Zompist Bboard Again

yeah, the word hurt means to experience hurt. also to cause hurt. also, the hurt itself, also the act of hurting. english is classical chinese sometimes.

Azoh's gods give me a vibe similar to that of pathfinder's boneyard plane, especially the psychopomp birds and both genders having a moon deity. what would be a good mixture to make white ink/paint for early writing? in my conworld, i want writing to develop with light-colored ink on dark-colored pa...

Yeah, ain't it sweet? I blame Charles de Gaulle for this. (a very interesting bit of french history thanks i enjoyed reading it) man, I wonder if pinochet's anti-politician dealio was informed by degaulle's ideas. i take it degaulle was like super famous amongst enthusiasts of military matters, no?...

Like, I kind of yield, or at least change my position from belief to "it makes sense but it's kinda sussy" regarding the thing about catholics and protestants, the more this thread goes on the more I think about it and there's a few other equally correlated variables, but the base observat...

putain, vous avez so many fascist candidates

A relatively minor point is that there's no real explanatory force to the idea. How's it supposed to work? well, for example it could be the case that protestantism made it so there was more religious refugees, which in turn want to go to the new world simply to be able to practice their religion i...

Thanks guys, we really did dodge a bullet there. Not only won by a large margin: he also won with an unprecedented turnover, 59%. hopefully this signals to the conservatives that no, pinochet apologists who defend genociders don't make competitive candidates for the right wing anymore. I was, of cou...

1) Being Catholic doesn't make you love genocide any less. There is really no excuse to still be arguing about this in the year of our lord 2021. is there not? I didn't realize it's an excuseworthy (i.e. reprehensible) view: is it like an impolite opinion to have? it's not like the idea is that cur...

let me point out that latin america is a lot more varied, biome-wise, than just tropical rainforest: we have mediterranean shrubland, steppes, maritime rainforest, abject desert, nice rolling grasslands, fjords, conifer forest, and that's just in chile! colombia, ecuador, peru and the rest of it is ...

I don't think it's that difficult to imagine a severely throttled rate of migration into the new world: for example you could have another black death in Europe, or some other kind of big deal crisis that makes it so there's not as many loads of europeans waiting to get on boats and become settlers ...

(perhaps especially my variety) Langfocus had a recent video on Chillean Spanish, and it's indeed a weird variety :D. true! I watched it and it's a cool review of our dialect. i like it tho, and not just for being my own dialect: it has a fluidity to it, an economy of movement in the mouth, kind of...

in chilean news, elections are this sunday and it looks like the campaigns are over. parisi has pretty transparently supported kast but there are elements of his party (currently under investigation for campaign finance fraud, but nevertheless the party with the most members on record as of this wee...

I always have the feeling that the ways used to describe grammar are strongly influenced by history and by the geopolitical role of the states that promote this or that language, especially with european languages: if linguists found spanish now, spoken by mountain people somewhere (perhaps especial...

*points at the entirety of latin america* if you mean specifically *english-native north american mestizos in the US*, well... the english of that era really seem to have a strong genocidal bent to them, but you could end up with something very much like the south african coloureds if that bent was ...

Well, they're always bad qua increasing concentration, but there are more factors to consider here: we kind of want businesses who do whatever it is they do poorly to either change or cease operations <since, ceteris paribus, we want human labours to be performed as efficiently as possible, hopefull...

true tbh, but then again there weren't a lot of job possibilities at the time. it was good while it lasted, but that much wage theft is not acceptable no matter who you are. still, it's gonna be a shitstorm. thanks for the good wishes guise =)

tbh it kind of is, i remember a few quotes from the old forum's quote thread were also of this nature. aiming for internetish pithyness temps towards inaccuracy.

I mean, I entirely agree: don't get me wrong, I'd just socialize all means of production in an orderly and well planned out manner and just get to some post-capitalist arrangement inspired by socialism and capitalism but also actually democratic and, therefore, unpredictable: but if we're gonna stic...

Yeah, I think it is. It fits in with Hernando de Soto's work, starting in Peru, on how hard it is for an outsider to legally start up a business. So the people start informal businesses instead, but then they're locked out of the investment and banking systems, etc. oh, yeah, Peru is like suuuper i...

i just called a lawyer to sue my employer. on the one hand, this is a relief since they've abused me for more than a year in various ways, including not paying many thousands of dollars in wages which a lawsuit at this point is the only way i'm ever going to get, and also i have a job offer from els...