Thomas Kitchens

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GT grad. Nerd dad. Refuses to continue rhymes.
@PerryM Man, have I got a wikipedia article for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish#Reproduction
Anglerfish - Wikipedia

@Popehat It still outperforms most people in that it entirely failed to mention yelling about fires in movie theaters.
@SwiftOnSecurity I thought Europe fell after The Final Countdown

there’s something extremely funny to me about claiming there is no such thing as reality, while using a device made of sand we convinced to do math and display pictures.

do y’all have any idea how mandatory it is to modern engineering that there is a unified reality with compressible models that can be converged on from any starting point? do y’all have any idea just how ridiculously many converging lines of evidence are behind the act of turning sand into high frequency mixed signal very large scale integrated circuits?

this shit isn’t fucking magic, it doesn’t happen because of vibes. it happens because tens of millions of engineers and technicians in a couple of dozen different disciplines understand the absolute shit out of reality. specifically, they understand the absolute shit out of a teeny tiny slice of reality, and if they weren’t all working on different slices of the exact same reality, none of this shit would ever function.

but carry on i guess. the sand that does math will keep doing it regardless of whether you believe in it.

@Popehat The only thing I know Gloucester for is cheese.
@chrismessina I have to be misunderstanding you right now. The Ur-language in the book isn't real, at least not in the control-people's-brains-in-a-virus way. The most comparable real thing would be proto-Indo-European. It wouldn't surprise me to learn words for ideas of that time period have been lost to the eons, though I'd expect most of those would be related to their rituals and less-frequently used words, the same way languages shed words today. Linguistic natural selection.
Plans to connect Silver Comet Trail, Atlanta BeltLine take key step forward

$8M approved by Cobb County to build trail section at I-285, Chattahoochee River

Urbanize Atlanta
@chrismessina Of course, that phrasing still favors the group in power, because the thoughts and feelings would only be new to them.

@chrismessina I have no problem with the article as a whole, but "New words make new thoughts and feelings possible" really grinds my gears. I know it's nitpicky, but they were perfectly possible before giving them a word, otherwise you'd never have to create a word to express them to others. That portion of linguistic relativity is rejected by modern linguists.

Again, it doesn't change the article. "New words make it possible to express new thoughts and feelings" works as well.

The order of my feed is sometimes harsh.