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That made me curious about the etymology:

thwart (adv.)

late 14c., thwert, "from side to side, across, transversely; crosswise, across the grain," earlier in the same sense thwertover (c. 1200), overthwert (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source, probably Old Norse þvert "across," originally neuter of thverr (adj.) "transverse, across," from Proto-Germanic *thwerh- "twisted, oblique," which according to Watkins is from PIE root *terkw- "to twist."

It is thus cognate with Old English þweorh "transverse, perverse, angry, cross," and the Proto-Germanic word also is the source of Middle Dutch dwers, Dutch dwars "cross-grained, contrary," Old High German twerh, German quer, Gothic þwairhs "angry."

The spelling shifted to -a- from 15c. From mid-13c. as an adjective, "contrary, stubborn, obstinate;" earlier overthwert, thwertover "blatant, outright" (c. 1200). As a preposition from early 15c., "across, athwart, from one side to the other."

Bad color-to-alpha conversion, most likely. Here's the upper left corner close up, with GIMP's transparency checkerboard background:

It's the sort of thing that can happen if you use the fuzzy select tool without being careful.

I assume this is a joke, but it's also over my head if so. Or is that a serious view, that's there's only 7?

It's always been a bit fuzzy, but in-universe, I think he's reacting to Garfield's body language. I could plausibly interpret that as "Me!"

I don't really find that argument useful. It reads to me the same as saying "You can't make machines fly". Airplanes and bees both fly, though the mechanisms are completely different.

Even taking the strongest anti-AI position, I think it's great that LLMs are a real-world example of the Chinese Room thought experiment. Sure, they don't think like humans, but why exactly? How can we define a better term to delineate the difference?

Thanks, that is a fun fact! Somewhat related, I recently learned that -mal from German as in einmal stuck around in English as -meal, but only in really one word, piecemeal. Wiktionary lists a few other words with it, but I've never heard of them.

Do you know of an arrangement that has it like that? I don't see any that have that measure, at least with a quick search online

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The deer, I think, is any one of us caught in the situation where some maniac, having entered our home, is trying to hunt us down and kill us. (Pleasant thought―I wonder if Ernie Bushmiller ever worked with this theme in Nancy.) I started with the "horrible movie" idea but decided it didn't make much sense compared to the deer simply trying to collect himself.

Transcript (sketch):

He's trying to kill me, all right!… It's like some horrible movie!

Do I know this guy?. I've got to think! Think.

Comic is too big to really fit as a picture here, you'll have to go here to see the whole thing:

https://www.exocomics.com/picnic/