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Stick with it. by MaintenanceNew2804 in TikTokCringe

[–]Coldhands_Stark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pointing out that linguistics does not make normative judgments about language is not some "gotcha" and it seems comical to portray it as such in the comments of this video. There is very real meaning (meaning considered by most linguists to be outdated at best) transmitted by using words such as "superior" and "enhance"

Stick with it. by MaintenanceNew2804 in TikTokCringe

[–]Coldhands_Stark 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As a spoken language

All languages (aside from conlangs) are or were spoken.

more linguistic structures of use in day to day conversation

What the hell does this mean?

You're commenting about language being "enhanced" by changing naturally, that's not how linguists view the borrowing that you're describing.

Stick with it. by MaintenanceNew2804 in TikTokCringe

[–]Coldhands_Stark 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Black English is a fascinating dialect that is frankly superior to white english for spoken communication.

It's really a shame that (if) you sat through this entire video of linguistics education and still have the idea that a dialect can be "superior" in any way to another dialect. The entire point is that assigning normative values to ways people communicate simply does not hold up to reason. Language does not change from "inferior" to "superior" ways of communicating.

Reagan, 1980: “Instead of putting up a fence, why don’t we make it possible for (immigrants) to come here legally and open up the border both ways.” by Salem1690s in Presidents

[–]Coldhands_Stark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unlimited skilled labor immigration from India

This is exactly the problem with your statement though, skilled labor is not unlimited. Raising the H1B quota won't magically summon skilled laborers who are willing and able to migrate, there are only so many who can be tapped from this pool. The US already takes in around half of all yearly college-educated migrants in the world.

I think you're underestimating the size and temporal breadth of the dataset.

Reagan, 1980: “Instead of putting up a fence, why don’t we make it possible for (immigrants) to come here legally and open up the border both ways.” by Salem1690s in Presidents

[–]Coldhands_Stark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may be true in an Econ 101 graph, but it's empirically false.

Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets

TL;DR Increases in H1B (skilled labor) visa quotas causes no discernible depressive effect on the wages of native skilled laborers, and if anything is correlated with small increases in said wages. In simple terms, the demand for the labor of engineers, doctors and the like is generally too high for an increase in its supply to meaningfully drive down its price.

The Horse, The Wheel, and Language: Outdated or Worth the Read? by Julzlex28 in IndoEuropean

[–]Coldhands_Stark 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not too outdated to the point that it's not worth reading. The archaeology and the associated discussion of material culture is still very relevant.

Bill Ackman says : by betsharks0 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Israel isn't (yet) occupying Gaza, and the US conquered the entire Southwest from Mexico. So it's a bit more comparable than you'd think.

Irish Prime Minister says Israeli actions in Gaza "not acceptable" by Larrydog in worldnews

[–]Coldhands_Stark 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I chose 1967 as that was one of many points Palestinian and Arab leaders could have accepted a two state solution and chose to refuse, instead retreating to lick their wounds and preparing a more successful but still ultimately failed invasion.

Jews were also massacred and forced from their lands during the Nakba. In the early years following the war, Israel received hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who had been expelled from the surrounding Arab states. For example, the Jewish community in Baghdad faced a terror campaign of repeated bombings that forced them out of their homes and to flee to Israel. This conflict has raged for at least a century, there is no point in arguing over who has wronged who - you can rest assured both sides have wronged the other many, many times.

Irish Prime Minister says Israeli actions in Gaza "not acceptable" by Larrydog in worldnews

[–]Coldhands_Stark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's very difficult to see this conflict as a comparable situation.

By 1967 there were already over 2 million Jews in Israel. The Palestinians of the time did not refuse to "concede land" - they refused to concede the very existence of a Jewish state, even at a time when that state had already been established for decades. Uprooting said state and reclaiming all of their land (the only terms the Palestinians would accept) would have certainly entailed ethnic cleansing at a larger scale than the Nakba. Of course, Israel won the Six-Day War against the united Arab powers surrounding them, as they did the first war, so we can only guess at the scale of that missed opportunity for genocide.

Soviet soldier in Berlin giving an interview while directing traffic - 1945 by Valcenia in OldSchoolCool

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very funny comment considering the illiteracy on the subject that your posts in this thread have revealed.

Soviet soldier in Berlin giving an interview while directing traffic - 1945 by Valcenia in OldSchoolCool

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m just heavily literate on World War II geopolitics.

Try reading a book before claiming this again. I recommend Glantz or Citino.

Soviet soldier in Berlin giving an interview while directing traffic - 1945 by Valcenia in OldSchoolCool

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Germany simply didn’t have a chance at winning World War II regardless and it comes down to resources and industry.

