English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

CowperKettle

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> "Now I live in a state of constant fear. I can't plan anything," says Peter, 27. He is a salesman living in St Petersburg - but he is now at risk of being called up to fight as part of the Ukraine war. At the end of July, Russia raised the maximum conscription age by three years. bbc.com/news/world-europe-66388422

I like Israel as in "I like the fact that Jews finally have a country", but I'm wary of any governmental system. It's a given that any governmental system will commit something bad, sooner or later.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a Country song

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Will GPT-5 achieve consciousness? | Joscha Bach and Lex Fridman

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alphabet

01:06

First GOP debate is in a few weeks. Campaign season already. Ugh.

The news for the next year is going to be depressing.

CowperKettle

Also a new horror movie coming out in a few weeks, about Judas' betrayal, titled "I Know What You Did Last Supper".

alphabet

01:36

It appears our foremost H&P advocate has been suspended from ELL. Unfortunate, but I'm sure there's a story behind it.

BillJ, Surrey, UK

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M.A.R.

02:23

@alphabet genau. Foot shooting. Lots and lots of foot shooting. For anyone willing to be reasonable about this of course.

@alphabet only if you're an American. For me it's sometimes comical, and when it's about health, very aggravating.

CowperKettle

02:53

Have your ever tried blindfolded archery?
You don't know what you're missing.

Buddhism Meets Ai: Chomsky’s Take on the Conscious Mind

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I wish they'd used some AI tool to make his speech clearer

> You promised me to never sleep with other women!
But it's the same woman!

CowperKettle

03:19

LOL

alphabet

@CowperKettle Why are they all holding hands and smiling??

CowperKettle

I don't know. Maybe some Russian tradition.

Antarctic sea ice concentration in May 2023 (white) VS the long-term average of 1981-2010 (orange line)

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CowperKettle

04:18

AI pixel art.

CowperKettle

04:36

Stable Diffusion AI

Vikas

05:32

As a kid, this movie scared me a lot. Title means "The toy became the villain".

imdb.com/title/tt3671294

> A criminal gets killed in a toy factory and posseses a doll. The doll then is bought by a shopkeeper who slowly realizes that the doll is behind the recent deaths.

CowperKettle

Khilona bana Khalnayak (1993) Full movie in Hindi || Tatya Bicchu ||

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Hm. I did not watch it then. Probably because it was overshone by Jurassic Park here, the same year.

> "If Paris was Los Angeles, the Ukraine War would be going on in Memphis"

alphabet

05:54

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Q: Is there a word for the feeling you get when someone you usually disagree with on an issue, brings up something related to that issue?

ok title doesn't really explain it well at all so I'm gonna try and provide a better explanation here: I'm looking for a word that describes that feeling you get when (somebody of a group typically thought of having more power in society) brings up (a group typically thought of having less power ...

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> I can't explain it any better than this so if you can decipher this zodiac killer ass post then thankyou I love you please allow me to bow down on one knee and gently kiss the knuckle of your hand, you beautiful stallion you

CowperKettle

06:16

LOL

Cognitive dissonance

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered...

I think that "cognitive dissonance" covers it succinctly.

Vikas

07:07

@CowperKettle You've already heard about it?

M.A.R.

@Vikas it sounds like a rip-o . . . No, sorry, adaptation of Chucky

Xanne

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Vikas

@M.A.R. Yeah seems like.

> The film was an adaptation of 1988 Hollywood movie Child's Play. Ramdas Padhye, a ventriloquist and puppeteer created the practical effects involving the evil doll Tatya Vinchu. This film was dubbed in Hindi as Khilona Bana Khalnayak.[5]

CowperKettle

07:29

@Vikas No, I was just joking. :)

M.A.R.

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CowperKettle

07:40

I wonder if I could be having sensory focal seizures. My brother has focal seizures presenting as movements of one hand, for instance. He also sometimes has weird feelings, and I wonder if these are sensory seizures, and maybe my "special effects" are such seizures too.

CowperKettle

08:11

Word of the day: hellebore -- from Medieval Latin eleborus, via Latin from Ancient Greek ἑλλέβορος (helléboros), possibly from ἄλκη (álkē, “elk”) βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”). The initial h was restored in English to reflect the Ancient Greek etymology.

> To run is nothing ; we must timely start.
The hare and tortoise here shall teach the art.
"Let's bet," the tortoise said, "my clever spark,
Which, you or I, the first shall gain that mark."
"The first? What, are you mad?" the hare replied,
"Take hellebore and purge; your talk is wide."

In Russian, moroznik, from the word moroz, frost, cold weather.

SmokeDetector

09:41

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (36): Is there a word for the feeling you get when someone you usually disagree with on an issue, brings up something related to that issue?‭ by suleymangezsat‭ on english.SE

CowperKettle

09:59

Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface

Well done.

Vikas

10:21

> Chandrayaan-3's lander and rover are due to reach the surface on 23 August.

CowperKettle

Yes. Keeping fingers crossed.

Vikas

Interesting. I thought they travel directly to the destination.

