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  • Some Slavic languages apparently also have distinct masculine and feminine versions of verbs, which match the speaker if in the first person. Apparently so does Icelandic (to the point where an Icelandic modernist novel was titled “When I Got Pregnant”, though in the masculine form)

  • Tell that to the judge

  • There was a guy from the Cypherpunks community who set such a thing up (in the 90s/00s). IIRC, he was jailed after the courts rejected his defence that he was merely running an innocent betting site.

  • “Too far right for Queensland” is something

  • The artwork looks a bit Funhole

  • He can just pivot to anti-wokeness grift.

  • Vibe coding. Not even once.

  • There’s one thing he can never have, which is enough

  • Apparently the Russian military has advised its soldiers against using it because it’s not secure.

  • The next doors read “civil society” and “democracy”. If the informational environment is flooded with plausible-looking falsehoods, it will be impossible for citizens to form enough of a shared coherent worldview to engage in society.

  • They actually left because they found your fake British accent ridiculous

  • I bet their sunflowers are doing well

  • or “in your pants”, or “prison-style”

  • Iceland has something similar: instead of politicians or illustrious people, their coins feature fish.

  • Didn’t Spanish as the language of the masses (rather than the ruling elite) only come in after independence from Spain?

  • That looks like one of the original Irish jack-o-lanterns before America got to them

  • Unless you go for Cartesian dualist theories about immaterial souls, consciousness of the sort we experience is an artefact of the structure of our brains and nervous systems, which are large in scale and complex. A small blob of human-derived brain tissue is not going to have consciousness, let alone self-awareness and a sense of horror at its predicament, any more than a 555 timer is capable of playing DOOM by virtue of being made of silicon.

  • Who’s going to stop them?