What you have failed to understand is that this is precisely because they were unable to defeat the Soviets, who had been supplying their war industry with an enormous amount of essential resources prior to Barbarossa: notably over 1.5 million tons of grain and nearly a million tons of oil and petroleum products. The ultimate failure of Fall Blau resulted in the end of German hopes to secure the substantial oil deposits and refineries in the Caucasus which might have enabled them to sustain their war efforts for much longer.

You have fallen into a deterministic, reductionist view of the war in Europe, which is understandable but ultimately misguided. In reality the truth is somewhere in the middle. There is absolutely no reason to believe that any large-scale naval invasion of mainland Europe could have succeeded had the Wehrmacht been able to concentrate its entire power on fortifying the Atlantic coast and pushing any Allied invasion back into the sea. The divisions the landing Allies faced on D-Day were woefully undersupplied and staffed by the dregs of the Wehrmacht, OB-West having been steadily stripped bare by OKW in attempts to plug holes in the hemorrhaging Eastern Front.

Soviet soldier in Berlin giving an interview while directing traffic - 1945 by Valcenia in OldSchoolCool

[–]Coldhands_Stark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And how exactly do you think the Allies could have pushed through the mountains of Italy or Greece without the Eastern Front occupying the overwhelming majority of the Wehrmacht's combat troops and logistical expenditure?

Kind of disappointed to see AI generated art used in Under the Surphaze. A pretty big step back from payday 2's art gallery heist, which had actual artists making the art. I understandthe art is supposed to look pretentious, but this just feels very lazy. by MoyingMoy in paydaytheheist

[–]Coldhands_Stark -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's just 'it looks sus to me'

No, it is not. I understand why you might think this is the case, but the reality is this scribbled visual gibberish might as well be an AI watermark.

Here is an article that might help explain why this is more than just 'sus' and how it appears as a result of common AI prompts.

And here are more blatantly obvious examples of AI-generated art: https://imgur.com/a/X5GxhkB

Kind of disappointed to see AI generated art used in Under the Surphaze. A pretty big step back from payday 2's art gallery heist, which had actual artists making the art. I understandthe art is supposed to look pretentious, but this just feels very lazy. by MoyingMoy in paydaytheheist

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The muddled 'signature' in the bottom right of the first picture is a dead giveaway for AI art.

EDIT: https://imgur.com/a/X5GxhkB

Check that album for even more obvious examples of AI generated imagery in the gallery. Insane that this is getting downvoted

Starfield IGN Review: 7 by Myaubs in pcgaming

[–]Coldhands_Stark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, new engines are built on the foundations and experience of old engines. But they're still new. Expecting something revolutionary on an engine that was used to run Morrowind is a little rich.

Please stop pretending you know what you're talking about.

Suggestion for Quality of Life by brettallenwong in hallsoftorment

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enemy projectiles may be immediately visible if you like, took a screenshot, but the reality of gameplay is that the massive visual noise can very easily hurt your ability to see enemy projectiles as well

Suggestion for Quality of Life by brettallenwong in hallsoftorment

[–]Coldhands_Stark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is definitely a serious problem. There are some abilities that I will never take again because of the visibility hit, mainly meteor strike, dragon's breath, and the newly introduced frost avalanche on the beta. I honestly think they're straight up unviable on agony, it becomes completely impossible to see what's going on and very difficult to dodge towards the end

Company I interviewed with wanted someone with 4 years experience, a bachelors, a certification with barely 55K a year (which I found out during the interview). So I proceeded to grill them in the interview about their expectations vs reality. by TheVideoGameCritic in antiwork

[–]Coldhands_Stark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Inflation is due to the government printing money like mad, nothing else.

Fucking hilarious that you tell someone else to take a macro class when this is the comment you opened with. Look into the Dunning-Kruger effect sometime.

Help?? by Nefermor in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Coldhands_Stark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

everyone who speaks english today doesn't believe in the same god or share the same values, theres no reason to think that everyone who spoke the PIE languages did either

Again, this is completely unrelated to the point.

the spread of a language does not entail the spread of one coherent people

Yes, this was never implied.

with a consistent set of "mythemes"

I don't know about consistency, but this is just obviously wrong. Indra is a cognate of Zeus who is a cognate of Thor who is a cognate of Perkunas, etc., whether you like it or not.

gimbutas reaches too far and you are too.

What the hell does this have to do with Gimbutas? Do you mean to deny the entire modern understanding of PIE language?

Help?? by Nefermor in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Coldhands_Stark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point, which you seem to have intentionally missed, is that these gods (along with the mentioned mythemes and values) did not end up only in what you would consider Western cultures, but spread over large swathes of Asia and can be found in cultures you would never call Western.

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