PhilipTheBucket

It's a bug in Lemmy, every so often it just refuses to show images for no reason at all. Try shift-reload.

1. Yeah, this is interesting. I'm a little skeptical of any analysis that proceeds immediately to statistical analysis of one particular assignment of "letters" with the implied boundaries to the letterforms, without apparently dealing with the nontrivial problem of figuring out how likely it is that any particular shape is a particular "letter" or where the boundaries are. But you could certainly disprove that it was a real natural language by showing statistical regularity in it that's of a type that would only exist if it was statistical random gibberish (which many people have tried and failed to do).
2. You need the http:// in front of your link, it's being processed as a relative link compared with this document
3. Why is Leisure Suit Larry at the top of this paper

Edit: I backwards

Sadly, I think that the volume of books available to scan from all the books of the world is pretty small compared with the galaxy of random typing that is available all over the internet at this point.

The most compelling hypothesis I saw for the language explanation was that it was Manchu with an unusual romanization. It's such a rare language (basically dead language at this point) that it would make sense why the statistics line up for a real language, but people haven't managed to decode it. Then add to that the fact that it's not super clear what glyphs are stylistic differences and which ones are alternate glyphs, and it's not even clear where to split the forms into different glyphs because they're all connected, and it kind of makes sense.

This video is the most compelling case I've seen for it not being a real language. Like I say, it's kind of sad to think it might not have a real decoding.

The UK in 1985 was being run by people who grew up getting their cities bombed out and not having enough to eat because of the war, or having friends and family members dead because they were in the infantry and didn't come back.

I posted a chart elsewhere in these comments; all during the modern era it's been hovering around 1.5%, and then suddenly in the last few years people are invested in paying more, what with the US and Russia collaborating to make them nervous about their safety again.

People on every other instance are able to say whatever they want, they can have open discussion, they can criticize .ml or NATO or Trump or the Democrats. Which is as it should be.

The mythology that .ml enacts its insane level of censorship because it's helping people "crack through the programming" by expressing viewpoints and arguments that are also allowed everywhere else, and the censorship is a necessary part of making that possible (by banning any disagreement shielding it from the commonsense arguments that generally can debunk it), is some Karl Rove shit.

Until the USA goes full dictatorship (admittedly less hypothetical than I’d like)

I have bad news for you.

I'm not trying to exaggerate the situation, but they're imprisoning journalists, kicking random people out of the country or keeping them in conditions so bad that it sometimes kills them, they just bombed a random country ignoring the system that's supposed to make that illegal without authorization, and so on and so on. They just assassinated a Democratic politician.

It's all a spectrum. People are still in the streets without being shot, they're still backing down or being forced to free some particular people. But the standard of "going to war without authorization" is a guard-rail that fell years ago, and more are falling every week now. If you're waiting for the moment to fight back against the dictatorship, this is it.

It's been 2%. Historically a lot of NATO wasn't meeting that, but in the last few years people have been taking it a lot more seriously.

5% is, in fact, a whole shitload.

The US is at about 3%, which is an insane amount a lot of which gets allocated to random domestic pork-barrel projects, or basic scientific research which is just getting funneled through the "defense" department for basically no reason. Upping it to more than the US spends per capita on its military is bonkers.

That being said, I get it. These are bonkers times. Russia is doing for-real military invasions and bombing whole cities and shows no signs of wanting to stop, and the US is no longer a reliable partner for defense and deterrence. It might be fine, but it might not. It's time to get ready to look after our own safety again, after a long period of not really having to worry as long as you were white and Western. I get why they're doing it.

Earlier statistical analysis had shown it had some definite similarities to a real human language, it's not just gibberish or an amateur hoax. I have to say I'm a little bit sad that it seems like it's turning out it was just sophisticated gibberish.

When you crosspost, it’s basically a link to the post in the “original” instance.

Yeah, don't do that.

Why do you think this person is a bot?

Ideally, they’d crosspost instead of repost.

? This isn't how it works. Any repost of the same link is a crosspost. What do you even mean by this?

Why do you think this person is a bot?