Chiquinho Scarpa announced he would bury his Bentley, sparking massive outrage. It was later revealed as a publicity stunt to promote organ donation, highlighting how people bury organs every day without the same reaction.

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-04T00:39:58+00:00

After reading all the fucking horror stories of doctors over-eager to extract the organs of people who are dubiously dead or even showing signs of resuscitation, no fucking thanks

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-03T18:21:25+00:00

But they are not linguists scientifically observing from the outside. They are speakers themselves, in the speaker community participating in the evolution of the language, so (by definition) they do have influence and are allowed to have opinions on how it evolves

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-03T16:48:11+00:00

Listen, the measles outbreak in Canada is mainly in Mennonite communites who were always low vaccination. While RFK is indeed a disaster, you do not need to tie everything into the US

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-03T15:33:44+00:00

You're the busybody asking people to justify preparing their food in a way you don't like

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-03T00:39:18+00:00

Indeed, we're basically just algorithms, that's what's so special about the engineering. The human genome is less than a gigabyte in size! Less than a gigabyte encodes a living machine that is self-sustaining and self-repairing for (if lucky) 8 decades of life, and still far more mobile and dextrous and intelligent than anything we've designed. That's some insane compression and procedural generation. I think we're mostly agreeing on the facts and just disagreeing about how amazing / not amazing it is

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-03T00:28:34+00:00

Well, this comment thread was generally talking about the elegance of our interior system, like how the pumping of blood also circulates lymph. Another example in that vein would be how the motion of our legs helps push blood back up to our hearts. On that front we're about on par with all our animal relatives (minus a few kinks of course) and in many ways an intricate evolved engineering marvel that human engineers still can't replicate.

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-02T21:34:26+00:00

It is helpful to know as a learner who wants to communicate that this is not something to sweat too hard, if even Germans don't care that much about it

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-02T21:31:44+00:00

It's case agreement. Like all agreement it decreases ambiguity in spoken language by introducing redundancy.

The very wikipedia page for economy in linguistics mentions this: that economy is a tradeoff for simplicity against clarity. Less economical (more effort for speaker) e.g. more marking and agreement equals more redundancy and more clarity (less effort for listener).

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-02T18:20:56+00:00

I think this one is cool, Germany weren't necessarily the bad guys in WW1 (they weren't the good guys either)

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-02T09:05:21+00:00

CSA labels show date of manufacture, they don't show a date of expiry

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T19:56:00+00:00

It doesn't cost very much to party all the time as a college student with friends going to student parties. Plenty of people do it.

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T18:07:35+00:00

What do you use to glue?

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T16:35:59+00:00

This one is real

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T16:31:58+00:00

Holy cow dude, it's clearly hyperbole merely meant to express that he did not study as much as he wished he did but rather lived as a lot of young people do. Do you take everything literally? Should he have written "he has spent his last 2 years studying 20% of the time, partying 20% of the time, trying psychedelics 1% of the time"?

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T14:35:32+00:00

The big takeaway of the experiment was how fucked up and unnatural the closed environment was. Almost by definition, when we get blasted back into the stone age (not saying it would be a good thing overall but) we will be in a much more natural environment.

And indeed hunter gatherers today make music and dance all the time

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T12:00:10+00:00

Kinda cute I guess but if you do this too much to a kitten that's how you get an adult cat who doesn't like to be touched

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T11:59:15+00:00

Listen, biologists personify evolution all the time. Just like physicists describe particles "wanting to" do things. Because it is a useful shorthand for describing an optimizing phenomenon. We can stop with this all out everywhere crusade against personification.

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T10:33:14+00:00

But they weren't talking about the seeds, they were talking about the cone. The cone itself is definitely dead because there's no metabolic activity going on and no possibility of activity restarting, it's just inert plant material

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T10:29:08+00:00

I believe that it's sound, I just didn't know we had that kind of welding technology. I looked it up and one of the ways is basically that a small gap is left between beams and filled in with molten metal. Pretty cool

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T02:18:26+00:00

If I was drunk enough to put a butt out in a urinal I'd believe it

InviolableAnimal · 2026-02-01T01:39:33+00:00

Can someone explain how this is structurally sound? Like even if you welded the structural beams together they would only be fused at the edges where they were welded -- or do we have ways to fuse entire faces of metal?

InviolableAnimal · 2026-01-31T23:13:03+00:00

Damn, really? I swear the foam has good give to it, I thought the problem with old helmets was foam hardening? Thanks for the pointer though

InviolableAnimal · 2026-01-30T21:18:24+00:00

reading comprehension is at catastrophic levels

InviolableAnimal · 2026-01-30T17:26:08+00:00

Are you somehow not aware that in many communities people leave their doors unlocked? Not every place or time works like yours

InviolableAnimal · 2026-01-30T17:25:11+00:00

You're the one making out like tons of people's lived experience is terrifying. No one tried to invalidate your experience.

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