“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
Will we ever climb the tower to the Outer Space Heavens if all we do is favor misunderstanding, attack what we consider weakness, belittle comprehension of complexity, and disregard all the history of conflicts over metaphors / art / language / speech / writing / symbolism…
“Us and Them” (Pink Floyd song cover) performed by Lucia Lilikoi, lyrics: Up and down… and in the end It’s only round and round, and round. “Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words?” The poster bearer cried
What is going on here exactly?
What is going on here exactly?
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Did you read the two existing comments already here on the posting before writing your comment asking what is gong on?
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Did you read the sidebar / description of the Lemmy community?
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Did you click the off-Lemmy links and comprehend their content?
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Can you elaborate what “gong on” means?
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“exactly”, how do I approach a question like that? Did you read any of the other postings on this Lemmy community before commenting? There is a “sticky posting” (featured community posting in Lemmy terminology) that is titled "DON’T PANIC, It’s only Finnegans Wake climbing of Babel Tower. Page 3 of Irish author James Joyce’s storybook, the opening page of Waking all the Finnegans, “Ordinary Men”, did you review it before commenting?
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Yes, which was the source of my confusion as they were without context.
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No, as I don’t know how to access that in Jerboa, and when I visited the community info prior to commenting there was no description that helped.
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Wasn’t about to click links without at least some context first
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I’ll assume that’s a typo. The random quotes posted with a seemingly unrelated web comic made me curious, so I commented hoping someone could fill me in. So this community is to post excerpts from a book?
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Not visible when I clicked on the community. I’ve seen them work in other communities, but maybe there’s an incompatibility with Jerboa there? This post popped up in my feed, couldn’t find context when glancing at other posts in the community or in community info, so commented to hopefully get some context as it seemed interesting.
The random quotes posted with a seemingly unrelated
see, they aren’t unrelated. The posting title says “superficial understanding and shallow comprehension”
So this community is to post excerpts from a book?
No, this web comic is not from a book, it is from Reddit and a link to the original post on Reddit is provided.
.3. Wasn’t about to click links without at least some context first
But they have context. There is a Wikipedia link and a song link, both had context:
“Us and Them” (Pink Floyd song cover) performed by Lucia Lilikoi, lyrics: Up and down… and in the end It’s only round and round, and round. “Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words?” The poster bearer cried
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM’s Harvard Mark I computer.So this community is to be deliberately obtuse apparently. Still can’t tell if it’s all a LLM or not. Oh well
Still can’t tell if it’s all a LLM or not.
That is a major intelligence failure in April 2025. Lemmy community to educate you: !FakeDetectors@lemm.ee “Fake detectors of Large Language Models”
this community is to be deliberately obtuse apparently.
No, not at all. This Lemmy community is about the “Tower of Babel” shallow understandings and superficial reactions to language, but you seem incredibly ignorant and in need of remedial education and learning,
It is very direct and clear what the topic of this Lemmy community is about:
“Us and Them” (Pink Floyd song cover) performed by Lucia Lilikoi, lyrics: Up and down… and in the end It’s only round and round, and round. “Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words?” The poster bearer cried
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM’s Harvard Mark I computer.Deep into Poe’s Law at this point.
https://www.google.com/search?q="Deep+into+Poe’s+Law+at+this+point."
“Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.”
Yet, you can’t grasp the thousands of years old Tower of Babel, Babel Tower, metaphors. !BabelTower@lemm.ee
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