so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?

Oh damn, eat some calcium, bro.

The A is midrange?

I got a S24 basic model ans and this feels like a rather midrange phone.

My old phone, like 8 years older, was faster in charging, bigger screen, better camera, etc etc.

This just feels like an Android copy of an iPhone with some tiny bullshit AI features that I can actually download as apps on my older phone most the time

If I could’ve actually just replaced my screen with a proper new oled and replaced the battery, it would’ve been fine.

I think there’s also a sort of autodidactic type of learning empathy, even if your parents don’t teach it to you.

I think it’s — at least for a part of the population — a very natural thing and would have to be actively discouraged as a kid to make it go away.

Although idk I did read a ton so maybe the books raised me idk

Bullshit. It’s not about digital. It’s about who owns it.

I mean you acknowledged consciously doing that. If you’re working on it, then you take into account perspectives other than your own.

Either way, having read the wiki page for it now, my main issue is that there really isn’t (in my opinion) a good reason that any language should ever have a spelling that does not match the order of the sounds used to pronounce the word

Hearing that from an English speaker while my native is Finnish is quite amusing.

https://icaltefl.com/dearest-creature-in-creation/

A few opening verses to demonstrate:

Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer

Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word.

Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it’s written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.

Etc.

If you look at the international phonetic alphabet, take an English word, like “geography”. And it looks like this: dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi.

Contrast that to Finnish ones. Horse , hevonen: ˈheʋonen, peasoup, hernekeitto: ˈherneˌkːei̯tːo.

You can’t even tell me an objectively correct way to pronounce “read”, because depending on the context I’m thinking of, you might say the wrong one. There’s none of that in Finnish, we have like one “phone” (as in specific sound that’s “pronunciated”, äng-äänne, velar nasal iirc might be mistaken too lazy to check).

See if you took 10 English people, or American English people, whatever, English speakers. Gave them a list of fantasy names no-ones ever heard of, they’d try applying rules to familiar feeling bits, like if the name sounds Latin or French or Spanish, but it’d be subjective and very much guesswork. So you’d get 10 English speakers saying all the males differently, but prolly some would go as the writer intended, seeing how writers often use real life inspiration so we rely on how we know people might pronounce them.

Put 10 Finns there, you’ll get exactly the same from everyone. Theyre probably all horribly wrong per the writers intention, but each will say the same thing.

But, that’s just the book language, the official version of Finnish. We only got written Finnish 500 years back. Dialects are much older. Growing up I had troubles understanding a lot of the vocabulary my grannies used. And then I grew up a bit more realised lots of it is etymologically from a few hundreds years back from the Swedish influences. Though she’s doesn’t speak a lick of Swedish. Or didn’t, rather. (RIP).

But genuinely within 150 miles of me there’s more variance in language than in the English in the whole of North America. It’s hard for Americans to understand how stubbornly communities can isolate themselves with language that “those people” don’t know. Which is why the UK has so many more accents than the US. It’s just time. Finnish tribes are still clearly visible mostly as counties, largely like in Italian. Although Finnish dialects I presume are closer together to each other than Italian ones, there’s quite a bit of difference going from the extreme south to the extreme north. Or just driving a few hours east.

Tldr the longer point I’m making is that I get the center centre confusion, because English utilises the er-sound. But most languages don’t, so… It’s subjective. Finnish people probably say litra “liter-uh” sort of, because French and Swedes would’ve been saying sit so it ends in R, but ours don’t, so we added an a. And the French wrote it litre, so we went with “litra”, especially since “littera” was already taken.

Grammar ruled for French though, those I’m not gonna start explaining. Gonna run out of char limit.

I may be a bit straightforward, I mean to jestingly poke, not actually offend. My apologies if offense was caused.

You’re proudly being ethnocentric?

Uh, I don’t know many people who boast about being biased, but okay.

I’m aware of the descriptive vs prescriptive concept, but not for linguistics specifically

What? It’s specifically a concept in linguistics.

It means that while there are rules to language, there’s no one correct ruleset, especially when talking in an international frame. Which would be prescriptive language. Lots of European nations have institutions that prescribe rules for the language, but the rules live constantly as well, and the institutions are all made up of academic linguists who understand linguistic description, meaning it matters more how people use the language and not how it’s “supposed” to be used. Although they’re probably the type of people who are rather pedantic about language.

