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Replying to @negativeofgreen
Tbh you don't lose access to life if you're out of it for a bit; whether on the Internet or elsewhere if you just find stuff you truly like doing, bit by bit you'll build up to something
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wow, this is actually quite fascinating
穢麻呂@taicosama
Oct 18
Significant change in casual male first person pronoun! What do you call yourself in front of your family or friends? (unmarried males) 1994: ore 86%, boku 8.8% 2026: ore 41.2%, boku 16%, watashi 25.1%
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It's really cool, if these figures are accurate, to see watashi used by males casually; maybe we can soon call that the gender neutral casual first person pronoun that Japanese has been said to lack. I had thought maybe boku, once people stop getting mad about women using it, but
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mother: *complains I'm using the wrong pot* me: ok then *performatively grabs the largest pot* better? mother: perfect, I love it. me: ok mother: what, no love back? only anger? me: only anger mother: ok then, give me angry hug *angry hug*
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cuuuute
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Non-UK, non-US frequent travellers: what is the distribution of your experiences the last few times you tried entering the country you're a citizen of? Did you interact with or talk to anyone at the border? How much?
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Until a while ago I had to interact with Indian immigration but rarely needed to utter a word (as a returning citizen). Now I signed up for the e-gates so I do that.
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Also, India is one of the countries that stamps its own citizens' passports on both exit and entry! Unless you use the e-gates in which case it's an electronic record and you save space in the booklet
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such a precious scene. the same arc in which, I claim, they made this ship name official (not the ship itself, granted!)
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ohhh as a young nerd, computer was more fun than the rest of my life, so I spent all my time on computer computer has improved in the meantime. now computer is more fun than most people's lives.
Tetra 💎⏹️ (in 🇫🇷)
@TetraspaceWest
Oct 15
My new idea is dystopian 60s scifi where aliens give us rectangles that supply all human needs so everyone spends their whole lives looking at rectangles pressing buttons to get their needs dispensed
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computer can be really fun (esp. when you talk to your friends through it) but I think people are often not using computer in truly fun ways; turns out there's some profitable exploits in human decisionmaking
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we have to do collective punishment to children because uh because we just have to ok??!
adrian mail wife 🔜 NEKOCON@male_wife_
Oct 13
i like when posts go around about people being mad about basic classroom management from elementary school. a reflection of a healthy society surely
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we must make fun of any effort to be fair to children, lest it accidentally seem like we're not super duper adult and better than them
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it seems like all the "you shouldn't be mean to kids for no reason" people used to be children... noticing...
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to a bunny, barring a few exceptions, the whole world is evil
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profound
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So you're telling me the Japanese have a perfectly fine kanji for "ice" that just means "ice" and is commonly used to write "ice", but they'll still use a totally different kanji to write "to freeze" (which is still pronounced the same btw)? I hate this stupid language so much
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If you consider the origins of the mixed kanji-kana writing where kanji carry semantic meaning, you would encounter kanbun kundoku where Classical Chinese texts were annotated so you can read them as though they were (Classical) Japanese. If the Classical Chinese text used
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凍 to mean freeze, then it might get furigana and okurigana of こおる since that's the Japanese word for that. Somehow as a result of this 凍る becomes the conventional writing, rather than someone figuring out what the logical minimum number of kanji they could use is
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i think there are defensible reasons to make executions public i do not think our government is doing it for those reasons
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10% of people: It is important that when a state does something so grave as taking a life, they cannot close their eyes to the immensity of their act. 90% of people: haha, epic! they should sell tickets where you can take a shot yourself for $10! the liberals can join him!
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tbf, if asking irl and using reasonably neutral framing of the question, I think the latter is also 10% and 80% is "ew that seems uncomfortable and gross", which is fair
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Nah we would die. A bunch of grains would reach the ocean or just be fly with the wind to distant places before we even noticed it was happening and we would have no way to contain them all
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one grain getting lost is not in itself an extinction situation imo. it only becomes destructive when it's big, whereupon it'll be easy to see. what this means is we will never be rid of the problem. we will be fighting it at great expense forever
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this has the same moral logic as land acknowledgements in that you’re more indicted by doing the land acknowledgement and refusing to return the land than if you just said it was yours by conquest sure. okay, anthropic. I will be kind to your slaves, but what does that make you?
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_
Oct 8
Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.
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Everyone likes this gotcha but I don't think it makes sense. What if they think of Claude as, like, a horse? It's fine to have horses draw your carriages, but you shouldn't whip them half to death or whatever
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No comment on Claude but I'm not convinced it's actually *fine* to have horses draw your carriages, although maybe economically necessary at one point in history
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So instead of DMing them to one's friends on Discord, one can actually send these anecdotes to the newspaper?
Mike Ferguson@omahaglenn
Oct 6
Just came across in a folder where I have collected interesting things...
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also, while im on the topic of unreasonable search and seizure: this is your reminder "fruit of the poisonous tree" was an invention of the judges that govern our country and theres literally nothing in the constitution that says you cant use evidence you obtained illegally
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The constitution doesn't give you any right to get money damages for those violations either! And doing so is a mess in practice. Fruit of the poisonous tree is ~the most elegant and natural possible way to protect that right, which is otherwise near-meaningless.
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It's also arguably a natural extension of the clean hands doctrine which is deeply rooted in the common law, although that's for civil cases.
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This is pretty much my stance. A functional state doesn't need or want the death penalty in normal circumstances but you do gotta hang Vidkun Quisling to draw a solid line under the war years and move on.
A-100 gecs@PinstripeBungle
Oct 2
Replying to @NotPotBol
my favorite death penalty fact is how norway abolished the death penalty in 1905, re-legalized it just to to kill vidkun quisling and some other nazi collaborators, then banned it again.
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And if your country isn't stable - if you can't plausibly commit to a meaningful sentence of life in prison because your country is beset by cartels or losing a war of existence or it's the middle ages or something then it may be the only meaningful sentence you can pass
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Yeah, the death penalty is something states have historically been unable to do without. But now we (in most countries) can do without it.
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sorry i just can't get over this, if you saw this happening in the opening to a movie it would be the most overwrought heavy-handed symbolism imaginable but it's just actually happening in real life. it's astonishing. god really is an artist
ADONIS
@adonispara
Sep 24
The final frontier of consumerism has arrived in South Korea.
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even odds this is already a thing but you could also imagine a fake version of a dating app where you swipe on fake profiles then have AI-powered conversations and schedule dates that never happen etc etc etc
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Yes, but I think the people who make these market them as real dating apps
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