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Re: Slow

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Post by Timwi »

ronjakoi wrote: post #152
saltcured wrote: post #118

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In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree. It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...

English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?

Re: Slow

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Post by jerbearito »

coldtea wrote: post #203
veqq wrote: post #63

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This is an urban legend. The college archivist covered it: http://web.archive.org/web/20020816065622/http://www.new.ox.... > In 1859, the JCR told the SCR that the roof in Hall needed repairing, which was true. > In 1862, the senior fellow was visiting College estates on `progress', i.e., an annual review of College property, which goes on to this day (performed by the Warden). Visiting forests in Akeley and Great Ho…

> the roof in Hall needed repairing, which was true. > Visiting forests in Akeley and Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire (forests which the College had owned since 1441), he had the largest oaks cut down and used to make new beams for the ceiling. So seems like the "legend" is true after all, the trees were 150+ old and let to grow, and the "takedown" is just not wanting to acknowledge that they did it purposefully, whic…

> just not wanting to acknowledge that they did it purposefully

So the punchline of the urban legend is in question? The part that makes it so interesting? Not sure that qualifies as 'pedantic hair splitting'.

Re: Slow

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Post by ronjakoi »

Timwi wrote: post #231
ronjakoi wrote: post #152

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English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

Re: Slow

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Post by fuzztester »

WJW wrote: post #59
fuzztester wrote: post #17

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Next? Medium. Posted on Medium, ofc.

You know why they call it Medium, of course? Because it's definitely not Rare and usually also not Well Done.

A comment such as yours is Rare, and also Well Done!

It's even more admirable, since comments in this Medium are Rarely Well Done.

Re: Slow

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Post by xwolfi »

eru wrote: post #168
xwolfi wrote: post #132

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Zoom out: 200 years ago they were killing each other over slavery, 400 years ago, there was no american society. The trend is up, but they're in a local minimum :D

> [...] 400 years ago, there was no american society. Well, there were people living in that part of the world..

America went from a land populated by people so weak they were decimated by foreign soldiers on horses, to the strongest army in the world. It evolved, positively ?

Re: Slow

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Post by eru »

xwolfi wrote: post #235
eru wrote: post #168

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> [...] 400 years ago, there was no american society. Well, there were people living in that part of the world..

America went from a land populated by people so weak they were decimated by foreign soldiers on horses, to the strongest army in the world. It evolved, positively ?

Increased capacity for violence, yeah! Because that's the only thing that matters..

Re: Slow

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Post by coldtea »

eru wrote: post #225
coldtea wrote: post #207

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Because "caring for the future" is not a problem that's solved with money. Especially when short-term profit trumps it, and the people that should be caring wont be alive in that future and don't give a fuck. Thinking "we'll just pay someone to do it" is exactly the mindset that fucked up everything. (And, for starters, you need to care for X to pay someone to do X, to begin with).

> Thinking "we'll just pay someone to do it" is exactly the mindset that fucked up everything. What do you mean? We are living in a golden age of unprecedented prosperity. > Because "caring for the future" is not a problem that's solved with money. Especially when short-term profit trumps it, and the people that should be caring wont be alive in that future and don't give a fuck. Have a look at the history of sharepr…

>What do you mean? We are living in a golden age of unprecedented prosperity

Hahaha, that's next level cope. Compared to what, the 1910s?

Because compared to just a few decades ago we live in an era of diminishing middle class, less affordable rent and housing, worse job prospects, crap politics, worsening climate crisis, failing infrastructure, inflation, and more widespread depression...

>Well, if someone in fifty years is willing to pay for the tree (even if she's not born yet), markets will do the rest to come up with a positive price for the tree today.

Markets don't even solve today's problems anymore, they'd rather enshittify and seek short term profit

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