How about Trumps execution? We’d have to wait for Nuremburg 2.0, but it would be worth it.

I’ve been in this postoffice!

Grammar is mostly independent from writing systems. It usually is a phonetic representation of the language. Usually a single symbol has a certain translation into a vowel or consonant, sometimes it is a group with such a translation (e.g. th, sh, ou, etc.)

With English, this is a bit different, because the great vowel shift and some imported typesetters created a discrepancy between the spoken word and it’s pronunciation on the one side, and that word’s written representation.

A severe case of “wrong hotel”. There are hotels for holidays, and hotels for business travellers. If they offer breakfast from 6 to 9, they are obviously in the “business travellers” category.

On the other hand, if your idea of a holiday is sleeping half the day, why bother leaving home?

I always had a good machine. As I’m not a gamer or slopmaker, I don’t need crazy amounts of ram or fat GPUs. I just wait until the LLM shit crashes, and will buy a new machine after that.

“If it gets out what gets into the sausage we make, we’ll get into a place we won’t get out anymore.”

What’s a Kurdistan?

Seriously, that is the problem. Many people simply don’t know what is happening a few hundred kilometers away if the news does not shove it down their throat.

Just tell them what you wrote about your mother and your brother. If they don’t want to understand, ignore them.

No issues with that. I’ve got a mouse that can either connect with a USB dongle or directly to BT. Works like a charm. Flawless, fast, no latency I’d have noticed.

Only downside: Have a fresh battery at hand. I’ve got a pack of two in my laptop bag. It lasts for ages (many months), but when it fails, it fails. And due to Murphy, it always fails at the most inconvenient moment…

That’s Irish. English uses just toast.

Nice try, AI agent.

Especially those who are already crazy. Maybe one should drop this site into the MAGA crowd, and wait how long it takes DJT to make DHMO illegal.

Be careful! The gaseous form of DHMO can lead to serious burns!

THEY are hiding it! Thousands of dead people every year are found with serious amounts of DHMO in their lungs, but THEY are covering it up on the death certificate as “drowning”!

The em-dash is part of properly setting text in a book. Just because those LLM breeders stole gazillions of books to feed their abominations does not make the use of the em-dash wrong.

Neither does the use of proper opening and closing quotes, apostrophes where they belong, or thinspace at certain places a crime. It is just a sign that someone knows the rules of typesetting.

That was an interesting problem that my daughter had at university. She studied a field held in English in a non-English country (no, not USA either!). Her fellow students asked her what AI she was using for her papers, as they were always in perfect English. As she absolutely hates AI and despises using them, this very idea made her furious.

Yes, she wrote those papers herself. Her English is good enough that she did the Cambridge Certificate while she was in school. Her teachers considered her “native speaker”, and sometimes consulted her on texts and vocabulary. And those assholes just assume she must have used an AI just because she is good at it.

Yesterday in which year? This is ancient.

Slackware. 64 disks. Three of them somehow failed verification, and i had to re-download them the next day at university.

With “download” being an euphemism here. I had to get the disk images via email from bitftp@pucc (if anyone remembers), over the 38400 baud line of the department. Get one disk image in 64kb emails, decode and join the attachments, log in on the PC, copy it to disk, and log out. Delete everything on the VAX (the disk quota did not allow for more), and request the next disk image from Princeton.

Slackware, back when the Linux kernel was still static and had to be configured and compiled each time an update came.

Indeed it is. Most money in teenage gender affirming care goes into removing tits from obese boys.