Mitch

13:17

@CowperKettle What is the intention of that comparison? That the eastern edge of Ukraine is really close to Paris or really far? Living in the US, Memphis is -really- far from LA.

The main thing I get out of that map is "wow Germany looks a lot smaller than France, much more than I expected." But I think whoever made the map is cutting and pasting irregularly so that country sizes and positions have been altered.

@Vikas All the drawings they usually show make it look almost like straight lines (with a slight curve. Who knows (well certainly the satellite's operators do) if it takes 5 revolutions before reaching the gravity well of the moon and then another5 around the moon before landing.

I wish there were an orbital mechanics simulator that would track these things for us more realistically.

Vikas

13:50

@Mitch Maybe most of the distance is still covered in straight line. It just made revolutions when it was close to Earth. And further more revolutions when it approaches Moon. Diagram just skipped the straight line journey?

CowperKettle

@Mitch Probably "really close", but they fell short.

M.A.R.

Eh it's one of those "Europe is tiny and adorable, Papua New Guinea is as big as Europe" maps.

There are more diable hills.

Hairi

14:55

alphabet

@CowperKettle It's also an interesting lesson in population density. Most of that land in Europe has 3-4x the population density of the US.

Germany's population density is 22x higher than the state of Nevada, so comparing that part of US and European geography is somewhat misleading.

Mitch

15:43

@Hairi unit

Vikas

15:53

Or amount?

Quantity?

Vikas

16:21

No Smoking #11minutes : Sunny Leone, Alok Nath and Deepak Dobriyal

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A well made awareness ad.

There are subtitles.

M.A.R.

18:15

@Hairi unit

Mitch

20:15

Things just keep going.

jlliagre

21:54

@Mitch The main thing I get out of that map is "wow, that guy thinks Paris is located where Lamotte-Beuvron (pop. 5000) is while the actual Paris is a little bit more than 100 miles to the north." Maybe the fact that Lamotte-Beuvron is a sister city of Paris, Kentucky plays a role here ;-)

Lamotte-Beuvron

Lamotte-Beuvron (French pronunciation: [lamɔt bøvʁɔ̃]) is a town and commune of about 5000 inhabitants in the Loir-et-Cher department of Centre-Val de Loire, France.The French Federal Equestrian Park, one of the largest in Europe, is based in Lamotte-Beuvron. Each July, the Federal Equestrian Park hosts the French Pony Championship, in which more than 15,000 participants compete. It also houses the permanent offices of the French Equestrian Federation and, since 2009, the Bureau of the National Association of the French Riding Pony.The town is the birthplace of the Tarte Tatin dessert, an upside...

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> Rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point.
Le Lièvre et la Tortue en sont un témoignage.
"Gageons, dit celle-ci, que vous n'atteindrez point
Si tôt que moi ce but. - Si tôt ? Êtes-vous sage ?
Repartit l'animal léger :
Ma commère, il vous faut purger
Avec quatre grains d'ellébore.
- Sage ou non, je parie encore."

Mitch

22:22

@jlliagre The main thing I get out of -that- is that Paris is overrated

I mean does Paris have a dessert that sounds like a machine gun?

jlliagre

Agreed.

Mitch

Outside of Paris they call Tarte Tatin 'Kalashnikov flambé'

jlliagre

Taratata!

Mitch

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra

jlliagre

@Mitch Doesn't sound like a machine gun (or even a bugle).

Mitch

22:34

Kind of like a bugle

maybe a trombone?

jlliagre

22:49

@Mitch I just listened to the lullaby Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra for the first time and found it boring. I almost fell asleep!

Xanne

22:59

I thought the map was interesting. Perhaps an attempt to say “It’s closer than you think”? But Memphis is flyover country.

jlliagre

23:20

@Xanne Whereas Ukraine is more of a no-fly zone.

Xanne

Would that it were.

CowperKettle

@jlliagre Nice! He translated it to English closely to the French original!

> l'animal léger

"bright animal"

léger

Adjective: léger (feminine légère, masculine plural légers, feminine plural légères)

light (not heavy)
slight (not much, not a lot)

Ah. Light animal.

jlliagre

23:40

@CowperKettle Léger has a double meaning here, light in weight compared to the tortoise but also light as in "shallow reasoning" (the hare is not a deep thinker).

CowperKettle

Ah!

commère

Noun: commère f (plural commères)

(colloquial) gossipper, busybody
Synonym: bavard
(obsolete) the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild
Synonym: marraine
Coordinate term: compère

Inherited from Old French, borrowed (according to the TLF) from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”).

(obsolete) the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild

So "godmother" turned into "gossiper"

Aladdin City, Florida

Aladdin City is an unincorporated community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Miami within the unincorporated community of Redland. It is notable as the site of a planned community—similar to Opa-locka, Coral Gables, and Miami Springs, Florida—whose development was snuffed out by the abrupt end of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. == History == === Development === In late 1925, The Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan, a pioneer in the manufacture of mail-order "kit" homes, purchased a large parcel of land in the Redland area. Otto...

jlliagre

23:58

@CowperKettle Ma commère just means 'my friend' here, a little like 'bro' in English (or 'sis').

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