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Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:27 amSoftware updates are a useful reminder that we're all living in the personal pleasure gardens of about ten rich psychopaths.doctor shark wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:52 pm I hate it when platforms implement "upgrades" without ways to revert or get rid of them.
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There’s been some good ones lately:
WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:45 am This sounds like a variation of the popular "Semitic substratum in Insular Celtic" hogwash - and while I don't have it at hand now, I remember that the list of "Semitic" features in Insular Celtic claimed by those scholars contained exactly 17 items. Most of them have since been falsified, and the remaining ones revealed to be typological correlates of VSO word order, found in places as obviously former Semitic-speaking as Mesoamerica or the Philippines.
Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:43 am The difference in party squabbling is: the Democrats are a bunch of people who should obviously be allies but act like enemies, while the Republicans are a bunch of people who should obviously be enemies. It's a miracle that a party full of hungry tigers and large hunks of meat doesn't have more in-fighting than it does.
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Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:41 am I saw someone ask ChatGPT to make an IAL, and it simply started describing Esperanto in Esperanto...
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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:02 pmI once worked at a university that basically existed to hold a bucket under Chinese grad students and collect the patents that fall out, for resale.
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Loɂ ɂerleku asəɂulŋusikraɂə seləɂahina əɂətlahɂun əiŋɂiɂŋa.
Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ.
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alice, about the chances of a specific idea gaining widespread acceptance:
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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:38 pm This could be parsing rules favoring a more parsimonious genitive.
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WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:23 am It is hardly an overstatement that in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, all verbs are irregular.
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rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:31 pmI was about to say this, but to its credit, the Soviet Union really did abolish itself eventually.
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Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:01 amOn a positive note, decision-making currently requires a huge amount of work sorting bullshit or non-bullshit. Academic papers, political science, economics, philosophy... We all suspect a lot of it is bullshit that happens to sound deep, but we can't be sure, so we spend a lot of time doing the triage. ChatGPT provides an easy test. If ChatGPT can produce something similar; it's bullshit.
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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:13 pm The accident was less terrible than it could have been because the crew had two people in it, something the railroads have been trying to change for years.
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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:07 pm "French anti-tobacco advocate" is the most depressing, Sisyphean job title I can think of.
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Another gem from the same post:
Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:07 pm EDIT EDIT: OK, apparently French consumption is only 1% higher than the global average, mostly due to the fact that the average Russian is 43% tobacco by volume.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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chris_notts wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:26 pmI unite the two in the view that Chomsky should probably stick to something outside of both of those areas.