He was able to present leftist ideas in a way that didn’t scare
liberals. I’m sure lots of us on Lemmy got into leftism through Chomsky. Sucks that he sucked (so fuck him) but it is what it is 😞
Ok, but TIL somehow you type amerikkkan and a based af burning flag emoji renders, at least for me. Is that an instance thing, or is my client doing that??
It’s actually just me copy-pasting a small image hosted by Hexbear. I believe Hexbear does actually have some extra stuff for their users to call emojis, but what I’m doing is just copying the Markdown it generates using the ordinary embedded image syntax.
That’s awesome haha. It does indeed work, at least for me in .world using Boost. And also explains why it didn’t render for me in my initial reply lol.
Well that’s… Interesting to say the least. Opened the comment in a browser and long-clicked the image, and it is indeed as you say. You likely got downvoted cause it seems troll-ish, but this is some type of fuckery. Maybe it’s a .world thing?
Thanks, me too. Even though I never thought he’d be pedophile material, I always thought he was bad vibes. I feel vindicated somewhat. He is a creep, I wasn’t just imagining it.
I knew only his name being venerated in certain parts of “the left,” when I heard him make an argument I considered disingenuous that excused russian meddling in the US election as we have done that in other countries’elections.
Which is just wrongheaded. The ones in the US doing this in other countries are the ones those forces are helping to get into power here, to do more in those other countries.
It in no way excuses the democrats failure to nominate popular candidates that the russians got involved and helped push the republicans over the edge, but it also is incredibly dangerous to have a hostile foreign intelligence agency helping the already dangerous party win, and then fix elections going forward, which is the subtext.
I’ve had no respect for Chomsky since I heard him say that, on Democracy Now I think it was, 2017 or so.
What? “Tankies” have never liked him what parallel universe do you live in? As an anarchist who’s always disliked him I wish his fans were primarily “tankies”.
He had some interesting ideas about language development in the 70s which have mostly been debunked since (by people who actually knew what they were talking about).
I studied linguistics in the 90s, and that was the general attitude about Chomsky then (specifically universal grammar and to some extent X-bar theory—his work on generative syntax and formal grammar from the 50s was still considered foundational).
But I’ve lately discovered the research of the Minimalist program that he was working on for the last few decades, and that seems pretty solid and cutting-edge.
I never got the Chomsky hype. Why do/did people like him?
He was able to present leftist ideas in a way that didn’t scare
liberals. I’m sure lots of us on Lemmy got into leftism through Chomsky. Sucks that he sucked (so fuck him) but it is what it is 😞
Ok, but TIL somehow you type amerikkkan and a based af burning flag emoji renders, at least for me. Is that an instance thing, or is my client doing that??
ETA what I’m seeing:
The original comment:
Replying to the comment:
😱
It’s actually just me copy-pasting a small image hosted by Hexbear. I believe Hexbear does actually have some extra stuff for their users to call emojis, but what I’m doing is just copying the Markdown it generates using the ordinary embedded image syntax.
The syntax is:
Also thank you for verifying that this works 😁. I’ve just been doing it and praying it looks good.
That’s awesome haha. It does indeed work, at least for me in .world using Boost. And also explains why it didn’t render for me in my initial reply lol.
Well that’s… Interesting to say the least. Opened the comment in a browser and long-clicked the image, and it is indeed as you say. You likely got downvoted cause it seems troll-ish, but this is some type of fuckery. Maybe it’s a .world thing?
Edit: It’s hexbear
I think it should work with any instance, it’s just that Hexbear did all the legwork of drawing all the flag burning emojis 😆
Edit: Just to prove it, this one is uploaded to SDF, which as an instance has absolutely no special features.
And the syntax pulls an image from any URL, so you can host the image on any website. Doesn’t even have to be a Lemmy instance.
So you can do this on .world as long as you have a URL to the image or a version stored locally. Which I ultra-encourage everyone to do
IIRC, he helped invent XML.
Thanks, me too. Even though I never thought he’d be pedophile material, I always thought he was bad vibes. I feel vindicated somewhat. He is a creep, I wasn’t just imagining it.
I had an immediate dislike too, despite hearing nothing but praise if anything of him.
I knew only his name being venerated in certain parts of “the left,” when I heard him make an argument I considered disingenuous that excused russian meddling in the US election as we have done that in other countries’elections.
Which is just wrongheaded. The ones in the US doing this in other countries are the ones those forces are helping to get into power here, to do more in those other countries.
It in no way excuses the democrats failure to nominate popular candidates that the russians got involved and helped push the republicans over the edge, but it also is incredibly dangerous to have a hostile foreign intelligence agency helping the already dangerous party win, and then fix elections going forward, which is the subtext.
I’ve had no respect for Chomsky since I heard him say that, on Democracy Now I think it was, 2017 or so.
Whatever, fuck him.
What? “Tankies” have never liked him what parallel universe do you live in? As an anarchist who’s always disliked him I wish his fans were primarily “tankies”.
He had some interesting ideas about language development in the 70s which have mostly been debunked since (by people who actually knew what they were talking about).
Noam Chomspky has always been a blowhard.
I studied linguistics in the 90s, and that was the general attitude about Chomsky then (specifically universal grammar and to some extent X-bar theory—his work on generative syntax and formal grammar from the 50s was still considered foundational).
But I’ve lately discovered the research of the Minimalist program that he was working on for the last few decades, and that seems pretty solid and cutting-edge.