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Pavlovian is an adjective identifying a behavioural response by reference to its progenitor. A pavlova refers to many types of meringue based desserts, named for but not created by a ballerina and is a common noun.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Pavlovian is an adjective identifying a behavioural response by reference to its progenitor. A pavlova refers to many types of meringue based desserts, named for but not created by a ballerina and is a common noun.
New Zealand has no deserts. Maybe Palmy North.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
New Zealand has no deserts. Maybe Palmy North.
Known locally as 'pav', I was surprised to find its inclusion by the mysterious cabal of NYT lexical gatekeepers. But a desert it is not, although it has certainly been served in many Australian ones.
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Known locally as 'pav', I was surprised to find its inclusion by the mysterious cabal of NYT lexical gatekeepers. But a desert it is not, although it has certainly been served in many Australian ones.
To be fair, they also despise anyone in STEM who corrects their poor apprehension of these disciplines. Wannabe jocks without physicality or skill; pretend nerds without acumen or insight.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
To be fair, they also despise anyone in STEM who corrects their poor apprehension of these disciplines. Wannabe jocks without physicality or skill; pretend nerds without acumen or insight.
If you'll permit, I dont think Madison was incorrect. Liberty is necessary for pluralism, but not sufficient to sustain it. Free and comprehensive civic education, truly universal and compulsory suffrage, reduction of economic inequality - all equally important to real pluralism.
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you'll permit, I dont think Madison was incorrect. Liberty is necessary for pluralism, but not sufficient to sustain it. Free and comprehensive civic education, truly universal and compulsory suffrage, reduction of economic inequality - all equally important to real pluralism.
But richer dirt. Loam, maybe. The ground's the limit.
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
But richer dirt. Loam, maybe. The ground's the limit.
Butter for fat. Dogs and cats better make scarce.
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Butter for fat. Dogs and cats better make scarce.
Circle beard is corporate attire. Goatee is left-the-commune, still-in-a-cult. Add a stovepipe to it, you have straight 19th-C industrialist. The perfect midway point. Lesson is, let the hat do the talking.
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Circle beard is corporate attire. Goatee is left-the-commune, still-in-a-cult. Add a stovepipe to it, you have straight 19th-C industrialist. The perfect midway point. Lesson is, let the hat do the talking.
I am impressed at your defence of a strategy that is arguably the bare minimum necessary to properly tailor an algorithm, given your choice not to participate in the nauseating force-fed horror of it all. I'm also sorry that you will be crucified for it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I am impressed at your defence of a strategy that is arguably the bare minimum necessary to properly tailor an algorithm, given your choice not to participate in the nauseating force-fed horror of it all. I'm also sorry that you will be crucified for it.
Especially when one omits the final 'n' from an indefinite article that deserves one.
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Especially when one omits the final 'n' from an indefinite article that deserves one.
Brevity may occasionally be wit, but enforced brevity does not a epigram make.
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Brevity may occasionally be wit, but enforced brevity does not a epigram make.
I'm also very worried. My unfounded optimism hopes, though I am one of the unbaptised, that those who are believers can recognise the venal charlatans worshipping at the altar of Mammon conducting this pogrom do not share their beliefs.
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I'm also very worried. My unfounded optimism hopes, though I am one of the unbaptised, that those who are believers can recognise the venal charlatans worshipping at the altar of Mammon conducting this pogrom do not share their beliefs.
Point taken and well made. I was attempting to highlight a situation where the sciences enjoyed fertile ground in the midst of the expansion of empire whose power was arguably more attached to religious dogma.
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Point taken and well made. I was attempting to highlight a situation where the sciences enjoyed fertile ground in the midst of the expansion of empire whose power was arguably more attached to religious dogma.
This is a pretty Eurocentric take on this, not to mention incorrect about its causes. Humanity flourished outside the ruins of Rome.
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This is a pretty Eurocentric take on this, not to mention incorrect about its causes. Humanity flourished outside the ruins of Rome.
At least for Europe. The Islamic world saw the birth of a flourishing culture of art, science and literature.
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
At least for Europe. The Islamic world saw the birth of a flourishing culture of art, science and literature.
Who needs COD or GTA when you can just join ICE?
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Who needs COD or GTA when you can just join ICE?
Slint. 100% great. Not a single misstep.
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Slint. 100% great. Not a single misstep.
Not a problem. Your Neuralink implant will transmit our Leader's rambling and your dining partners' approbation direct-to-cortex. No one need ever speak again. What we're saying is clam up or no clam chowder.
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Not a problem. Your Neuralink implant will transmit our Leader's rambling and your dining partners' approbation direct-to-cortex. No one need ever speak again. What we're saying is clam up or no clam chowder.
Sincere ignorance. If ChatGPT just confessed that it just didn't know, I'd buy it a beer. Up there with the most attractive human traits of all time.
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Sincere ignorance. If ChatGPT just confessed that it just didn't know, I'd buy it a beer. Up there with the most attractive human traits of all time.
Catch you 'round, wolfhound.
Ciao ciao, chow chow.
Ciao ciao, chow chow.
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Catch you 'round, wolfhound.
Ciao ciao, chow chow.
Ciao ciao, chow chow.
A sad day for all those universal donors who just want to share they're typo negative.
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A sad day for all those universal donors who just want to share they're typo negative.
This is Eugenics I can get behind. Or is that Eugenidics?
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is Eugenics I can get behind. Or is that Eugenidics?
Which would make social media "digital lead" (growth suppressant/low-grade poison/virtual pencil) if not for homonymy rendering it a position description.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Which would make social media "digital lead" (growth suppressant/low-grade poison/virtual pencil) if not for homonymy rendering it a position description.