The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
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Please refer to the context when interpreting what others say dammit. Your questions stink “ackshyually lol lmao” from a distance.
The OP is talking about sneakers unnecessarily requiring an “app”; in this context, Farts’ “anything” should be interpreted as “physical goods” (like sneakers), not “internet services that may be accessed through a browser or specialised software” (like Lemmy).
This reminds me an experiment made with capuchin monkeys, where the researchers were using small discs as some sort of currency. They could use it to buy stuff like pieces of cucumber (they eat it, but it’s meh), jell-o (they like it), grapes (they love it)…
One of the things that they reported is that a female exchanged sex for a disc. Then used said disc to buy a grape.
Conclusion: sex for goods is likely a human behaviour that predates humankind itself.
First you have an association of anything bad with excrements. This is cross-linguistically fairly common, and really old*.
From that “shit = bad” meaning, you got semantic amelioration generating the “the shit = the best”. English slang does this fairly often; refer to “sick”, “dope”, “wicked” doing the same. I’m not sure but I think that the underlying process is:
That also explains why “it ain’t shit” is generally negative - it conveys “it isn’t noteworthy”.
*It’s so old that one of Martial’s Epigrams (liber III, epigram 17), in 1st century Latin, already shows this:
Circumlata diu mensis scribilita secundis urebat nimio saeva calore manus; sed magis ardebat Sabidi gula: protinus ergo sufflavit buccis terque quaterque suis. illa quidem tepuit digitosque admittere visa est, sed nemo potuit tangere: merda fuit.
A tart [scribilita], passed and passed around at dessert, cruelly burnt our hands with its excessive heat. But Sabidius’ greed was more fiery still; so forthwith he blew on it with his cheeks three or four times. The tart cooled to be sure, and seemed ready to admit our fingers, but nobody could touch it. It was filth.
I’m copypasting the translation out of laziness, but… it is not accurate. “Merda” is not just filth, it’s literally “shit” - and it’s metaphoric as you’d use in English “that cheesecake was shit”, same shit here.
São Paulo city is a messy case. It started out roughly circular, then that circle was distorted into a grid plan, then that grid plan was tied to a bunch of mismatching grids. Picture related:
As such it’s hard to reach any conclusion taking its general layout into account.
Good for you. It’s important for your self esteem to feel strong and powerful.
In the context, this implies “Ada is solely doing it for the sake of her own self esteem”. I don’t think so; a simpler and better explanation is that she’s building a safe space for trans people, and the sort of people who’d spout transphobic shite elsewhere would make that environment unsafe.
So the situation might look on the surface similar to the one in Reddit, but deep down it’s nothing alike:
Apples and oranges.
I’m not sure if I buy the claim that it was due to Gothic influence. At the end of the day, seasoning typically falls into disuse because of either supply issues (see: cumin, garum) or because it’s superseded by another seasoning (see: long pepper, superseded by hot peppers). Frankly I’d expect either to be the case with fresh coriander, and then the decrease on the consumption of the fresh stuff leading to lower availability of the seeds.
That’s against the mod guidelines, as you can’t ban people based on what they do/don’t in other subreddits, even when it would be sensible to do so. Sadly, the mod guidelines are toilet paper.
Something similar could theoretically happen in the Fediverse, but usually this is handled through defederation instead.
Fixed it - thanks! “Dodói” (I also forgot the diacritic) is boo-boo, indeed - a childish way to call small injuries.
Amon isn’t a common pet name here. The one naming him was my mum, who loves Old Egyptian culture; to give you an idea, my childhood cat was Cleópatra, and even one of my current cats (Kika) was supposed to be called Ísis. (The one naming Kika was my nephew - by then he already understood how this “naming” thing works.)
I am not sure but for me it looks like a giant house spider, Eratigena atrica. The abdominal pattern is really similar, compare yours (up) with the one from Wikipedia:
It’s like a mini-Gandalf telling all those Balrog-shaped hot molecules “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”.
Research on language acquisition is often genuinely cute.
I have some related anecdote on this. When my nephew was learning to talk (back then he was, like, 1~2yo? He’s now 16), I recorded and transcribed some things that he said. Here’s a few of them:
| Orthographic | Adult pronunciation | His pronunciation | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|
| chocolate | [ʃo.ko.'lä.te] | [ku.'wä.te] | chocolate |
| vovó | [vo.'vɔ] | [bu.'bɔ] | grandma |
| Amon | [ä’mõ] | [mu’mõ] | my cat’s name |
| dodói | [do.'dɔɪ̯] | [du.'dɔɪ̯] | boo-boo, hurtsie |
| mexerica | [mi.ʃi.'ɾi.kɐ] | [mi.'ji.kä] | mandarin orange |
Look at the pattern - pre-stressed vowels get raised. The reason why my nephew was doing this in Portuguese is basically the same as why Orla (from the text) is using [χ] (the “guttural ck”) in her English, because even as the child is learning to talk, they’re already picking up features from the local variety. And that pattern where the vowels get closed before the stress is common place for Sulista Portuguese speakers (check how “mexerica” is pronounced, with [i] instead of [e]), just like Scouse English conditionally renders coda /k/ as [ç x χ].
Yup, I’m using it as a unit of length there. It’s clear enough in context even if the result is a bit silly.
