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12d ago
And different classes too. It's all over the place. That's what makes it fun, you're pushed and pulled between multiple competing accents while trying to read and not-read it in your own voice.
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13d ago
I think I can take the credit for that one. Only a man can be a transwoman, therefore transwomen are not women. QED.
Of course there are potentially imaginable counterarguments but they require such a degree of semantic deconstruction that there's nothing left for reassembling afterwards, rendering them moot.
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13d ago
Finished LoTR and read Anguish Languish as a quick palate cleanser. It's an amusing brain tickler to try and read the sentences in the plain text, decode their semantic meaning, and maintain the awkward accent that sits between the two at the same time. Some are almost too easy, a lot of them take two or three passes, but even after getting my "ear" in there's a couple in there that I gave up on figuring out.
It's fun to try and imagine what tenor to hit when reading it out loud for a listener and whether to add the semantic pacing and rhythm or try to recite it as plainly as possible and resist slipping into normal language. Would recommend it to anyone who has young kids that they read out loud to, you could try it both ways.
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16d ago
How likely is it that similar things were happening at other big clubs? What made MCFC so special that they could get away with it for so long?
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19d ago
Radical Centrism. I knew it!
I just think that, like so many multiple choice questionnaires, a lot of my answers are "it depends".
Furthest from you:
Ezra Heywood, Individualist anarchist
Spot on, anarchism is very stupid.
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26d ago
Sure, it's just an example of how lightly what would seem to be important events are handled by both the writer and his characters. Meanwhile lesser events are dwelt on at length.
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26d ago
I expect the end result is we'll all have to pay for a basic AI assistant that we'll use to interface with the internet on our behalf.
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26d ago
I found an interesting YouTube channel all about the history of industry and engineering. I've enjoyed a couple of the videos, they're focused and informative and broadly of the sort of quality you'd expect from a YouTube video essay. Of course all the thumbnails are AI slop because 95% of YouTube thumbnails are AI slop now, but then I looked at the dates on the videos and they're all from this year.
So I think it's safe to assume that the script, the voiceover are 100% AI, and the editing and production are more than likely AI assisted, but it makes me wonder how much of the video is fake too. I'm not sure it is as it's mostly archive footage, and AI video tends to be fairly easy to spot even when it's not dealing with things that involve complex machinery and coordination, but the seed of doubt that it's planted has put me off watching any more of them.
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26d ago
I'm currently reading LOTR (after having read The Hobbit) for the first time.
It's hard to give it an objective view because a) I saw the films first, and so I know the major parts of the story, b) I'm long past the age where reading it might make a big impression, and c) I've never been into fantasy.
Interestingly in the films it was Legolas I couldn't stand while in the books it's Gimli. It also feels like a lot of scenes are weirdly underworked for such a long story. Like when they release Theoden from Wormtongue's influence after what feels like five minutes of just pointing at him and going "Mate, his name is Wormtongue. Worm Tongue! Mate, come on!" and Theoden is all like "Yes, you make a persuasive argument. Wormtongue, you have been revealed as an enemy agent and a traitor to our kingdom, and for that there can only be one punishment: Sending to Coventry".
The Liberal Elmo clip is a total classic. I could never get into any of the other clips I've heard.
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