang idea already exists. I know it's terrible, but I think it's cool for an exotic SF setting. I have many pages of notes on this "language" that I didn't consult for this post. Last year, I had hopes of workin...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15028142