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like I get this is basically just people expressing their prejudices towards particular American accents but where people draw the lines on these things is always funny to me.

When you pronounce Iran, are you pronouncing the “r” like the “t” in batter? Why not?

Anyone who doesn’t use MY preferred anglicization of Īrān is not worth taking seriously. I’m always saying this

Me normally: all sentient life is valuable

Me when I have ants:

Right yes this is the same problem as with ring species (just across time instead of geography)

I don't know much about chickens but I do know the map is not the terrain. And also as a sociologist I like to say, "reification" a lot.

like that hypothetical “first modern chicken” was clearly capable of sexually reproducing with its proto-chicken cohorts. So that notion of species has the problem of trying to define a transitive closure on a non-transitive operation (“can produce fertile offspring with”)

lol yeah that’s exactly it. I think the most common colloquial definition of a species (what I learned in high school biology) is like “the largest group of organisms that are capable of producing fertile offspring”) but like that’s clearly problematic here..

Turns out what constitutes a “species” is notoriously difficult to nail down!

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Not sure what this says about me but at the end of a set of squats when i really start struggling, I think “ur being so cringe right now, just stand up lol” and the sad part is, it always helps

Heyo

They’re slow to access of course, but they’re pretty perfect for long term cold storage.

Maybe they were being used inappropriately but cool me… skeptical both of the claimed savings and that the replacement is a good idea.

I don’t know about this particular use case, but this tweet implies that magnetic tapes are an outdated technology which is not at all true.

They’re incredibly cheap, degrade much more slowly than hard drives, use almost no energy, and are basically entirely insulated from cyberattacks

*angrily clicking all the flirtatious dialogue options* I can’t BELIEVE Assassins Creed is shoving wokeness down my throat. is nothing sacred???

“You claim to want nuclear disarmament and yet you have nukes” YES THATS WHY I WANT DISARMAMENT

Some would say that one of the key roles of the state is resolving dilemmas such as this

Moreover this is a dumb critique from Sinema because there’s nothing contradictory between “given the rules of the game, the optimal strategy is to do this” and “we should change the rules of the game”

In fact the former often supports the latter!

Still thinking about how @hamandcheese.bsky.social wrote “the effective altruist case for Trump” who is now on track to literally kill millions of people

If Hammond had any shame he’d give up being a think tank guy forever and take up a more honorable profession like garbage man or barista

Generally I prefer Thai to Japanese food as well.

There’s obviously a lot I haven’t experienced, but broadly speaking my favorite east Asian cuisine is indo-chinese

Honestly my intent here wasn’t to dunk on Japanese food, I like Japanese food and British food (both the more expansive and more narrow definitions of each). Or at least, there’s stuff from both cuisines I like.

If what people mean when they say this refers to salinity, the critique really doesn’t apply to British food either imo

You’ve identified another point I find somewhat frustrating with this type of discourse because it’s really not clear to me what people mean when they say this either.

As I’m using it I’m really just approximating something like “boldness of flavor”

You might point to ramen as a counterexample but I think the same logic that leads people to implicitly exclude British curries from the category of “British food” (which they must do to call British food bland) would also require them to exclude ramen due to its Chinese origins

Its kinda funny how British food gets clowned on for “lack of seasoning” but Japanese food never catches the same smoke

Your daily reminder that there is no such thing as a singular “will of the people” much less one that can be invested in a single person

Oh. Right.

Hmm where have I heard the idea that some sort of unified national will is embodied within the executive? I just know I’ve heard that somewhere before

Yes actually my first exposure to this claim was a TikTok that said this. It’s silly for a number of reasons. ISO 8601 has no epoch anyway (rather the 2004 version of the standard had some flavor text about the Meter Convention being a reference date for the Gregorian calendar)

Thanks for finding this!

There does not seem to be a singlular standard across all implementations of COBOL (pre Y2K sometimes used YYMMDD) but e.g. modern IBM documentation details INTEGER-OF-DATE and DATE-OF-INTEGER functions which converts between YYYYMMDD and “days since 12/31/1600”