The new season is animated by a totally different company, and the first episode looks great (aside from the OP).

That’s good to know! To be honest I don’t mind some usage of AI; but I tend to judge books by covers, and anime series by the OP, so if they’re getting sloppy with the OP I’m concerned about the rest.

I’ve read bits of the light novel already, mostly because I was unsatisfied with the manga. I think I reached the point Myne manages to get the print the children’s book?

Then I had to stop it due to time issues, and never picked it up again. Might as well do it now~

The only previously reported case took place in the 1970s at Gombe, Tanzania, during Jane Goodall’s long-term study.

I was reading about it (the Four Years War) rather recently; it was really nasty, seven of the adult males died in it. (All from the Kahama clan, and one from Kasakela.) Granted, this might not look like a big deal, but the community had 14 adult males, half of them died in the war.

I also found further info on the Ngogo community here. 32 adult males, 50 adult females, 166 members in total in 2011. That’s fucking huge.

“What’s especially striking is that the chimpanzees are killing former group members,” says Aaron Sandel, associate professor of anthropology at UT Austin and the study’s lead author. “The new group identities are overriding cooperative relationships that had existed for years.”

It’s the same with us humans, too: gaining trust takes years, but losing it takes a few seconds. As soon as you’re identified with “the enemy”, you already lost that trust, and things only spiral down.

“If relational dynamics alone can drive polarization and lethal conflict in chimps without language, ethnicity, or ideology, then in humans, those cultural markers might be secondary to something more basic,” says Sandel.

I admit I don’t know enough about chimps to say anything concrete, but what Aaron Sandel is saying sounds sensible. Multilingual communities are often stable and can last centuries; but once there’s “something” missing, usually in the material conditions, you see war. I believe this applies to the rest of culture, too.

Interesting to contrast with that Scythian comb you posted some time ago. They’re from the same place and culture, made from the same material, but the style is completely different, this one doesn’t “feel” Greek like that other. The animals motif is going strong, but also more active than just a bunch of sitting lions; I guess that’s one or two centuries of refinement.

I’m binge watching earlier seasons of this series, in preparation for the one currently airing. Frankly? The story is amazing, but the series was always poor on the visual aspect.

I’ll keep watching the earlier ones but I don’t know if I’ll watch the current one, or just read the light novels as usual.

Spanish has the same problem with digraphs to be taken as individual letters for collation purposes, such as ⟨ch⟩ and ⟨ll⟩. At least ⟨nn⟩ got merged into ⟨ñ⟩ some centuries ago, yay.

From the title I was expecting a web browser reskinned to use the language, but after reading the text it’s more like a full-fledged dictionary. I like the idea; it could be used with other languages, too.

…also lemme get this out my throat, the orthography looks like the stuff chair addicted linguists made, with no regards to usability by the native speakers. I mean, they’re even using a plethora of IPA letters. IPA is great when you want to accurately transcribe something, but awful for practical everyday usage. But at this rate the speakers are already used to it, so I guess the mess was already done.

Communism relies on the government controlling everything to function.

First off, “communism” is a stateless society¹. By definition. That already makes your claim an oxymoron.

You meant “socialism”. Confusing socialism with communism is as silly as confusing capitalism with feudalism. For the same reason — it’s a succession chain: feudalism → capitalism → socialism → communism².

And not even for socialism this is remotely valid. There are multiple ways to implement a post-capitalism society (aka socialism), from full hierarchy to complete self-governance. It depends on the material conditions.

Notes:

1. What your typical left-wing anarchist and your typical Marxist call “stateless” is different. However, in this context the difference between “there’s no state at all” and “there’s no state as a tool for the dominant class” isn’t relevant.
2. Yeah, I’m oversimplifying matters. But c’mon, the user in question has been clearly fed more propaganda than information. Some didactic oversimplification is fine.

(It’s the first time I hear this band, and I’m fucking loving it.)

Let’s do it differently: Eisbrecher’s version when the A³ gaming industry dies, Bach’s when the pop music industry dies, and Evangelion’s when Hollywood does so. Deal?

As the western AAA gaming industry dies, I shall be playing Komm süßer Tod in its funeral. Which one depends on who’s the next kicking the bucket: this one if it’s the pop music industry, and this one if it’s Hollywood.

…now excuse me, I gotta finish Donkey Kong Country 2 again.

