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New comment by selimthegrim in "North American English Dialects"

selimthegrim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:36:39 +0000

I lived across from where the old Patton’s plant used to be until a couple years ago and then I moved to Mid-City.

New comment by selimthegrim in "North American English Dialects"

selimthegrim — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:38:55 +0000

Also a lot of Chalmatians still possess a strongly related 'yat accent. Is there a "River Ridge, brah" joke too?

New comment by selimthegrim in "CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous"

selimthegrim — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:46:22 +0000

It wasn't important enough to make the 11 o'clock program.

New comment by selimthegrim in "God Sleeps in the Minerals"

selimthegrim — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:45:28 +0000

This makes me want to find an actual rice museum that isn't the IRRI.

New comment by selimthegrim in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

selimthegrim — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:56:29 +0000

Nursing homes are too American by his lights.

New comment by selimthegrim in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

selimthegrim — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:06:15 +0000

Pakistan spent quite a bit on education in East Pakistan up until 1971. and I've even pointed you to the article in Prothom Alo where Bangladeshi experts admitted that but you do you. It's not like Ibn Khaldun didn't hit on similar points with asabiyya but saying we have A/B testing here is wild.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:39 +0000

Also I chuckled at the AI-generated "The Overseer is Alnays Right | Vacation Approved" poster in the background of the split image where the mayor is reading so you can supervise. This has strong Boondocks Catcher Freeman vibes. I want to hear the polecats/badgers' version.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:26:59 +0000

This sounds like PaulHoule wrote it.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:26:09 +0000

Oh man, we can't even say yourself anymore.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:25:01 +0000

Nope

New comment by selimthegrim in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:25:44 +0000

It was also the case at MIT that students on an NSF fellowship cost the PI more to hire.

New comment by selimthegrim in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:53 +0000

Why don't you ask noted anti-socialism state Pakistan (pre and post-1971) how that's going?

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:50:41 +0000

In the 1970s the East was a lot of couples working in the booming oil industry so a lot of the housing stock dates from then. When the oil bust happened they decamped to the Northshore or Houston.

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:02:03 +0000

Come live here for a month or two and see if you're so sanguine in your judgments next time.

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:11:01 +0000

Often car washes or clothing stores are fronts for you know what.

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:29:24 +0000

Just a garden variety racist pretending they live in the state

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:26:55 +0000

Nor should it. You have to be realistic here - if we send everybody who ever did murder two up to Angola for life you would need like two more Angolas. Let’s not even get to kidnapping.

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:25:20 +0000

Exactly how many investors do you think are investing in New Orleans East? I drive around and I see signs on telephone poles for people promoting renting cars so you can rent it to other people for income like Uber or something.

New comment by selimthegrim in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

selimthegrim — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:02:41 +0000

Wrong part of Louisiana

New comment by selimthegrim in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

selimthegrim — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:59:36 +0000

Tell that to WVU.