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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3751
- Views: 457806
Re: Random Thread
Oh, of course. My parents were born in the 1920s and were still buying music albums in the 1980s. Nothing any of the kids wanted to hear, and they never bought anything resembling a rock album. Your parents were born that long ago? I always had the impression that you were born in the sixties or se...
- Tue May 28, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869639
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Always they look good in some combinations and ugly in others. And it's hard to make them look good while following my constraints, such as always having penultimate stress on the verb. Same here more or less. One of the big challenges in my polysynthetic conlang is getting the inflectional suffixe...
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 15032931
Re: Venting thread
Thanks for the suggestions, but given the sheer size and grotesquery of this scar, I fear that skin cream may not suffice. It would probably take completely novel technology to fix something like this. Biologically speaking, scars mean the complete the loss of many key skin features like hair follic...
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 15032931
Re: Venting thread
Thanks. I should be fine medically as there are no signs of infection. Vain as it might sound, it's the scar that worries me. The scrape on my shoulder has formed into a lumpy, leathery expansive of discolored flesh like rhinoceros hide crossed with crème brûlée . Does anyone have some practical sug...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 15032931
Re: Venting thread
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.
- Sun May 05, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869639
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
While people here rush to smear tech critics as Heideggerian fascists, take a look at what techies are plotting . Suffice to say, I cannot ever recall any of the tech critics I follow planning anything like that. Quite the contrary, they regard such policies with abject horror. Tell me again who the...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869639
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Despite my best efforts, the accent system in my conlang refuses to work. Every attempt to make it interesting and aesthetically pleasing simply results in contrivance and contradiction. I really want to avoid the plodding thud of stress while also avoiding the complication of tone. Pitch accent see...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 15032931
Re: Venting thread
While running to clock out at work on time, I slipped and scraped my left arm, leaving some horrible wounds that will become grotesque scars. Hopefully I got them cleaned in time to avoid infection, but they will leave some massive and conspicuous scars, a centimeter wide and several centimeters lon...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 557
- Views: 273269
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
For some reason, I cannot get into irc.sorcery.net. It keeps saying "Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it?" even though it's the same host I've always used.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3751
- Views: 457806
Re: Random Thread
You live in Germany in the winter, Raphael. You should be putting entire salmon in a blender just to get your vitamin D levels up to merely inadequate. Then how did people survive winters in Germany before modern medicine or food distribution? OK, everyone, I need a second opinion: I had a general ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Replies: 11
- Views: 827
Re: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Probably off-topic, but what the hell are "member berries"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQJKTc3nM Well ok. I have never actually watched Southpark so I didn't get the reference. Pretty much everyone I know considers the show intensely bigoted and reactionary, for what it's worth.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Replies: 11
- Views: 827
Re: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Probably off-topic, but what the hell are "member berries"?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
You can forget about people abandoning tradition and learning true facts through Marxist literature once that happens. Be careful not to oversell your point; I doubt there are many "true facts" which are only found in Marxism. That was meant in response to Rotting Bones claiming that one ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
All this has given me a brilliant idea. I will enter the Tour de France on a motorcycle. If the judges refuse me entry, I will denounce them as small-minded technophobes fighting progress or even Heideggerian crypto-fascists. Your suggestion is not analogous to banning motorcycles from one race. It...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
This is correct. The website makes a point of explaining how little they actually use AI for. As far as I understand, This project uses one model to create a 3D model of the convoluted scroll (‘segmentation’), and then another one to identify whether each individual pixel has an ink speck in it or ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
All this has given me a brilliant idea. I will enter the Tour de France on a motorcycle. If the judges refuse me entry, I will denounce them as small-minded technophobes fighting progress or even Heideggerian crypto-fascists. Should people who do scholarship by analysing photographs share any prizes...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2108648
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
One of my pet peeves is when people treat the word "schwa" as an alternate name for the STRUT vowel https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/schwa.png Meanwhile for the longest time I was genuinely confused by descriptions of English vowels listing the schwa and STRUT vowels as separate sounds. They ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
It's more precise than the average "academic" terminology. Trust me, the theory of distrusting tech is based on Heideggerian nostalgia, the same nostalgia for rural Germany that led many to support pointless genocide. I believe I posted this here before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 737
- Views: 139734
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
People who haven't made it big in art yet like alynnidalar and I do support it. It's not my fault that Americans associate the workers' movement with Heideggerian left-Nazism. Do you really think people who value the arts and believe humanity rather than machines should design and create our cultur...