Nostr notes by The Dread Slender Gnome

You're giving them the credit of actually having politics, as ...

2026-10-05T11:35:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…0qfl
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You're giving them the credit of actually having politics, as opposed to just being mindless idiots repeating slogans they saw on social media.

And I would disagree. "Leftists" don't hate power, even the extreme far leftists. They just want to have it for themselves. Middle-road liberal left-leaning people tend to be more willing to share, but that breed seems to have nearly disappeared.

Yep. And media companies have been trying to make sharing ...

2026-08-07T20:07:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…g865
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Yep. And media companies have been trying to make sharing one's content with others into "piracy" and "crime" for a good while now.

> So they paid for a game they do not own, if Playstation can ...

2026-08-07T11:40:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…h4t3
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> So they paid for a game they do not own, if Playstation can just yank it from out underneath your feet at any time.

The local newspaper ran a big article some time ago on how some people are coming back to physical media, such as books, CDs and vinyl. The expert they interviewed only mentioned things like nostalgia and simplicity as the possible or likely reasons.
Not a syllable was uttered about actually being able to *own* your media and how some people actually like to be able to *keep* the media they've purchased.

It was disappointing, but not surprising. It seems the mainstream anything is very much struggling to understand that the new streaming landscape means anyone can have any content taken away from them at any time. Or that it actually is a genuine concern.

I don't think it's fair to say languages ...

2024-12-02T20:40:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…eng4
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I don't think it's fair to say languages "typically" lose complexity over time. If that were the case, we wouldn't have loads of languages with all kinds of complexity very much in full swing.

The loss of complexity is common, that's true. But from what I know, it needs some kind of push to get going, it doesn't just emerge on its own. Much like the great vowel shift in English started with one vowel being changed in fashionable speech of fashionable people, and that vowel then pushed the other vowels out of its way, because otherwise there would've been too much overlap.

And sometimes apparent loss of complexity leads to a different kind of complexity emerging, like for example if the sound system is collapsed so that you have a lot of homonyms, you now have a complex system of homonyms to deal with.

@FeartnTired As it happens, I was just thinking about German, and ...

2024-12-02T19:24:42Z

@FeartnTired
As it happens, I was just thinking about German, and languages in general.

This video is actually a pretty good illustration of how different grammars approach things differently. Now I'm sure he's hamming it up and exaggerating here and there, but the point still stands. When I first learned English, I had to get over exactly this sort of issues between Finnish and English. One example being that in English one says "it is raining", with a pronoun, but Finnish can do verbs without a pronoun, so we would just say "rains".

That's because "suomessa ei ole passiivimuodossa ylimääräisiä sanoja", or "in Finnish no is in passive form extra words".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50jkO2s4Sp0