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  Okay if I'm understanding people's responses to the above correctly, I expect this to get an overwhelming (uniform? maybe not?) "Yes": Was a universal encoding that would see a nontrivial sequence of bytes as translating unambiguously to a particular sequence of characters, selected out of a set intended to contain all* in-use characters across humanity, inevitable? (*for practical purposes. E.g. modulo CJK unification, okay skipping until-sufficiently-popular e.g. sitelen p...

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  Actually the Cain and Abel story is about how capitalism is destructive to public transit. This is because as it is written "she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have bought [CANiti] a man with the help of the LORD.", and Abel commutes.

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  At-Large Language Models.

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  Eurotypical. Eurodivergent.

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  Bundism (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term Bundism may refer to: * Bundism, a historical Jewish Marxist-Socialist and secular political movement centered in Eastern Europe in the early 20th c., which clashed with Bolshevism (Jewish & non-Jewish), Socialist Zionism, the orthodox Aggudath Israel, assimilationism (political & cultural), and various non-Jewish nationalisms, and participated in the rise of Yiddishism * Bundism, a mid-20th-c.-to-21st-c. Yiddishist s...

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  So there's very little likelyhood this'll actually get seen by any of the current influx of people coming in off of Twitter, but I wonder what their initial reactions are to any of our other deliberate design differences are? Like, the only-hashtags searching, the no quoting, etc.?

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  Okay this isn't in response to anything and maybe is a controversial take but like while I have in general a strong respect for the people and culture I'm sorry the Discordian Calendar is an act of COWARDICE.

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  There are, obviously, people who describe themselves as Bolsheviks nowadays. There are neo-Bundists. (And also non-"neo-" Bundists, like it has a continuous history, but the neo-Bundists are more relevant here.) ... are there any contemporary Mensheviks?

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  Hmm. sw/engage/enrage/g

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  *gets a "Magneto Made Some Valid Points" -style t-shirt that says "N J Wildberger Didn't Make Any Valid Points But He Made Them In Interesting Ways"*

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  I'm just saying, MITRE should try to attract the youth demographic by doing a crossover between the CVE database and the SCP Foundation.

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  ed25519 edd25519 & eddy25519