Typically posting a correction is enough. You can also warn the user, something like this:
[Speaking as a mod] When joking or memeing, please say so in the post/comment of the joke/meme. I get that it spoils the fun, but it’s better than getting someone hurt - brown recluses are spiders of medical significance after all.
Most users are surprisingly reasonable if the mod is reasonable with them.
Two* empty cardboard boxes. One is roughly the width and length of my desktop tower; another is ~1/3 of the size of the first.
My desk used to have two drawers, right below the surface top. I was always hitting those bloody drawers with my thigh. Eventually I had enough, unscrewed them, and threw them away.
…ok, but what about the stuff that I stored there? Inside the big box, that is now over my desktop tower. The smaller one and its lid became divisions for the bigger one. It’s organised, within the reach of my hands, and far from my thigh.
*actually three. One of my cats saw it on my chair, as I was organising the stuff here, and went into “if it sits, I fits, I call dibs” mode. It’s in my living room now.
I don’t think that the title is a mistake either; I was focusing solely on what the title says, on a language level, versus what the other user (Kairos) believes to be more accurate.
With that out of the way: yup, copyright was always like this. The basic premise of copyright is to not allow you to share things under certain conditions, and yet this sharing is essential for culture.
I guess that those aren’t seen often because they require the phonology and grammar to be already close to finished - or at least enough to know which constructions are used so often that get contracted.
That said I full agree with you, they’re awesome when done right. They’re when the conlang stops being a bunch of sketches in a book to become something living, at least in the mouths (or gestures) of imaginary speakers.
Since the phonology of my main conlang (Tarune) is finished, but the grammar is still heavily WIP, my only progress in this regard was creating a formal register vs. local pronunciations. Not quite what you’re asking about, but close enough, so I’ll share two examples here:
Hiatuses between words
In the formal register you’re supposed to dissolve them with [h]. However, people in Central/Northern cities don’t do this bother in quick speech. Example:
And it’s hard to represent in IPA, but Central speakers have a tendency to shorten the long vowels. They’re still distinct from the short vowels, but in quick speech you’re telling who’s who by the quality, not by the quantity.
Rendering of voiced consonants
In the formal register, when a voiced consonant or consonant cluster is near a nasal vowel, you’re “supposed” to nasalise it midway: a single consonant gets pre-/post-nasalised, and in a cluster only one consonant gets nasalised. In practice… well, only people in the coast do this in a natural way. The others either don’t nasalise the consonant at all, or do it fully, like this:
So it’s a lot like the Central/Northern speakers shifted the nasalisation to the right, while Southern speakers either spread it further or shift it left.
EDIT: ah, Southern backchannel ['u:˥˩ʔu]; typically spelled ⟨ōho⟩. This… interjection? has a weird story - it was initially used by cattle herders to direct their cattle. Eventually the usage spread towards humans too, to convey “are you following?”; and then as backchannel, to convey “I’m following it, go on”.
In English, the simple present often implies a general truth, regardless of time. While the present continuous strongly implies that the statement is true for the present, and weakly implies that it was false in the past.
From your profile you apparently speak Danish, right? Note that, in Danish, this distinction is mostly handled through adverbs, so I’m not surprised that you can’t tell the difference. Easier shown with an example:
| Danish | English |
|---|---|
| Jeg læser ofte. | I read often. (generally true statement) |
| Jeg læser lige nu. | I’m reading right now. (true in the present) |
Note how English is suddenly using a different verb form for the second one.
| Counting centuries | N00s |
|---|---|
| Caesar died in the 1st century BCE. | Caesar died in the 000s BCE. |
| Octavius died in the 1st century CE. | Octavius died in the 000s CE. |
Counting centuries as it has been traditionally done makes sense, because -1 and +1 are different numbers. Using “N00s” doesn’t because -0 and +0 are the same number.
And it’s easy to remember because the Nth century always ends (if positive) or starts (if negative) in the year N*100.
Moral of the story: don’t tell people to fix what is not broken.
They* technically can bite you, but the bite doesn’t hurt, so it’s likely only effective against other really small critters. They can also release some sort of glue, kind of annoying if they do it while tangling in your hair, but harmless.
I wonder if their visual similarity to wasps isn’t some form of defence on its own, as mimicry. They also seem to build nests in places where they won’t get into trouble with mammals, like inside the hollows of tall trees. And that opening “tube” is closed off at night.
*from some websearch I could find one slightly more dangerous species, called “tataíra” or “abelha de fogo” (lit. fire bee). Even then it’s just spitting formic acid, like ants would; and mostly used not against larger critters, but while pillaging beehives of other species.
Yeah, nah. This only throws more complexity under the rug.
Among other stuff, whatever is booting your computer needs to 1) find the kernels that you have, 2) find any other OS that you might have, and 3) allow the user to pick one of those. You can either use a specific tool for that (bootloader) or dump those roles into the kernel, but you can’t get rid of them without breaking a lot of stuff.
Regardless of the above, the owner of a device should be able to turn secure boot off; devices not allowing so are broken by design, to prevent your full ownership over it.
Part of the complexity is intrinsic, as explained. And if you’re concerned about the additional complexity from the implementation, the solution is a different bootloader, not ditching the concept altogether.
I stopped watching the video at 8:22, as she was talking about bugs.
The simpler solution is to simply pour more development into GRUB2, not to throw the problem into the kernel devs’ hands, as if it was some sort of hot potato.