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When was your last long FSD drive and what sort of (safety-critical or not) interventions did you have to make?

Questioning the motivations and funding of a biased source is more generally viewed to be a Journalism 101 thing than a 1930s-1940s German thing.

Nor am I Elon Musk, which seems to be the subtext of this "you're doing it now" claim (one I find quite bizarre).

They certainly do. But languages are also very elastic. If you speak modern German, for example, you'll find that it's very similar to modern American English in thought and expression. But this was not true of late 19th-century German and 19th-century English. There has unfortunately been substantial thought convergence due to mass communication. If all you speak is English, you may also find that the current dialectical forms are all much weaker and samey compared to the older forms.

Anyway, in resurrected ancient languages, this modern samey-ness is a problem. Go read Latin Wikipedia, for example. It's much more like reading modern English authors (though with Latin words and grammar) than it is like reading classical authors.

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I add a natural language translation (from ChatGPT) of your statement for anyone who doesn't share your lexica:

> "Maybe, unless some version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is correct, and language—along with its grammar, sounds, and other aspects—creates an inescapable worldview that can't be dominated."

"His dream is to revive dying languages..."

The content of modern culture is too much for dying or ancient languages, and what you actually get is English/modern thoughtspace expressed in the lexicon of an until-now separate culture. This flood of spam destroys what was unique and interesting about the culture, and "skin-suits" it.

On this subject, it is worth reading Tolkien's letters to publishers and translators about the translation choices regarding his works. His philology comes into full play.

Are the reports true that the two who first attacked the landlord were trans? And the two in the border patrol attack were trans? And the suspect in the Zajko killings is trans? And the leader of the cult is trans?

And also that the person whom you mention, who was accused of the landlord killing, was in fact married to one of the trans persons above?

If there was not a disproportionate number of trans people involved in these murders, then I hope that you can point to the specific elements of the story that were wrong.

That zizians.info page makes several claims about their beliefs in regards to being trans, and both articles make claims about the number of trans people involved in the events described that, if true, seem to indicate large trans representation.

But all of this may be false information. I would like to hear specifics, if so.

I also dislike Right/Left categorizations. Most people don't even know the history of the terms and their roots in the French Revolution. Though the "Cult of Reason" established then certainly had the Left categorization at the time.

But is the trans element not a major part of this cult? It seemed to be from the linked story in the top link. But if there is something incorrect there, or false in the NYP reporting, you should point it out. If it is a major element of this cult, then far from complaining about NYP, I would complain about any news organization leaving it out of its reporting.

These people?

https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/killing-of-border-patr...

Is the appellation in the headline, "radical vegan trans cult," a true description?

> Authorities now say the guns used by Youngblut and Bauckholt are owned by a person of interest in other murders — and connected to a mysterious cult of transgender “geniuses” who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias “Ziz.”

Is all this murder stuff broadly correct?

Yes, it's a journalistic quote meant to scare, not quotation marks meant to express irony.

> Deep space is “largely unregulated,” McDowell told a special-session audience Jan. 14 at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. “There’s no requirement to file some kind of public flight plan, no equivalent of the TLEs or the corporate data that we get for low-orbit satellites.”

This will be one of my favorite regulatory journalistic scare-quotes going forward.

You dropped "on a short-term scale" when quoting me.

The contradiction that you see escapes me. Please explain how the fact that our proxies don't allow us to talk about decade- or century-level temperature movements 50 million years ago contradicts the statement CO2 is a lagging indicator of temperature change through most of the geologic record.

Also, you say I am confused about something. Perhaps. Say in precise language what you think that is, and I will try to clear things up.

Throughout the vast majority of geological history, CO2 has been a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator, of global temperature. CO2 was 1600ppm back in the Eocene. High CO2 was caused by the high temperature, not the other way around. Thermodynamics and heat equations and so on all worked the same way in the Eocene as they do today, and nobody was extracting fossil fuels.

The proxies we have for ancient periods don't allow us to state very much about what rates of warming looked like on a short-term scale. It's hard to rule out that it might not have been very much like today. And the CO2-driving argument is predicated on null-warming in the 1800s, which is hard to establish (actually counter-indicated).

Long term warming trend. We might get up to the previous peak at the beginning of the Late Pleistocene 125,000 years ago before it's all over.

@elonmusk Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.

Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month.

Dittmann sounded just like Elon the other day on the call with Loomer, and was obviously Elon. In recent spaces, Dittmann sounds like someone else.

They didn't have to, several of the lines matched existing fragments.

Also, the classical corpus is so small that humans still beat the computers for authorship analysis.

I can be of no help to anyone who only reads the first sentence of a paper and stops, especially when I asked him to read the whole thing. Also anyone with minimal necessary background on temperature proxies for 1850-1890, or a good background on the temperature proxies or models that generate the links you have provided, will immediately see the comedy in "my little lake." But if you want to polemics rather than breadcrumbs from me, you are interacting with the wrong person.

To put it very simply: our evidence for a high feedback factor for added CO2 in the atmosphere and evidence for the forcing effect is entirely dependent on the assumption that temperature was not increasing much before 1940s.

The lake next door to my house has had ice-in ice-out dates measured by the local university using the same procedure for the past 170 years. Lake ice is an extremely good way to determine average temperature for a season, of course, as it's just a big mass that gets cold and warms up again.

When you plot my lake, it's a solidly linear trend of fewer days of ice coverage ever since they began measuring it.

The neat atmospheric CO2 correlation is presumably the same thing that has caused that same correlation to exist in pre-historic times: CO2 has been a correlated trailing indicator of global temperature through the entirety of Earth's history.

