No, it’s a cat pub

The m in mpreg stands for mouse

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CTRL+W opens a new Wiktionary tab on my laptop

Exactly. I’m not usually one to appeal to etymology for the “true meaning” of a word (the etymological fallacy is a thing), but in this case I think it’s relevant to bring up. Art is from the Latin ars which means skill, craft and handiwork, among other things. To me, art isn’t just a something that’s nice to look at or even something that causes an emotional reaction of some sort. A natural landscape can be beautiful, but it’s not art. To make something art, the human touch is exactly what’s needed. Time, passion, effort and skill go into art. People talk about how generative AI lets anyone make art… but everyone can already make art.

It’s certainly true that not everyone has the means to afford all the artistic tools they would like, but people have been making art for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years with what they had access to. And I don’t mean crude stick men, but sophisticated art which shows an understanding of animal anatomy and artistic techniques for producing effects of motion in a still image. If you actually want to make art and are willing to put in the effort, you can make great things with very little. Especially for people who pay for generative AI, there is really no excuse if you’re using it to make “art”. The image might look good, but it doesn’t have any value if it’s just another AI generated image among millions of others. Whatever restraints are “stopping” people from making their own art, I don’t see how entering a prompt and letting a machine construct an image comes anywhere close to fulfilling someone’s creative passion.

Come on, you can’t say neigh to be a bit of horse

If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes

Little known fact, halberds used to be covered in feathers, but they didn’t survive in the archaeological record

Just not a Bavarian village. Renewable energy is too woke.

I would take much longer showers if they didn’t cost me anything

Wait, I though that was just a joke

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but why would Kojima care about the opinion of Turkish nationalists?

Edit: or maybe a better question would be why would anyone in a position to have Kojima arrested care about the opinion of Turkish nationalists?

I misread it as “Ducks: How to make them fly”

Let’s send Merz there instead

Are these experts with us in the thread now? I literally studied Germanic linguistics so I do know a thing or two about eth, thorn and linguistics in general. I’d be interested to hear what you might think would prove that using thorn for both voiced and voiceless dental fricatives isn’t historically precedented. As for the AI stuff, I completely agree, but I never took issue with those criticisms.

I love public and private having the same meaning

No-name Halloween? Looks like 8 new names to me

But modern English doesn’t use thorn or eth, so there are no rules about using them. There is absolutely no reason to enforce an arbitrary standard on someone using thorn in a historically precedented way. They’re not “breaking the rules” in the first place.

And in German a bat is a Fledermaus, which literally means “wing-mouse”