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In Italy, you have to travel to whatever city you have residence in to vote. A lot of (mostly progressive) people have to fly across the country to cast their vote, apparently it sucks for them

A clean room re-write of the books probably wouldn't cost too much if the company that owns the copyrights to these textbooks don't want to sell the rights for a reasonable price.

That's a long way to say that you're completely maliciously ignorant on endangered languages & language preservation, fascist bootlicker. Move to some other site to spread your corporatist-compliant "enlightened centrist" propoganda, it's disgusting to see your comments littered everywhere like trash on a beach. Or at the very least, don't shill on the behalf of greedy fucks who are abusing a group's vulnerability and the law to exploit a nearly-dead culture for money. It's a language with like 2000 fluent speakers, mostly old people who will be dust not long from now. You are, quite plainly, deflecting responsibility for them taking the work of a vulnerable group and claiming ownership of it to make money, against the knowledge and wishes of the group whose labor they practically stole.

And now you're making a point of gaslighting the victims and the people who are rightfully against the exploitation, by comparing the work of the victims to basic facts of the universe that are observed in nature, while also using it as an attempt to defend your favorite shitty economic system/ideology. Like seriously, do you think languages are just something that exist in the wild outside of the confines of living beings? Do you think these people just observed some feral Lakota words and grammar the same way that Newton observed the laws of the universe? No, they obtained everything almost exclusively via the work of the speakers of the damn language, and despite being a "nonprofit" used it to profit a ton while depriving the native speakers of the records of their own language and oral history.

I am a linguist, and I can say with confidence that a strong majority of linguistics researchers and language preservationists find this, and practices like this, despicable – linguistics is a field where the overwhelming attitude is that knowledge needs to be open (even when facing the challenges of science journals being exploitative as fuck and not open at all, researches still put considerable effort into getting around that), especially in the context of an endangered or dying language/culture. You don't just exploit a population for profit and refuse to leave, and still talk about how you're doing a good thing. What these people do – and continue to do – is a disgrace.

Legally, using someone else's non-recorded spoken language to make a profit without their consent is a gray area assuming you can prove that they got it from you (obviously these people can), but considering written language and recorded spoken language are both protected by the same copyright laws as any other tangible medium (and indeed, it would be a very clear-cut case if what these people provided to the consortium was plainly recorded), it's obvious that what the LLC did was wrong and it's very reasonable to say that they infringed on the Lakota peoples' IP, considering that this was a collaborative work where the actual content came nearly entirely directly from the tribespeople themselves. This is fundamental ethical linguistics 101, even dictionaries of more widely spoken languages (like English) involve a bunch of explicit consent, consent forms, contracts, etc. from the speakers & contributors they use the labor of (or from the whole community that they use the labor of when it's an endangered language), for both legal and ethical reasons.

I hate to come off as this aggressive, but this capitalist apologia & acting like this is acceptable behaviour in modern society is really crossing a line for me, considering how close the topic of dialectology and language preservation is to me – it's the whole reason I began to do linguistics.

Yeah I think it's especially construction by analogy with similar words (phonologically or semantically), people tend to say words in a way similar to other words when their mind sees a possible pattern, e.g. if you know it's mug->mugs, hug->hugs, rug->rugs, pug->pugs, tug->tugs, nug->nugs, you think "obviously it's wug->wugs" for -/ʌɡ/ words, especially monosyllabic ones, but also maybe polysyllabic words or words that sound similar in some way but not the same, like -/ɔɡ/, -/ʌk/, -/gʌ/, etc. This also goes for words with somewhat different phonologies but similar semantics, e.g. if you know child(er)->children and broth(er)-> brethren, you'll probably think it would look something like sister->sistren (which is a less common dialectal variant actually). If you know goose->geese, foot->feet, tooth->teeth, you'll probably think it's moose->meese and noose->neece and shoop<-sheep and hoof->heef unless you have a reason to expect irregularity. Or mouse->mice and louse->lice, you'll probably think house->hice and spouse<-spice and blouse->blice.

But if you haven't processed enough words that pluralize in a way other than just appending /s/~/(ə)z/ to the end, you'll of course just think "gooses" and "tooths" and "fishes" and "foots" and stuff. Like what children do. Also common for children to say is "fishies" and "goosies" and anything else with /iz/ added at the end, since singular /i/ and plural /iz/ are common for adults to use as a diminuative/cutesy way of saying them, and the kids pick it up of course.

All these sound cursed, so I'd rather not think about it too much.

Is this the r/linguistics logo bird

I uninstalled one drive immediately, it's so annoying. It's also really fucky with when it updates files. If I need to use it, I'll go on my browser

Yeah technically hospitals are supposed to treat you even if they know you can't pay, but in practice hospitals refuse to deal with a lot of things that you otherwise need to make payments for, often times hospital doctors/nurses will just give you cold medicine and send you home if you go in for a lot of things that really should have something done about them, so if you can't afford healthcare outside of a hospital (say, a prescription medication you really need) you're kind of fucked.

