Welcome to real life: advertisement is seen as filth. People might tolerate it in exchange for something else, but being “targetted” doesn’t make them less filthy; on the contrary, once you get how it’s being targetted at the expense of your privacy, comparing it with dog shit becomes unfair - because dog shit is less worse.

As such I want to see Perplexity bankrupt.

Hexbear started in Reddit, as r/chapotraphouse.

My sis, BIL, and nephew consistently visit us (my mum and me) every weekend, so we all have a meal together, but there’s a catch - we never know if they’re coming for Saturday dinner or Sunday lunch. So Saturday afternoon I’m going to prepare boeuf bourguignon, since it gets tastier once reheated - if they come Sat or Sun that’s what they’re going to eat, then we just need to buy some fresh bread and it’s done. Bonus points that my BIL loves wine stews.

Beyond that it’s all about preparing myself for travelling Tuesday. Going to visit an 80yo aunt, just to check how things are going with her.

For me, the small politeness words are not “thank you”, “sorry”, or “good morning”. They’re “maybe”, “I think”, “perhaps”, “I don’t know”. I respect honest doubt way, way more than I respect dishonest = rushed certainty, and I wish I saw more of that.

I remember that movie!

Be prepared to welcome Discordfugees in the same fashion as the Redditfugees.

It’s exactly what you’re doing, you… marine mammal! [I’m joking.]

Serious now, this Wikipedia page has an amazing definition:

Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate. It disguises itself as a sincere attempt to learn and communicate. Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target’s patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the “sea lion” may seem innocent, they’re intended maliciously and have harmful consequences.

So it’s basically “I’ll keep trying to engage you in a debate, because eventually you’ll lose patience and shut up”.

Yerba mate: coarse milling, radioactive green. 75°C water. No sugar; sometimes I add some peppermint, but that’s it.

Coffee, homemade: black, no sugar. Neither too strong nor too weak, at least for local standards.

Coffee, when going out: either cheap coffee with a small drop of milk, or a good espresso or machiato. In uni times I used to drink half-and-half, with cinnamon and brown sugar, but that’s because my former uni’s cafeteria’s coffee was awful.

I barely drink tea proper (Camelia sinensis), but I’m often drinking other teas - hibiscus, ginger, chamomile, peppermint.

“Personal information fuels much of AI innovation so people need to trust that organisations are using their information responsibly,” it said.

*sigh* Please make me forget that “trusting” is just an euphemism for “gullible”.

Anyway. It’ll get worse over time; for now they claim that your messages aren’t being fed into Meta AI, but that’s bound to change later on.

Props for the dev. In fact because of these news I went to check their games out and find a good free one, Viridi; you build a succulents pot. Basically small version of my succulents/cactuses garden.

I hope you don’t mind that I cross-posted that to !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works.

By “attack animation” I mean that you’d cast, say, exori flam, and the game would draw a fireball over the enemy.

Perfect analogy. I still used /vg/ and very rarely /a/, but nowhere as much as I did before. Methheads moved in, I moved out, and now the house burned.

I think attacks are the only thing seriously animated there. And by “seriously” I mean five frames or so. It was fun, though, at least back then. (The game still exists, but I can’t find it fun any more.)

It could be worse, #1: when my nephew was 4, I built him a house in Minecraft creative mode. And then I hid a lot of TNT below the house; they’d be triggered by the pressure plate near the door. (inb4 it’s common to put a pressure plate near doors in Minecraft, so they open automatically.) He entered the house, and “tttssssssBBOOOOOMMM!”. He started crying. My sister (his mum) was nearby, and begun laughing, then the kid got to cry harder. I wanted to surprise the kid, not to scare him! (Thankfully I kept a copy of the world before rigging the house with TNT. As I loaded the copy he calmed down.)

It could be worse, #2: when I was 16, one of my cousins was 8. I was into a game we mocked as “Paint Online” (Tibia, a MMO). He was learning the ropes of the game, barely out of the beginners’ island. Some random afternoon, he phones me, crying: “[my nickname]!!! HELP MEEEEE!!! I lost my worms, I lost my fishing rod, I lost EVERYTHING!!!”. He died in the game, lost his items, and he was literally crying! I had to stop everything I was doing, log into the game, get a fishing rod + a full stack of worms from my depot, some random food, and give to the kid. Otherwise he would not leave me bloody alone.

Fair point. And frankly, he should’ve done this.

Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

Yeah, nah. At least where I live, the 90s kid would be saying (in Portuguese) “Ô tio! Teu cu que vou pagar mico lendo aquela bagaça!”. Or roughly “Hey boomer fr fr I’m not reading that skibidi, it’s cringe shit”.

It’s a bit of a crack theory, but I think that Early PIE had a vertical system. What’s being reconstructed as *e *o are actually *ə *ä or similar, and there’s a missing third vowel. This system is rather common in languages from the Caucasus, and it’s likely that Early PIE interacted a fair bit with them, making it an areal feature.

I’m saying this based on:

• Almost every single time you see *ē or *ō in a PIE reconstruction, there’s a missing consonant nearby; e.g. *ph₂tḗr “father” missing the nominative *-s. I don’t think those vowels were already present in early PIE, so this reduces the vowel system even further into *e *o.
• Vowel raising and centralisation are way more common than vowel lowering. So why are current reconstructions proposing that Proto-Indo-Iranian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Albanian, Tocharian, Hittite, Proto-Germanic, are all lowering PIE *o into *a, instead of claiming the others do the opposite?
• Under the current reconstructions, almost all IE branches get rid of the syllabic consonants through epenthesis. They almost never do it through simple deletion, even if that’s what you’d expect from typical evolution patterns. There’s a missing vowel there.
• Syllabic consonants (plus *i and *u) oddly gravitate towards weird phonotactics: initial CC, medial CCC+, or final CC. That reinforces my belief that there’s a missing vowel there, and syllable structure is simpler; perhaps even (C)V(C).
• A third vowel being conditionally merged into *e = *ə depending on accent would explain ablaut rather nicely.

moot sold the site to hiro in 2015, but I think your reasoning is valid - it’s possible hiro is not too eager to defend the fascists who infested 4chan, and simply won’t bother to put the site up again.