Want to make a comic that’s just four panels of an unmoving rock? Still a comic.

Sure, except that would be a somewhat shitty comic and anyone would have the right to say that if that's their opinion.

Between this and all the “how is this a meme?” comments. Most inane, useless comments. Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t meant for you? Clearly it’s getting upvotes

Maybe my comment wasn't meant for you if it bothers you this much? Just move on bro.

You'd expect a sub that's about memes to contain memes, or, if not quite memes in the "proper" sense of the word, at least generally funny or entertaining content. This is just a brief lecture in four panels. McCloud's wonderful comic is pretty much the last thing this could remind me of.

Ok but where's the punchline? Why is this even a comic?

Here in my southeast European shithole I'm not worrying about my tax money, the upgrade is going to be pretty cheap, they're just going to switch from unlicensed XP to unlicensed Win7.

Yep, but I didn't mention that because it's not a part of the "Wayback Machine", it's just the general "Internet Archive" business of archiving media, which is for now still completely unavailable. (I've uploaded dozens of public-domain books there myself, and I'm really missing it...)

Is overcooking not visible?

You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as 'writing' to the database.

I’m betting chicken always could have cooked faster.

A few months ago my mother bought a free range chicken for lunch. It took over twice the ordinary time needed for cooking a chicken. The difference was massive and obvious, no way is there an another explanation.

They just used to overcook chicken.

Do you look at the old pictures (photos, paintings) of food and see overcooked chicken?

Borrowings sometimes do displace native words, even ones with a similar meaning. English for example has plenty of pairs like owndom/property, blee/colour, selfhood/identity, where the native word is mostly gone.

English has a very, very specific sociolinguistic history that has resulted in such deep changes in the lexicon. The relationship of early English towards Romance languages is very different from early Slavic towards Latin/Romance.

Personally what I find the most convincing part of your argument is the map of the native spread of the pigeon. I still would find it odd that the word would be loaned either in the early period that you propose (no apparent practical need for such a word to be loaned, esp. considering the spread of the species, it simply wouldn't be needed for the Slavs).

I don't have much to add to your comment, since my knowledge of historical linguistics is still limited and focused on Slavic languages. I just saw this on reddit and found it interesting (esp. the first two articles, which I've only skimmed for some interesting remarks for now). But still, I must say I find the idea that Slavs would adopt the word for the pigeon from the Romans a bit odd. Would they really not have a native word already, and why would it specifically be the Romans that they got the word from? It would certainly have to be loaned very early on, as it is used across all Slavic languages, it's not just OCS; possibly it could have been mediated through Germanic (as was e.g. *Rimъ = Rome).

G. Holzer has proposed that it was loaned into Slavic from "Temematic", an extinct substratum language that was supposedly the source for a number of Balto-Slavic words related to farming and similar activities, and which (among others) underwent PIE *k > *g, thus explaining the g-.

Seeing double posts is IMO not frequent enough to require mechanisms to fix it (and I can't even imagine a built-in mechanism against it).

c/greentext should be blocked because it's full of annoying fake stories, though.

it is quite literally named the “land of the blacks” after all that is what Egypt means

Egypt is from Greek and definitely doesn't mean that. The Egyptian endonym was kmt (traditionally pronounced as kemet), which is interpreted as "black land" (km means "black", -t is a nominal suffix, so it might be translated as black-ness, not at all "quite literally land of the blacks"), most likely referring to the fertile black soil around the Nile river. Trying to interpret that as "land of the blacks" should be suspicious already due to the fact people would hardly name themselves after their most ordinary physical characteristic; the Egyptians might call themselves black only if they were surrounded by non-black people and could view that as their own special characteristic, but they certainly neighboured and had contact with black peoples. And either way one has to wonder if the ancient views of white and black skin were meaningfully comparable to modern western ones. On the other hand, the fertile black soil most certainly is a differentia specifica of the settled Egyptian land that is surrounded by a desert.

More screenshots are here: https://xcancel.com/p9cker_girl/status/1844203626681794716

What I find odd is that the message that they actually left on the site has nothing to do with Palestine, just childish "lol btfo" sort of message. So I wouldn't be surprised if these guys aren't the ones who actually did it, and it's merely a false flag to make pro-Palestinian protesters look like idiotic assholes.

I don't get the impression you've ever made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia, and thus have misguided ideas about what would be actually helpful to the editors and conductive to producing better articles. Your proposal about translations is especially telling, because the machine-assisted translations (i.e. with built-in tools) have already existed on WP long before the recent explosion of LLMs.

In short, your proposals either: 1. already exist, 2. would still risk distorsion, oversimplification, made-up bullshit and feedback loops, 3. are likely very complex and expensive to build, or 4. are straight up impossible.

Good WP articles are written by people who have actually read some scholarly articles on the subject, including those that aren't easily available online (so LLMs are massively stunted by default). Having an LLM re-write a "poorly worded" article would at best be like polishing a turd (poorly worded articles are usually written by people who don't know much about the subject in the first place, so there's not much material for the LLM to actually improve), and more likely it would introduce a ton of biases on its own (as well as the usual asinine writing style).

Thankfully, as far as I've seen the WP community is generally skeptical of AI tools, so I don't expect such nonsense to have much of an influence on the site.

As far as Wikipedia is concerned, there is pretty much no way to use LLMs correctly, because probably each major model includes Wikipedia in its training dataset, and using WP to improve WP is... not a good idea. It probably doesn't require an essay to explain why it's bad to create and mechanise a loop of bias in an encyclopedia.

Are you ok?

I take it the first link is older, the second one is newer?

I'm not American and I wonder if this stuff will ever cease to be in the news, I find it annoying to no end at this point (and can only guess how annoying it is to Americans who are actually affected by this). Biden might cancel some, even a lot of debt now, but within ten years you'll just end up with a new generation of people in debt. So, is there anything being done about, or politicians even vaguely suggesting some more systematic fix for this shitshow?

And yet you've created this very Lemmy instance we're posting on. Curious.

Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.

OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??