...but man, am I bad at math
someone’s insane ramblings about the new world order.
We still have plenty of that, everywhere from Twitter to 4chan.
It varies, because YT periodically breaks it, but it gets patched up again usually quickly.
Man I completely forgot Gmail chat existed, and I used it for a while quite regularly.
Previously you claimed that using the Gmail domain is "extremely unprofessional". However, a company that considers email addresses with real names to be more professional is "petty". 🤔
The “actual” story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn’t as long for me to get through it).
Can you link it? If you still remember what/where it was...
it’s something that you’re actually supposed to think about while watching it
Says who? IMO the strongest aspect of Lain is the vibe (style, sound, art, the whole world). The overall narrative is jarringly structured, a bit chaotic, with sudden introductions and resolutions of subplots, and especially on the first watch it's futile to try to treat it as some sort of a (solvable) puzzle, or, even worse, a philosophical tractate. Not that it might not be treated that way on a rewatch sometime down the line (though honestly I wouldn't expect that to be possible even then), but the first time around it has to draw you into the world and into Lain's mind. Just relax, make yourself comfortable, and let it be an irrational, intimate experience that it's probably meant to be. (Or, well, don't, if you've already given up.)
the small minority of retards did the salute
The words "za dom spremni" are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.
There was little to no actual anti-communism at play at that point (although it was still relevant symbolically). Both sides were already capitalist. Yugoslavia had been on the path of liberalisation for quite a while before the breakup.
Btw, that excuse that Thompson and his fans regularly use is bullshit, the phrase was picked by Croatian extremists (especially the paramilitary HOS) in the 90s because it was used by ustašas (fascists) half a century earlier in the first place.
unless the ustashe independently invented it
They did, they weren't instructed by German nazis on what words to use. Not that it makes any difference, ustašas were just the local variant of fascists.
That's true. But people pointing out that the whole attempt is absurd and senseless also reinforces the point that current AI isn't what companies tout it as.
then you likely live in a bubble of tech nerds
Well, we are on Lemmy...
(the pic is a joke btw - https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-map-mad-cow-disease/)
Image A shows Bosnian Cyrillic as used in stone inscriptions.
The columns go: Latin (BCMS) alphabet - Greek - Cyrillic "church letters" - Cyrillic "civil letters" (Peter the Great's reform) - Bosnian letters: 14th, early 15th and late 15th century, typical forms
For context, the BCMS alphabet mostly corresponds to the same IPA symbol, with only these exceptions: Gj /d͡ʐ/, Ž /ʒ/, Lj /ʎ/, Nj /ɲ/, Ć /t͡ʂ/, Č /t͡ʃ/, Dž /d͡ʒ/, Š /ʃ/.
Image B shows various examples of handwritten cursive Bosnian Cyrillic.
This variant of Cyrillic was used in modern-day Bosnia and parts of Croatia (Dalmatia and Dubrovnik), mainly from 14th to 17th century. It used the letter "djerv" <Ꙉ> for /t͡ʂ/, which eventually became a part of the modern Serbian Cyrillic alphabet as <ћ>.
Images from Frane Vuletić's Gramatika bosanskoga jezika (1890).
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