@mawhrin (it was probably the first one)

Yeah, I don’t get the idea of “good” bourbon either.

But for a _really_ surprisingly strong paint thinner taste you should try Mhoba High Ester Rum.

I’m not sure which one that was, either this: https://www.mhoba.com/products/mhoba-pot-stilled-high-ester-rum-750ml-65-20 or this […]

@mawhrin That said, my own ability of recognizing and naming flavours is shit so take what I wrote with a middle-sized barrel of salt. ;-)

@mawhrin I had the pleasure of trying Ardbeg Hypernova (very limited edition, I don’t think I’m ever gonna see another bottle of it) which is the most smoked Ardbeg ever.

But then any Octomore just tastes and smells of smoke (though maybe not ash and tires on fire).

I don’t know any specific […]

@mawhrin Some more interesting whiskies can have that too tbh. And it also tries to kill you – though unlike whisky through your lungs rather than the liver.

This is another good read about Anglosphere bias in humanities in general: https://dariuszgalasinski.com/2018/04/14/foreigner-academia/

Anything dealing with humanities in English-speaking societies is human universal. Anything outside is very specific to local community.

I remember being first curious about generative grammar – wanting to learn some _modern_ linguistic theory and realizing I couldn’t find _anything_ that wouldn’t focus exclusively on English. And I was specifically interested in other languages and syntactic diversity…

@mawhrin I’ve recently seen a joke (not really) by one Isaac Gantwerk Mayer: a difference between a normal person and a linguist is that a normal person thinks Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either.

@mawhrin We’re the true masters of turning up on the right side of history by coincidence.

@collectifission I’m all for it – as long as this will be electricity available to consumers and not just using resources for LLM bubble nonsense…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@silmeth/115917933807039506

@collectifission

@collectifission And he’s right to openly admit it. The next step, as he also says, is to actually start behaving according to those values, without giving a pass when it’s convenient.

But his own attitude changed quite a bit during Q&A when asked direct questions, he was still “avoiding […]

They don’t want responsibility, they want to be victims.

How dare you take that away from _them_ of all people.

That said, it’s true that in 2022 France depended a lot on energy imports because it turned off a lot of their nuclear capacity for maintenance. And a lot of that import from Germany (though also seems more from the UK, and some from other countries).

I heard today French nuclear plants get shut down every summer and Germany saves France’s power grid. Doesn’t seem so.

France limits the output of or turns of those reactors which use river water for cooling – when keeping high yield would risk environmental […]

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