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by Ares Land
Thu May 16, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Thu May 16, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Thu May 16, 2024 3:47 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
Replies: 1422
Views: 445189

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...
by Ares Land
Thu May 16, 2024 3:23 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Happy things thread!
Replies: 1211
Views: 716388

Re: Happy things thread!

sasasha wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 3:00 am
zompist wrote:
Raphael wrote: a really interesting collection of essays
in a rather lovely edition
I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!
So did I, and I'm happy about it too!
by Ares Land
Thu May 16, 2024 2:19 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Wed May 15, 2024 4:33 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Wed May 15, 2024 3:52 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Twin Aster
Replies: 307
Views: 259643

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...
by Ares Land
Wed May 15, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: A scratchpad
Replies: 16
Views: 166

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.
by Ares Land
Wed May 15, 2024 3:47 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 14, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 14, 2024 3:38 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Random Thread
Replies: 3731
Views: 451411

Re: Random Thread

foxcatdog wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 1:01 am Am i right in saying organ meat phobia is less prominent amongst non anglo europeans? See french foie gras and italian tripe sandwiches.
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.
by Ares Land
Tue May 14, 2024 3:25 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Mon May 13, 2024 2:02 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Random Thread
Replies: 3731
Views: 451411

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...
by Ares Land
Mon May 13, 2024 2:00 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

Re: War in the Middle East, again

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).
Very good indeed!
by Ares Land
Mon May 13, 2024 1:59 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Replies: 733
Views: 137365

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 07, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
Replies: 24
Views: 451

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 07, 2024 10:43 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 07, 2024 5:19 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: War in the Middle East, again
Replies: 453
Views: 74819

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 07, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Conlang Random Thread
Replies: 2989
Views: 2850417

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...
by Ares Land
Tue May 07, 2024 1:17 am
Forum: Ephemera
Topic: Venting thread
Replies: 1920
Views: 15028128

Re: Venting thread

malloc wrote: Sun May 05, 2024 7:52 pm So last week I tripped while running and scraped my shoulder on pavement. Now an enormous scar is forming on my shoulder, the size of a playing card and stiff enough to make moving my left arm uncomfortable.
Yeah, that must hurt. Hope you get better soon!