[-] korydg@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What do you expect, it's a mixed-up crazy world where East is West and West is East and ...?

[-] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well done, bravo!

[-] korydg@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago

Gotta come to Latin's defense here -- you can write proper literature, science, poetry in Latin, and people did so for thousands of years. This stuff? Nah. (I am not literate in Latin.)

[-] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. Just, wow. (I actually clicked on the link to see if the title was accurate, and not just snark.)

[-] korydg@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Derrida look intensifies

[-] korydg@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Actually, it's a stately home.

[-] korydg@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

Something like that happened to me at a similar age (won't go into details) and I never got over my dislike of going into pools and the ocean and learning to swim (which I never have).

[-] korydg@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Well you have to admit, finding a non-white object that is not a swan really does strengthen the claim that all swans are white.

[-] korydg@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

[-] korydg@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

That reminds me of an academic publishing scheme--some journals ask for the names/email addresses of potential referees. There was a group that supplied bogus email addresses that led back to the original authors, who would duly reply with highly laudatory referee reports. What caught them out was that the authors sent back the bogus reports the next day or two after the journal requests; real referees wait till the last minute and even then only reply after the journal's requested deadline and prodding by the journal editors.

[-] korydg@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

I have seen the same take rolled out for transgender people as well.

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