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"As a consequence, Postmodernists' judgment about the invalidity of judgments must also be invalid, but the idea of criticizing Postmodernist dogma does not seem to be popular among them."

professors

Beckwith

philosophy, double-standards, wisdom, contradiction, common-sense

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[link] heard: 11 December 2010
[edit] added: 11 December 2010

me: "it's completely predictable"

me: "which isn't what most linguists would expect"

Baatar: "or isnt what they would predict"

Jonathan North Washington, Baatar

contradiction, science, puns, linguistics, irony

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[link] heard: 24 July 2011
[edit] added: 24 July 2011

(18:05:32) zfe: also tomorrow i'm getting on a boat

(18:05:38) zfe: and a turk will be driving

(18:05:43) zfe: which feels extremely wrong

(18:05:56) zfe: like i get invited by spectie and he cooks me spaghetti

(18:06:13) zfe: or i don't know, vietnam invading usa

(18:06:19) zfe: it really looks upside down

(18:06:27) zfe: a turk and an italian on a boat

(18:06:30) zfe: and the turk is driving

zfe, spectie

provincialism, technology, bad-ideas, turkisms, craziness, contradiction, food

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[link] heard: 6 December 2012
[edit] added: 6 December 2012

(13:40:56) spectre: there is a special place in hell

(13:41:04) spectre: for linguists who design orthographies with the ' character

(13:41:53) spectre: (a) letters, (b) punctuation

(13:41:58) spectre: and ne'er the twain shall meet

spectie

linguistics, writing, irony, contradiction, sadness, double-standards, bad-ideas

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[link] heard: 7 July 2016
[edit] added: 7 February 2021

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(20:41:59)‬‏‬ ‪firespeaker‬‏‬: ‫ﺎﺍ

(20:42:06) firespeaker: these are the forms of aleph in uyghur

(20:42:22) firespeaker: no exceptions

(20:42:23) begiak: NO EXCEPTIONS, firespeaker!

(20:42:34) firespeaker: except for this ﻻ

(20:42:43) firespeaker: and ﻼ

(20:43:20) firespeaker: (the easiest way for me to think of exceptions at this point is to say there aren't any)

Jonathan North Washington

writing, language, turkic, contradiction

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[link] heard: 16 August 2018
[edit] added: 7 February 2021

(14:55:18) firespeaker: Khaytsus: I can't access your rigtool repo

(14:55:36) Khaytsus: firespeaker: you can't???? wtf? It should be public.

(14:55:51) firespeaker: Khaytsus: I had to log in, and then it gave me a 404 page

(14:55:59) Khaytsus: Let me check, It's supposed to be public

(14:56:39) Khaytsus: wtf, it is private! Damn it.

(14:56:51) firespeaker: way to make your code available

(14:56:52) firespeaker: :-P

(14:57:33) Khaytsus: ikr. COSS it's my new thing. Closed Open Source Software

Jonathan North Washington, other

radio, software, freedom, contradiction

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[link] heard: 1 May 2008
[edit] added: 1 May 2008

(16:27:22) kesuari: is *that* what causes that bug?

(16:27:27) kesuari: i hadn't worked it out yet

(16:27:30) kesuari: but you could easily be right!

(16:27:33) [me]: that's what I assumed it was

(16:27:36) [me]: and of course I'm right

(16:27:50) kesuari: including about all the contradictory things you might've said about l/n?

(16:28:02) [me]: that's all just theory

(16:28:07) [me]: there's no way to be right for sure ;)

(16:28:21) kesuari: but if you contradict yourself, you must be wrong

(16:28:32) [me]: no, just stating theories

(16:28:32) kesuari: especially if you begin the contradiction by saying "oh, i was wrong before"

(16:28:39) [me]: have I said that?

(16:28:42) [me]: .. probably actually

(16:28:43) kesuari: i don't know

(16:28:45) kesuari: i'm assuming you have

(16:28:50) kesuari: because it makes my theory make you look bad

Jonathan North Washington, Tristan Alexander McLeay

machoism, contradiction, badness, common-sense, linguistics, stupidity, computers, linux, programming

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