Mouselemming

@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d agreed to share the plate. And they had the grace to blush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Siblings doing something to your food isn’t a sign it’s appropriate, more the opposite. We’re worst behaved towards each other, although we’d defend them against others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But those girls are licking their OWN food off their fingers, not pasta sauce from sticking their hand into a co-worker’s spaghetti! Even within an intimate relationship grabbing the other person’s food isn’t appropriate without consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kakapos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can easily pass for part of a plant, it’s pretty darn effective. Especially if you live where most plants stay green all year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With a prehensile nose. And fangs. And smelly glands.

  And yes, so tiny they would probably roll coal in a lifted truck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only dick pix I want to see are dik-dik pix.

  marybatessciencewriter.com/…/the-creature-feature…

  How can you tell a male dik-dik from a female dik-dik?

  Look for the dik-dik dick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How old-timey were you aiming? Because “it would be most wondrous” sounds more like Bill and Ted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most adults I know who study a foreign language do so in order to speak it, perhaps visit that country. In languages that build words from letters, the phonemes are important to meaning. Obviously “heresy” is very different from “hearsay,” but sow and sow are different words that sound different, while sew and so are also different but sound the same. It’s especially important in order to appreciate literature, poetry, music, and jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When English-speaking kids are taught to read, it’s very much an out-loud process, and covers the various pronunciation of all the letters sounds. “Sound it out” is the first step in decoding written words. Then of course there’s using context clues to figure out what word you’ve heard before could be spelled using those letters’ possible sounds. And it’s not until later, once all the common rules and exceptions of pronunciation are automatic, that you start “reading to learn” and attempt words you’ve never heard before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, you’re not wrong about the inconsistency of English, it’s because we stole words, phrases, entire dialects from so many sources. And sometimes we kept the original pronunciation, other times we rudely imposed our phonetic expectations of the time and place when we stole them. Also the “correct” pronunciation for many words is different in different English-speaking countries.

  On the plus side for you, that means most people are pretty lenient about what we consider “fluent,” and make allowances for accent. Unless they’re a racist asshole in the first place. When you mispronounce a word because you’re following phonetic rules but that word breaks them, most of us can recognize that version because we did the same thing when learning to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨boredom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do we think this kid really got into?

  If he’s really scalded I don’t wanna be laughing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's really not okay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good points. It’s too bad someone ruined a pretty funny joke with AI slop.

  …Or is it perhaps telling us the robots are stealing our boyfriends?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Date set for millions of phones across UK to receive emergency alert test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t disable the alerts just because they’re irritating. They have saved so many lives, even though they fuck up sometimes.

  Just, instead of panicking, do a quick internet check if you don’t have other evidence of the danger. You might find that you’re not in the danger zone yet but might be soon if the wind changes or whatever.

  You can also consider them a message from the Universe to check up on your emergency stuff: How much drinking water and food do you have and is it expired? Do you have a bug-out bag and do the pants in it still fit? What would you use to carry all your regular meds? (Don’t store just a few pills, scoop up all the bottles of what you’re normally using, because it might be awhile before you get refills) Do you have a litterbox and food for your cat, as well as a carrier? What about any important documents, know where they are? And where would you go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you’ve cooled it and applied polysporin, you should put a bandage to keep from smearing off all the polysporin onto your clothes and keep it clean. If you don’t have a bandage that clean long sleeve will do, but it might get a greasy mark you’ll need to treat later for laundry: try rubbing in a dab of Dawn before laundering it.

  Bear in mind, it may randomly start hurting and feeling burny again later, because the nerve endings hate burns. Cold water will help again. Fridge temp is fine, helps numb it without causing ice damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame.

  Those in power, and Trump especially, have none. They don’t even understand the concept. And it’s been embraced by his hyenas.

  Used to be, when the general population became aware of atrocities, and that they were committed against innocent people, they refused to continue to support those who had done wrong. Now Trump waves it in their face like a banner and they follow him

  Used to be,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three musketeers never use muskets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they privatized the loot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three musketeers never use muskets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oui, d’accord, but he’s not officially a Musketeer until he’s proved himself with gallantry, daring, and disregard for the evil Richelieu and his minions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing wrong with “suddenly.” It’s just that sometimes you want to say “all of a sudden.” The extra time helps build the suspense. “Suddenly” is more sudden in that it just jumps in there. With “all of a sudden,” the subject isn’t ready but the listeners are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “of the sudden” (1570) actually predates “of a sudden” (Shakespeare) according to my OED as squinted at through the nifty magnifying glass. But it’s been considered obsolete for a long time despite having all of a sudden experienced a resurgence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a pubes girl myself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use your broccoli peeler going down the shaft from the pubes and don’t forget to slice off the tip!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Upvoted and agreed, not least because I just learned that “all of the sudden,” while at present a nonstandard variant of “all of a sudden,” has valid history.

  And of course it doesn’t matter in this casual context!

  But in formal writing, in this era, using “a” will avoid distracting the reader from your main point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aha. But that sounds correctable… So not having any people assigned to checking on railroads and making sure the system recognizes them as railroads would be due to miserliness on the part of Tesla then… And might also say something about why some Teslas have been known to drive into bodies of water (or children, but that’s probably a different instance of miserliness)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need to make it anymore obvious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or KKKlanists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Tesla self-drive does a lot of stupid things you never would, too. That’s why they want you at the wheel, paying attention and ready to correct it in an instant! (Which defeats the whole benefit of self-drive mode imho, but whatever)

  The fact that they can avoid all responsibilities and blame you for their errors is of course the other reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the story has 3 separate incidents where “the driver let their Tesla turn left onto some railroad tracks” I’m going to posit:

  Teslas on self-drive mode will turn left onto railroad tracks unless forcibly restrained.

  Prove me wrong, Tesla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the moth memes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does seem like it’s a meme waiting to happen, what with orbs glowing like lamps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you for your attention to this matter.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was thinking it was just a bullshit crappy landlord phrase, but you’re right, it signals his whole intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so this is how you catch the gay virus!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to be a nitpicker but…