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  • In today's lesson, an always-seeking-something-to-be-offended-about ideologue learns about "linguistic drift".

    Or, more likely, doesn't. But that's par for the course for America's so-called "left". (You know, the "left" that the rest of the world considers "centre right".)

  • Oh, I love divination systems myself. I don't think they have any predictive validity, but I think they have value in "de-rutting" your thoughts. I find they foster creativity and unjam blocks and such by putting a new way of looking at issues.

    Currently I'm playing around with the 易经 (Yijing/I-Ching). (I literally just put up a photo-essay yesterday of some of my tools, and a photo-essay with two forms of divination, including the Yijing a couple of weeks before.)

  • Oh, this predates cryptobros by decades. No, they were "consultants" who were making a "CASE tool". Except their programmers sat me down and had a very long talk showing me their "product" and mentioned they already had other jobs lined up and were just waiting so they could give their 14-day and walk into the new job. So I handed my resignation in promptly.

  • Started in the morning. Resigned by noon.

    As far as I was concerned it wasn't a business I was working for, but rather a criminal enterprise (the crime being fraud), only a really incompetent one.

    They were a "tech firm" but their product changed literally daily, depending on who they were trying to sell to. They had no actual product. They had a couple of programmers who would be told every day what the product actually was today who would gnash their teeth and cry. Then they didn't even have that much. Which didn't stop them trying to sell it anyway.

    • cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than "sky blue"
    • gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such ... well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
    • charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
    • the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
    • nubivagant is a word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
    • niggardly is another word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
    • frippery is just fun to say

    I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported "Schadenfreude":

    • Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for 'a punchable face'
    • Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who's done something cringe
    • Weltschmerz is a word I'll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age

    There's also a Chinese word I'd like to bring into English and make common:

    • 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta "san gwun", means literally "three views", and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals
  • The novelist's meticulous attention to historical detail—from the cadence of 19th-century dialogue to the texture of hand-stitched corsets—lent her story an uncanny verisimilitude, making even the most outlandish plot twists feel hauntingly plausible.

  • In a "possible world" ghosts could exist. In the world we happen to inhabit, I firmly believe they don't.

    People's "experiences" with ghosts are everything ranging from misinterpretations of things they've seen to hysteria to hallucinations to outright fraud. (All the "ghost hunter" types, no exceptions, fall into the last camp.)

    I'm open to evidence to the contrary, of course, but this is a very large claim so it's going to need a mountain of solid evidence.

  • How is it fixed? There is no "Marathon Crater" in Ontario, Canada. It just spewed out far more persuasive bullshit with even more confidence than the others.

    The link should work without me (or you) being logged in. It's a free tier conversation. (I'm not going to pay for degenerative AI!)

    ...

    Huh. OK, more fool me. I shared the wrong link. I'll fix that. Try again and tell me if it works now.

  • There's a little trick you can do that will improve even crud like Tetley's or Red Rose or their ilk into something approaching drinkability.

    Wash the tea.

    Put in the bag (the real crud's ALWAYS in a bag!). Pour scalding hot water on top. Swish it around a few seconds. Throw it (the liquor) away. Then brew as normal. It won't be great tea by any means, but it will be drinkable, if only just.

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    Let's add one more thing to the long list of things the Apartheid Manchild doesn't understand, I guess.

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    Burn!

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