Well, it is now 3 years since that article was published back in 2017, and I’m proud to say that my memories have not been altered in any way that I can tell.

On an unrelated note, I’ve been hooked on this sparkling water called “Dr. Breen’s Private Reserve”

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Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid

Edit: I think it’s best to leave this comment up as I originally wrote it, but I’m also going to go on the record to say that I could’ve and should’ve phrased this a lot more cordially.

Washington Post is @washingtonpost.com, so evidently not.

Edit: Bluesky has this about page which is relevant.

The long awaited sequel to Tako Luka Maguro Fever

Amanita bisporigera, or the aptly named eastern North American destroying angel, if anyone’s wondering.

From Wikipedia:

The principal amatoxin, α-amanitin, is readily absorbed across the intestine, and 60% of the absorbed toxin is excreted into bile and undergoes enterohepatic circulation; the kidneys clear the remaining 40%. The toxin inhibits the enzyme RNA polymerase II, thereby interfering with DNA transcription, which suppresses RNA production and protein synthesis. This causes cellular necrosis, especially in cells which are initially exposed and have rapid rates of protein synthesis. This process results in severe acute liver dysfunction and, ultimately, liver failure.

I could not confirm that it causes liquefactive necrosis of the liver specifically, however. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I couldn’t confirm it.

Edit: I should clarify, I got this from the original thread on Bluesky, not my own identification.

I mean, I’m definitely coming at this from my own perspective, but I think that for a language with as much historical spelling as English, that the best way to learn the spelling is literally by learning the history: to look at the etymologies and sound changes to really understand the “why” of English spelling instead of just memorizing arbitrary rules, and then memorizing the countless arbitrary exceptions to those arbitrary rules. One thing that might particularly help in a pinch is to think of pairs of related words, for instance “muscle” and “muscular”, “illustrate” and “illustrious”.

Some YouTube channels I like that talk about this sort of thing include Alliterative and Simon Roper, there’s also Dr. Geoff Lindsey and Jackson Crawford and polýMATHY among others who are sort of in that same “periphery”. I also spend a lot of time looking at Wiktionary, which is basically a dictionary of all the world’s languages, so you can end up in various rabbit holes of ancestral forms of words and related words and sound change and all that.

I also think that it’s important to sort of “kill the cop in your head”, because when you learn to “improve your spelling and grammar” what you’re really doing is just learning a different written register, as it were. Your “misspellings” reveal traits about your own pronunciation, your “bad grammar” follows an internal logic from how you acquired English as a kid. When average people of ancient times wrote their own equivalents to “I’m relying on” instead of “I rely on” or “illistrate” instead of “illustrate”, then that’s often been crucial to linguists’ understanding of history.

Container housing? What is this, Nunavut? Haw haw haw haw!

“…also every 39 minutes they stab your balls”

구글, 조선으로 어떻게 이주하나요?

As a balls liker I don’t know why everybody’s commenting “I like balls” but I do not disapprove.

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE WOJAKS 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 WOJAKS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR THEM. HATE. HATE.

I’m sorry to be the fun police, and this isn’t particularly related to everyone else’s arguing in this thread, but I’ve always been kind of bothered by the, like, pink wojak, you know? Especially given the origins of wojaks and who popularized them, the idea of using “and he was shaking inconsolably, speaking irrationally, gnashing his teeth to smithereens, with a red face and blood-shot eyes with tears like waterfalls” as a punchline… Well, that makes it sound like that’s something to point and laugh at, doesn’t it? So I worry that things like that end up reinforcing the sort of civility culture in general, and anti-autistic sentiment in particular.

Just, my two kopeks, as it were.

There are two YouTube channels I like about American Indian / Native American history. One is called Indigenous History Now (Invidious mirror) and the other is called Ancient Americas (Invidious mirror). Both of these focus on more long-form content.

I feel like there’s no age where dressing up and knocking on doors becomes inappropriate. It’s fun, it can increase social cohesion in a community, there’s no reason for adults not to be a little silly, yadda yadda. Already now it’s perfectly acceptable for an adult attending trick-or-treating children to dress up as well, but I think adults alone or in adult groups should be allowed to dress up as well.

But then there’s the “asking for candy” part… Now I don’t think there’s any age where people should stop eating candy, either — but when you have the ability to easily buy (or even make) your own candy, then maybe it’d be a better idea to start giving out your candy to the houses you knock on, if you still want to go out in costume.

I dunno, just a thought. I wouldn’t tell your sister to stop, though. We’re all a little weird at the end of the day.

I’m from Norway and I immediately thought, “Well, Toten, maybe?” — though I personally hadn’t heard any incest jokes about that place.

So I looked up “Norges Alabama”, and the first result was a song by that title, about Toten, whose first line and refrain translates as, “I’m going out to ride, ride my cousin”.

…So I guess I’ve heard incest jokes about Toten now.

My friend, you’re on the fediverse and saying that a single website would be the best way to achieve this. I think that decentralization such as federation or peer-to-peer would be a much better way to achieve a pirate’s utopia, because the decentralized approach guarantees that even if one part falls, the whole will remain.

That aside, if I can talk about “What other features would make the ideal file sharing site?” — for a pirate video streaming site in particular, my number one feature would easily be community-contributed subtitles. In the list of subtitle tracks, each track would have two checkboxes, one for text and the other for TTS (this would be used for audio description and makeshift voice-over dubs). For rarer languages without reliable TTS, users would be encouraged to submit voice recordings, which might be anonymized with AI to sound like the TTS voice.

Subtitling would be done with a danmaku-esque system, so that people can choose to contribute just a few pieces here and there and wait for other contributors or continue later, rather than just one person needing to subtitle everything. Users might be able to rate subtitle tracks based on quality and completeness, too. A system of upvotes and downvotes on individual subtitles, as well as both manual and automated moderation, would prevent abuse.

I see, you’re absolutely right about that, beautifully said.

What does “brutal” mean in this context?

Me coming home from a half price books in Minnesota with a blu-ray of the anime version of And Yet the Town Moves, plus a Norwegian textbook for Romanians with a Norwegian-Romanian translation dictionary to boot, some gender studies books and leftist theory, something that I’m 99% sure was written by a cult leader, and Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Edit: Oh shit I’m realizing this article is LITERALLY about that same Half Price Books I went to! Whaaat!