Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:01 pmTis true, but I tend to roll my eyes whenever a company tries to market themselves as "socially aware" regardless (obviously they need better propaganda).

Same here. Experience tells me that corporate for profit organizations tend to focus more on self-image.

Macron apparently only won decisively among old people. Kind of, but that's because Mélenchon won among young people. Here's the breakdown: 18-24: Mélenchon 34%, Macron 25%, Le Pen 17% 25-34: Mélenchon 31 , Macron 22, Le Pen 27 35-49: Le Pen 29, Macron 22 , Mélenchon 20 50-64: Le Pen 29, Macron 25 ...

So it looks like most people on the left did try that tactic... It didn't work. Mélenchon got a very good score.. but the finalists are Le Pen and Macron just as expected. I'll vote for Macron, but I'll admit the prospect of yet again voting for a guy I despise just to keep the fascists out does no...

zompist wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:50 pm It was a joke, my dude.

I knew

(Dialects... oh man, why does anyone have dialects... just makes more work for linguists and conlinguists!) Because, unless all the speakers of a given language interact on a regular basis, speakers of languages are bound to create their own expressions, and that's not counting the general drift in...

Vijay wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:06 pm Yay! Now all we need is Yiuel's translation, and we're done!

It should be done during next week. FR to EN shouldn't be too difficult.

The reviews of Cats are hilarious. Every year, it seems there's one inexplicably awful movie that all the critics decide to pour their creativity into reading to filth and this year it's the singing/dancing CGI furryfest. Even the ads for it venture into cannot unsee territory. I saw the preview wh...

Canadian PM appointed a "Minister of Middle Class Prosperity".

I kid you not. It is real. I would be laughing if it weren't so sad a position.

First, the effects of deregulation take time to appear. While Reaganomics and Thatcherism has been going on for nearly four decades now, their impact (impoverishment of a section of the population) took a full generation to appear in the radars. I haven't lived in Thatcher-era Britain, but from all...

(speaking of Britannia Unchained) I've never understood how deregulation advocates can exist outside the United States. All they need to do is look at the arch-deregulators across the Atlantic to see that it isn't a good idea. It's as if they're watching someone die slowly of lung cancer, and advoc...

I usually treat a Twitter heart as a
"I want to positively rate the message so it gets favored by the Grand Tweet Algorithm" thing.

mèþru wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:39 pmAs for Canada, I wonder if the new results will make Trudeau reconsider his earlier switch against proportional represenation, which would ensure Liberals and NDP don't work as spoilers to each other.

Do you expect rationality from a PM that has been more about PR than coherent policy?

Vijay wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:18 pm Yiuel Raumbesrairc, are you okay with that (since this means we don't know when you'll get the text for Team 2)?

Holy crap how did we manage to do this in just a week last time

Yeah, I definitely can wait.

Sorry to all, I have been delayed by... becoming sick as I received the text.

I got better, did it, sent it to Nerulant. It won't be as Evil as I thought it would be. The text didn't have much to give in terms of neologisms on which I could make people cringe.

Looks like over in Canada, Justin Trudeau got reelected, but without an outright majority. For someone who doesn't know that much about Canadian political traditions, it's interesting that once it became clear who would get how many seats, the CBC announced that there would be a Liberal minority go...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:17 am OK, I'll start contacting the people who have volunteered to do the last link. If you haven't volunteered previously, feel free to do so now.

Gimme it.

I can't wait to get it and make Nerulent cry for mercy.

I should probably read it.

I can translate from German into Catalan, Spanish, French, or Irish with confidence and a bunch of others (including Standard Chinese) if accuracy isn’t really an issue. It would be fun to have some nonstandard varieties. I could translate into Cajun French and out of Québécois, for instance. I cou...

In the land of maple syrup, poutine, nanaimo bars and kraft dinner, 40 days of campaign will lead us to elect the next government that shall lead 35 million tatas for another four years (hopefully). So, is Western Alberta and Countryside Ontario pissed off enough of the selfiogenic J. Trudeau, leadi...