I blocked Kirby aaaages ago cause they were a huge sophist about carnism, they came across as a real fart smeller master debater, a true Redditor in spirit. So it does not surprise me that Kirby has turned out to have it out for intersex people, too. It’s the exact sort of possessive casual cruelty and “conveyor belt” mentality towards fellow human beings I was trying to warn about. So if people have grown wise to this character and they’ve been banned from Lemmygrad since I last had the displeasure of interacting with them, I’m glad. If they’re doing this sort of pathetic sock puppetry out of a weird obsession, it’s risible.

Sounds a bit like the POV Gun from the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie, which I have wished was real more times than I can count.

“French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s” is referring to chapter 9 of A Crime Called Freedom: The Writings of Os Cangaceiros, Volume One (text version, audio version). I’m pretty sure that zine was the first work of theory I ever read, and although I don’t see myself as an anarchist anymore, it was still formative for me and I still recommend checking it out.

I’ve had a blast rewatching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with my net-friends lately. Is it the best kids’ cartoon ever made? Certainly not: there’s more than enough to criticize about it, but flaws and all, it is still my favorite! The characters are fun and the world really captures your imagination, and it and its fandom were a big part of my life for a long time.

Very interesting, I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on it.

My favorite part has to be just the “Gulf of Hate”, like this map was getting in on the Gulf of Mexico renaming memes over a century early.

Yes, it’s literally just the word fucking spelled in the Hebrew alphabet: fe-alef-qof-yod-nun-gimel. Because the great trouble of bringing a liturgical language back from the dead as a vernacular, despite the conventions of your religion saying you really shouldn’t… Is that you don’t really end up with many vulgarities to work with. Thus Modern Hebrew vulgarity as far as I’m aware primarily consists of loanwords from Arabic, Yiddish, and more recently English; or using normal words as euphemisms, probably influenced by the settlers’ first languages; or otherwise taking the handful of even remotely vulgar words of Biblical Hebrew and stretching them thin. So Modern Hebrew vulgarity feels about as LARPy to me as Esperanto vulgarity, because that’s basically what Modern Hebrew is: a constructed language.

Really, though, the even greater trouble is that anti-colonial language revitalization efforts will inevitably run into the exact same problem of being absolutely barren of obscenities. Like if you’ve listened to the Irish-language rap song “C.E.A.R.T.A” by Kneecap you might’ve noticed that they drop the F-bomb in English several times, on top of using other English-language vulgarities in an otherwise Irish-language song. It’s kinda sad to me, but it doesn’t feel as LARPy to me as Modern Hebrew’s use of English-language vulgarities — almost like the revival of Hebrew happened in a radically different sociopolitical context than the ongoing revival of Irish! Not to mention that Irish has never completely died.

I can also only judge Modern Hebrew so much for saying “fucking” when basically the exact same thing happened in Norwegian, a language abounding in its own homegrown vulgarities, which has at no point been even close to dead. Like I still roll my eyes whenever people say “føkk” or “føkkings” here, because I find it kinda cringey for people to use foreign vulgarities like that (said as if I don’t sometimes use L2 vulgarities myself)… But it still happens whether I like it or not, because English is apparently just that powerful.

It reminds me of the “American reservation” bit on this 1916 map intended to represent Turtle Island if Germany won WWI:

Also, I am struck by the sheer poetry of פאקינג, it’s a true representative of the beauty of Modern Hebrew.

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.

I don’t think replacing the current two arbitrary hard borders cutting ~70 Indigenous homelands in half, thereby preventing the Native citizens in these border regions from fully exercising their rights and traditional ways of life… With >100 arbitrary hard borders cutting I don’t even know how many Indigenous homelands into halfs or thirds or quarters… Would improve the quality of life of most Natives. Nor would it improve the quality of life of, really, anyone else in the region.

On the other hand, if you instead say that the Balkanized Seppoland just doesn’t have hard borders, then, well, how different is that really from the current arrangement? There would still be some sort of central organization managing the affairs between the states — at least when it comes to their borders — but the states themselves would be beholden to significantly fewer laws from above. This is a “small government” Republican’s wet dream.

The main thing is just that replacing a settler state with smaller settler states doesn’t actually resolve the contradiction. The states will still act in settler interests, in fact they’ll probably find some way to just more or less return to the current status quo. The way you help Native nations is to return land and respect treaty rights.

Why’s he even taking a Chinese class if he can’t act like a normal human being around Asians? Is he a wannabe sexpat or something? Does he just like the characters, and doesn’t care for the people who actually invented them? Sheesh.

I started writing a response to this, but it ended up exceeding Lemmy’s maximum comment length, so I had to make it as a separate post. I invite you to hear my piece, though I frankly doubt you will.

https://reddthat.com/post/38167040

The difference between Belgium and Seppoland literally is striking in this case…

The pronunciation in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin, turns out, can vary significantly depending on dialect, and the ways Ojibwe people themselves say the name in English is just as variable, but I’ll still note for one that the Ojibwe spelling is Nanaboozhoo with four O’s, so the vowel in “boo” is the same as the vowel in “zhoo”; and I’ll also note that the “zh” is said with the J in Jacques rather than the J in John. Otherwise you can pronounce “boozhoo” either like “goo-goo” or like “go-go”, and it seems you can say “nana” either like “banana” or like “mama” or probably in other ways too, although the “banana” pronunciation seems more common. Stress is highly variable: patterns include 2nd+4th, 1st+3rd+4th, and 1st+3rd.

Well, I want to say “vampire angel from space with a super cool robot gun arm” but the better answer is probably just, like, “immortal shapeshifter”

I think they’re logos of Infrared

God, I remember when I was a little kid I once said something like, “When I grow up, I’m gonna be a boss, so that way I won’t have to work for anybody” — and the grown-up with me said, “Well, you can’t just become a boss. You need to work hard and get promotions and then you’ll be a boss. So you’ll still need to work a whole awful lot to reach that level. Do you think you have it in you?”

…I was very disappointed to learn that I couldn’t escape working by just wishing really hard.

With time I’d eventually come to learn that it was not only impossible to wish oneself out of working, but that the grown-up’s line about “working really hard” was bogus, too.

Holy Hell, who could’ve possibly seen this coming!