Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

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>communist
>thinking about who is going to do the work

I know Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is a meme, but the shoe fits here pretty well.

@thor oh yeah that's pretty popular, AFAIK all Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages have that, with the sole exception of English.

@thor that reminds me of the bad old times when the Internet was still new and Poland was still heavily damaged by the communist rule with more people speaking Russian than English and computers themselves being very rare. There's been a fairly popular movement to translate all computer tech-speak to Polish, usually either extremely literally, by creating compound words / phrases with many syllables, or just completely arbitrarily.

So a link was supposed to be "ogniwo", a 3-syllable word literally meaning a physical chain link, click was supposed to be "mlask", an onomatopoeia of smacking lips, and a mouse was supposed to be "manipulator stołokulotoczny", as if anyone would ever use that abomination (meaning table-rolling manipulator) in casual speech.

Thankfully it died a horrible death and its only remainders are a couple of least offensive survivors (the @ sign is called "małpa" meaning "monkey" for some reason) and this silly anecdote.

Never let people claiming to be authorities on your language change your language.

Every language seems to have some quirk that makes it non-trivial even for adult native speakers. For English it's knowing how to pronounce a word based on its written form and vice versa, for Polish it's partially actually pronouncing it but even more so a ridiculous amount of grammar and orthographic rules and exceptions, and for Japanese it's the thousands of Kanji characters, some of which are used rarely by people wanting to be extra fancy.

What's that thing in other languages? Summoning @thor for Norwegian.

#languages

@thor oh, I forgot about the origin of the word too, it would be too simple to at least adapt either its written or pronounced form to match the rest of the language.

@thor you don't even need that, English is just asking for opinions on it. Starting with its complete schizofrenia about how to pronounce the same combinations of letters based on the rest of the word, the context of the word and the phase of the moon.

extremely ironic to see this shared by people against civilian gun ownership

Explaining memes like conspiracy theories, religions, (sub)cultures etc has the same problem as explaining evolution – it's really easy and convenient to explain them as if they were intentional, and that's how they look at a cursory glance. It's easier to treat a religions' aspects "designed" to attain and retain as many followers as possible as if they were, well, "designed", and inserting disclaimers that they're in fact results of memetic evolution is as awkward as inserting disclaimers that genetic evolution is a result of directionless radiation and selection and not some magical process that only mutates in certain "beneficial" directions.

So you get people that go "oh this is what evolution wants" or "haha you believe in something intentionally made up by ancient priests to control the people" / "haha you believe <aspect of religion> was intentionally made up by ancient priests to control the people" with no good way to avoid it.

@lore ok this is very cool

@pieist this, but unironically, and change the first bubble to something more realistic like ↓

There is no "right-wing pipeline" that comes even close in its effectiveness to just how absolutely insufferable vocal left-wing people tend to be. When I see memes pushing right-wing propaganda I just scroll further, when I see the way leftists behave I have to resist the urge to repost these memes just to piss them off.

The failure to notice and address that costs progressive movements more people than any doge shitposting group could ever achieve.

@mgorny normal, everyday morons are already producing so much misinformation that I don't think LLMs can make the problem any worse. The sheer volume is already too much to grasp and you already need trusted sources. People are very good at producing conceivable bullshit and train in it from the moment they can speak after all.

@freemo maybe they misunderstood "potted plants"

@lore time to get into OpenCL :D