[-] beefbot 63 points 3 weeks ago

This is a collect call from: MOMCOMEPICKMEUP IMOUTSIDETHEHELIOPAUSE, do you accept the charges?

[-] beefbot 50 points 3 weeks ago

FTFY: Demonstrably unimpartial, conservative-stacked, publicly bribed court* rules in favor of the people who gave them money, to ensure they get more money.

*except three of the nine members

[-] beefbot 46 points 3 weeks ago
[-] beefbot 57 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the advertisement?

[-] beefbot 49 points 2 months ago

Daily Mail link? I don’t believe it. I’ll wait for a news source, thanks

[-] beefbot 46 points 2 months ago

Correct, it’s the garbage they store inside their flesh that’s the trash!

[-] beefbot 56 points 3 months ago

Headline blame shifting again. THE POLICE did nothing.

[-] beefbot 43 points 3 months ago

*can’t use language as much as we can: AS FAR AS WE CAN CURRENTLY TELL. Which isn’t all that much tbh

Me, I think birds are already there, full nouns & verbs. And I highly suspect insects have language systems too. I don’t mean some loose definition like like ants and chemical markers, or emotional expressions.

I mean what linguists mean: units of expression- sound (hand shapes, in signed langs) which recombine to signify different things, in a productive way, allowing for level upon level of transmission of thoughts. It’s a high bar to qualify as human language. And I think probably some nonhuman animals have it, and we’re just not listening closely enough.

But the closer we look.

(And yes there’s a Ted Chiang story about this)

[-] beefbot 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fun fact, in the Arabic alphabet it starts out Alif and Ba just like alpha and beta here, and then veers way away from this chart into its own awesomely weird territory (thought German was “guttural”? try this nonvowel nonconsonant so far back in the throat you need consent and a physician’s referral) but JUST when you think you’ve lost your way, RIGHT the alphabet nears its end, you stop and stare because right there are four letters, in this same exact order, so familiar it might be a song you learned as a child: the letters K L M N.

The Phoencians took this invention to other places too, and this cluster of familiarity crystallised in the Arabic alphabet in the same order. Almost like a gene we could point to that says we had a common ancestor centuries ago, we were once so close that we learned the same thing from the same people.

[-] beefbot 47 points 8 months ago

“Because some dipshits will buy anything to be better than others, and also some people have just fucktons more money than they probably should “ - there, saved you a click

[-] beefbot 52 points 9 months ago

This is good news and it’ll be better news when I see a father getting nailed for giving his sons guns

[-] beefbot 63 points 10 months ago

Problems with game developers might better be understood as problems with capitalism, to paraphrase Ted Chiang

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