_cnt0 @ _cnt0 @sh.itjust.works

Master of Applied Cuntery,

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To me, this is more annoying. But I might have been too young and naïve back then.

If you're seeing it, you're delusional.

That's a lot of bullshit.

With AI, now it does the thinking for you ...

No, it doesn't. It's just mimikry. Autocomplete on steroids.

It wasn't really meant as a compliment. She usually looked like she was coming straight from the set of a porn movie. But I think, like me, she wasn't giving a fuck either. She was good at what she did and the right hand of the head of the engineering faculty. Don't judge a book by its cover, I guess?

Or just don't give a fuck.

Story time: I had to give a presentation on a group project at university. I was wearing a shirt with a fist silhouette on it, which you could have mistaken as a symbol of a political movement, had there not been the text "nothing says I love you quite like fisting". Over lunch I had to go home, ~6km, on a bicycle, in the summer, on short notice, because of the plumber being in the house. So I was sweating like fuck and changed shirts. For some reason our team got summoned up to the front again later and my shirt read "I have 5 stars on youporn" with five stars over it. This was in front of 5 professors, ~10 post docs and university employees and ~80 students. On my way out from the cafeteria I greeted the hot blonde from engineering, who looked like she could be an adult content actress, and she laughed the cutest snort-laugh in a shockingly deep voice I've ever heard. Most of the profs "loved" me by the way; three of them competed over getting me into their projects and supervising my master thesis.

Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

Say what you will, but that was an economically viable route to take. I'm still in love with TTD and RCT2.

Hello :)

HSL

Race theory 2.0 AI edition just dropped.

They are all superfluous if you know how to do quadratic expansion.

lol

What's so hard to understand about start with an S, then add a slightly different S?

You suck at drawing dragons. Follow these instructions to improve: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ&pp=ygURc3Ryb25nIGJhZCBkcmFnb24%3D

A few years ago I wondered if there were modern guillotines. I forgot the name of the company, but they had a pneumatic model. Should work in zero gravity just fine.

I always found this argument funny because how would you use pronouns for someone whose gender you do not know? They. It's they. E.g. you are given the sentence: Jordan went to the store to buy apples. And you want to ask a followup question regarding how many, you reply: How many apples did they buy?

And that's not how English was taught to me or 99℅ of the population (including English as a second or third language) 20+ years ago. Singular they was only used for situations where the gender (read as superficially visible sex) was factually unknown. You see a forgotten umbrella and never saw who forgot it: "Somebody forgot their umbrella." As soon as you only got a glimpse on the person forgetting it you would make a guess about he/she.

They has been used for gender ambiguity in everyone's lives since grammar school.

If you're younger than 30 and from Great Britain, maybe. GB were the first to formalize and teach it like that less than 2 decades ago (if I recall correctly).

People just have an inherent bias towards trans folks and it's incredibly depressing and sad.

That's bullshit projection.

I, a non-native speaker, complain about increased ambiguity of the language because of singular they as a personal pronoun and make a proposal about new pronouns for the purpose.

You: Ah, must be transphobe. Let's ignore everything he said (which doesn't relate to transphobia at all).

It's so frustrating not to be able to have a discussion about stuff making a language harder than it needs to be without people invoking transphobia, like, instantly.

But hey, I called it: can't have a discussion about it and I've given up on it.

edit: tiny add-on. I was still taught gender-neutral he and only heard about they later while being discouraged to use it in writing.

Doesn't feel like you want to have an honest argument when you ask how far we should go back on a proposal about going forward and don't address the single motivator ambiguity.

I criticized singular they/them for increasing language ambiguity and suggested replacing it with something new like xe/xer multiple times. The reply is usually a shitstorm and downvote tornado. I've given up on that front.

Also, it feels like there's a joke about Russian cursive in there, waiting to be made.

But, even in Russian cursive the D and T are much more recognizable.

Is comrade Krasnov sending us signals?

Same, bro.