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I'm curious if we can compare pro-con arguments allowing artificially-generated child abuse material. Seems to be a practical argument: it's hard to tell, so now law enforcement/society has to split hairs, and a moral argument, not along your black box lines but more like "vice degrades the user."
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I'm curious if we can compare pro-con arguments allowing artificially-generated child abuse material. Seems to be a practical argument: it's hard to tell, so now law enforcement/society has to split hairs, and a moral argument, not along your black box lines but more like "vice degrades the user."
I tore this out of a Seattle neighborhood paper when people were melting down over cider being sold from a garage and cars being politely asked to let pedestrians share a street. Just the rage at someone having fun
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September 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I tore this out of a Seattle neighborhood paper when people were melting down over cider being sold from a garage and cars being politely asked to let pedestrians share a street. Just the rage at someone having fun
It is so easy to fall into hopelessness after seeing our collective decisions to do almost nothing about climate change. Thank you for your work and for reminding us that the people who know the most about climate change have not given up.
August 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is so easy to fall into hopelessness after seeing our collective decisions to do almost nothing about climate change. Thank you for your work and for reminding us that the people who know the most about climate change have not given up.
Thanks to both of you for the replies. So valuable to have these truths when the narrative we non-specialists are submerged in is "oh the ancient world was different"
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Thanks to both of you for the replies. So valuable to have these truths when the narrative we non-specialists are submerged in is "oh the ancient world was different"
This seems to be mostly about modern textbooks overlaying a "happy slave" narrative on the ancient world. The slaves in the Plautus citations are clearly miserable, even if their suffering is played for laughs. Did I miss something?
August 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This seems to be mostly about modern textbooks overlaying a "happy slave" narrative on the ancient world. The slaves in the Plautus citations are clearly miserable, even if their suffering is played for laughs. Did I miss something?
Maybe from "the dreaded lurgy," a Spike Milligan line?
August 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Maybe from "the dreaded lurgy," a Spike Milligan line?
Here's a small project that used etymology and algorithmic understanding to find interesting word pairs, sort of the opposite direction from your idea: danielde.dev/blog/surpris...
Surprising shared word etymologies
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August 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Here's a small project that used etymology and algorithmic understanding to find interesting word pairs, sort of the opposite direction from your idea: danielde.dev/blog/surpris...
The roadside picnic is going to be awesome!
August 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The roadside picnic is going to be awesome!
Me and my friends over here not splitting up
August 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Me and my friends over here not splitting up
Cops are known libs, why else would they call it Back the Blue
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Cops are known libs, why else would they call it Back the Blue
Do love hearing how expensive "I" am when 60% of the amount the contracting company pays goes straight to the agency.
July 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Do love hearing how expensive "I" am when 60% of the amount the contracting company pays goes straight to the agency.
I've enjoyed the comprehensible input approach so far. For practicing speaking, I haven't done these yet but they are on my list: Interview method by Robin MacPherson www.youtube.com/watch?v=twUS... and daily self-recording by Elysse DaVega www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlp...
An Amazing Method For Developing Fluency In A Language By Yourself | My Interview Method
YouTube video by Robin MacPherson
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June 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I've enjoyed the comprehensible input approach so far. For practicing speaking, I haven't done these yet but they are on my list: Interview method by Robin MacPherson www.youtube.com/watch?v=twUS... and daily self-recording by Elysse DaVega www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlp...
At that age, I went to check it out at at the library because I'd liked Rabbit Hill. The librarian kindly suggested I should try another book. Grateful!
May 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
At that age, I went to check it out at at the library because I'd liked Rabbit Hill. The librarian kindly suggested I should try another book. Grateful!
Sorry, all I mean is that I can understand the rule and still be baffled when it comes time to use it. Grammar study can clear up some mysteries. But there's no substitute for practice, even when I try to take a shortcut!
January 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Sorry, all I mean is that I can understand the rule and still be baffled when it comes time to use it. Grammar study can clear up some mysteries. But there's no substitute for practice, even when I try to take a shortcut!
True, but OTOH focusing on the rule is not the same as "getting it". --Speaking as someone who wrote a long paper about a feature I had trouble using in the hopes of understanding it. It did not work.
January 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
True, but OTOH focusing on the rule is not the same as "getting it". --Speaking as someone who wrote a long paper about a feature I had trouble using in the hopes of understanding it. It did not work.
They put out DVDs of some eps of Watch Mr Wizard. Mine were sold by the official site, MrWizardStudios
January 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
They put out DVDs of some eps of Watch Mr Wizard. Mine were sold by the official site, MrWizardStudios
Hindi postpositions keep showing up when I want Hebrew prepositions. Possibly because of the Persian influence in some of Hindi, or more likely because my brain network for Hebrew went stale.
January 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hindi postpositions keep showing up when I want Hebrew prepositions. Possibly because of the Persian influence in some of Hindi, or more likely because my brain network for Hebrew went stale.
I wrote a macro to take a sheet full of text (like a subtitle file) and convert it to a frequency-based list of words for vocab study. Little ping of joy every time I use it. Now, actually learning the words, hm...
January 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I wrote a macro to take a sheet full of text (like a subtitle file) and convert it to a frequency-based list of words for vocab study. Little ping of joy every time I use it. Now, actually learning the words, hm...
I haven't done much but HelloChinese seems good so far.
January 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I haven't done much but HelloChinese seems good so far.
Thanks for pointing us to Jasmine Crockett! Great stuff.
January 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks for pointing us to Jasmine Crockett! Great stuff.
Also the idea that reading it "without all that commentary" is better.
January 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Also the idea that reading it "without all that commentary" is better.
And then later on Lola counsels him through a panic attack (in Destroyer)
December 25, 2024 at 12:07 AM
And then later on Lola counsels him through a panic attack (in Destroyer)
Went to the Musical Instrument Museum on a whim and so glad i did
October 11, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Went to the Musical Instrument Museum on a whim and so glad i did
Series that end too soon! Did the mountain lion make that last jump?
September 4, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Series that end too soon! Did the mountain lion make that last jump?