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She wanted shock value, I guess.

Nah, just a sudden rush of shit to the empty cavity that others use for storing their brain.

@user85795 that's an interesting question, actually. For most of history, it's sort of the opposite really. But @Cerberus is more of an authority on that.

12:23 AM

According to Chomsky.

Yes, and I challenge Chomsky to build even just one nation out of people who don't already speak the same language.

The egg comes first. And only after can you have a hen. Or a snake or a crocodile.

Just look at Turkey where it is illegal to say the word "Kurdish." According to Wikipedia.

That's a separate point really. And again, it can only come much later after you've founded a strong state with a bunch of people that all speak Turkish and not, oh say, Kurdish.

Once you have a strong state based on a common language, then you can conquer others and enforce your language upon them. It is only at that point that the language becomes a national construct.

But if you did exactly none of that, the language would still exist.

We can quip all we want that a language needs an army and a navy, but go tell that to a Geordie.

You will quickly discover that an army is not necessary. A broken bottle to the face will do.

and thus ends communication

Not all communication is verbal. Indeed most communication is not.

Hence the rise of smileys, mind.

12:37 AM

:-)

12:53 AM

Republicans Accuse Liz Cheney of Reading the Constitution.

1:09 AM

@Robusto New Yorker is so New Yorker, even when it tries to say "the onion", it ends up saying "satire from the Borowitz Report" instead.

More terrific NM sky ^^

The Empire of Light

The sheds kinda ruin it.

Sheds? Them's houses.

I would've had to walk a couple blocks for an unobstructed view, and by then the light would have changed.

@Robusto I'm speaking Kiwi tonight.

@Robusto all I'm seying, in this horrible dialict, is that it didn't go streight to my skyporn folder, but to the TODO subfolder that I first opin in GIMP before I put it on my disktop.

1:19 AM

Can't ya just enjoy the colors and not try to break my balls every fucking time?

I did enjoy the colors first and only breaked your balls later.

I am a man of very strong priorities.

And I've not taken a picture of the sky myself in years, so I much rely on the steady input from this room.

Plus German skies aren't as good as these.

There's only one other friend on Instagram, but she hasn't posted anything in months.

@Robusto well mine are. I did show you a selection. But this is like half in France, so there's that.

I saw a lotta clouds, few colorful ones.

For that matter, I saw few colorful ones in Boston, either.

Yeah strong blues plus lavish reds are a rarity.

I always run out of memory when those are around.

1:24 AM

But here ... ah, mon ami ... toujours coloré

avec beaucoup de couleurs

instagram.com/p/CHHWrrvjS5E4rVt09QJY_-LdKxTf2EIxlrKC7I0

This is the most recent picture from the friend I mentioned.

10 weeks ago. I'm starving.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt The man is a real sewer.

I wouldn't call him exactly a man.

And it's an insult to sewers, too.

Especially that one named after John Oliver now.

> This page isn’t working If the problem continues, contact the site owner.

Well fuck Instagram, then.

It is working in this five-year old Chrome on Vista, funnily enough.

Maybe one day we'll come full circle and view sky porn in Lynx.

1:29 AM

Tried it on Firefox now:

> This Account is Private

Here's a 32-bit screenshot for your convenience.

Noice.

Yeah she's somewhere round your parts, I forget.

Aug 30 '20 at 20:02, by Robusto

I can't find her really good ones, those are a couple years back and this computer doesn't know how to scroll.

1:33 AM

Yes that one I remember.

I saved it.

Jun 23 '20 at 18:43, by Robusto

Jul 20 '20 at 14:05, by Robusto

Indeed.

3 hours ago, by Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Wow, you remembered.

1:35 AM

Sep 26 '20 at 21:14, by Robusto

That is one of my faves.

Oooh nifty.

No sun, just a really interesting contest between clouds and sky.

Now those we don't get here.

Like, this kind of swirl.

Sep 26 '20 at 21:15, by Robusto

The sky out here is so damn gorgeous.

Yes, the last time we talked about it we ended up discussing Frankfurt and Chicago, I believe.

Jul 20 '20 at 17:34, by Robusto

Yeah there.

1:38 AM

Wo ist denn das?

Jul 20 '20 at 17:34, by Robusto

This one looks like the loop viewed from one of the harbors: Diversey or Belmont, probably.

OH, right. I linked that. Duh.

If I only knew how to read ...

I was thinking about where that might be in Germany. But it wasn't in Germany, it was in Illinois.

Well, to be fair, I've no idea if that Robusto guy is credible with his theories.

He bears watching.

Might as well be Main that he may or may not have puked into.

1:40 AM

Odds favor may have.

Although who can say? When you're that drunk, you puke where you can. You don't save it for this or that river.

I support that agenda.

1:57 AM

One time at a party I almost made it to a nearby creek.

The keyword being "almost".

And the other keywords being "nearby", "creek", "make", and "I".

That was some twenty five years ago. Heavens I'm old.

tchrist

2:21 AM

@RegDwigнt glares