If there has been a long-term global trend for Earth temperatures, like my little (not so little actually) lake seems to indicate, some of the assumptions that establish CO2 radiative forcing as a cause rather than an effect go out the window entirely.

But don't take my word for it. Read this Nature paper, and add in the postulate that global temperature since the 1860s is some linear trend similar to my lake's temperature, and watch what comes out:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21691

There was an article in Nature the other year about AMOC periodicity across a long term timescale. Apparently you get high temperatures, then instability, then a gulf stream reversal every few thousand years, followed by glaciers coming south.

Long term temperature increase due to complex systems like AMOC could explain why we see measurable linear temperature increases starting in the 1880s, instead of the 1940s as CO2 forcing might predict, have historical evidence of extremely cold weather in classical Europe (frozen Rhine, etc.), and have evidence of warmer temperatures than today with the Holocene maximum about 8,000 years ago.

``` We learn misogynistic pejoratives like “meriochane”, given to Cleopatra by Horace and company, which Rosenbaum translates as “the woman who gapes wide for ten thousand men” ```

Well, no. Rosenbaum discusses μυοχάνη on pg. 14, a word found in Galen's Glossary of Hippocrates. Galen:

μυ<ρ>ιοχάνη· ἐπίθετον χασκούσης. εἰ δὲ μυριοχαύνη γράφοιτο, ἡ ἐπὶ μυρίοις ἂν εἴη χαυνουμένη.

My trans. "Muriochane/Muiochane: A name for a woman yawning. But if it is to be written 'thousand relaxer', it should be a woman who relaxes [ie., her legs] for a thousand."

This "yawn" or "yawn after something" can be similar in Greek usage to our "drool after."

The "Cleopatra" claim is internet garbage, nowhere in Rosenbaum, and I wonder if an AI summarizer picked it up from Reddit or something? All Rosenbaum does is quote Erotian in that discussion, who says "μηριοχάνη ὄνομα γυναικός," Meriochane is the name of a woman.

There's another related word from the Suda, μυσάχνη, which it attributes to Archilochus as a reference (name for?) a prostitute.

My understanding is that cop car driving down the block and making a visual inspection after a likely gunfire event is a reasonable standard. I would expect that 90% of the time (in fact, 87% here) they won't find anything. It is easy to take a gun indoors after firing it, or even hide it under a jacket. That doesn't mean that a cop car driving by in the next 5 minutes after any gun shot event won't have a positive impact.

Perhaps this is racially biased policing. Gun shot firing events may track racial neighborhoods demographics. In that case, we should consider whether "racial bias" is a useful dialectical tool here.

Some time ago, I read all of the published data on the safety of traffic circles, as I had often seen them recommended as a safer alternative to traffic lights.

I was not very impressed. The confounding factors for the traffic light to circle projects were always far too large, and it always had to be coupled with the fact that it was usually poorest intersections that get rebuilt. I no longer have a high opinion of traffic safety research as a field.

Regarding this article's claims in particular, traffic fatalities went up a certain amount after 2020, and I doubt that road design changes were a primary driver. (Policing trends are one possible candidate.)

Regardless, in the last six months or so, my Tesla's autodrive went from "expensive joke" to "safer driver than me". IMO, leveraging existing technology could cut traffic deaths to a small fraction of what they are now over 3-5 years, were we to pursue aggressive conversion of the existing vehicle fleet.

fMRI results show that children from lower-SES backgrounds are less stimulated by monetary rewards.

"The findings suggest that lower SES circumstances may prompt the brain to adapt to the environment..."

Wow! How did they control for the possibility that a heritable reward-focus in the parents leads to the SES results? Or that other factors, such as higher engagement or game-competence, might have led to this result? The story doesn't say, but if someone could post the relevant discussion from the journal article, I'd be interested in seeing it.

I'm sure it's there.

The Linear B decipherment is a bit of a con (more on Chadwick's side than poor Ventris, I expect). Ventris' grid method is cryptographic nonsense, of course. (Look in vain for any frequency tabulation.) But Chadwick (one of the best, or at least most self-promoting, Greek lexicographers of his day) seems to have recognized that a loose enough spelling formula, together with an impossibly large lexicon of ancient Greek, is a recipe for infinite decipherment fun.

One Oxfordian liked to take the English names of visiting scholars, turn them into Linear B, and then back into Greek using the very loose Ventris rules, only to find that some Greek god would always come out.

But this example is more fun (courtesy of Michael C. Stokes by way of Douglas Young):

Arma uirumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris...

a-ma wi-ru-qe ka-no to-ro-ja qi-pi-ri-mu a-po-ri

halmai wiluite kainos Tholoiai Diphilimus apolis

ἅλμαι ἰλύι τε καινῶς Θολῳᾳ Διφιλιμος ἄπολις

That is, the first line of Virgil's Aeneid (Latin) -> Linear B -> Greek. My trans: "With brine and slime, at Tholoia [place of beehive tombs], Diphilimus is made a ruined city in an inventive way."

Other people are reporting the same thing:

https://www.hypernode.com/blog/performance/huawei-aspiegelbo...

No. Moral posturing would imply hypocrisy. Virtue signaling describes the act of making a communication of ones own self-believed virtues.

The article's argument about the word "signal" always involving sacrifice is incorrect on the face, and even if it were not, ignores the face that many acts of "virtue-signalling" do involve sacrifice.

Consider not being the language police any longer.

I recently began having a lot of problems with Chinese "searchbot" traffic for a website. Filtering it out, my load went down by two orders of magnitude. It made me wonder how much of the purpose of this sort of thing is SEO. And how much slower Google is making the web for everyone by ranking on it, and therefore encouraging the shenanigans.