Zompist Bboard Again

If you are motivated by ideals, then you wouldn't be able to recalculate when the situation changes. [...] Having an ideal means holding on to a value and refusing to change it. Sorry to intervene, but the above doesn't hold for my own experience or what I see in history. People's values change all...

There's a grain of truth in what jcb is saying: there's a lot of focus on individual lifestyle changes. But there's not much you can do individually and the less well-off you are, the less options you have. If you gotta drive to work, you gotta drive to work; if the train is too expensive, it's too...

Hello, You may find my doctoral thesis, Étude comparative des pratiques des langues locales dans les diglossies de La Réunion et en Écosse, on any of these links: You may also comment here or on the ResearchGate or Academia pages. https://theses.fr/2025LARE0042 https://theses.hal.science/tel-056770...

Thanks for the congratulations everybody! And thanks to hwhatting for the German corrections. Andy Eagle's synthesis following his review of existing spellings: https://www.evertype.com/books/cts2-eagle.html . I also mentioned that of the blog I participated in: https://www.makforrit.scot/scots/styl...

Also, the vote determining government support may mean unfunding essential research because the public may be unaware of what research exists and is important. And I'd add the same thing about art. I really like what they put on Arte. 80% of what they make availabe is stuff I didn't know existed or...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2026 10:04 am Leider spreche ich kein Französisch, muss ich sagen.

Hier sind die Parolen für ein Leid darüber: https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/nami ... 8e441.html

Hello, You may find my doctoral thesis, Étude comparative des pratiques des langues locales dans les diglossies de La Réunion et en Écosse, on any of these links: You may also comment here or on the ResearchGate or Academia pages. https://theses.fr/2025LARE0042 https://theses.hal.science/tel-056770...

Please take into account that the poorest of the poor have no computers etc. They would not therefore benefit from unpaywalling anything. This might be a bit out of date: even people in Africa have mobile phones. Sure, but not necessarily the children who break their backs digging out cobalt and ot...

We got to this position because Musk bought Twitter. Because videos of genocide were being spread on TikTok, it was bought by corporate media, which put a stop to it. Why would they let adversarial media exist? As a separate post because this is an aside... I really miss pre-Elon Musk Twitter... Bu...

Hello, You may find my doctoral thesis, Étude comparative des pratiques des langues locales dans les diglossies de La Réunion et en Écosse, on any of these links: You may also comment here or on the ResearchGate or Academia pages. https://theses.fr/2025LARE0042 https://theses.hal.science/tel-0567703...

Please take into account that the poorest of the poor have no computers etc. They would not therefore benefit from unpaywalling anything. They would benefit from free access to anything in the building (as well as any public computer and any subscription on it). Also, the vote determining government...

Public libraries have existed continuously for centuries. They don't take up that much space. Even with a dozen libraries, Saint-Denis has much more shops and houses. Also, the uni library offers cheap access to as much as you want for those who work and free for those who don't. Acces is only on fi...

I would like to reduce GAFAM use. What good alternatives are there to iTunes that organise as well? I primarily use VLC and occasionally YouTube playlists (Google) when I want to share. I hear Spotify is better than YouTube, but I never got into it. I use VLC for DVDs but it does not appear have li...

I would like to reduce GAFAM use. What good alternatives are there to iTunes that organise as well? Considering that: 1° Megaupload was shut down and Kim Dotcom was arrested in a raid because of copyright infringement. 2° Sam Altman has admitted that genAI would not exist without copyright infringem...

I prefer physical where possible. Hence we have : 58 linear metres of books 7 of CDs 6 of board games 5 of DVDs 2 of magazines 2 of newspapers 2 of piano less than 1 of cassettes and other instruments However, because of Wikipedia Library, Internet Archive, ResearchGate and Academai.edu among others...

One thing that worries me is that Musk has already committed to spending $200 million on helping the Republicans win the midterms, alongside all the money they're already raising themselves. Despite their currently dire polling, they could easily hold Congress just through extreme outspending. Much...

So now Peru moved to the right-wing, too? Damn. For two reasons, I wouldn't get too worried about this. One, and most important: Peru has had 9 presidents in 9 years... Congress now routinely impeaches presidents it doesn't like. See this article for how this happened. Two, Peruvian political movem...

Congratulations! Our wedding anniversary was also this month.

Happy birthday to both alice and quinterbeck!

I clarify that I announced the birth on the ZBB more than a month after it occurred.

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:24 am

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:23 am the capital letters are a typological convention

Do you perhaps mean a typographic convention?

Yes, I said that. I forgot to reread my message.