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baby are you classic video game company taito, cause you make me argh! annoyed
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resilienter fußfetischist, der immer wieder auf die beine kommt

moin
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so this serial ponzi-like thing where people build hype but tank a company, create a new one and hype that to pay off the previous failure's refunds, debts, etc., then tank it, move on to the next, ... does that have a name that actually gets to the predatory nature of the pattern and doesn't glorify it as entrepreneurship?

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cathos
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I've been wondering this too. I hear 'pump & dump' and 'leveraged buyout' a lot, but those feel... incomplete and imperfect in these situations.
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cathos
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i suppose the leveraged buyout is kindof the opposite side of the tech startup thing where they build a company fast on loads of debt, hoping to be bought out and liquidated.
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honey, i'm home!

Willkommen bei @Gabriel Yoran
@Gabriel Yoran
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i just had the stupidest idea for impractical footwear, and i'm wondering if anything like that already exists:

the floatshoe

basically, a ring for your calf to sit in, possibly with a sort of funnel or straps to more evenly spread the weight, mounted on struts that connect to a "sole", so that your feet hang in the air freely as you walk

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Lambdacore
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Hm. Problem I see with this is the lack of forward stabilization that feet provide. Plus you introduce an additional pivot point. I would imagine that walking in these devices will prove to be quite difficult.
I'm curious - what's the use case?
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khm
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chell wears an early version of this in portal

(dt.) Jachthafen = (engl.) DisplayPort

hochqualitative berichterstattung bei der funke mediengruppe

👻

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wayfinder
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sorry, funke medien gruppe - zeit fürs deppenleerzeichen muss sein

trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

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Kilian Evang
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I wonder what the "you ask" pattern is, exactly. Pitch rising higher at the end than normal question intonation?
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wayfinder
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yeah, basically.

rhetorical questions in particular fall victim to it a lot of the time.

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Kilian Evang
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Interesting, I'd never noticed the "name in commas" pattern. Using the terminology of Schneider and Zeldes (2021), I would describe it as name descriptors (more specifically: embellishments) treated incorrectly as appositives in orthography.

https://aclanthology.org/2021.udw-1.14.pdf

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Das Kasperlenspiel

every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:

Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...

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Saga Musix
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Do you consider yourself to be a Yahooist?

when people using the false plural "octopi", do they also do it for other words ending in -us for which -i is not the correct plural form?

i propose to name this field of study "autobi"-ography

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The Birdbassador
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i think the scientists have mostly given up on "octopi" (mostly because "octopodes" is also fake and "octopuses" sounds bad), but there are still folks fighting the good fight against "virii"

why do so many people write "isaac" as "issac"? it's like an epidemic, probably more common as a misspelling than "micheal" at this point. i wonder what the reason behind that is...
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IƧΛΛC
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@VoiceofDuum hahaha! So true! It happens to me so often. I have no idea why, to be honest. Next time someone spells my name that way, I'll ask them 😋
@Cromley

Kneten auch Sie noch heute ein Dar!
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making salsa, one of the few pleasurable jarring experiences

slightly ticked off again that discord cannot search in threads

please, i beg of you all... no more cat puns with "purr" or "meow"
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wayfinder
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it's really not nice to do the thing in response to a sincere plea to stop
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Anatol
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apologies, I honestly thought the "fursona" angle was sufficiently original as opposed to "purrsonally" :f
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charly
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@dngrs
"sorry"... *does it again* 😂
@Anatol
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charly
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@dngrs
with an example that does the exact thing, though.
@Anatol
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Anatol
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@oxytocinated this seems to be yet another case of our communication styles matching very poorly
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wayfinder
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please don't clash on my account! charly, thanks for being protective of me, and anatol, thanks for not doubling down! i hope we can all be fine with this, i am!

(engl.) STI = (dt.) Bumsenbrenner

why do we say incel and not F-Zero
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(engl.) shoegaze = (dt.) Bodensee

don't quixote

by age 46 you should have a sizable collection of grammar pet peeves (about 50% of which are indicators of aging out of language as it is in common use, even if that common use is stupid as fuck)
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khm
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is this the thread where I list them out or do I just continue silently judging people
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you can measure how owned someone is with a their-mom-meter

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i've seen that screenshot from the fox news show about libraries* roll through my feed a few times now, and i keep wondering what they thought the comma was for in "drug-infested, sex dens"


*not reproducing it again because meh

i'm guessing the british government could improve their perceived trustworthiness by a measurable amount if they stopped calling everything they do a "scheme"

it just sounds so sinister and implies ulterior motives!

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this eclipse is very confusing, suddenly everyone likes corona

They're doing some lampshading outside my place
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dojoe
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would the real lamp shady please stand up
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it's monday, and I just posted my weekly overview on patreon and ko-fi. time to finally do some #self_promotion again! follow these links please and be part of the avalanche of moneys that will surely happen soon.

https://www.patreon.com/posiputt

https://ko-fi.com/posiputt


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I recently uploaded two new tracks to my soundcloud, and I've had multiple spammers/scammers reach out to declare their undying love for the tracks and offer their services listing it on all the marketplaces, etc. It really does feel like there's a normalized base level of this sort of thing almost everywhere on the web, like parasites, bacteria and viruses in the environment, just a constant pressure of hopeful little bloodsuckers. Every place needs some sort of immune system against these omnipresent threats (and usually, this is not something the platform does, so in effect they force their users into a defensive posture by default.) It's pretty dire, in my opinion.

(engl.) Rod Turner = (türk.) Döner Kebap

I made music for a second thing! https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96616

Evoke 25 by LJ

demo for Windows, 8th at Revision 2024
pouët.net
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I made music for a thing: https://mfx.drastic.net/view/asura/

Best enjoyed at 1080p with a nice-ish GPU!


Asura

webgl demo 'Asura'
mfx.drastic.net

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getting over it


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Rip whoever died in this rest stop

hedging-bets.png

saug auch du noch heute fährlich!
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serviceperson hat meine verabschiedung interpretiert wie sie dachte. vielleicht vergessen, dass die erfahrung "recht gehabt aber pech gehabt, lol was willst du machen" war
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ich fand es als kind immer sehr verwirrend, dass "der mensch hat gute nerven" (edit: oder auch "nerven wie stahlseile") das gleiche bedeutet hat wie "der hat keine nerven" (bzw "ein mensch ohne nerven"). aber letztere formulierung habe ich nun schon echt lange nicht mehr gesehen
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dit is berlin! kopflose ratte inner pfütze zwischen den tramschienen. foto erspar ich euch

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Fabian Giesen
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ugh

ich glaub' in new york sagen sie "character!"

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