In places I know of outside of the US, it's the norm to go to hospitals for basically anything and people literally use ambulances like they're fucking taxis because it's basically free. ((Italians))

The American healthcare system doesn't usually immediately kill you if you can't pay, but it definitely kills you gradually if you can't.

American health insurance is gambling

Isn't the context about the overthrow of the Russian Empire by communist revolutionaries? Not modern first-worlders? Am I missing something here? Why would "foreign imperialists" be relevant to modern first-worlders?

That being said, to actually answer your line of questioning, it is the correct solution to change society while ALSO overthrowing and locking up the oppressors. That may involve the elite dying, but those deaths are necessary. Peaceful reformism and strict nonviolence policies never works – unless you consider extremely high amounts of unnecessary suffering for innocents to achieve comparatively minor goals as "success" (cough cough Nelson Mandela). Even Gandhi and MLK (who took most of his influence from Gandhi), although nonviolence advocates, were well aware that violence is often necessary to achieve a better future, and much of the work they did was to the benefit of violent/militant revolutionaries (although of course they're portrayed a lot more neutered/"deradicalized", as well as the roles of complete compliance to nonviolence being completely overstated while violent methods are hidden away as if they didn't exist, not even to be mentioned).

After capture though, death pentalty is not the way to go, but life imprisonment is fine and they may have a chance to be released later, mostly depending on their status/loyalty. I'm sure a lot of "revolutionaries" would disagree with me though, but I'm not an "eye for an eye" believer... I suppose if you're in a situation where the former imperialist rulers would likely have power to directly cause damage while detained or incarcerated, or they're likely to escape or be "rescued", then it would be justified to chop off their heads or put a bullet in their cranium.

The core issue is that these people (the oppressors/ruling class) can not be rehabilitated, and are likely to stir up considerable trouble and disrupt when they have the opportunity, either in a bid to regain their power, or out of a large feeling of loss that makes them go nuts. You can't always reasonably ensure that they won't try to fuck shit up in the future.

That's just my view, but of course there are people other than me who are just bloodthirsty for vengeance (my opinion is that they're not thinking all too rationally and it's the same mindset as parents that hit/yell at their kids, they're convincing themselves it's for the greater good but in reality it's just attempting to satisfy their feelings of anger). Either way, I see their lives as considerably less valuable than the lives of the people they oppressed, not because they have an inherently evil soul or something, but because they are already too far gone and only can bring chaos to the world.

Usually people like that are one reality check away from unmasking and going full-on "it's just unnatural, it's not normal and it's disgusting".

Arguing with conservatives is basically just peeling an onion full of concern baiting, sealioning, plausible deniability, and euphemisms; when you shatter their initial disenginuous line of reasoning (which may seem innocent or reasonable at first to the naked eye), they start digging into arguments that get more and more misdirected and irrational...

When you exhaust their load of fake arguments/"reasoning" that they bend at will, the ones that only exist to defend their already pre-determined position, they start to show their true colors and get into their real irrational and hateful motives for propogating their beliefs.

"Well I'm just concerned about LGBT people grooming children"... "I'm fine with the gays as long as they keep it to themselves, this cancel culture is just excessive"... "It's allowing trans people [[trans women]] in bathrooms and sports that I worry about, think of the real women who are scared and have a biological disadvantage against men"... "Biden is encouraging 8 year olds to transition, this 'transgender' thing is just a trend, pride is a ploy for corporations to make more money and you're just a tool for participating in it"... "Same-sex relations and transgenderism are a sin, I don't think their freedoms should be restricted, but I disagree with them personally, also gays have a higher rate of abusive relationships"... "Straight people [[men]] are persecuted, there's nothing made for normal people anymore and it's all catered towards the gays, it's dangerous to be straight now, I'm scared of telling someone I'm straight in case they blow up on me and call me homophobic like a blue-haired feminist"... "You shouldn't be queer in public, what if children watch it and transform into gays themselves, it's all inordinately fetishistic"... "Being queer is fucking unnatural and seeing men kissing in public is disgusting, your kind are child groomers and rapists, keep your hands off of children, you're going to Hell, stop spreading your Wokeism ideology and ruining my video games and anime, also traps aren't gay I'm straight for liking them and MHA and Konosuba and K-On and Dragon Maid are the best animes"

is about how it goes – minus the anime part, unless you're on an online anime community, lol (fascists love prepubescent anime girls a lot). They're very supportive of queer representation as long as it's exclusively in their pornography and kawaii anime, but only if you objectify and tokenize the queer characters and refuse to acknowledge their queerness, hmmm curious... what amount of Astolfo (Fate) and queer porn addicts do you think aren't raving homophobes that call feminine male, non-binary, and androgynous anime characters & actors objectifying terms and slurs while simultaneously convincing themselves that what they're doing is completely straight and that they're not sinning to the lord? It'd be a faster count than those who are I bet.

