Zompist Bboard Again

Where you see a sinecure, the rest of us seem faceless machines taking over society and forcing us to play by their inscrutable rules. We have always struggled with tyrants and plunderers of course, but increasingly the beings oppressing us are no longer even mortal or motivated by human concerns. ...

From our perspective, AI and similar technologies are disruptive and disempowering changes imposed by billionaires. Everyday we awake to find the world turned upside down and shaken for loose change by oligarchs. We find ourselves forced out of one field of employment after another, art one day, li...

on the impossible rise of the islamo-leftist sorcerer's apprentice of the great replacement, euphemistically renamed creolisation...... Oh, a pseudo-intellectual technophobe who thinks people should willingly submit to oppressive traditions and claims everything a lot of other people like is "...

I thought my ebook reader had died. But after letting it lie around for a while until its battery was almost empty, it came back to live. Sometimes, it's the small things.

I don't really get the idea of an "overlong book". The only context where I think that concept makes sense is if you're assigned books - in class or something - so you're reading them not because you want but because you have to , and then, there's a book among them that you don't like . I...

xxx wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:42 am

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:28 pm Maybe one way of putting it into perspective is this: in what eras are old people considered out of touch, unable to help with current problems?

not yet this year...

Well, given the number of complaints about having to choose between those two...

platypus: Surprisingly Not A Hoax

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Thank you, zompist.

xxx wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:37 pm in truth, nothing changes,
except circumstances...

This meal is vegetarian, except for the big steak in the middle.

When people talk about history, they sometimes describe this or that time period as "a time of great changes", or "a time of rapid change", or something like that. Which makes me wonder: which was the last time when, in at least some places somewhere in the world, for quite a whi...

Why does it sometimes happen that works of fiction which deal with really long timespans in the lives of their characters - several decades or more - basically make me weep? When that happens, am I, perhaps, weeping for the decades that passed in my own life? I'm not sure about that; I think I remem...

They then said they spoke a "mixed language" (their term). I then said it was nice meeting them and wished them a good evening, to which one of them replied with what I can best render as "ich aa", presumably cognate with StG "ich auch". This sounds very mysterious. Al...

Colorless undead linguists shuffle moaningly.

Big Meat and Milk no Wool (in the same language, sheep are called "Small Meat and Milk and Wool")

next: bumblebee

Zju wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2024 3:40 pm As in "China restaurant" instead of "Chinese restaurant" or "Spain road" instead of "Spanish road"?

Do you mean this Spanish Road? How often do people even talk about that one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Road

Sorry to hear that, Ares Land.

Ah, thank you both!

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:33 am Ordinal numbers are expressed by placing the numbers in genitive case with the nouns qualified before them, in a reverse of cardinal numbers, which are expressed by placing the nouns qualified in genitive case after the numbers.

Interesting approach.

Is there any kind of dementia-like illness from which it is possible to recover? I ask because I wonder whether there have ever been any known cases of people who got something more or less like dementia, recovered from it, and then told the world how it had been like.

Huh? I've never heard of an idea that the east was Germanic before the Roman conquest before. It seems to have originated with Oppenheimer, who claims genetic support for it.. One can connect the idea with the Belgae, whom Caesar says were mostly sprung from the Germans. It meshes nicely with evide...

What I was wondering was how Old English had ended up in the Scottish Lowlands in the first place. The Kingdom of Northumbria. Thank you! The dating and mechanism for the Germanicisation of eastern Britain is not certain, though it seems to have been helped south of the Wall by the settlement of Ge...