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subtooting a N·Y·Times graphic 

ah yes, famed middle eastern country, The United States

in fairness the reason we have to call it “Latin” is because “Roman” contrasts with “Italic”

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wikipedia talk pages are FULL of pedants convinced that “the Latin alphabet” means not “the system of letters spread by the Romans and adopted widely across Europe and other regions” but, specifically, “the system of letters used to write the Latin language”

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« I am skeptical about the assertion that this is "a letter of the Latin alphabet". Since when did Latin ever have pharyngeals? Or voiced fricatives for that matter? Unless I am very badly misinformed, someone must have added (or proposed adding) this letter at some later point in time for some purpose entirely unrelated to Latin. »

@aescling but what about all the raccoons who can’t transform?

ppl complain about the industry pushing artists to write songs which are more tiktok-friendly or whatever, as tho it’s a sign of how bad music is these days, but dawg, in 2003 they added a male rapper to “Bring Me To Life”

@chr furry setting but humans are used in a specifically dehumanizing manner, for example cops are humans and not furries

RTF

@aschmitz kind of neither, in the sense that i’m talking less about passive eyewitnesses to events and more about events which require social context and collaboration to attain meaning

(we just watched “The Wedding Banquet”, which involves a lot of people lying to each other in a way which actually turns out mostly ok)

i don’t actually think it’s necessary that every person share the same story of what happened, or that any of those stories actually be objectively true

@coriander “morality is what happens in the story, not how that story engages with the real world”

okay but surely one of the reasons why there are so many similarities between the internet of today and the internet of the 90’s is because the 90’s weren’t that long ago

there’s no way an actual engineer wrote this blog post right

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« My task was to enable the chat to recognize a user’s project dependencies, allowing it to provide magical answers when the user poses a question. » just what every software engineer loves… magic…

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github i don’t care that you keep trying to get me to use your shitty a·i software but it is very concerning to me as a user of your product that you keep talking about how YOUR ENGINEERS use your shitty a·i software

@coriander i mostly played mass effect alone in a friends apartment in the winter of my senior year of undergrad, maybe this explains some things

@coriander mass effect is a great game for playing when you are depressed and just want to drive depressedly around a boring space rock in a weird buggy with bad controls because the universe is meaningless and mostly devoid of life but you need to find more minerals

there is more to the game than that but y’know they really nailed that bit

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