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[Naturegirl1999]

I keep hearing this melody in my head. I feel like I heard it from somewhere but it could just be a melody I thought up. Has anyone heard this before? If so, from where?

Iiight imma just leave this here

This didn’t have the melody, it was a good video, but how does it relate to what you quoted?

[Ulfarr]

I 'm just pulling your leg because you (unknowingly?) set another "NG is an ai" joke 

Spoiler: Major spoiler, don't read if you plan to watch Battlestar Gallactica at some point (click to show/hide)

 In BSG universe Cylons are a race of sentient AIs and the primary antagonists. During the events of BSG they had developed some models that are functionaly humans in order to infiltrate the real human populations either actively or as sleeper agents. Naturally a major plot line is to find out who are these artificial humans.

In the clip that I posted, it is revealed who are the last of those human like models. Each of them had been sporadicaly hearing some tune/melody with increasing intensity untill it reached the point where they had to follow that melody to that room where they met each other. At this point they realise who/what they are.

[Naturegirl1999]

I woke up 4:30 pm, ate breakfast at 5 pm, went to the building for me class, wondered why the door was locked, for a worker to tell me that the building was closed and that it is currently nighttime. The fact that the sky was dark while I was heading to class should have clued me in but nope. I already ate breakfast and will likely stay awake for a while. I use 24 hour time too, to avoid this exact problem. Clearly I was thinking incorrectly

[scriver]

I once did something similar after a nap, but I came to my senses during the "breakfast".

[Yoink]

I woke up 4:30 pm, ate breakfast at 5 pm, went to the building for me class, wondered why the door was locked, for a worker to tell me that the building was closed and that it is currently nighttime. The fact that the sky was dark while I was heading to class should have clued me in but nope. I already ate breakfast and will likely stay awake for a while. I use 24 hour time too, to avoid this exact problem. Clearly I was thinking incorrectly

bruh


...Did you then wake up and realise you were dreaming? Because that's like, the kind of thing I'd have weird dreams about doing from time to time.   

[Naturegirl1999]

Nope, it was real, it is 5 am now, so things are back on track

Unrelated: would breeding drought resistant versions of popular garden plants be a good buisness opportunity? The idea behind it is that people would need less Watertown grow them compared to their non drought resistant counterparts. And the increased drought risk due to climate change wouldn’t affect them as severely

Unrelated: what’s to stop our government from becoming a military dictatorship? They could start a coup d'état and there won’t be much we or the other parts of government can do to stop it. (USA)

[Iduno]

I am currently in a town with an east-west street named Anderson. And so, today, I learned Clive Anderson, not Wes, made the Freddy Kruger movies.

Unrelated: what’s to stop our government from becoming a military dictatorship? They could start a coup d'état and there won’t be much we or the other parts of government can do to stop it. (USA)

Mostly that they learned there are also non-military corporations that they can also act as a puppet for. Coups are more effective when not done in broad daylight.

[Yoink]

If my vision ever gets bad enough that I can only read books with large print, I reckon I'll just gouge out my eyeballs.   

[Naturegirl1999]

If my vision ever gets bad enough that I can only read books with large print, I reckon I'll just gouge out my eyeballs.   

Even if you can only read large print, there are other things you wouldn't be able to see anymore without eyes, without eyes you cannot drive, can never see anything, no colors, no shapes, only darkness. Plus goouging out your eyes sounds like a very painful procedure, and will possible result in lots of blood too, so I reccomend against it. I am happy with the eye I have, even though I need magnification to read textbooks

[itisnotlogical]

If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story, if you don't like it then eat my shorts and die in a hole. Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT

[Naturegirl1999]

If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story, if you don't like it then eat my shorts and die in a hole. Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT

This is correct. In English, a word is a symbol or group of symbols that mean someting, the symbols are called letters and punctuation marks and numbers. Other languge have different names for these things, and still others use one symbol to represent a combination of symbols. When there is something new, or when someone need a way to talk about a thing there is no word for, the person creates a new word to describe the object. Whether or not it catches on depends on whether others in the group find the word useful. Changes to words are also common

[scriver]

If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story,

True. Might not be an English word though

Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT

No, it's also made by everyone who ever spoken something in it. A language is not something that only exist in real time, it's also a story of everything that's every been said between the speakers of it, starting from before history and humanity itself. It's usually said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and much in that manner the language is the windows to the soul of a people. In language is recorded everything they ever expressed, in it they have recorded their culture, the impressions they've gotten of other cultures, life changing events, memories of triumph and scars of disaster.

This is why neither prescriptivist nor descriptivist linguists are right and why sticking wholly to either side is foolish and quite simply narrowminded. Language is a book that is being constantly changing as it is written in in real-time, but that book was started a long time ago and the many, many years of authoring it has given rise to structures and systems that affect and sometimes even govern how people write in it today.

[Iduno]

If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story, if you don't like it then eat my shorts and die in a hole. Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT

I would argue that is has to have a shared meaning to have any value for communication. If something has no consistent meaning, it is gibberish.

[scriver]

Ah but is gibberish not a language of it's own?

[Naturegirl1999]

I found a website where you type and an AI makes images based on what you type. I am unsure where I would put a topic for this