dactylotheca

With conservatives you really only have two choices: they're idiots or psychopaths (and that isn't an exclusive "or")

I'm somewhat partial to Mirv

Edit: they grow up so fast

Yeah gee I wonder why that could be.

Oh yeah I'm a staunch descriptivist, but I do sometimes mourn the changes that are going on in Finnish which is my native language.

Change is inevitable, especially when there are more learners whose native language is from a completely different family (which'd be the vast majority of immigrants here, Uralic languages aren't exactly common), but it's still a bit sad to see the language start to lose some of its unique features that have made it so expressive – but also hard as fuck to learn.

The program's path from a CP/M app by MicroPro onward is winding, being shoved into a half-baked office suite, acquired by SoftKey, which became the Learning Company, acquired by Mattel, spun off to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, and is now the archival property of—well, nobody's quite sure.

Looking forward to the eventual frivolous takedown notice and/or lawsuit – suits seem to have absolutely zero brains when it comes to this stuff. Or, well, when it comes to anything except making themselves and their buddies on the board richer, really

I am deeply saddened by the news that I won't be seeing this in any classical music concerts.

Might as well sell those tickets I bought, then ☹️

I don't think we as a species have it in us to not be pieces of shit. Individuals absolutely do, but I'm not very conviced we'll manage to unfuck our plains ape selves before things go really sideways due to climate change and resource scarcity, and we revert back to a more "natural" state

no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

(yes that's Hobbes. No I'm not sorry.)

I need more caffeine

Or less caffeine? Could go either way

Is this really "world news" even though it's a DW article?

Linguistic descriptivism 💪