Zompist Bboard 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...

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...

Interesting! If you're looking for things to provide more detail on, I'd like to see how the direct-inverse logic works.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

What I I'm trying to understand is why the Quran having a code would be significant. Assuming minor letter combinations in the Quran does have a code in it, why do some people find that so deeply meaningful? I mean, having any kind of secret, purposely encoded meaning in a sacred book would be huge...

....you can't make this up. I hadn't even read this part when i wrote the above. right. everything you say is antisemitism, else i'm antisemitic. in addition, opposing the genocide of certain semites is antisemitic. well, if that's all correct guess i'm antisemitic. it's not tho. The 'Arabs are sem...

I'm surprised there is enough stuff about conlanging out there that ChatGPT actually knows about it :) I've said it before in the AI thread... but beyond the 'cool toy' aspect (which I mean, it is) I don't think generative AI is terribly useful. I'm very skeptical about claims that it's going to wri...

I've said so before, but why not say so again? "Zionism" is, also, an antisemitic dog-whistle. So is, by the way, 'from the river to the sea.' It's hard to hear 'death to all Zionists' without hearing something else. I know people here don't mean either the word or the slogan that way... B...

I won't comment on the protests specifically; I don't know how it is on American campus so can't possibly comment. I have views on what's going on on French campus, but they're so tied to arcane parts of French politics they'll be insanely boring. That being said, a few general comments... Antisemit...