Zompist Bboard Again

I have written a guide to zeptoscript over the last few days or so and also implemented classes for non-"object" types to enable the implementation of words such as show ( value -- string ), for converting any value into a human-readable string; hash ( value -- hash ), for turning any valu...

I think you don't get it because Zionism does not mean what you think it means. Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish homeland at about the current location of Israel, nothing more, nothing less. You will find pretty much any kind of opinion on Gaza, or the West Bank settlements among...

There's probably more agreement than disagreement in this thread... however, insisting on viewing 150 years of Jewish/Palestinian history through the lens of Netanyahuism is not just unhelpful, but rather ugly. What people are pointing out is that the Jews of 1945-48 were refugees that no one wante...

But if you hold that "Israel has a right to exist" in that sense, surely Palestine has a right to exist too.

I would have said that back then it would have been more moral to try to convince the US to end its Jewish quotas than to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine and drive out the Palestinians who already lived here. You’re not wrong there. But what if the Americans turn around and say ‘no, we won’t take ...

All these things were horrible, but the key thing is that did they justify ethnically cleansing the land that they had just immigrated to so as to turn it into an ethnostate? And yes, one can argue that "they were there first", but that no more justifies that than that Native Americans be...

All these things were horrible, but the key thing is that did they justify ethnically cleansing the land that they had just immigrated to so as to turn it into an ethnostate? And yes, one can argue that "they were there first", but that no more justifies that than that Native Americans bei...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:32 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am An elderly friend of the family is in the hospital after a stroke. I don't know her that well personally, but I know her husband fairly well.

Turns out the husband of the couple had a stroke a day or two after his wife did. He's in the hospital, too. When it rains...

Sorry to hear!

Just yesterday my brother and my other brother's girlfriend got into a pretty serious car crash. My brother sustained a concussion and a minor injury to his spleen while my brother's girlfriend sustained two broken limbs, a shattered pelvis, marrow on her lungs and a more serious concussion. Both w...

Nice!

T'kwga th'Khiw, tuwthow, yw'h m'yighyigh cticth tati quglqugl nh'tayw'h ti. Cticth tati ghn'gon tayw'h. Pa n'afh cticth fh'glak ti, wge ne'h, nh'mmtefw'nyuih, tom nh'mmtefw'nyuih on fifyh, nh'foy m'tefw'nyuih pa p'nenh, nh'qogl. Nh'qogl f'togh tak'he fw'nyuih toq. Tak'he fw'nyuih toq ph'tak'he wgut...

Nort, are you deliberately trying to summon Cthulhu?

That also raises the question of why do Jews uniquely have a right to a nation-state? Certainly if they have a right to a nation-state, so do Palestinians, and so do countless other minority groups across the world, ranging from Basques to Tibetans. Yet we see fewer people (although there are some)...

- Not just one, but two 1:6-scale Mr. Clean action figures (still in their boxes) Did anyone actually specify how tall Mr. Clean is? The text that came with those figures, perhaps? By that you could determine the height of Mr. Clean by measuring the height of the Mr. Clean action figure and multipl...

I wish the solution to global antisemitism was as simple as "give the Jews a nation-state", but it really isn't. Without the support of the USA, would Israel even still exist? And if that's the case, then for Jews to be safe in Israel they have to be safe in the USA as well. An antisemiti...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:31 am - Not just one, but two 1:6-scale Mr. Clean action figures (still in their boxes)

Did anyone actually specify how tall Mr. Clean is?

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:54 am I have coined the term name protraction (German Namenverschleppung) for this.

I just googled Namenverschleppung and came out with some uses in publications of this very word.

If time travel were possible without requiring causality loops, how was Hitler never assassinated by a time traveler?

"want": [wɒ̃ʔ(t)] "wanna": [wɒ̃ɾ̃ə(ː)~[wɒ̃ːə̯̃] "wash": [wɒʃ] "water": [wɒɾʁ̩ˤ(ː)~[wɒːʁˤ] "wasp": [wɑsp] "watch": [wɒʔtʃ] "watt": [wɑʔ(t)] "wand": [wɑ̃ːnt], [wɑ̃ːnd] when followed by a vowel or semivowel "wander&quo...

I have observed the difference between using not to and to not , and to me it is a register difference; while the former is preferred in higher registers, in everyday speech I prefer the latter. Also, there are forms in everyday speech like have to where placing not before to is extremely marked and...