Lon Lang Lin

Someone evidently watched a very quotable movie recently

That's one of my favorite parts of the movie - he was probably guilty, but "probably" isn't good enough for them to send him to his death.

Niche opinion that I'm unsure of the popularity of outside the Venn diagram of language nerds and linguists:

People developing a constructed language for a fantasy world need to leave apostrophes out of it. It doesn't look exotic, it looks like they don't have a clear idea what it's doing there.

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Kinda tired of Western culture atp

Extremely funny considering I had people tell me Israel should topple the Ayatollahs because "we owe it" to Iranians for liberating us from Babylon

Which is pretty dang evil, by post-Cold War standards

The bears thing happened with Elisha, not Elijah, FYI

In the original post you talked about the Israeli right, and that's fair, but here you're talking specifically about the Likud - and to that I have to say that the Likud absolutely does not have any long or medium-term plans at the moment. They're in pure survival mode, electorally.

Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven will in the end endure, while a dispute that is not for the sake of Heaven will not endure but may still be very funny

something something וכל תורה שאין עמה מלאכה סופה בטלה וגוררת עון

It makes it very hard to discuss the very real ways that all human societies sometimes practice consequentialism.

That's one of the things I hate the most about how people talk about the "ends justify the means" ideology.
More often than not, the problem with the people that ideology is ascribed to is that their ends are immoral by themselves!

In Reverse Judaism, you're only allowed to eat or drink on Yom Kippur.

There's a reason it's not very popular.

What factors do you think are behind Europe's decision to not do that? Just easier internally to pass reactive measures rather than proactive ones?

Sunday Arabic Palindrome: كَبُرَتْ آيَاتُ رَبِّكَ "Great are the words of your Lord"

There’s nothing like reading about the Palaeolithic to give you a bit of historical perspective. Today I read of a single tool-making culture within the Palaeolithic that lasted for the same length of time that separates the Egyptian Old Kingdom and the Moon landings

Rate Breakout by LonLangLin for OST Composing Jam: Crunchtime 04

Finished my track for #ostcompjam! Not sure how I feel about it, but happy I participated. The theme was freedom, which seemed fortuitous for a jam that spanned Passover Eve. Chag sameach!

itch.io/jam/ost-comp...

this is too elaborate for me....

so you did elaborate

I know that historians largely don’t think that Caligula actually made his horse consul and that that idea is slander on behalf of his senatorial detractors but you have to admit that something about that reeks of hippocracy.

Of course I eat kitniyot, they hadn't even invented Ashkenazim in my time. But if I didn't I would be VERY STRICT about it

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Netanyahu moves to fire intel chief who is investigating his aides No previous government has ever fired the head of the Shin Bet.

🇮🇱🤯In an unprecedented step, Netanyahu moves to fire intel chief who is investigating his aides. My story on @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/03/16/n...

שבוע לפני ה-7 באוקטובר: השב"כ ורונן בר המליצו לחסל את סינוואר - זה מי שמנע את זה בשיחה עם אראל סג"ל ואייל ברקוביץ' ב-103FM, התייחס עיתונאי חדשות 12, עומרי מניב, לפרסום שני אירועים דרמטיים נוספים אשר עשויים לשפוך אור על מחדל ה-7 באוקטובר

Some examples:

m.maariv.co.il/news/militar...

www.kan.org.il/content/kan-...

www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

המדליף למדליפים פטור?

This is an implicit part of this conflict, but it's worth noting that over the last week or so, Israeli media have *somehow* gotten their hands on loads of leaked segments from government meetings that paint the Shin Bet in a positive light, and the government in a negative one.

Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Atlantic Horseshoe Crab from One-Tree Island, FL, USA on January 5, 2025 at 07:14 PM by Squidpastry. gamer

iNaturalist shitposts are now a thing @franzanth.bsky.social @luxomancer.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/observations...

the bronze age collapse that missed the train and then missed the bus after the train and then had to walk

the very late bronze age collapse