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Reflex test 61

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    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Sure, Alf, it’s racism that I don’t want to lose my livelihood because I’m not fluent in one of Scotland’s…Jan 25, 19:29
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Here’s a question, x. Is it true that with widely available apps, it’s possible to make all protagonists involved in…Jan 25, 18:45
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Here, aw this tak o the braw Scots leid haes pit mi in mind tae write doun anither o ma…Jan 25, 18:45
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Bang! Whoops! My bad for startling you. I honestly didn’t think you’d have a wee accident like that. Have some…Jan 25, 18:39
    • agentx on Yelling at the tide: ““Hello love welcome home – how was your day today?” “Just normal darling. My 3 colleagues were holding a guy…Jan 25, 18:38
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “All to do with colonialism, sam. You’re long overdue to spend a few hours of quality time with Fanny and…Jan 25, 18:36
    • Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “C’moan, noo, it’s a foregone conclusion. Scotland will win bigly and return home, dripping with gold.Jan 25, 18:32
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “The answer to your first two questions is: “MONEY!” (The mercenary pricks). There was obviously a bigger market for stuff…Jan 25, 18:32
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “Anent this post Northcode. Some questions. Why did the poets (Roberts) Fergusson and Burns begin to write in both English…Jan 25, 18:10
    • agentx on Yelling at the tide: “Happy Burns Night.Jan 25, 17:58
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: ““However, i do agree the ethnolinguistic archeology stage is over… ” Thank fuck… I was a bit concerned that you…Jan 25, 17:26
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “….their true language….what a can of worms you open there, more than a can of worms a veritable chasm. However,…Jan 25, 17:02
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “The Scots language is not, by any reckoning, a dead language – nearly half of Scots living in Scotland still…Jan 25, 16:28
    • Marie on Yelling at the tide: “James @1.10pm. Indeed James. McHatee has “form” when it comes to celebrating extra judicial killings.Jan 25, 16:25
    • agentx on Yelling at the tide: “Not for me I have done it many times. (Maybe add a few spaces after your paste)Jan 25, 16:02
    • Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: ““the few who think like you?” As we know, “colonialism is based on psychology” (Memmi). At least half of Scots…Jan 25, 15:44
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “AI is neutral, it is sophisticated technology, but like the simple pencil it may be used to produce the sublime…Jan 25, 14:30
    • Sven on Yelling at the tide: “Sorry “James”, please bear with an old duffer, I’m still not clear on if you feel being curious enough to…Jan 25, 14:25
    • Aidan on Yelling at the tide: “@Alf – do you not feel that you are perpetuating the subjugation of Scotland by continuing to converse in the…Jan 25, 14:23
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “mair regairdand dhe quaestioun o langage restorans. https://lingodigest.com/when-a-language-wont-awaken-the-hard-truths-of-linguistic-revitalization/#google_vignette given the right tools, imagination, invention, the appropriate «can do»mindset and now…Jan 25, 14:17
    • agentx on Yelling at the tide: “Sven says: 25 January, 2026 at 11:27 am Can’t really say it’s much of a surprise that in the US…Jan 25, 14:17
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “TURABDIN, AI as a assist tool in language is interesting, rather than attaining a higher intellectual grade than humans themselves…Jan 25, 14:02
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “Sven, That very question you asked of the messenger rather than of the message is exactly how modern psyops works,…Jan 25, 13:34
    • Insider on Yelling at the tide: ““Get a grip, Alf. Why don’t you demand that the citizens of Venezuela, say, stop speaking Spanish? Brazil now. Shouldn’t…Jan 25, 13:15
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “And none of what you write in the first two lines happened.Jan 25, 13:13
    • James on Yelling at the tide: ““Prick”.Jan 25, 13:10
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: ““Who in Scotland really gives a shit about speaking Scots, apart from the few who think like you?” Oor name…Jan 25, 12:27
    • Sven on Yelling at the tide: ““The mind that is curious enough to apply questions to serious events is seldom a useful tool.” I’m maybe misunderstanding…Jan 25, 12:26
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “Cherish the gifts of the past, but do not overlay those gifts with personal additions. Give the gifts room to…Jan 25, 11:58
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “As an enthusiast for the potential of so called Artificial Intelligence i link to the following article on an aspect…Jan 25, 11:39
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