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I think it's mostly people who don't want to admit they like a think as others have said.

But to steelman it I think you could define it as liking a thing for the opposite reason the author intended. There isn't actually any irony involved, just Gen X/millennials overuse that word.
January 17, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Happy birthday

I like how you and @eev.ee share a birthday and your first thought each was that your number is semiprime
January 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
What even would be the AI equivalent of 'the scene' or the well in your example? They're not taking over social media accounts? Hope the answer is not competition and lost sales
January 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Weirdest attempt analogy ever. The reason colonization is bad is not its scale, it's that the colonized are subjugated and pushed off their land. If you think this you have the same mind model as great replacement/white genocide theorists.
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
which mean utilise has the opposite nuance in the other language.

But I also looked up random instances in books and counted the ways both are used (or utilized? hmm) and there was no statistical difference so ig the nuance exist by most users are just being pompous with it.
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I was sceptical so I did some searching and you"re right throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com/2013/12/usin... And now I can see it, and how that would evolve from the fact utilize is rarer so it appears to give more emphasis. It's very similar to french 'utiliser' vs 'se servir de'
Using 'utilize': What the mavens say
"You use a tool for its intended purpose; you utilize it for a different purpose," Erin Brenner (@ebrenner) tweeted a few days ago. She adde...
throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Honestly, I don't know if i've ever experienced that. When i forget something it's just that the information isn't there, but there isn't any waking up feeling or break in the continuity of events. And not things that just happened a moment ago
January 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I will never understand people who complain about this when it's written word on the internet. Like, worst case just google it?
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 AM
This always annoys me. Oh they're being a bit over the top, presenting sad things in a weirdly neutral/joyful tone and making quick statements without nuance? Yeah that's what the tiktok genre dictates. Like it or not but pointing this things out like some sort of proof is just media illiteracy
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Not that I'm agreeing with the person above, but lossless audio is important precisely for things like archiving. While it doesn't matter as matter as much for simple listen. Re-encoding 85% of the songs to 75kb/s is a very weird choice imo
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Google soulbonding. It's somewhat common for e.g. authors
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Kinda for the same reason when you think of it. Dreams are incoherent because the self-conscious part of you that normally keeps the flow of thoughts on track isn't there. And theses AIs don't have that either. So in both cases we're drifting based on the last few things expressed
December 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I assume the reason is that much of western cooking rules come from elaborate multi-course dining things, and towards the end when you're already pretty full sweet feels easier/more appetizing
December 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I don't like eating sweets first for probably culturally ingrained reasons, but the 'spoil your palate' thing sounds like bullshit. Only thing that might do that is chili peppers.
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
That doesn't solve the problem when there is an obvious gap between two sentences. You still have to come up with a phrasing that has about the same number of syllables as the original per each sentence part
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I'm pretty sure Patricia understand the fundamentals of what a dub is actually

Obviously subs have constraints but much less than a lip-synced dub which has to match the number and timing of syllables in each sentence. This just read as someone not used to using subs
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I don't understand what your point is. I'm not saying definitions aren't useful. And I'm not trying to "gotcha" anyone
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I would also say the classification of prisms is not math, it's just a discussion about the language we use to describe math.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Regarding the "physicist brained" part I think you're basically right, physicists are suspicious of arbitrary fuzzy definitions of complex things. Obviously we still have to name things, but when doing that they're not doing science. It's not a scientific question.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I don't understand the binary star system example because that's an object made up of other objects and if they dissociate, you're changing the internals.
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So if position is a fundamental characteristic, any definition of any object blows up to a full description of the entire universe. Which is philosophically sound but... unwieldy.
December 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So are astronomical objects more like geography or more like vehicles? vibes, at the end of the day. Both are valid. Relativity gives a point to the later though: there is no absolute coordinate system, you can only describe something's position by referring to other objects.
December 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So, a lot of your argument is about orbit being a characteristic, but I'd like to point out that whether position is part of the definition of an object is often ambiguous. We assume it for some things (rivers, landmarks) but not others (cars, people).
December 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yeah right, a low/mid-range camera will have a better quality/price ratio than shit like this. Given the minuscule objective diameter and the way it's held I'd be surprised if it can take unblurry pictures in less than full daylight
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you run it on an album url it will download the whole album yeah. For the metadata I just checked and the file does have title, artist, album name, year, track number and album cover. You need to add --format flac though to get the best quality if flac is available
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM