FishFace

I didn't think Putin was on Epstein's island? And please don't refer to it as "juicy" ew

Meh, I like high fidelity graphics. Most "artfully stylised" games are not to my taste either - pixel graphics do nothing for me and nor do a lot of flat 2D graphics. Stuff like GRIS is beautiful, but it seems to be an outlier. So for visually engaging stuff I find it's AAA mostly realistic graphics - if not "photorealistic" - for me.

I'm sure from your perspective I am part of the problem - you haven't defined it but I figure given your defence of an obviously false statement you consider anyone not part of the anti-AI crusade to be part of the problem. I hope you have enough clogs.

Well, they do.

I realised it could also be a sex before marriage thing

Is this homophobia or is there some other reason to not like the term partner?

Inability to articulate their rage: the defining limitation of the anti-ai bubble

Any bubble is just as rational as any other. It's irrational in that it's not based on fundamentals, and rational in that it's based on reasonable belief that the value will go up.

Capitalising the "I" in "is" is completely insane

Kant touch this

I have never heard anyone fully elide the first vowel sound in "the morning" -it's a schwa. The exception is Yorkshire accents which do so, and indeed, that shows you there is more to elide in "in the" than "at".

"At m" is easier to say simply because it is fewer syllables - inserting more sounds rarely makes things easier to pronounce, and the fact that we say "at midday", "at most" and "at many times" shows that there is no pressure to change these combinations of sounds.

But the whole thing is based on the faulty, unsupported premise that "in the" and "at" are in free variation. You can't just start saying "in the midday" because it is ungrammatical, so if there were pressure to simplify "at most" we'd simplify its pronunciation (maybe to "ab most") not swap preposition.

This is why I'm not giving more of a detailed argument about ease of pronunciation - because it's not even relevant. That's not how language picks prepositions. Like why do we say "I'm in the car" but "I'm on the bus"? I don't know, but I suspect the answer lies in the history of the (Omni)bus, which used to often be open-topped, whereas the (motor)car was generally enclosed since its invention.

To find the answer in the case of morning and night requires tracing the etymology of the words and understanding the grammar used at the time they arose.