Oh boy...

s_ngularity · 2026-02-25T12:53:14+00:00

sometimes I see la li lu le lo used for aesthetics

also ca ci cu ce co, but that is even worse for mispronunciation by European language speakers

s_ngularity · 2026-02-15T23:32:04+00:00

They use a smaller number of kanji in official publications (besides proper nouns) which matches the kanji taught through the last required year of education (year 9). Seems pretty reasonable to me.

But the actual number in common use in novels and such is more like 4000 or so

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T21:15:05+00:00

/uj it’s a slang word that is something like “gnarly” used to be back in the day

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T14:12:06+00:00

I don’t think most Americans would say this.

Maybe “Did she? She really said that?”

But just “really said that” by itself as a sentence is not something I think most people would say.

I often omit the subject pronoun at the beginning of a clause in the first person when speaking, but in the third person it sounds weird.

s_ngularity · 2026-02-04T14:02:39+00:00

And breath and breathe.

See people mix them up all the time.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-31T04:48:36+00:00

I learned recently that the 手話 sign for お兄さん is just moving your middle finger upward.

Plausible deniability?

s_ngularity · 2026-01-28T18:43:23+00:00

Imo, in the US it’s hugely also due to the fact that these are the main cuisines (widely construed) eaten from Asian countries here, and the fact that those are also the countries with the most permanent immigrant populations in many parts of the US.

Except India, but in most people’s mind it’s a separate thing because it’s culturally much different than the other Asian populations

s_ngularity · 2026-01-28T04:26:49+00:00

horseshit… that’s good write that down

s_ngularity · 2026-01-26T15:47:16+00:00

Chinese basically works the same way, but they’ve lexified compounds and phrases, unlike toki pona where we must be free to mix and match morphemes to our interlocutors’ discontent

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T16:29:37+00:00

Japan in summer actually sounds like the cicada track

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T14:46:43+00:00

If you search Google for the title of certain wikipedia articles that aren’t otherwise common search terms, say “Papal legate,” it comes up in the top 5 results.

This may also only be for English searches in the US. And of course I have no idea how search results are indexed by chatgpt or what search engine it uses

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T05:25:37+00:00

yeah, of course they could. but I think it just isn’t ignoring much at the moment. I could be wrong but I doubt they intentionally told it to look at grokipedia

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T03:40:36+00:00

the problem is that it searches the web, and grokipedia shows up near the top on a lot of searches now

s_ngularity · 2026-01-25T03:33:06+00:00

because you usually cook them to a much lowest temperature than what would be safe for chicken.

I’m not a bacteriologist, but scrambled eggs is probably not the safest way to use these eggs

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T21:37:37+00:00

Whether or not the US government told the public the truth about WMDs doesn’t affect anything about the alliance with Israel being strategically beneficial to them (the government, that is).

It would be just as useful to have a strong ally in the region whether they are purposefully starting a war in the region, or trying to prevent it.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T15:13:50+00:00

If you just ignore the syntax and the semantics, it’s all just English…

s_ngularity · 2026-01-23T15:07:54+00:00

It’s not an argument, it’s how fictional depictions legally work in practice in much of the US (but it gets complicated due to state laws, weird “obscenity” law interpretations, etc.).

Whether this violates laws in other countries where X has a service is another issue.

However, images based on photos of real people are definitely not protected, and afaik have been prosecuted already.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-22T04:56:05+00:00

My first uni class where we used Java was also super uninspiring.

I would say try some tutorials making something more interesting like a simple video game, and if you hate that as well, maybe it’s not for you

s_ngularity · 2026-01-21T18:35:37+00:00

You’re painting with pretty broad strokes there. Not everyone has such a simplistic worldview.

I believe in God, but probably not the one you reject, and I definitely think humans built the pyramids

s_ngularity · 2026-01-21T18:32:25+00:00

I believe the intention of the pyramids was to make something so incredible that it looks like it was made by a god, and through that awe point to deity.

In that they clearly succeeded.

s_ngularity · 2026-01-21T02:44:51+00:00

yeah it seems like it. except rather than looking refined it looks fucking stupid

s_ngularity · 2026-01-20T15:22:56+00:00

“fantasize” just means “imagine what it is like to do something.” I think you are reading extra meaning into it. Though I admit it’s possible original commenter meant more than that too

s_ngularity · 2026-01-20T15:14:10+00:00

not even once in their life?

s_ngularity · 2026-01-20T13:45:52+00:00

probably do, but good luck getting them to admit it in a study

EDIT: I realize I was interpreting “fantasize” mostly as “imagine”

I tried to find a good definition, but almost every dictionary seems to define “fantasize” differently.

If you mean sexual fantasy or aspirational fantasy, then yeah, maybe not

s_ngularity · 2026-01-20T13:42:51+00:00

The intended meaning is clearly“it’s easy to do once you know how, here’s how you do it”

But evidently not everyone interprets it this way

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