Kveldred

for tomorrow: stop being lazy & procrastinating so much

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

you know the feeling of waking up from a horrible nightmare, how you thus feel 𝙨𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙙—so, 𝙨𝙤 glad it was only a dream?

great! now imagine the exact opposite. it is a jolly olde time. ha-ha!

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

the true value of G is somewhere in the range: [6.67420, 6.67425] • 10⁻¹¹ m³/(kg•s²). 💡

u heard it here first

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@gallerdude I thought your AI images in the ACX challenge were amazingly good—do you mind sharing how you generated them?

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@arlingtonchurch Hey, on y'all's "how to address the clergy" page, you say to address archbishops as "Your Excellency". I thought that this was 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 for archbishops, but that they 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 got "Your Grace" (y'know, like a duke). Am I mistaken?

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@GCASmrkngRvng @abbydphillip tobacco execs are selfless heroes of saintlike charity by comparison

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stop using "throwback" to mean "callback" that's not what it fucking means

u IDIOTS

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@josephdviviano @BLACKHAL0_ oh. @BLACKHAL0_ already mentioned VALIS I see :(

well that's what I get for leaving my tweet unfinished for hours–

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@josephdviviano @BLACKHAL0_ looks to me like it has some quotes from P.K.D.'s VALIS. "the Empire never ended"

should probably be some mention of pink lasers in there too lol. although maybe we shouldn't mock Dick's pink laser, since it told him his son needed emergency surgery... & turned out he did 🤔

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

also "important" like "impor'ent" with a strong glottal stop where the first /t/ should be

go'ammit

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

stop pronouncing "else" as "elts", 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

none of that rebuts the claim in the OP; we're not talking about presidential pardons or DoJ DEI rollbacks. 🤷‍♂️ you'd need to show a study wherein no racial bias in favor of black defendants on the part of blacks and/or white Dems is detected.

the statement about "longer sentences for similar crimes" isn't true, either: controlling for courtroom behavior, previous convictions, and within-charge-category differences cause the apparent disparity to completely disappear. see Ferguson 2024 & Langan 1994, among others.

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@AresO81786459 @lporiginalg "Semitic" is an ethnolinguistic classification, so no. "Jewish", maybe, sure.

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@nickcammarata wait... I don't get it. depending on the reading, "10x more agency" seems either hard to understand—make 10x as many choices per minute? decide things 10x as hard?—or else just like imagining "10x more money" (if I was able to do/buy X, I could do/buy X!—but I can't, so...) 🤔

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@FoundnAntiquity Salve! I return to (irritatingly) inform you of two minor-albeit-perhaps-relevant finds: (1) L. R. Lind, 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘭'𝘴 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥, 1st ed maybe 1963 @ Indiana U. P.; (2) Patricia Johnston, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘭, 2012 @ U. of OK Press.

I'm amazed that these have, heretofore, somehow escaped my notice entirely! (Prelim. eval.: the latter seems possibly interesting; the former—perhaps justly forgotten...)

No idea if these tidbits are actually of any use/interest, but I wanted to make brief note of 'em just in case you intend to keep adding to the list (it's still the best—most informative—I've found! :).
P.S.: IIRC, you do not actually give your own preference 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦 English 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥s anywhere (though I may have just missed it, or forgotten)—do you have one? 🤔

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@sherrod_im @alyssaleann the Guns-'n'-Bugs lifestyle has been the epitome of masculinity for millennia. sad to think that this lady will never get to taste fresh beetle upon her husband's lips, but—well, "c'est la V",* as the Spaniards say.

*(= "such is [the way of] the vagina" in Spanish (IIRC))

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@nickwritesit @alyssaleann 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤, as my pappy used to say

'course, pappy had some brain damage from all the liquor, so he said a lot of things

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@zplerhop @alyssaleann @KingHazeel well, OP wants to make it very clear that her husband is NOT metrosexual, so it seems there's still some discomfort there 🤔

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@alyssaleann whoa little defensive aren't we

I said more power to y'all and even gave a 👍! I'm happy for you!

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@alyssaleann @KingHazeel I can't say I've met many straight men who care about ironing clothes or decorating, but more power to you & Mr. Metrosexual if it's working 👍

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@MrBeigeShiba @shitposts_mp4 An interesting point. I always thought it was a shame that the Mu'tazila lost influence—not sure, off the top o' me head, if the timeline adds up, but their prominence in Baghdad & the Abbasid era fits with a Mongol cause. (Probably the Seljuks get most of the blame, though.)

[Kveldred @Kveldred]

@MrBeigeShiba so are we theorizing that arguing with you is merely 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 of impending doom—or that it's actually a 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘭 factor thereof? 🤔