Zompist Bboard Again

Ekke wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2026 3:31 am You can find non-palatalized *k, for example, in West Frisian "tsjerke, bjirk, ik" that were palatalized in English (church, birch, Old English iċ).

You also find birk and ik in Scots. (And kirk, which is probably a Norse loan.)

I've always associated the sideways ear thing with Japan. The 1977 Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Hobbit depicts elven ears in the traditional style , but Peter Jackson's adaptation of Lord of the Rings took influence from the 1978 book Faeries, which appears to depict both kinds of ear in line with ...

Meanwhile in reality, Trump has promised adults in the United States $5,000 in dividends from DOGE, $2,000 in dividends from tariffs (because he thinks they're a tax the US levies on foreigners) and $1,000 from expiring ACA subsidies and actually given them $0,000 in dividends from the wind coming o...

Though part of my own ideas about fascism is that it has both poor supporters who see it as a great way to stick it to rich snobs and rich supporters who see it as a great way to keep the rabble under control. Does this line up with the way people who weren't explicitly in favour of Hitler still re...

Deleting website data for verduria.org seems (touch wood) to have fixed the issue.

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Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2026 2:57 pm Only partly related: Congratulations, People of Britain! Not only have you become an Islamic country, but you've also managed it to abolish your Monarchy in the process!

Alhamdulillah, innit.

I prefer physical books, but not dogmatically. GURPS has almost entirely gone digital, for example, so I have physical copies of the Basic Set and GURPS Powers but a larger library of PDFs. I also have a copy of GURPS Mecha which I picked up on a whim - the third edition GURPS library is much less d...

In the US, it's curious that the far right seems to have no taste for street battles. You get some shootings, of course, but that's a statistical blip, nothing like Mussolini's blackshirts. Maybe it's the TV generation's version of fascism: let ICE do the dirty work, they're too busy looksmaxxxing....

If I close the Safari window, open a new one and return to verduria.org, it'll look like I'm logged in, but if I click on a forum it'll go back to asking me to log in or sign up.

Popular culture has become noticeably more conservative in recent years as well. Not that long ago, you could find openly LGBT characters even in children's media like Steven Universe I think that's a failure of your ability to research more than anything else. There's a sequel series to Steven Uni...

It is at least consistent in the game. 後半 終了 直前 に 韓国 に PK を きめ られ た 日本 。 アジア 最高 を かけ た この 一戦 。 がんばれ 日本 ！！！！ 得意 の カウンター を ふうじ られ た ルーマニア 。 しかし 、 フリーキック から の 得点 力 を 敵 に みせ つけ る チャンス だ 。 スーパースター フェルナンド へ の きびしい チェック に なやむ アルゼンチン 。 しかし 、 試合 を きめ る の は やはり フェルナンド の キック だ 。

I definitely expect that he will run again if he's still alive and the courts could easily contrive some reason why he can run again. The 22nd amendment says nothing about running for a third term or even receiving the nomination, only that one cannot be elected for more than two terms. That seems ...

I came across this in a video game about soccer/football. メキシコ の ディフェンス に 悩む デンマーク 。 早い クロスボール から チャンス を 掴み たい ところ だ 。 What's throwing me off is that structurally the first sentence looks like a bare noun phrase ("Denmark, who are struggling against Mexico's defense") but it's the main cla...

I also have to think of that there are two different kinds of recorders in English: one to play music, and one to capture it. The reason for this is that before anyone had had the idea of using a needle to etch a tiny spiral into a rotating wax cylinder, record meant "practice music". (If...

zompist wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2026 4:49 am Count Binface almost beat the Liberal Democrats. Not sure what that's a sign of.

Splitting the Monster Raving Loony vote was a reckless choice.

They could try to buy out all the ISPs. The ISPs already pulled a big move when the business leaders weren't openly fascist yet. Remember the net neutrality debate? IIRC the ISPs already allocate more bandwidth to big websites like Facebook. They could say that anyone other than Facebook and friend...

humanity has managed to end [bad things in the past], and that makes me confident that we will overcome such things as AIs clogging web sites with their scrapers and flooding the media with slop My main concern is the possibility that the people with the power to effect the decision may very well p...

I know X has talked about how they handle LLM scrapers on TCRF (wikis, like forums, are particularly vulnerable to being DDoSed by LLM scrapers because they're rude and indiscriminately access pages that aren't cached and so need to thrash the database) by simply blocking the entirety of the cloud p...

Thanks to Gemini AI […] I've found another possible match Bahahahahaha! Yeah, you and AI are a match made in heaven, you both like spewing meaningless gibberish. *ńila is properly Finno-Permic rather than Uralic, since it's not attested in Hungarian, which makes it as dubious a choice for a Uralic ...

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 3:07 pm Do I have to remind you that the PRC invaded Tibet? Then brought in Han settlers to create a numerical advantage.

Also residential schools for Tibetan children, which I would expect any USian or Canadian with a familiarity with their country's history of imperialism to recognise.