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movies run at minutes per frame

That's usually called a slideshow 😁

Grammatical gender just feels so, well… pointless. Like, why should I have to care about what someone's gender is when I'm referring to them? If someone's gender is actually relevant somehow I can just use words like "woman" etc. to specify (eg if I need to point someone out in a crowd or whatever), but it's rarely relevant at all. Defaulting to "he" isn't too great either even though I do it myself too sometimes because it's so common and it was taught in school too etc., but it's neat that "they" is more popular nowadays.

I should actually probably just fucking ditch gendered pronouns altogether and use "they" most of the time – would feel more natural, and as bonus it would annoy conservatives

Lol szönözökémül. I get what you mean though, Hungarian is such a distant relative of Finnish that it's not mutually intelligible with Finnish in any way, so it feels just as alien to me. The grammar has some familiar constructs and there's like a handful of words that, when they were specifically pointed out to me and I was told it's the same as some word in Finnish, I went "oh right I can see how those are related" but I would never have noticed them otherwise.

At least Finnish has related languages but eg. Basque speakers will never hear a foreign language that makes their brain go "I totally understand this! Trust me nothing will go wrong!", and how sad is that?

Ongelma tossa skenaariossa on, että Putin ei ole varmaan lähemmäs 20 vuoteen tehny eroa ittensä ja Venäjän välillä. Uhat Putinin vallalle on käytännössä uhkia Venäjää kohtaan (siis Putlerin pään sisällä, ei tosiasiallisesti), ja aika moni analyysi (tuoreimpien joukossa esim. RAND Corporationin Escalation in the War in Ukraine-rapsa) pitää merkittävänä eskalaatioriskinä sitä, jos Putinin ote alkaa lipsua vallankahvasta.

Ei sosiopaattia mitenkään kauheasti haittaa ajatus, että jos hän joutuu lähtemään, niin sillon lähtee kaikki muutkin. Sitähän se Hitlerkin itki bunkkerissaan että miten tyhmä, ruma, paha ja huono Saksan kansa hänet petti ja heidän sietääkin kuolla – mutta hälläpä ei ollut ydinaseita, niin laittoi sitten kuulan kalloonsa kun ei muutakaan voinut. Ei oo mitenkään ihan älytön ajatus, että Putin ei rupea sitä pyssynpiippuaan syömään sit kun hommat menee ns. kunnolla päin vittuja, vaan menee asenteella "mitä hyötyä maailmasta on ilman Venäjää (ts. Putinia)".

Oh yeah that was how I took it, but you pointed out the problem yourself. It was either an astoundingly stupid decision, or a malicious one.

I studied German around 3000 years ago and Dutch feels somewhat more intelligible to me (at least when reading it, heh) compared to Estonian; it really does sound like someone took English and German and made them do unspeakable things to each other. German & Dutch definitely are a good enough comparison in any case, and I guess eg. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and maybe Romanian might be too.

But even eg. Italian and German are related, even though it's not immediately obvious. You Indo-European speakers are surrounded by related languages, and here's us, the Estonians, the Sámi and a bunch of dying minority cultures in Russia speaking our crazy moon speaks that nobody understands.

Se on – näin journalistiikan ammattitermistiöä lainatakseni – "ihan vitun käsittämätöntä", että moni media uutisoi ton huhun aivan täysin kritiikittömästi.

Lähdehän oli siis General SVR, joka ei luultavasti ole tässä parin vuoden aikana esittäyt yhden ainoata oikeaksi osottautunutta väitettä. Jos SVR:ään on luottaminen, niin Putin on tuona aikana saanut vähintään 74 sydänkohtausta, syövän jokaiseen omaan elimeensä sekä Shoigun paksusuoleen, ja hätäleikkauksissa on poistettu 29 munuaista ja kolme valovuotta suolistoa, ja aivojen tilalle laitettu sahanpurua ja rautalankaa.

Suora lähetys Kremlistä:

Whoop, good point. I did read the article, it's just that my native language has no grammatical gender so it's like stupid easy to slip up with this stuff

She's not insane, she's a fascist.

If it was insanity, it'd be easier to understand her actions – she might not be completely completely in control of herself or aware of what she's doing. She knows what she's doing.

True that, and it's not like it's exactly a surprise either

“Good luck with the future, gentlemen”

What the, and I can't stress this enough, utter fuck? "Good luck with your future hate crimes, gentlemen"

As someone who speaks a language in which potassium is "kalium", I want to know how the hell English ended up with potassium

Ah, thanks. I completely missed that somehow, although I haven't really been keeping all that much of an eye on Unity (or the games industry in general, really) in the years since I quit working there

Wait, they acquired Weta? I thought it was just cooperation or something like that

Ah, thank you. Been a while since high school chemistry and I was too lazy to check just for a meme post 😅

Photorealistic images of CP? I think that crosses the line, and needs to be treated as if it was actual CP as it essentially enables real CP to proliferate.

While I absolutely don't want to sound like I'm defending the practice (because I'm not), I'm really not too sure of this. If this was true, would similar logic apply to other AI-generated depictions of illegal or morally reprehensible situations? Do photorealistic depictions of murder make it more likely that the people going out of their way to generate or find those pictures will murder someone or seek out pictures of real murder? Will depictions of rape lead to actual rape? If the answer to those or other similar questions is "no", then why is child porn different? If "yes", then should we declare all the other ones illegal as well?

It's not that I think AI-generated child porn should be accepted or let alone encouraged by any means, but as was pointed out it might actually even be counterproductive to ruin someone's life over AI-generated material in which there is factually no victim, as reprehensible as the material may be; just because something is disgusting to most of us doesn't mean it's a very good justification for making it illegal if there is no victim.

The reason why I'm not convinced of the argument is that a similar one has been used when eg. arguing for censorship of video games, with the claim that playing "murder simulators" which can look relatively realistic will make people (usually children) more likely to commit violent acts, and according to research that isn't the case.

I'd even be inclined to argue that being able to generate AI images of sexualized minors might even make it less likely for the person to move over to eg. searching for actual child porn or committing abuse as it's a relatively easier and safer way for them to satisfy an urge. I wouldn't be willing to bet on that though

What the hell do they put in those tacos, exactly

Ha, ok. I don't use IG much; I follow a few animal-related accounts and use it pretty randomly. My running joke is that the influencers I follow are all raccoons.

I wasn't even aware it has a messaging feature before a friend of mine said something like "hey I sent you a message about XYZ on Instagram, didn't you notice?" and I was like "…Instagram has messaging?" 😅

It’s technically only supposed to be used for a question, but language is based on how it’s most commonly used

Ah, I see you're also a descriptivist 😀

But yeah I know you were just continuing the joke; I'm a language nerd (well, general nerd really) and I just got curious about what the rule actually is. While English orthography rules related to punctuation usually seem to be pretty much the same as with Finnish, the rule for question marks seems to be more relaxed in Finnish because it can "officially" be used to mark any expression as a question. The rules for commas are also different, ours are closer to German and we tend to spray commas everywhere