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Naw. I don' like it!
January 20, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Naw. I don' like it!
Damn. I got my hopes up for "bus."
January 20, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Damn. I got my hopes up for "bus."
Fucking coffee, man. I used to buy the cheap but not too cheap stuff. Now I buy the same stuff at a huge price increase and I swear it tastes like shit now. But maybe that bitterness is coming from me.
January 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Fucking coffee, man. I used to buy the cheap but not too cheap stuff. Now I buy the same stuff at a huge price increase and I swear it tastes like shit now. But maybe that bitterness is coming from me.
Atta = "father" or "dad" in Gothic. Attila is the diminutive, "daddy." Fun fact.
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Atta = "father" or "dad" in Gothic. Attila is the diminutive, "daddy." Fun fact.
Dementia. Or, as I'm sure about this case, imitating someone who does it because of dementia.
January 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Dementia. Or, as I'm sure about this case, imitating someone who does it because of dementia.
Pick a red line about a thousand red lines in? This is an important one. It would end our membership in NATO and in fact trigger article 5 against us, theoretically putting us at war with, basically, Europe. That's bad, but that that's bad for billionaires may be the only reason it doesn't happen.
January 18, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Pick a red line about a thousand red lines in? This is an important one. It would end our membership in NATO and in fact trigger article 5 against us, theoretically putting us at war with, basically, Europe. That's bad, but that that's bad for billionaires may be the only reason it doesn't happen.
The second part is an interesting question, but to the first part I say: racism is such nonsensical shit, it's not worth digging into the details of one asshole's reasoning on its finer points.
January 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM
The second part is an interesting question, but to the first part I say: racism is such nonsensical shit, it's not worth digging into the details of one asshole's reasoning on its finer points.
The price hikes will continue until the affordability crisis is over! We will win the war against affordability!
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The price hikes will continue until the affordability crisis is over! We will win the war against affordability!
The Mountain Gnats
January 17, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The Mountain Gnats
Alas, I'm just on my phone at the moment. But if you Google "colosseum Roman numerals" or "funerary Roman numerals" and look around the images for a bit, you'll find some examples that way.
January 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Alas, I'm just on my phone at the moment. But if you Google "colosseum Roman numerals" or "funerary Roman numerals" and look around the images for a bit, you'll find some examples that way.
Well that particular variation was probably helped by the fact that 18 in spoken Latin was "duodeviginti" which is literally "two down from twenty." Btw you also find IIXX.
January 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Well that particular variation was probably helped by the fact that 18 in spoken Latin was "duodeviginti" which is literally "two down from twenty." Btw you also find IIXX.
Then they realized they could use V as a marker to indicate the fourth I in a sequence of IIII (thus IV), which then gets interpreted as a little subtraction rule, so it can extend to shorten things like XXXXVIIII to XLIX. But you do still find both kinds.
January 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Then they realized they could use V as a marker to indicate the fourth I in a sequence of IIII (thus IV), which then gets interpreted as a little subtraction rule, so it can extend to shorten things like XXXXVIIII to XLIX. But you do still find both kinds.
Oh I see. Well for XIIX they like it probably because it's nice and symmetrical and interpretable enough.
Roman numerals evolved as an abbreviation of a tally system...
IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVII = 27
but we can abbreviate by just taking the biggest pieces that imply all that led up: XXVII
Roman numerals evolved as an abbreviation of a tally system...
IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVII = 27
but we can abbreviate by just taking the biggest pieces that imply all that led up: XXVII
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Oh I see. Well for XIIX they like it probably because it's nice and symmetrical and interpretable enough.
Roman numerals evolved as an abbreviation of a tally system...
IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVII = 27
but we can abbreviate by just taking the biggest pieces that imply all that led up: XXVII
Roman numerals evolved as an abbreviation of a tally system...
IIIIVIIIIXIIIIVIIIIXIIIIVII = 27
but we can abbreviate by just taking the biggest pieces that imply all that led up: XXVII
ivi ~ ii
-erunt ~ -ere
domu ~ domo
nihil ~ nil
Those are all very small variances within classical. If you look at letters and tablets you find all kinds of cool things, like abbreviating "tibi" like in chatspeak as "TB" or using entirely different ways of making tenses.
-erunt ~ -ere
domu ~ domo
nihil ~ nil
Those are all very small variances within classical. If you look at letters and tablets you find all kinds of cool things, like abbreviating "tibi" like in chatspeak as "TB" or using entirely different ways of making tenses.
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
ivi ~ ii
-erunt ~ -ere
domu ~ domo
nihil ~ nil
Those are all very small variances within classical. If you look at letters and tablets you find all kinds of cool things, like abbreviating "tibi" like in chatspeak as "TB" or using entirely different ways of making tenses.
-erunt ~ -ere
domu ~ domo
nihil ~ nil
Those are all very small variances within classical. If you look at letters and tablets you find all kinds of cool things, like abbreviating "tibi" like in chatspeak as "TB" or using entirely different ways of making tenses.
Examples of grammatical variation? Yes! There's actually a ton, especially if you read the less literary stuff like Plautus and Terrence (granted they are older than most classical works). E.g. The normal future of "facio" is "faciam" meaning "I will do" but you also see "faxo."
January 16, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Examples of grammatical variation? Yes! There's actually a ton, especially if you read the less literary stuff like Plautus and Terrence (granted they are older than most classical works). E.g. The normal future of "facio" is "faciam" meaning "I will do" but you also see "faxo."
Yeah I'm not super jazzed about being the bad guys in WWIII.
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Yeah I'm not super jazzed about being the bad guys in WWIII.
IIII is the original 4. IV was a later abbreviation.
January 16, 2026 at 4:20 AM
IIII is the original 4. IV was a later abbreviation.
Go look at pictures of Roman numerals carved in actual buildings and inscriptions. The standard rules we are taught were just guidelines to the actual Romans. XIIX shows up plenty. The original IIII even seems more common than IV for 4. And who wants to carve XCIX for 99 when IC is so much simpler?
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Go look at pictures of Roman numerals carved in actual buildings and inscriptions. The standard rules we are taught were just guidelines to the actual Romans. XIIX shows up plenty. The original IIII even seems more common than IV for 4. And who wants to carve XCIX for 99 when IC is so much simpler?
Long live context.
January 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Long live context.
And eggs are STILL expensive!
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
And eggs are STILL expensive!
It was just a general statement.
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
It was just a general statement.
I don't think these fears are unfounded but they're no excuse to get complacent or stop voting. And the proof that voting still matters is that the right continues trying to keep people from doing it!
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I don't think these fears are unfounded but they're no excuse to get complacent or stop voting. And the proof that voting still matters is that the right continues trying to keep people from doing it!