Antoine_St_Hexubeary

Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes "attractive and successful African-American") and I'd be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.

The obvious joke here is "If that substance is being marketed as 'beer', and if we've all agreed to tolerate this, then we're already on level 2."

Meh. The universal grammar concept has the potential to yield interesting insights, even if Chomsky's version of it (or at least, Chomsky's version of it which was current when I was in undergrad) resembles English too much in the particulars. Also, the "linguistic differences between ethnic groups" can of worms rarely contains anything useful, at least not when Westerners open it.

I will reserve judgment until I read more. Got any more?

[Quietly whistles Electric Six guitar riff]

Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that's the best you can hope for.

"I should not have written this story." -Ayn Rand

[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]

[It begins leaking]

What in the goddamn

So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?

What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you're renovating a basement?

And maybe a Roma state somewhere east-southeast of there.

imagine in like 2110 someone makes a rap musical about Alan Greenspan

Thanks to ChatGPT, we don't have to wait until 2110. Hell, we don't even have to wait until the end of the day.

In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of "Spontaneous Councilism" (Opossum's Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I'm pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen's fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.

Finland

Oh.