pragmakist

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Surely the only languages that are not weird are those specifically designed to be widely spoken?

And no-one wants to speak those!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It keeps the butter hard and useless?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Who goes there", John Campbell, 1938.

(And I seem to recall more movies that are rehashes of that novella.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's German, and you're about as right as anyone trying to say a German word in English can expect to get.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Or Earth.

Pieces of Earth was do doubt also flung about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Heh. I used to run leafnode as my own, in house, single person server.

I'm quite surprised to find out it's still alive and maintained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah.

And we can still block entire sites on the web.

The sites the friends with adblockers promote.
The friends who don't notice what they promote.
What unholy bastards the people who own the sites they promote are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know, that's a good idea anyway.

I wonder though what that would mean for the copyright?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The Secret Superpower of Civilization.

(Reading is also kinda neat!)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

In Buddhism, yes.

For Hindus, well, it's complicated.

For other people who happen to believe in reincarnation?
That would be anybodys guess, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Denmark the case surrounding "Nøddebo præstegård" caused copyright to be enacted.

I've noticed the theme come up in other countries, amongst these France, but I'll grant that I may have overestimated its importance by overfitting to prior knowledge.

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