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In my opinion the better option is to ditch the concept of dogwhistle. We [people in general] should look at what a symbol (including words, gestures, etc.) conveys within a certain context, we shouldn't be picking individual symbols and assuming the discourse (what is being said) based on them.

For example, the 88 in the title of the game should be associated with the rest of the game. Because depending on the rest of the game it might convey only "1988", or it might convey "heil Hitler".

Little by little, the night turns around... counting the leaves, which tremble at dawn... oh wait it'll only reach the surface, my bad.

Serious now. About the corona (sun "atmosphere") being hotter than the photosphere (sun "surface"), the mission itself might give clues on why, but I think that it's the wrong question:

It's less about the corona being hot and more about the photosphere being comparatively colder. My guess is that something in the photosphere composition reflects energy, either back to the nucleus or into the corona, and that a lot of the 1.3% of the Sun that are not hydrogen or helium are there.

He's almost Karate Kid!

My favourite insult in English - "you muppet".

...I'm going to agree with @db2 here - sailing the seven seas will be likely the way to expose the new generations to this old content. I remember Muppet Babies from my childhood (albeit poorly, I was too young), and it's fun for young kids. If nobody is streaming it nobody is losing value if you copy it, right?

It sounds more like a piece of protest than an actual license. Any arsehole could interpret the situation as "since this is software and not a human being, it isn't ackshuyally learning anything. So our usage of your content doesn't violate your license lol lmao".

I think that people are correctly angry at big tech calling dibs on whatever it wants, but misblaming it on AI. There are worse cases out there; have you heard about targeted advertisement, for example?

Chomsky's concept of UG (universal grammar) is able to handle this. Since there would be a chunk of language that is innate (universal), that feral child would share it. So, as a conclusion from that, even if the feral child isn't expressing it through vocalisation, since they lack an "application" of the UG (like Nahuatl, Mandarin, Quechua, English, Kikongo etc.), they'd still have some rather simple internal monologue.

...that said I think that Chomsky's UG is full of shit. I do agree with him that the faculty of language might have developed first to structure thought; but my reasoning resembles a bit more yours, the role of language would be to formalise thought. Thinking without language is possible in the same way as moving across a village without roads - it's doable but clunky, and you'll likely take far more effort than with proper roads/ a language.

Not to challenge Chomsky on his own turf

Don't worry. Everyone and their dog challenges him. Including himself, he's often contradicting his own earlier statements.

I've read about this topic through this article, but the link in the OP is considerably saner; instead of screeching at the legislation and creating FUD against it, it's actively analysing it to show its impact on open source development.

Got it - mostly politics, then. That explains a lot why you guys are seeing far more toxicity than I do, I don't generally join political discussions. (And when I do, since I'm myself communist, perhaps I don't even notice it.)

Not even a body pillow, Anon is a master tulpamancer and made a tulpa of some MLP character.

That hints me that what people here is calling "toxic" is politics-related, since I'm a lemmy.ml user and I certainly would not say that my experience here is overall "toxic".

And, funnily enough, most of the issues that I had were with users from either lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works; sometimes lemm.ee.

It depends a lot on what you consider "toxic".

If it's just about intrusive off-topic political discussion, then I fully agree with you: it's far more common in Lemmy than in Reddit, and sometimes it reaches a point that even people who'd otherwise enjoy discussing politics roll their eyes and say "not this shit again".

However, if "toxic" includes other forms of undesirable behaviour, then Lemmy is considerably less toxic than Reddit. For example: sometimes you see here that sort of disingenuous and deliberate stupidity, where a user distorts the OP or a comment to back up their [often idiotic] conclusion. In Reddit though? It is not "sometimes", it's all the bloody time. Same deal with "waaah TL;DR!!!", the "I don't understand" conveying disagreement, passive aggressiveness (considerably worse than open rudeness), so goes on.

Chomsky would say that the original purpose of language is to structure thought, with communication being solely secondary. (Or something like this, I don't recall it word-by-word.)

If that's correct, then internal monologues are simply a result of your brain processing your thoughts.