“You’re saying that potatoes are plants, and plants include potatoes. THAT’S CIRCULAR REASONING! EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!”

Snark I often say when Protestant proselytisers decide to bug me (this is surprisingly often):

[Proselytiser] Jesus saves!
[Me] Ctrl+S saves too, but it doesn’t ask me to believe in bullshit. Now leave me alone.

inb4, for people who don’t get the joke:

In plenty places of the world, it’s common to wave at the bus in the bus stop to make it stop so it can pick you up. We do it because 1) the driver might not see you, and 2) if the bus stop services multiple bus routes, the driver has no way to know if you’re waiting for that one, or another, and stopping needlessly makes the route slower for everyone else.

Sometimes people do it by raising their arm and hand in an angle. There’s no context to interpret it as a Nazi salute (unlike… say, when some fascist piece of shit is saying “my heart goes to you!”, as he’s greeting the voting base of another fascist, among them a lot of other fascists?), but the joke ignores that on purpose because it’s a fucking joke.

Sorry, I have a really annoying tendency to answer shitposts/jokes/etc. with serious stuff.

What worries me the most is the impact of those as potentially invasive plants. But I guess producing light is energetically costly, so they’d be outcompeted?

Also they look more like ornaments than viable lighting options: the glow from fireflies and funghi isn’t too strong.

With enough straw to build a straw man, everything becomes circular logic. And the OOP is doing it in a really, really dumb way, through definitions instead of claims.

…thanks for reminding me Reddit is HN tiers of bad.

Minha segunda facul foi letras com habilitação em linguística. Queria ter trabalhado com isso, mas hoje em dia sou só um tradutor mequetrefe :P

Realmente o mistério é mais difícil de solucionar do que parece à primeira vista.

É geralmente assim com palavrão, a etimologia é sempre uma bagunça. Eles são usados constantemente então o significado evolui muito rápido, só que quase não tem registro, as pessoas evitam de escrevê-los.

Só pra te dar um exemplo. Um dos palavrões com etimologia mais bem estudada é o “merda” do latim. Sabemos ser herdado do proto-indo-europeu, e que os falantes de latim usavam-no direto, já que tudo quanto é língua neolatina herdou a merda. Mesmo assim a gente quase não sabe em que situações os falantes de latim usavam a palavra, porque quase nunca era escrita; só em uns epigramas do Marcial e umas pichações em Pompeia. (inb4 sim, é o mesmo “merda” do português.)

Com esses insultos é a mesma coisa. As pessoas evitam de registrar. E nisso a gente perde a história deles.

Nicknames are often erratic — cue to Juca (Joaquim), Chico (Francisco; no idea why the /ʃ/), Mafê (Maria Fernanda). I don’t know why, but I feel like they work through a different logic than simple shortenings.

Se incomoda se eu responder em português? Então, pra resumir a missa: tenho quase certeza que o xingamento (viado) vem do nome do bicho (veado). Motivos:

1. Em português é comum alçar [e o] para [i u] logo antes da sílaba tônica; principalmente em hiato, que vira ditongo, e o [i u] vira [j w]. (O nome técnico disso é “alçamento pré-tônico”, caso queira procurar papers sobre o assunto.)
2. Palavrões muitas vezes são escritos com uma ortografia mais popular, não-padrão, representando a pronúncia. Há outros exemplos disto; tipo boceta→buceta, foder→fuder, até mesmo caralho→caraio (e olha que [ʎ] “lh” →[j] “i” é bem restrito dialetalmente)
3. Há outras expressões usadas para atacar a comunidade gay, associando-os com bichos saltitantes; tipo “gazela”, “biba saltitante”, etc. Tem também “bambi”, mas essa é claramente derivativa de “viado”.

I think it also applies to expletives. Check for example ⟨vagabunda⟩* /va.ga.'bũ.da/; if there was some pressure to keep the stressed syllable it would be clipped into *bunda or *gabunda, but it’s usually clipped into ⟨vagaba⟩ instead. Technically the /b/ from the stressed syllable is still there, but the core /ũ/ ⟨un⟩ is gone.

*gotta explain this one to the folks here. “Vagabunda” means whore, promiscuous woman, etc. It’s highly offensive, way more than the nearest English equivalent (slut), it’s the sort of word to not use even in a joke. (The masculine “vagabundo” is depreciative but socially acceptable — it means lazy arse, do-nothing.)