I’d like to remind you the nationalist movement is rather fresh, historically, and unified nation-states was pretty much a thing for the last century. But go back a few centuries and there’s not a specific single Italian (hell there’s debate whether one exists today) French, English, Spanish, Nordic languages, Slavic languages, etc etc. They’re all just dialects of their neighbouring ones essentially, except for the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian.

You’re very biased because North-America is a whole continent and the difference in the style of speech in English in the entire continent is less varied than the language spoken in the area 150 miles around me.

I’m not used to phrasing comments for international audiences

New to the internet, are we? Welcome, welcome.

You’re wrong for a multitude of reasons but I can’t be arsed to explain all of them in detail

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description#Descriptive_versus_prescriptive_linguistics

2. https://www.upworthy.com/english-language-rare-er-sound

Oddly enough, for as common as the “er” sound is in English, it’s linguistically rare. According to the Linguistics Channel @human1011, the “er” sound is found in less than 1% of the world’s languages, rarer than the click consonants found in some languages in East and Southern Africa.

What’s particularly interesting about the “er” sound in American English is that it functions as a vowel sound. Most of us learned that the vowels in English are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y, and that’s true as far as written vowels go, but vowel sounds are different. In the word “bird,” the letter “i” is a vowel, but doesn’t make any of the “i” sounds that we learned in school. Instead, the “ir” combine to make the “er” vowel sound. It’s called an r-controlled vowel, and we see it in tons of words like “work,” “were,” “burn,” “skirt,” etc.

In Finnish it isn’t a “litar”, it’s a “litra”, because the r is clearly before the vowel. In Swedish it’s “liter”, and the vowel clearly comes before the r (the pronunciation being different from the English). But in English, especially American English, you guys use the “er” sound and it’s basically a conflation of those two. It’s a very rare sound when compared to all languages, but seeing as English is the lingua franca and a lot of it is in American English…

tldr my point is you’re being quite ethnocentric, unconsciously most likely, as I assume you don’t speak other languages.

I mean the dick is sometimes arbitrary, even when you make sure as not to have any foreskin in the way of your urethra.

Especially after fucking.

But if that happens to me, I’m usually courteous enough to take a hit of paper and at least dab most of it away. But if it’s a rank toilet with already piss waving on the floor, no thanks. Sorry. Can’t help, the amount of toilet paper in one cubicle isn’t enough. And usually the places with that level of hygiene don’t necessarily have even a toilet seat, let alone several rolls of paper.

Yeah I’m not gonna build a house with duct tape, but I most definitely like keeping a roll around, because it’s very useful in certain situations.

As of now LLM’s are little more than glorified chatbots, but I find them useful when cooking / making drinks. I’ll have an idea, query something, ask about whether it’s generally thought that x spice goes well in y dish or how the temperature of a drink will affect the layering of it or something.

It’s decent enough for that. But like for any data that’s not as stable as cooking (which is subjective at its core anyway more or less) etc, it’s not good. Movie released for instance? Nah. Because the release dates change and the batch of data it’s uses for training can have a different date than it does.

That happened in December when Kraven the Hunter was coming out. It told me it had premiered like 6 months ago when I knew it was gonna be in a week or so.

But on the other hand I once accidentally made this cool drink where I got bits of pineapple to go up and down for 10-15 minutes after served, pretty furiously. Couldn’t replicate it until I talked to Gemini for a minute. And the input would’ve been so niche it would’ve yielded no direct results online. I’d have had to refresh some basic chemistry for at least 10-20 min prolly. But now I just got the answer in one.

Decent enough.

I know AI is overhyped, but it’s also overhated. I too hate the overhyping, but I don’t hate the tool itself. It’s just not anywhere near as versatile or complex as some people make it out to be, but it’s also rather more useful than some make it out to be.

Books are going to keep doing just fine.

Books haven’t been the go to for several decades. When’s the last time you went to search something in a library before Googling it? Or hell, in general. Because we used to have to do that you know. When I was a kid and I wanted to know something, I had to cycle to library.

Now I can ask my phone about it, then ask it for the source, then check the source and I can use a search engine to find an actual book on the source on the subject.

It’s a tool.

It’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools. If you’re trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver, ofc it’s gonna suck.

Well that I can’t believe.

But their tubby little fingers aren’t nimble enough nor can they hold their attention span nor take basic instructions, so they can’t be employed for production unlike their healthier and more dutiful same aged Asian counterparts

Pls don’t be disparaging all people with mood disorders just because the Musks are such dicks.

