sumtimes i see posts on here abt childrens rights or whatever. to me it really seems like they just want kids to be able to do whatever they want and can't understand children don't have good decision making skills yet. have you seen them? what's ur take lord pharma
It's a mix of literal children who learned the political words to make "fuck you mom and dad" sound serious, predators, and retards. The existence of shitty parents and some counterproductive practices (eg, beating your kid) doesn't suddenly mean children should be "liberated". These are the same people who heard Engels use the term "abolition of the family" and anachronistically think that means unwashed poly communes grooming raising kids (and think that's a good thing), even though what he was proposing is the exact opposite of what these people want lmao.
Large number of complaints about the modern world resolve down to "I want everything in one bag and I don't want the bag to be heavy"
I want the newest, coolest, shiniest phone they advertise on Instagram and it should cost $30 and be tiny and also huge and have every feature I could possibly want without thinking about it
I want my websites to allow me unlimited uploading of all data in high definition with zero lag or buffering, have every single person on earth available, with an easy way to see only the stuff I like and not anything I don't, for free with zero ads, with clear, straightforward moderation that gets rid of every Nazi and has zero false positives that also lets me tell random strangers and the people running the site to kill themselves, and I should be able to find it without doing any independent searching on my own because I'm too lazy to look for it
and there shouldn't be any data centers for it!
americans really will say stuff like "yeah i grew up middle class, my dad worked in a factory and my mom was always working double shifts" babygirl that's called you're working class
Americans will also say stuff like "yeah I grew up middle class, my dad was a bank president and we went to europe every summer" babygirl that's called you're upper clas
I don't know if you're familiar with my SoCal-imperialism posting but when the US falls apart the northern barbarians will be pacified.
Oh no, I hear you're building a mighty railway to transport arms and troops north at unprecedented speed, as soon as that's finished we're done for
as an English teacher, I can attest that it is a heck of a thing to come across ["unalived"] in a student’s essay and explain, “This isn’t social media—you can use the word ‘killed’”, only for the student to express discomfort with that (!), having internalized from the censorship algorithms that writing “killed” crosses a line. I’ve also seen late Zoomers be shocked to find the word “regarded” in a reading assignment, because apparently that has become a euphemism on social media for a Word That Must Not Be Written (which itself started out as a euphemism)
Hm. Meanwhile, my kid (currently in first grade) has somehow been taught in school that "stupid" is a bad word at the same level as "fuck"—the "F-word" and the "S-word". He acts scandalized if I say it.
That fact about "regarded" is new to me. It sure does change the meaning of calling someone "highly regarded".
Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.
1300-1400 clothing of Lower Empire
Language Creation Conference this year has a talk about "An autistic conlang". But isn't that all conlangs?
Two minutes into the talk and I'm going to strangle this guy.
My friend, linguistic reduplication is not at all the same thing as echolalia, and putting whole-word reduplication in your conlang does not "depathologize" anything.
To give him credit: he acknowledges this, but he then includes a huuuuge stretch to say that it counts anyway.
Onward: he includes a system of grammatical intention markers to reduce the number of misunderstandings that autistic people suffer from. Laadan did something similar, but crucially I do not think that this works, or that it works well enough to serve the purpose he wants . The number of possible social implicatures is far greater than what you can grammatically encode, and social convention of the kind that autistics are often blind to will not necessarily respect your grammatical categories.
Language Creation Conference this year has a talk about "An autistic conlang". But isn't that all conlangs?
Two minutes into the talk and I'm going to strangle this guy.
My friend, linguistic reduplication is not at all the same thing as echolalia, and putting whole-word reduplication in your conlang does not "depathologize" anything.
To give him credit: he acknowledges this, but he then includes a huuuuge stretch to say that it counts anyway.