Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

[Samson]

Now google no longer gives an up to date copy of usenet online I paid $6 in monero for 50 GB of usenet. That has spawned so many random thoughts:

It is a real life use case for crypto, as I would not have liked to do that deal with a credit card.

Where I started in social media is not inundated with spam, and still alive for some values of alive. I even recogise a couple of the posters Still arguing over minutia:

Spoiler cam.misc and the flood markers :

This is the image they are on about, it is not floods:

Even alt.politics is alive and is not drowned in spam, though the spam that is there is not great.

Spoiler alt.politics and Trumpism == Maoism :

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Also wtiting this post has meant I learned that CFC reads and stores our messages as they are typed.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Also wtiting this post has meant I learned that CFC reads and stores our messages as they are typed.

You can find weird stuff if you google your CFC username. Back in vBulletin days I only learned about a forum feature the admins never enabled, because Google insisted I had actually used it.

I don't know if XenForo has this feature.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I like to say "vice-a versa," even though I know it's "vice versa."

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Gori the Grey]

He is risen indeed. Alleluia.

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's National Big Word Day.

As I understand it, that doesn't have to mean long words, but just rarer ones.

I've recently read an author who uses "condign" to good effect, so I'm going to see if I can start working that into my speech and writing. I used "aplomb" today.

What's y'all's favorite big word?

 

[Kyriakos]

It's National Big Word Day.

As I understand it, that doesn't have to mean long words, but just rarer ones.

I've recently read an author who uses "condign" to good effect, so I'm going to see if I can start working that into my speech and writing. I used "aplomb" today.

What's y'all's favorite big word?

Hyperprotopansevastohypertatos.

It's one of the late Byzantine Empire's titles for "almost as high-rank as the emperor, but not the emperor", and is a pile of adjectives and nouns that imply importance. Those appeared because the empire was in so fragile a state that individual areas or even cities (eg the one I live in) were debating whether they should be run from Constantinople anymore instead of running themselves, so local authorities were somehow to be appeased. It didn't work, but created a pattern.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Beyond the first of all except for the highest.

I once knew a guy who signed letters [Name] Trismegistus.

 

[Kyriakos]

More in the spirit of your question - not having to be big in size, but rare- from Greek I like the term polyfloisvοio. It is actually a term already there in Homer, and part of a memorable description in the start of the Iliad.
The term means a roaring (implied: sea), from the sound of many (=poly) collapsing waves. The simpler version, "floisvos" is a common term in use as a noun now too, but not the form in Homer where it is used as an adjective to define a noun (the sea).
Then again the same linguistic mechanism, only used in a far more emblematic manner, made sure that "polytropos" ("of many ways") did survive in use today. But it's literally in the first line of the Odyssey ^^

 

[Gori the Grey]

Not surprisingly the Greeks have all the best words for the sea.

 

[Kyriakos]

Not surprisingly the Greeks have all the best words for the sea.

Another favorite of mine is Archipelago.
And from another homeric sentence: "alos atrygetοio", implying that the sea is endless (literally: cannot be harvested, as it is immense or without an end. The verb was used since ancient times to refer to harvesting grapes).

 

[Gori the Grey]

andra moi ennepe, mousa, polutropos

 

[Kyriakos]

^Yes, although there it is in the accusative, as "polytropon". Polytropos is just in the nominative ^^

 

[Gori the Grey]

oops

 

[Arakhor]

My favourite unusual words are catenulate (chain-shaped), callipygous (having shapely buttocks) and crepuscular (being primarily active at twilight).

 

[Kyriakos]

There was a thread on Reddit about the Oracle of Delphi telling the OP that Circe would choose him.

But I suppose that in the actual style of open-ended (so as to never be provably false) reply the Oracle made sure to use, the statement could only be along the lines of:
"By surpassing others success was guaranteed" - which being only verbal could not pin it down to having an apostrophe or not. "By surpassing, others' success was guaranteed" remains possible ^^

 

[Kyriakos]

It's like he has a permaban wish - though maybe Twitch doesn't care.
Besides, the point itself is weak in all respects and likely in the 5-10% weakest branch; there isn't any adherence to a belief of equality, other than the basic one decreed by law (which if taken away would make things far worse), nor would throwing the least intelligent kids to coal mines change society for the better - it would just rapidly increase their own misery.
Maybe he was just thinking of bullies, but there is no guarantee those would really be primarily in that group, so no change there either.

 

[Arakhor]

This is the guy who got famous for being a streamer who lives in absolute squalor? He should be very wary about wishing for sweeping cultural changes, lest he get caught up in them himself.

 

[Kyriakos]

This is the guy who got famous for being a streamer who lives in absolute squalor? He should be very wary about wishing for sweeping cultural changes, lest he get caught up in them himself.

That itself is more than likely a branding trick. He literally makes millions of dollars each year from streaming.
Maybe he just wants to go out with a permaban, so that he can (at least for as long as he remains in the general consciousness) avoid online hatred for duping his audience.

Then again, is feigning that you like cos-playing as poor, that much worse than flaunting your wealth on those who collectively enabled it and yet are npcs?

 

[danjuno]

This is the guy who got famous for being a streamer who lives in absolute squalor? He should be very wary about wishing for sweeping cultural changes, lest he get caught up in them himself.

Half the comments I've seen are "you know that includes you, right?"