BBC The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive Part 1 (Better Quality)

There’s a scene in Life on Mars, premise being a person from the late 00’s wakes up in the 80’s.

They’re police and one episode they chase some person in an attic space with asbestos and the 80’s cops just bust through asbestos insulation and it’s all over the air and them. And the main character who points out it’s asbestos is fine with like covering her mouth with a piece of cloth.

I was like “noooo gtfo of there, a little napkin hanging on your face isn’t gonna protect you”

I think he is one of the stops on the granola to MAGA pipeline now, if you’re into woo woo spirituality babble and are politically ignorant he is there to lead you down a path.

There’s others as well, even without the aid of Brand that’s a well known pipeline. At least for me. I know several girls who went from slightly pissy and into spiritual bs to pretty much HC right-wing.

Right wing?

Really?

I mean I haven’t followed the guy’s politics at all, I just know him from some British panel show appearance from like 15-20 years ago.

Obnoxious, but I would’ve guessed far left instead of right wing.

I believe, internationally, lots of places which have saunas also have pools or even cold pools. I imagine. Like high class gyms or smth.

But I’ve heard several stories of Finns being abroad and going to a sauna and being prevented from tossing water on the stones (löyly = it’s sort of the water and the heat that results from throwing it, roughly how you’d use “gas” in relation to cars, more gas can mean more petrol or pressing on the gas pedal harder, that sort of word), and the employees saying “you can’t do thaw to it’ll break the stove” because they don’t understand how saunas work.

And to do this to the best effect you need a proper löyly to the point you pour cold water from the löyly bucket on top of your head to bear it for a while longer for all the muscles to really warm up. And then for maximum shock quick jump to cold water, or sometimes just a snowbank. That’s common as well. Hurts like bitch though if you do it with the wrong kind of snow, like jumping on a bed of freezing razors. (The top of snow that was quite soft earlier had frozen and I didn’t see it in the dark and jumped into the bank and there was like a half an inch of raspy ice on top before I broke through to the softer snow. Or I just didn’t care being either so young as not to or so drunk as not to. Probably both.)

And if you’re gonna throw a strong löyly, or even löyly at all in a public sauna, it’s proper etiquette to ask for consent from everyone. Although now that I wrote that I have a feeling asking for consent in some non-Finnish public saunas may have a different meaning, as far as I’ve understood from popular media.

It’s perfectly commonplace to have at least a 100 degree sauna.

I think something like 140 is around the hottest I’ve been in.

The air is that temperature, but there’s also a ton of moisture in the air. You can take it for a few minutes at a time, then optimally you go take a dip off a pier into a lake or the sea. When I was in that 140c sauna it was a proper wood heated large sauna at my confirmation camp, it was on an island in the Baltic so we could run out the sauna and jump into the Baltic Sea. It wasn’t warm at all, but the intense heat of the sauna having warmed all the top tissues and muscles, you get a sort of immunity to the cold. Which lasts for a little while, and when you start getting cold enough, you go back to the sauna, and because the cool water has now cooled the skin and muscles, you get a resistance to the heat for a while.

Rinse and repeat. Literally.

This cycle supposedly has benefits for circulation and muscles.

And having done it ton in my life I don’t doubt that at all.

Usually I have to settle for the sauna in my apartment though. (I live in a cheap rental but a sauna is default in pretty much all buildings built after the 90’s.) And then either going to balcony to cool off a while or take cool shower. It’s not as nice, but it’s more or less the same.

Although I don’t rip the most out of my electric stove to get the most heat. I have it set on pretty low and I just use a lot of löyly. Probably I’d say my normal saunas are maybe around 90-110 degrees at the most. A sauna below 80 degrees is considered a “Swedish sauna”, which is to say we mock them as not being strong and manly as us and so Swedes would be afraid of having a “proper” sauna.

And to be honest the Swedes are pretty on board with this whole stereotype I guess, seeing us as mute emotionally distant brutes. Here’s a cool Swedish commercial featuring a Finnish man. They made it. (that’s not the real title though just the yt video title)

Captain Finland cucks Sweden

You know a nation of people who may not be able to articulate their understanding, but definitely have a high intuitive understanding of that?

We Finns.

100C sauna and no problem sitting on wood, but happen to touch something metal and oooh-weee.

Also same thing happens the others way around when it’s - 20c outside. I don’t think there’s many people in Finland who don’t have a core memory of what cold metal tastes like in winter, because of the resulting trauma. And it doesn’t even need to be metal to stick.

Nicely explained.