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i wasn't familiar with the french philosophers' game

Afterglow

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friends.”

— Albert Camus

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Unfriendly enemies

The word enemy is closely related to amicable, amorous, to enamour, amable, amiable, and amity. All of these words ultimately derive from Latin amāre ('to love; to like'). From its derivative amīcus ('friendly; friend'), the word inimīcus ('unfriendly; enemy') was derived: in-imīcus, literally 'un-friendly'. Via Old French enemi, this became the English word enemy. Click the graphic to learn more.

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]

There no shame in never becoming fluent in your target language(s). Learning a new language even a little bit is great. Having the ability to communicate even a little bit is great. Learning about the culture(s) is great. You're doing great. Enjoy the experience.

Querer & vouloir

In most Romance languages, the verb meaning 'to want' comes from Popular Latin *volēre, such as French vouloir, Italian volere, and Catalan voler. However, in Spanish and Portuguese, it's querer - which not only means 'to want' but also 'to love': te quiero and quero-te. Querer stems from quaerere, a Latin verb meaning 'to ask; to seek to obtain', which is related to the English words question and to require. Click my new extra large graphic for more information on the evolutions of these words.

The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text. So when they are provided with a database of some sort, they use this, in one way or another, to make their responses more convincing. But they are not in any real way attempting to convey or transmit the information in the database. As Chirag Shah and Emily Bender put it: “Nothing in the design of language models (whose training task is to predict words given context) is actually designed to handle arithmetic, temporal reasoning, etc. To the extent that they sometimes get the right answer to such questions is only because they happened to synthesize relevant strings out of what was in their training data. No reasoning is involved […] Similarly, language models are prone to making stuff up […] because they are not designed to express some underlying set of information in natural language; they are only manipulating the form of language” (Shah & Bender, 2022). These models aren’t designed to transmit information, so we shouldn’t be too surprised when their assertions turn out to be false.

ChatGPT is bullshit

i'm sorry but language-wise we gotta start moving things along. English has been around for 15 centuries and still barely scrapes a couple hundred irregular verbs. for starters i propose the past form of "slice" should be "sloce"

Matricaria chamomilla

Let's start this year strong ᕕ(⌐■_■)ᕗ

more plant illustrations are waiting on my ko-fi!

Feuer & feu

The German word Feuer looks a bit like French feu and both mean 'fire'. That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way. Feuer, like English fire, comes from West Germanic *fuir, while feu stems from the unrelated Latin word focus, 'hearth', which only later came to mean 'fire'. Focus was borrowed into English and many other languages as focus, its meaning 'focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)' created by Johannes Kepler. My new infographic tells you all about these words.

Proto-Indo-Europeans be like “*g̑n̥néh₃mi stéh₂tim” and then they take you into the middle of the steppe

you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger

“Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.”

— Albert Camus, The Rebel

hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you

Alr, so this just seemed like a really fun trick to do, so I just felt like making another version of it instead of doing my hw :/

This definitely doesn't work as well as rhe original image, but hey, at least it looks cool (also bonus points if you guess the symbol in the center)

Wavy diamond

Wavy diamond

日干しする者たち

高画質

píxel art

I may be swinging a fruit bat in a room full of hornet's nests here, but do americans know that most of the world doesn't look the way the US does? Like, specifically concerning ethnic diversity.

Coming from Europe, the fist time I went to the US, I was shocked by it, not in a negative way but in the same "wow, that's a real thing?" sort of way as western people finding out that there actually are that kind of pillar mountains in China, or americans who had never seen Fjord Horses in anything but the movie Frozen finding out that those fantastical yellow ponies are actually real.

And it wasn't some "backcountry rural hick sees Different Colour Person for the first time and dies of shock" sort of a thing. I had travelled before, and at 19 I considered myself quite worldly enough to go to a different continent I had never been on to go meet up a man from the internet, all by myself. I had been all over Europe from Iceland to St. Petersburg and from Norway to France, I have travelled. It was a slow realisation that it's turtles all the way down, that actually got me.

Being in an airport, going from one airport to another, I wasn't surprised by the sheer range of different kinds of people I saw. Airports just look like that, all over the world. Taking one flight after another, I didn't pay much attention to that, because airports just look like that. The "wait, holy shit" didn't hit me until I was already in rural Kentucky, in a fucking Wal-Mart. And if you're an american and the thought of a late teens nordic kid stepping foot into a Wal-Mart for the frist time and thinking "wow, this is actually what America looks like, all the time" makes you want to get defensive, it was by no means a negative feeling.

