Zompist Bboard Again

I would say those are things that exist in all of society, and are not a problem unique to traditional desk jobs.

given that women and men of color are perfectly capable of being neurodivergent also and yet are still wildly underrepresented in IT, I really don't think the central problem is that white neurodivergent men are being insufficiently accomodated and those mean mean neurotypical ladies just need to le...

I hadn't been taking into account rounding--that's an interesting point to consider. Perhaps the youths will be saved after all.

I think cot/caught is regional, not temporal. I will try to test this on my nieces at Easter. It's becoming less regional and more temporal by the day. This is, there are dialects like that here in southeastern Wisconsin which firmly resist the cot - caught merger to this day regardless of age. Yes...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:38 am Does anyone else who is cot-caught unmerged have LOT in -naut (e.g. astronaut) despite having THOUGHT in nautical?

Indeed I do. (I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift) Honestly never thought about it before.

Not particularly surprising. The obvious parallel I see is to the monkey selfie , where the US Copyright Office stated a photograph taken by a monkey could not be copyrighted by the photographer who set up the camera, as material produced by nonhumans is not copyrightable. (PETA, incidentally, argue...

Err, why would you need to eat junk food for calories? Just eat more of whatever normal food you're eating--all food has calories in it.

I don't know what the scholarly consensus on dating Paul is— Wikipedia says 48 for Galatians. That's far earlier than the Judean war, and it's only 15 years after the purported date of the crucifixion. You're missing the point about Buddha etc: our sources on Buddha are at least 400 years afterward...

If so, that's got to be the most hilarious argument against long sleeves that I've ever heard. For the good of humanity, we must immediately legislate shirtlessness at all times.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:25 amThe earliest gospel

Which gospel? Do you mean Mark, Q, or something else?

Uh... you're going to need to clarify that one. Why is it unhealthy to wear clothing covering your body? Why is it healthy to wear clothing that doesn't cover your body? Why do these sorts of statements mysteriously only seem to appear to apply to women, and not to men?

As a woman who probably falls into that category (of "not super delighted about extensive bodily exposure"), I'd say Moose has the right of it. I certainly do get an element of "that would simplify my life so much" when I see a woman wearing a headscarf, but I'm hardly tempted to...

CNN says that some (non-leadership) Republicans have started talking to Democrats about lowering the vote threshhold. The Dems could demand something in return, like raising the debt limit on time. This is a reasonable solution, which mean it won't happen. Isn't the main problem with this solution ...

Whitmer kidnap plotter's kin rally to save him from life prison term

Took me a couple tries before I realized that no, the governor of Michigan did not kidnap anybody.

Those look lovely! That's a fun commission to get.

Yes, Lisa Murkowski won a US Senate seat for Alaska in 2010 on a write-in campaign, after she lost the Republican primary. In 1964, Strom Thurmond won a South Carolina US Senate seat on a write-in campaign as well.

For one rather pleasant example, local to me: Michigan is a deeply purple state, evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Our current governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has been massively criticized by the right for the past four years, both in and out of Michigan, to the degree that there was liter...

Interestingly, I noticed a spate of folks on my social meeds writing "Hollow's Eve" this year, suggesting they favour the /ah/ pronunciation. I tend to associate the /æ/ pronunciation with older people and the /ɑː/ pronunciation with younger people for some reason. I do as well--/æ/ strik...

I had a very similar thought about nixtamalization, where dried corn is cooked in an alkaline solution. This process has been around for likely thousands of years, but very much is a chemical process involving artificial additives (lye, soda ash, calcium hydroxide produced from limestone, etc.). (In...

There's also a clear transition from "vampires as evil villains" to "vampires not necessarily as villains" in media, it's not like vampires have always been romanticized. Along with that goes a transition in the abilities/behavior of vampires. "Modern" vampires usually ...