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    From Arkalen@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 19 12:14:46 2023
    Hello all talk.origins denizens!

    A bit of a dumb thing to post but I guess I'm just excited to see the Thunderbird interface again after so long. I spent quite a bit of time
    on this sub^H^H^Hgroup years and years ago and then Usenet got more and
    more annoying to access as I left the builtin newsgroup servers of
    academia so I moved to the greener pastures of the modern web.

    Well those greener pastures are getting decidedly less green these days
    and I wondered just how dead Usenet was now, really, because I still
    feel it's the best forum interface I ever experienced and the best thing
    I could say about Reddit is that it was the closest thing on the web
    that got to it. "LOL imagine if I went to check out talk.origins and
    John Harshman was still posting there", I joked. GUYS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS
    WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.


    So this is mostly a "hello everyone, I am happy to see familiar names
    and know you're still alive" post. Hello everyone ! Happy to see you !


    No guarantees on actually participating long-term, honestly it would
    probably be better for my soul to get off the internet altogether but
    what ya gonna do. These days I'm a bit less into the creation/evolution
    debate and more into abiogenesis (relevant to the newsgroup, yay) and sentience/consciousness. I recently read Michael Tomasello's "The
    Evolution of Agency" which I kind of feel like blew this whole thing
    wide open, has anybody here read it?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Burkhard@21:1/5 to Arkalen on Wed Jul 19 10:39:31 2023
    On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 11:15:45 AM UTC+1, Arkalen wrote:
    Hello all talk.origins denizens!

    A bit of a dumb thing to post but I guess I'm just excited to see the Thunderbird interface again after so long. I spent quite a bit of time
    on this sub^H^H^Hgroup years and years ago and then Usenet got more and
    more annoying to access as I left the builtin newsgroup servers of
    academia so I moved to the greener pastures of the modern web.

    Well those greener pastures are getting decidedly less green these days
    and I wondered just how dead Usenet was now, really, because I still
    feel it's the best forum interface I ever experienced and the best thing
    I could say about Reddit is that it was the closest thing on the web
    that got to it. "LOL imagine if I went to check out talk.origins and
    John Harshman was still posting there", I joked. GUYS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.


    So this is mostly a "hello everyone, I am happy to see familiar names
    and know you're still alive" post. Hello everyone ! Happy to see you !


    No guarantees on actually participating long-term, honestly it would probably be better for my soul to get off the internet altogether but
    what ya gonna do. These days I'm a bit less into the creation/evolution debate and more into abiogenesis (relevant to the newsgroup, yay) and sentience/consciousness. I recently read Michael Tomasello's "The
    Evolution of Agency" which I kind of feel like blew this whole thing
    wide open, has anybody here read it?

    Wow, that's a blast from the past, and a very welcome one indeed! Hope you'll have time to hang around, we surely missed you!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Arkalen@21:1/5 to Burkhard on Sat Jul 22 00:37:27 2023
    On 19/07/2023 19:39, Burkhard wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 11:15:45 AM UTC+1, Arkalen wrote:
    Hello all talk.origins denizens!

    A bit of a dumb thing to post but I guess I'm just excited to see the
    Thunderbird interface again after so long. I spent quite a bit of time
    on this sub^H^H^Hgroup years and years ago and then Usenet got more and
    more annoying to access as I left the builtin newsgroup servers of
    academia so I moved to the greener pastures of the modern web.

    Well those greener pastures are getting decidedly less green these days
    and I wondered just how dead Usenet was now, really, because I still
    feel it's the best forum interface I ever experienced and the best thing
    I could say about Reddit is that it was the closest thing on the web
    that got to it. "LOL imagine if I went to check out talk.origins and
    John Harshman was still posting there", I joked. GUYS YOU'LL NEVER GUESS
    WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.


    So this is mostly a "hello everyone, I am happy to see familiar names
    and know you're still alive" post. Hello everyone ! Happy to see you !


    No guarantees on actually participating long-term, honestly it would
    probably be better for my soul to get off the internet altogether but
    what ya gonna do. These days I'm a bit less into the creation/evolution
    debate and more into abiogenesis (relevant to the newsgroup, yay) and
    sentience/consciousness. I recently read Michael Tomasello's "The
    Evolution of Agency" which I kind of feel like blew this whole thing
    wide open, has anybody here read it?

    Wow, that's a blast from the past, and a very welcome one indeed! Hope you'll have time to hang around, we surely missed you!


    Thank you, that's so kind ! :) I've been enjoying the last couple of
    days at any rate ^^

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)