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Tim J 🐘

@timtfj

Currently play in no orchestras. Interested in many things. Morpheme and cheese addict. Hate underthinking and football. Tvitrer av og til omtrent på norsk. 🎻

Just outside Manchester, UK Katılım Haziran 2008
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
I'm not intending to leave Twitter unless it becomes unusable, which I fear it might. However, I'm now also on #Mastodon, currently as @timtfj@mastodon.social (link: @timtfj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@timtfj). You can also use the contact form on my blog (link in profile).
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Richard Gipps
Richard Gipps@DrGipps·
"Both spellings, "Nietzschean" and "Nietzschean" are used in some contexts, but the more widely accepted and common spelling is "Nietzschean"." ...why thank you google's experimental AI 😂
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@DrGipps I think you'll be OK if you just pick one of those at random. ;-)
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@Bonn1eGreer I think it's because many people think engineering is magic done by geniuses and also think that he himself does the engineering. In other words, widespread ignorance about anything remotely technical. He owns some companies that employ engineers, so must be a master magician.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@GrammarTable "Have done remotely enough practice to be" 😬 (Really, "am" so I'm at least not saying "I is" or "I are". Plural can't be used because you and I are alternative people who might individually have been ready, not being considered as a pair.)
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Ellen is at the Grammar Table
Ellen is at the Grammar Table@GrammarTable·
Which verb would you be most likely to use in the sentence below? Neither you nor I ____ (am, is, are) ready for this grammar musical.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@MoondogGord @GrammarTable I think the original one specifies which friend, and yours gives supplementary information about Carrie Granton (cf. "the amazing Carrie Granton", "another Carrie Granton").
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GentleStranger@MoondogGord·
@GrammarTable But I don't think you'd need them if you said: "My friend Carrie Granton gave me...." I'm not sure why that is.
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Ellen is at the Grammar Table@GrammarTable·
Should there be commas around the friend's name? A friend Carrie Granton gave me knitting needles at my retirement party.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@Bonn1eGreer I believe (second hand, as someone who doesn't watch it) that some running gag or similar in Southpark helped popularise the vilification. Absolutely pointless (like the use of Karen as an insult. Everyone I've known with that name has been the total opposite of the stereotype.)
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@DrGipps Yes, I think you're right. Maybe "see" was the wrong word—my main thought is that even "visible light" is for the most part invisible and when our eyes do detect it, they simultaneously destroy it. But we don't generally think of light in this way.
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Richard Gipps
Richard Gipps@DrGipps·
@timtfj I think it not right to say that we see the light that enters our eyes. *What* I see is not: the light bouncing off the cat, but rather: the cat. (If you want to explain to somehow how to use the verb 'see', what I just said is the kind of thing one might perhaps say.)
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Richard Gipps
Richard Gipps@DrGipps·
How was the extromissive theory of vision supposed to work? The eyes send out rays that hit vision's objects. But then - what? 'Well, I'm saying it's like touch'. ... 'But it's not 'like touch' is it?'
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
Every time I mute a poisonous "advert", a popup appears asking me to "upgrade". The close button doesn't close it, neither does the "maybe later" (i.e. "NO!!!") one, and refreshing the page navigates away from the current view to the we-know-best algorithmic nonsense one.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@DrGipps (Not that any of this answers your question at all—but find it interesting to think about. Light is invisible until it's destroyed by the eye absorbing it.)
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@DrGipps For example: we see a patch of sunlight over there, not rays of light travelling from it into our eyes. So in that world, something has to reach out and detect the patch of light, I suppose. It's hard to imagine from a modern standpoint.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@madamknipe Havmannen! Av Anthony Gormley (Og faktisk, basert på Gormley selv, hvis jeg ikke husker feil)
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Dagens mann.
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
@ruthlett Oh dear. I still generally reply, with actual words and stuff . . . (Usually my reaction doesn't match one of the preset ones anyway.)
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ruthless@ruthlett·
Is it much more of a thing to just "react" to WhatsApp messages now than actually reply to them?
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Tim J 🐘@timtfj·
I preferred my age when it was still a prime number, and not just about as unprime as possible. Oh well. Prime again next year I suppose, and only two factors the year after, other than 1 and itself.
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