I chose lemm.ee because of how rarely it defederates, and I'm not aware of any major controversy with it. Blahaj is still federated, as is hexbear, lemmygrad, and beehaw. For those who want to curate their own instance experience, I'm not currently aware of a better home (though if anyone knows of one, definitely let me know, of course!).
Right? The admin here sees hexbears engaging in their typical bad faith spam-bullying tactics against someone who, unless there's something really bad in that deleted comment, doesn't seem to actually be a transphobe, for the crime of enjoying a popular mainstream video game, and the admin decides to defederate the victim of the bullying.
Writing isn't language at all, for reasons discussed in my comments below.
Which is part of what makes linguistics work on ancient languages so difficult - we're having to use these imperfect symbols, which themselves aren't language, to try to glean as many features about the actual grammars they're intended to represent, which are language.
This is why we know much less about ancient languages than we do modern ones - because we have actual recordings of modern languages (the recordings themselves are also not language, of course; they just encode language much better than writing does), so we can get at many more features of the language in question.
That depends on your definition of "language", where some definitions are much more scientifically useful than others. Defining language as "a system of communication" is not very useful, since there are important defining characteristics most people, and especially most linguists, believe that language possesses that other more general forms of communication do not.
Under the definition used by most linguists (for the kind of object we're talking about here, that is - there are many other relevant objects of study that can be called a "language"), spoken/signed human languages have all of the characteristics of language, while "body language"/animal "languages" do not.
Sign language is language, since it has a systematic, unconscious mental grammar that meets all of the characteristics above, and writing is not considered language, since it's just a means of encoding/preserving a language that already exists.
Another way of stating this is that writing is not itself the output of a mental grammar - it's the output of a translation algorithm that acts on the output of a grammar, and so can't be considered language itself (again, under one of the most common definitions of "language" used in the scientific study of human language).
Exactly. Your downvotes here only prove the financial illiteracy/intentional misinformation rampant across lemmy.
Not to mention that the average person should be putting their retirement savings mostly into mutual funds, so when the market goes up it should benefit the average person directly as well as indirectly.
Yes, because taking exclusive executive power away from the head of a government and giving it to the legislature to vote on instead is famously anti-democracy.
All value judgments are inherently subjective, so scientifically we have no way of knowing whether they're based on fact or fiction.
"You can't get a 'should' from an 'is'" is a common saying in logic for a reason, and the seeming impossibility of proving that objective morality exists has been a problem philosophy has struggled with for thousands of years.
This goes all the way back to Socrates asking whether things are "good" because they're loved by the gods, or if they're loved by the gods because they're "good". If the latter, then what really makes them "good"? We still don't have an objective, "factual" answer to this question.
It's a full remake of a Game Boy game from 1993, and it honestly kills my faith in humanity a little bit that 6 and a half million people were falling all over themselves to pay Daddy Nintendo that much for it.
This, but unironically. Automation is a good thing, and every driver who loses their job over this drives the necessity of finding post-automation solutions that much closer to the breaking point.
I chose lemm.ee because of how rarely it defederates, and I'm not aware of any major controversy with it. Blahaj is still federated, as is hexbear, lemmygrad, and beehaw. For those who want to curate their own instance experience, I'm not currently aware of a better home (though if anyone knows of one, definitely let me know, of course!).