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I am sure that it is not, but more kind words on the Internet are always appreciated.
koavf@lemmy.mlto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza11·1 month agoI don’t have a term for that, but either way, equating anyone who has played music in Israel with being a Zionist and therefore, a Nazi is childish and obscures actual Nazism. There is real fascism and racism in Israeli society but it is not true that it’s somehow caused by Thom Yorke.
koavf@lemmy.mlto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza11·1 month agoI certainly agree that putting pressure on Israel since the grotesque over-reaction to the October 7 attacks is appropriate. I can see the argument for just never playing a concert there, but I think having played a concert in Israel ever does not qualify someone as a “Nazi”. That’s preposterous. Israel is presently in the process of an active and highly violent genocide against Gazans. Prior to this, public policy has been generally oppressive and heinous against Palestinians, sometimes more or less so.
koavf@lemmy.mlto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza11·1 month agoNazis? I don’t recall any of them advocating for Nazism.
koavf@lemmy.mlto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza14·1 month ago“Everyone signed to the same record label as any band that includes Thom Yorke is a Zionist and therefore a Nazi.”
koavf@lemmy.mlto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases Statement on Israel and Gaza14·1 month agoRadiohead is Zionist trash
??? The band has other members…
koavf@lemmy.mlOPto Linguistics@mander.xyz•The World Has Millions of Colors. Why Do We Only Name a Few?3·1 month agoRed, though? Blood. The colour might vary a bit, but nowhere as much. Black? Soot. White? Clouds, chalk. It’s simply easier to generate points of reference for those.
Too true and makes sense, but what confuses and vexes me is the idea that “yellow” would predate “blue”: Blue things include bodies of water and the sky (assuming the azure/cyan and royal blue/standard blue are the same color), but what important thing is there that is yellow that we need to talk about so urgently? Blue comes up with some foods, but it is rare and other natural phenomena like colors of a night sky, but I’m struggling to think of the reason why we needed “yellow” prior to that. Any conjecture?
koavf@lemmy.mlOPMtoIndianapolis@lemmy.ml•New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex OffendersEnglish1·2 months agoI think the point is to masturbate. I don’t know that there is a binary between being a sex criminal or masturbating.
One chapter is about typography, but the rest is also interesting if you care about design generally.
koavf@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Trump takes credit for 'good parts' of economy, blames 'bad parts' on Biden4·2 months agoThis is elder abuse.
koavf@lemmy.mlOPto Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?2·3 months agothe Committee saw no pressure to introduce a phonetic system for Mandarin
This is particularly interesting to me: where did you get this?
Thanks for the thorough comment.
koavf@lemmy.mlOPto Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?2·3 months agoEasy/hard in which aspect? And how do we even measure it?
I’m confused as to if you read the article, since you point out Chinese characters later. Did you?
koavf@lemmy.mlOPto Linguistics@mander.xyz•Language Log » Are all writing systems equally easy / hard?3·3 months agoSimilarly, Cherokee syllabary and Hangul for Korean. The former was even created by someone who was himself illiterate!
Sociopathy and wasting everyone else’s time is not fun.
There is still a meaningful distinction between spectral and non-spectral colors as far as I (a non-scientist) is concerned: what one is saying is “this is my perception of a specific wavelength of electromagnetic radiation” and non-spectral colors are “this is my perception of some kind of weird interference between opposing colors or a bizarre trick of the brain or whatever”. Color as such is still a purely mental phenomenon but what instigates that phenomenon can be different.
Because you are responding to the post itself without reading the post. You have nothing to add if you’re fundamentally ignorant of what the source is. You may have something meaningful to add in response to another comment, but this is no different than saying "I didn’t watch this movie, but here’s what I think!’ or not doing the reading in a book club and just showing up to throw out random conjecture.
If you didn’t read the article, then don’t leave a top-level comment.
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Sure but what I am struggling to understand here is that these sets of communication elements must have been generated in the first place by the animals that use them, so this resolves nothing really. Is there something I am missing here?