antonim

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[–] antonim 7 points 7 months ago

I looked at "Individual-Quail", who just replied "No?" to the request to generate a hello world script, and it does look like a human, tbh.

People can be just lazy and skim the posts they're replying to, ignore or fail to understand the edited bold text...

[–] antonim 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I miss some of the bots.

Remember-Me or Haiku-Bot

have been my favourite ones.

(I'm a shitty haiku bot)

[–] antonim 6 points 7 months ago

They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol', dobro... Then Futhark, and so on, there's no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.

[–] antonim 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

(I wrote out a longer and more carefully worded response, but it was too long. I made it short, but now it looks a bit rude...)

I think that you're mixing some extremely vague and stereotypical "poetic" terms (deep meaning, beauty, eliciting emotions) with some terms that sound very precise (teleonomic, teleologic, deducing things mathematically, Barnum effect). The former signify little or nothing at all, the latter suggest a careful scienctific perspective but actually look misapplied (Barnum effect, mathematically analysing poetry and beauty) or I find them to be borderline gibberish (teleonomic, teleologic).

[–] antonim 2 points 8 months ago

You mean here on Lemmy? I think they disabled them on reddit anyway.

[–] antonim 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

By the time she let the baby's carcass go, she had carried the calf across 1,000 miles on her head.

Maybe it was just an attempt at creating an another odd orca fashion trend?

(Man, that was a pretty morbid joke.)

[–] antonim 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps the real right place for the sticker was the drawer all along?

[–] antonim 8 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a conflict of interest. Make laws pertaining to retirement homes before you end up there. You deserve to feel on your own skin whether your laws were any good.

[–] antonim 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Parker Solar Probe is shielded from the sun during its flybys by a thermal protection system. That heat shield is performing better than expected, said Betsy Congdon, lead engineer for the thermal protection system at APL. “We expect lower temperatures that we designed for and that we tested to,” she described at the briefing. “We overprepared.”

Other systems on the spacecraft are performing better on the system, Rawafi said. One example is the spacecraft’s solar panels, which are degrading less than predicted before launch. “The system is very healthy and it can go much further than we planned for.”

This reminds me of how Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were originally planned for a three-month mission and ended up working for 5 and 14 years respectively.

[–] antonim 2 points 8 months ago

I clicked on this thread only to figure out what that title is supposed to mean.

[–] antonim -1 points 8 months ago

And then also how is it bridged to glowie?

Just like how you have "newfag" and its more civilised equivalent "newbie" (though the two terms are more independent from each other, the latter is older).

where did you see that and what makes you think this association extends into the wider world?

Youtube, 4chan and similar shithole sites that directly followed Terry Davis, and which initially formed and adopted the lingo. Many such people are also in the circles that focus on privacy, distrust of the state and big tech companies bordering on paranoid, etc. (4chan's /g/ in particular)

I have seen the old r/waterniggers

It was just r/waterniggas. And IIRC it wasn't generally meant to be racist, so the shift to r/hydrohomies was tolerated. They got banned just due to the name, not behaviour of the users. It's really not equivalent to people laughing at and making memes out of a schizophrenic man spouting racism.

[–] antonim -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's safe to say that the vast majority of people using the term know about its origin, and it's not mere association, but literal origin (see the video above), and also the original form "glownigger" is still widely used (it's bizarre that it's on the end of the list on Wikipedia, in fact, after some forms that are probably barely used). Otherwise "glowie" doesn't make much sense at all, doesn't it? It's a softened version pto avoid the overt racism, but it still gives a wink to it.

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