It's a meme community... mostly about girlcock, abstract art, sexed up abusive emo lesbians, and shark plushies

You went to 196 and you didn't expect balls?

I think that's good when the objective is to improve the language. One key thing that holds many languages back is that they're stuck with historical baggage, and it can be pretty difficult to replace/remove "outdated" stuff without breaking everything.

I do not want to be stuck using Python 2, or Scala 2 (although there exist people who use Scala 2 instead of Scala 3).

I agree that the slow compile times are pretty bad (maybe even deal-breakingly for large projects). I think it's kind of necessary for a language with as powerful of a syntax as Scala though, it's pretty absurd how expressive you can get. Maybe if it didn't target the JVM, it'd be able to achieve way faster compile times – I don't really see a point of even targeting JVM other than for library access (not to say that that isn't a huge benefit), especially when it has relatively poor compatibility with other JVM languages and it's nearly impossible to use for Android (don't try this at home).

Even more so, I think that null handling isn't nice – I wish it were more similar to Kotlin's. One thing I'm really confused as to why Scala didn't go all-in on is Either/Result like in Rust. Types like that exist, but Scala seems to mostly just encourages you to use exceptions for error propogation/handling rather than returning a Monad.

A more minor grudge I have is just the high-level primitive types in general – it's pretty annoying not being able to specify unsigned integers or certain byte-width types by default, but if it really is an issue than it can be worked around. Also things like mutable pointers/references – I don't actually know if you can do those in Scala... I've had many situations where it'd be useful to have such a thing. But that's mostly because I was probably using Scala for things it's not as cut out to do.

With the tuple arguments point, I get it but I haven't found it much of an issue. I do wish it wasn't that way and it consistently distinguished between a tuple and an argument list though, either that or make functions take arguments without tuples like in other functional languages or CLI languages (but that'd probably screw a lot of stuff up and make compile times even LONGER). I saw someone on r/ProgrammingLanguages a while back express how their language used commas/delimiters without any brackets to express an argument list.

I think an actually "perfect" language to me would basically just be Rust but with a bunch of the features that Scala adds – of course the significant functional aspect that Scala has (and the clearly superior lambda syntax), but also the significantly more powerful traits and OOP/OOP-like polymorphism. Scala is the only language that I can say I don't feel anxious liberally using inheritance in, in fact I use inheritance in it constantly and I enjoy it. Scala's "enum"/variant inheritance pattern is like Rust enums, but on crack. Obviously, Rust would never get inheritance, but I've found myself in multiple situations where I'm thinking "damn, it's annoying that I have to treat

<X trait>

<Y trait>

Plus, I've always personally liked function overloading and default arguments and variadics/variadic generics and stuff, but the Rust community generally seems to be against the former 2. I just really hate there being a hundred functions, all a sea of underscores and adjectives, that are basically the same thing but take different numbers of arguments or slightly different arguments.

The custom operators are a double-edged sword, I love them and always use them, but at the same time it can be unclear as to what they do without digging into documentation. I guess Haskell has a similar problem though, but I don't think Scala allows you to specify operator precedence like Haskell does and it just relies on the first character's precedence. I would still want them though.

How it goes now, though, is I use Scala 3 for project design/prototyping, scripting, and less performance-sensitive projects, and Rust for pretty much everything else (and anything involving graphics or web). Scala has good linear algebra tooling, but honestly I'll usually use C++ or Python for that most of the time because they have better tooling (and possibly better performance). I would say R too, but matplotlib has completely replaced it for literally everything regarding math for me.

People with ADHD, Dyspraxia (a motor disability), and some type of insomnia disorder have significantly higher rates of car accidents – around 4x more likely for ADHD and 3x more likely for insomnia disorders (driving while sleepy is around as dangerous as driving while drunk). At minimum 25% of all car crashes involve people with ADHD or insomnia disorders (which is why your car insurance rates might skyrocket in some states if you get diagnosed)... I have all of those. Yet, somehow, they still allowed me to get my driver's license, and I got it with single-digit hours of driving experience at the time... very American to give licenses that allow you to drive 13-ton vehicles to people who shouldn't even qualify to drive on public roads.

I still have no reason to waste tens of thousands of dollars over the course of a few years on a car though.

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On an unrelated note, here are clips of people bump firing pistols and M1 Garands

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C++ is inferior to Rust and should be used in no new projects unless it is absolutely necessary

Not Scala and Rust. They are my beloved, my sweethearts, my knights in shining armor.

Ok Rust does have some major issues, but not Scala...

me: takes ur king

you: "u can't do that that's not how chess works!!!"

me: fucking shoots you uwu

ok but we have evidence right in front of our face that the US was doing it

Firefox consumes more RAM than chrome on average. Edge uses the least RAM

Also, Floorp is superior to regular Firefox