Reminder to all bitches: if they're coming to kill you, make them bring their own shovels. To me that's what voting is about, that's what living is about, that's what stubbornly persisting is about. For a lot of us world is full of people who want to bury you and to despair is to make it that much easier on them to get you in the ground. Fuck em! Don't just sit there. Don't just cooperate. Don't just wisely pontificate about how inevitable your doom is. If anyone is coming to Get You then damn well make them sweat for it.
Why do horror game protagonists always buy the worst flashlights? A flashlight that can kill a Dracula is like 20 bucks. Why are you grabbing grandma's old flashlight with a dying bulb from 1992 and going into the woods at night?
i've seen exactly one game actually have an explanation, that being INFRA, where iirc everyone acknowledges the flashlight is shit, and the company the protag works for ordered new ones but they didn't arrive yet at the time the game starts out
in other developments re german/anglo cultural exchange on breadstuffs, this image was posted to a facebook group yesterday
the following events ensued:
1. predictable lively discussion on the preparation of Wienerschnitzel, in which natives and wurstaboos are pro-puff and everybody else is like *confused dog head tilt* why wouldn’t you want the crust to stay ~attached to the thing you put it on? as with other fried foods?
2. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my band name” jokes
3. thirty “Bad Schnitzel is my stripper name” jokes
4. one “ah yes, Bad Schnitzel! a lovely spa town” joke
I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.
"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.
"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.
Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room
i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me
The topic particle は can either replace or combine with other particles in order to mark the topic of a sentence. For example, は replaces を to mark the direct object as the topic of a sentence.
私も弁当を食べる。
→ I will eat a bento, too.
Has no topic (nothing is marked by は)
Direct object = 弁当 (marked by を)
弁当は、私も食べる。
→ As for a bento, I will also eat it.
Topic = 弁当 (marked by は)
Direct object = still 弁当
What is は doing in the second sentence?
Interpretation #1: A neutral statement. 弁当 is the topic of the conversation, and the speaker is mentioning that they also eat 弁当.
Interpretation #2: Introducing a contrastive topic. 弁当 is the topic of the conversation, but the speaker is being specific about eating 弁当 versus something else.
Contrastive は
Think of は as putting a spotlight on a topic and quietly implying:
"As for X… (here’s what I want to say about it — and it might differ from other things)."
That "might differ from other things" is where the contrast sneaks in. It’s not always strong contrast — sometimes it’s just a gentle nudge.
私も弁当を食べる。
→ I will eat a bento, too.
Focus = 私
You're adding yourself to the group.
No contrast implied.
弁当は、私も食べる。
→ As for a bento, I will also eat it.
Focus = 弁当
You're adding your action to the topic of 弁当.
Contrast = between 弁当 and other possible foods/topics/other people's actions
A trick to feel the contrast
If you can naturally add "but…" after the は phrase, the contrast is there.
弁当は、私も食べる。
→ As for the bento… (but the curry? maybe not).
You don’t have to say the second half — Japanese often leaves it unsaid.
Additional Examples
① りんごは食べるけど、バナナは食べない。
As for apples, I eat them, but bananas I don’t.
Contrast = explicit (けど)
Topics = りんご and バナナ (は marks the things being contrasted)
② 今日は行くけど、明日は行かない。
→ As for today, I’ll go, but tomorrow I won’t.
Contrast = explicit (けど)
Topics = 今日 and 明日 (は marks the things being contrasted)
I think that one of the most frustrating things about algospeak, after the "compliance in advance" self-censorship, is that there is no actual evidence-based justification for it. Everyone who uses it does so because they heard from a guy who heard from a guy that The Algorithm will bury their content if they don't use cutesy euphemisms.