It was like looking into a bag of M&Ms. That's the only way I could describe it. Every single fucking person, group or family that I saw was apparently different colour and creed than the last ones who passed by. I had never seen black women with styled hair before because in Finland almost every single black woman you see is muslim and their hair is covered. I was used to the concept of large cities being more diverse, in FInland larger cities are the places where you're most likely to see people who aren't white. And I was stunned by just how colourful the population was in goddamn Beaver Dam, Kentucky.

I'm not trying to make any kind of a political point here. I'm just talking from my own experience as a Chronically Online European who has actually been abroad: City streets that look the way they do in the US are completely foreign to most people who are not american. And every time you people start complaining about why a game that's set in Poland, made by polish creators who have never been outside of Poland, only has polish people in it, they genuinely do not know what the hell you're talking about.

I was bored so I decided to hurt my eyes

Sorry I've been inactive. I've just had a lot of work as school just started this week. I'm taking 3 IB classes, 2 AP classes, and 1 Honors class. Due to this, I may only be able to post 1 pixel art a week, so, once again, I apologize for that. I just need to focus on my studies since this year is going to be a challenging one for me.

(Let's hope I stick to at least 1 pixel art a week)

I was able to somehow fix it, but i still have school work to do, and I want to go to sleep earlier than I normally do because school starts tomorrow.

To make up, I'll draw 2 things tomorrow.

Also, my computer is still kind of acting weird even after I fixed it, but I'll also attempt to fix that as well.

So something weird happened with my laptop today. I was trying to finish up my summer work assignments since school is literally tomorrow (I'm still cooked). While I was doing my work, my laptop keyboard suddenly stopped working. So I searched online what to do. I did so many of the different tricks and methods that everybody online (forums, youtube videos, etc) did, but nothing worked. Then I tried restarting my computer. Guess what. That didn't work, so now I can't even sign into my computer. Sooo, I'm screwed.

Thats why there will not be any pixel art today or probably even for the next few days unless I can somehow fix this. I might be able to use Pixel Art Studio on my phone, but I am horrible at using my finger to make pixel art.

So if anybody knows how to solve this issue, I would be so grateful. If there is any information you need to know to help solve this issue, respond in the comments please.

I don't remember what model the computer is, but I will tell you what I do know. It is a Dell computer using Microsoft. It is a touchscreen computer.

Again, if there is anymore information you need or you know how to solve this issue, please respond in the comments please. I will be super thankful.

So something weird happened with my laptop today. I was trying to finish up my summer work assignments since school is literally tomorrow (I'm still cooked). While I was doing my work, my laptop keyboard suddenly stopped working. So I searched online what to do. I did so many of the different tricks and methods that everybody online (forums, youtube videos, etc) did, but nothing worked. Then I tried restarting my computer. Guess what. That didn't work, so now I can't even sign into my computer. Sooo, I'm screwed.

Thats why there will not be any pixel art today or probably even for the next few days unless I can somehow fix this. I might be able to use Pixel Art Studio on my phone, but I am horrible at using my finger to make pixel art.

So if anybody knows how to solve this issue, I would be so grateful. If there is any information you need to know to help solve this issue, respond in the comments please.

I don't remember what model the computer is, but I will tell you what I do know. It is a Dell computer using Microsoft. It is a touchscreen computer.

Again, if there is anymore information you need or you know how to solve this issue, please respond in the comments please. I will be super thankful.

Thanks for the wisdom, sir. I actually needed this right now.

I like this thing a lot

Sorry I was late again. I'm still trying to finish my summer work. School starts in 1 more day. One more day left of freedom... (I'm still cooked)

Anyways, I drew out my profile picture as pixel art. I originally tried it on a 32x32 board, but it looked weird, so I switched a 64x64 board. I didn't want to exceed that since I'm still new to pixel art.

This is not too bad, but it was super simple since there was not really much involved in the process.

Sorry for posting late. In was busy with school work. School starts in 2 days and I had to finish my summer assignments. I'm cooked.

Anyways, this is a scroll. In my opinion, this looks disgusting (which is kind of what I was going for, but i dont really like this). By the way, the green bar is supposed to represent mana or something like that, and the red is supposded to be health. I got that idea from a friend, and it kind of works I guess.

Also, the text on the scroll is Minecraft Enchantment Table, so try to translate it you feel like it (it's cringe). I also got this idea from the same friend.