Phillip J Phry

If you’re looking for anti-neuclear skeptics and fear mongering, I don’t think this is any more the place than reddit was. I hope rather than seeking out those echo chambers you look into this a bit more. I don’t have any good stuff to link you too off the top of my head, but maybe someone else in the comments will

SFO was my first thought too. It’s usually not quite this well timed in my experience; this is still a cool shot to catch.

This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

Have you ever noticed how your stuff is stuff, and other people’s stuff is shit?

I still have my Eee 901 sitting around with my collection of old tech. It actually booted up a couple years ago when I last checked it! Used the crap out of it back in college for computer science classes, since all I really needed was a terminal.

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If the win is out of reach for me, I at least try and make them earn the rest of their victory. The more you make them have to actually work for it, the more they’ll enjoy the win. I guess I kinda think of it like a D&D game where I’m the DM: now my job is to facilitate the other player(s) having fun.

Either that or I’ll ask questions and try to learn, so I can come back stronger next time.

Their writing systems have their own cool histories. Japanese technically has 4 writing systems (kinda 5 if you count the original purely chinese-character based system). Korean used to have Hanja, a Chinese based system, but then some emperor just decided “nope, this sucks, I’m making a new thing”, and came up with hangul. Imo hangul is one of the coolest systems out there.

Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!

Chinese did influence a lot of east Asian languages, but it’s more like the relationship between Latin and English - lots of borrowing and influence, but it’s not an ancestor.

Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.

Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.

Not right now, but I will tomorrow I promise

So I noticed this in the user settings (at least here in Liftoff, not sure how it looks elsewhere), but you can set a “display name”. Seems like a cool feature.

Ever tried a bidet? I can never go back to just tp now. Thinking about getting a travel one too

Yup, exactly this for me too. Been done a thousand times before by companies like them. Plus the fact that the fediverse is not run by any company is just really nice - we don’t need them.

I definitely did. A lot of the communities I’m interested in are even smaller here, so I can actually post without just falling off the ‘new’ feed. Plus I’ve been commenting more too, and it seems like I’m not the only one. Got some local restaurant recommendations lol