Zompist Bboard Again

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...

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...

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.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 1:10 pmAntepenultimate stress is something which a lot of theories have trouble with.

Yeah, there's a reason they call this phenomenon "stress" I suppose.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

Probably off-topic, but what the hell are "member berries"?

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

BTW, the idea that starving artists are a thing of the past is insane to me. Maybe you should refresh your education in sociology by watching the Rent musical. The characters in "Rent" didn't die from overexerting themselves at art, though. Automating art and leaving them with nothing wou...

I don't know how to phrase "I don't want to work to death" in a way that "artists" understand. There is an enormous gulf between death from overwork and putting everyone in adult daycare. Not sure where you're getting this, but artists and other mental workers are not working th...