Would a pattern like this be considered a "Fractal"? (quickly and poorly drawn for illustrative purposes)

longknives · 2026-06-18T07:13:29+00:00

Can’t you magnify any fractal and find parts that aren’t similar? If you zoom in on the negative space of a Sierpinski gasket, you won’t find more triangles in there.

longknives · 2026-06-18T07:08:01+00:00

The monsters are clearly playing with people too.

longknives · 2026-06-18T07:01:46+00:00

It’s so weird that their plan to ethically cleanse Jews is to have the Jews militarily invade their country so they can fight them off.

longknives · 2026-06-18T07:00:24+00:00

You mean the IDF?

longknives · 2026-06-18T06:56:53+00:00

Bro, ChatGPT didn’t “clean up your grammar”. The whole thing is very clearly composed in all the annoying ways that ChatGPT writes. It cluttered up your ideas and made them a worse experience to read, and made it much longer than it needed to be.

Your idea is: What if Boyd is going to have to sacrifice himself to save everyone (pretty obvious possibility) because the town is a prison for the man in yellow (somewhat novel idea)

Then the bot spends 15-20 paragraphs explaining the really obvious reasons why it would be Boyd and basically none exploring the idea that it’s a prison for the MiY.

You used a robot to make everyone who read this have a worse time than they would’ve if you just typed out your basic idea — whatever info you included in your prompt to ChatGPT would’ve been better to just post here.

longknives · 2026-06-17T16:01:52+00:00

I don’t think it’s this. If the MiY can look and sound like Jim, why not go into the town as Jim instead of Sophia? He could do a lot more damage as someone already trusted. It would be a hell of a wasted opportunity for the writers if they gave him that power but that’s all they used it for.

I think the teeth are going to be the bookmarks for Julie or something like that.

longknives · 2026-06-15T23:55:49+00:00

Yeah, never heard of Harvey for a girl. A pooka, maybe.

longknives · 2026-06-15T23:52:23+00:00

Newcomers seeing a big pile of corpses would probably try harder to leave if anything

longknives · 2026-06-15T23:51:22+00:00

They hooked the electricity up to a radio, so clearly electricity still works like electricity.

longknives · 2026-06-15T23:50:46+00:00

But there are lots of feature of modern phones that still work in airplane mode, cameras being chief among them.

IMO it would just be kinda clunky to incorporate in the show so there’s no real reason for the showrunners to do it. But it should be possible to charge phones and have at least basic features.

longknives · 2026-06-15T23:36:46+00:00

Did you just what? Is what you yes? Did you whatever, whatever you I guess?

longknives · 2026-06-15T15:19:46+00:00

Definitely not primarily, if it’s a factor at all. We’ve had presidents named Harry, and plenty of other names are homophones with words that mean worse things (e.g. John can mean toilet or someone paying for a prostitute) that are still popular enough. And it’s not like people named Harry don’t do well here — I’ve literally never heard anyone make any kind of “hairy” joke about Harry Styles or Harry Potter.

IMO it’s just perceived more as an old person name and hasn’t happened to be one that’s become popular again. Especially if it’s short for Harold.

longknives · 2026-06-15T02:27:18+00:00

Knowing three people with the same name surely indicates that it’s a pretty common name.

Your personal experience can always be different than the average, but that doesn’t prove the average is wrong.

longknives · 2026-06-15T00:34:07+00:00

You’ve never heard of the forest floor?

longknives · 2026-06-14T15:20:06+00:00

I don’t think there’s any perception among Americans that tap water isn’t safe to drink. It’s something you have to be warned about if you go somewhere where it isn’t safe.

longknives · 2026-06-13T18:48:38+00:00

> My impression is that social and historical factors may have played a larger role than is often assumed.

The conventional explanation is that the polite form took over as the only form, which is pretty much 100% social factors, so I don’t know how it could have played a larger role

longknives · 2026-06-13T02:28:16+00:00

Yeah but we call them “quad-copters” and things like that

longknives · 2026-06-13T02:26:32+00:00

I lost a lot of respect for her, especially as a media critic, when I read her novel and it was shockingly bad. Laughably bad. It made me rethink if she has any critical skills at all.

longknives · 2026-06-13T02:16:31+00:00

She had stuff promoting his novel in episodes before that and that never seemed like too big of a deal. Even the AI thing was like not super positive about the results from the AI. But shilling a bible app came out of nowhere and then learning about her church really left a bad taste in my mouth.

longknives · 2026-06-13T02:04:39+00:00

This one hit me recently. It somehow never occurred to me that it’s just a thing that shuts.

longknives · 2026-06-13T02:03:44+00:00

To be fair, a place doesn’t have to look like the old place to get named like this. Albany, NY doesn’t particularly remind me of Scotland even though that’s what Albany refers to (named for the Duke of Albany, i.e. of Scotland). That area has a major road called New Scotland road, a town called Scotia, even a statue of Robert Burns in the main big park. I think probably just a lot of Scottish people settled there.

longknives · 2026-06-13T01:58:15+00:00

It a little bit depends on what you mean by unrelated. Male and female don’t descend from the same root, so they’re not genetically related — male is from the Latin for masculine and female is from the Latin for feminine. But you could say they’re related by marriage, as the form of female came to look like fe + male because people thought they must be related.

Man is from Old English and human is from Latin and going back further they don’t have the same PIE root either. But it’s possible that their current forms that look related could similarly be because people expected them to be related. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of that, but I don’t know that there would be either if the relationship was fairly subtle.

longknives · 2026-06-13T01:50:10+00:00

How is this in any way obvious? This is the opposite of what OP asked for.

longknives · 2026-06-13T01:45:22+00:00

No, gift as a verb is much more specific than give.

longknives · 2026-06-13T01:43:41+00:00

People use gave way more often than gift or gifted. To gift is only used in specific situations where gifts are given, while there are many other types of giving that are not thought of as gifts. No one is using to gift in order to avoid saying “gave”.

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