NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her] @ NoGodsNoMasters @hexbear.net

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most people i know (undergrad linguistics) seem pretty anti-AI, but that might just be the people i know, and those are also largely the people who seem to have more of an interest in linguistics. it's also possible there's some effect of it just being kind of bad for a fair amount of the sorts of things we need to do (at least when i played around with it maybe a year ago it was pretty bad at dealing with sound changes for example)

just need to find mildly fulfilling stuff to do (now that the arabic obsession has worn off) while i'm stuck at home an ocean away from my girlfriend and other people i knew without a job or uni stuff to do because i was an idiot and did an anorexia (again) last semester

i know i don't and i'm pretty sure a lot (most?) of the people i know don't either, but then again i don't think my degree has amazing job prospects (so it seems to be largely people interested it) and it also doesn't cost american sums of money, so maybe that doesn't say that much.

I think i generally agree with this, although this seems like it basically removes the need to actually look for sources yourself, which feels like it's an important thing to learn to do. That said i don't think i have a better idea so

i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with

you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions ^{(and also his political opinions)}. we are not the same

and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl

I mean some people don't, but also there will always be people who are just kinda late to something. Like I only ended up playing LiS last year, and I liked it, so I could see someone doing that and feeling like talking about it with people online

Yeah this is kind of the conclusion I've come to. I don't really know what it is that 'see' is really supposed to mean. I mean very obviously I don't see it in the same way as I see an object in front of me, but at the same time there is still an apple that has various characteristics and exists in some way within some sort of mental space, and whose attributes, including ones which for a real apple would be visual, I can be aware of and understand

Sadly I can't rotate a cow in my mind because it always just wants to dance to that Polish song instead

Quite well actually. Started uni a few weeks ago and I'm doing linguistics which I'm really into so that's been pretty fun. I've had a bit of extra time now that I'm more settled in as well, so I finally started learning Arabic (fus7a that is) for real, which I've been wanting to do for a long time and it definitely hasn't disappointed because it's a really cool language. Also I met someone really cool on the introduction day thingy for my programme and we've been talking a lot, like a lot a lot, and it's been really nice, it's been quite some time since I've vibed with someone this well I think.

On the other hand ye olde eating disordre is a thing still I guess, although in kind of a weird way where I almost don't know if I can call it that. It hasn't really even been on my mind almost at all, which in pretty stark contrast to a while ago, and it doesn't feel like I've been eating that little, but at the same time I've clearly lost a fair amount of weight (can't say how much bc I have refrained from getting a scale) since arriving here because basically none of my clothes seem to fit anymore. So yeah idk what's up with that

The Internationale

And then I'm vegan with two different kinds of ED 😎

Not sure I could really define what either of them is, but I can tell them apart because they just feel different. I can tell that I'm romantically in love with someone because it's a feeling that's just not what I have platonically. That's not to say there aren't similarities of course, because there are many. In fact I'd say to me it's kinda like it subsumes platonic love. It has all of that, but also a bit more. I think there's also maybe a sort of "irrationality" or whatever you want to call it to romantic love, like the person themself isn't necessarily in any real sense that different from other people I don't feel the same way about, some unconscious part of my brain has simply happened to confer them with a unique significance.

Also if it's at all relevant I'm asexual so sexual attraction has literally nothing to do with anything here, not that even all allos would say those are necessarily related I don't think.

It may not be strategically important but it's a crucial symbolic victory that will keep morale high

Although we should really push back on the historically revisionist narrative that most Ukrainians in WW2 were Nazis because by orders of magnitude the brave Ukrainians of WW2 were fighting against the Nazi invaders as part of the red army.

Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this

They played All I Want for Christmas at pride here and that was like the 2nd or therebouts this month so yeah...

And then the "app" "actually designed to run on your computer" is actually just chromium

No one here is a lib except me