Zompist Bboard Again

Raphaël: You seem more reasonable than many, not just going after novelty for the sake of it. We've gone back to watching dvds ourselves when we watch videos.

Yes, that is what Jean Twenge noticed when she compared the generation Z to previous generations at the same age: That's probably true, but I'm not sure the problem is generational... People my age certainly come across as really anxious and worried too. Yes, the proof is generational but the effec...

I believe it's more than just science fiction. I don't know how you feel about that, but it feels we're in the middle of a huge anxiety epidemic. Yes, that is what Jean Twenge noticed when she compared the generation Z to previous generations at the same age: With social media and texting replacing...

I'd argue that in an energy-starved world, this is effectively saying, "Let them eat cake!" Let me know if this is not obvious. Which world is energy-starved? Maybe that might apply to India, but certainly not to anywhere else I've been. When I visited family in South Africa earlier this ...

xxx, WeepingElf, MacAnDail: This is discourse from an alternate reality. We're dying out here. You might not realize this because of the bubbles you're in, but to people working harder than anyone else while going hungry from poverty, you sound no different from: "If we all just lie down and s...

In this discussion, the most important subject missing is the greenest form of energy: none at all. Sobriety is too often forgotten (but less so since the Putin invasion). It obviously is not possible in every circumstance, but in many circumstances we could accomplish tasks without any form of ener...

Ryusenshi wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:07 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 12:33 pm Is French sometimes sung with alveolar trills (kind of like German stage/singing pronunciation)?

(No thanks to you guys, for making me endure the entire bloody song.)

What don't you like? The Marseillaise or Mireille Mathieu or both or something else?

And something for the venting thread: I would like it if making noise after 10PM was banned in practice here. The right of one to make loud noises is the lack of right of their neighbours to concentrate get to sleep. Yeah, personally I would agree. There have been numerous times over the years when...

A while back, I was so dissatisfied with my former employer and lack of job prospects that I gave serious thought to starting a record label (and this in the sense of you-can-hold-it-in-your-hands vinyl). I would call it *h₂stḗr Records , and there would be two sub-imprints: *h₂ŕ̥tḱos for everythin...

Merci tout le monde !

Here's La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu and La mauvaise réputation sung in Réunionese Creole by Danyèl Waro.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:41 am

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:19 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:52 pm Which reminds me, I'd love to see a payment app that's not owned or co-owned by some of the world's most toxic brollionaires.

Is that what cash is?

Kinda complicated to send cash to someone on a different continent.

That's true.

I am now a French citizen!

Ahzoh: Good Luck! See my most recent post in the German politics thread, and additionally another post I plan to write in the thread about my own blog posts. Oh right, I just realized you posted there. That does sound pretty bad, although quite honestly (not to start an Eddythread) it has always se...

Thank you for your answer, though it is a shame that there is little for Scottish Gaelic and I can't seem to access the link you sent. You're welcome. I re-checked the link and it's working fine for me; maybe this alternative version works? https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-11426 I didn't ...

I get endless guff from my friends for my refusal to use Venmo. It annoys me no end that we have 24,509 different payment apps nowadays and they refuse to play nice with each other. I should be able to Zelle you some money which you can receive with Venmo or PayPal or (god forbid) Meta Pay or whate...

If a book's cover shows a photo or drawing of something not really connected to what the book is about, would you see that as false advertising, or as cheating, or as something like that? For instance, if a book's cover shows a photo or drawing of trees, but the book is not actually about trees, or...

That's OK, you can just fire the teachers and use ChatGPT instead. The students who have tried this with me and my colleagues have generally been those who demostrate the least competence. (Apparently some techbro is suggesting just that. It's not the AIs that will kill us, it's the techbrocracy bu...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 10:20 pm Despite boomer memeing electronic music is by far the most soulful genre of music

To each their own. Which memes are these?

I prefer the idea of the farmer's interest parties allying withe the Greens, like in Latvia and Lithuania, rather than staunchly opposing them, like in the Netherlands.

My current job is not renewed for budgetary reasons. On the hand, it's bad news to have less money coming in. On the other, it leaves more time to finish the thesis I started in 2019 and would like finished rather than later. And also more time for preparing for competitive exams. Also, the money co...