raef

@raef@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The street sort of counts too. Licensing requires them to stop for accidents, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s how the creation of the graphic went: /: Create a binary Ignore vast majority (of people working with subject) Slap together chart, cherrypicking Gloat /

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spanish conveniently missing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to fault anyone for typos. I fight my phone’s autocorrect all the time, but it was odd that just those two letters were transposed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you switch the keycaps for your r’s and t’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m willing to bet prohibitively expensive insurance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew someone–American–who would affect some sort of British-ish accent. It was part of her identity because she had spent some summers in England it something. It was strongest at times, especially when she was first meeting someone for the first time; no one with an accent themselves, so it wasn’t that she was absorbing some influence, more that it was an aspirational trait.

  Just offering this as a possibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get all cooking, history, and movie reviews: Max Miller, Red Letter Media, Behind the Bastards, and four-hour history/archaeology documentaries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my punctuation correct?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, right. I completely overlooked that. Since it was such a low number, I thought it might be a numbered source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my punctuation correct?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Question was answered, but I’m wondering about the citation. What is the number three in parenthesis? MLA is name of source and possibly page number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really didn’t play out like that. They were not saving anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an experiment where the researchers introduced “money” to chimps that they could exchange for fruit treats. Some females almost immediately began trading sex for money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a set top media player that doesn't require an online account?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flirc and any remote you want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any MythTV Users Here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MythTV has movie/TV and music libraries, so it’s not too different than the other two. Also, you can use a tv tuner like TVheadend with jellyfin.

  I used MythTV for years and eventually switched to Kodi to get more modern UIs. I eventually separated the server part with jellyfin to get more flexibility, keeping Kodi on little raspberry pi boxes as clients

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe 911 without even a provider. I’ve obviously never tried it. Maybe without a card even

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Irish-Americans found an affinity for corned beef as they finally had access to meat and especially beef. They initially lived in and near Jewish neighborhoods, so, it became popular to boil up corned beef, cabbage, and root vegetables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of like LPNs. Education is similar as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An RN degree in the US is often a bachelor’s degree. They didn’t really have university degrees for nurses in Germany (there are nursing management degrees). There is obviously a licensing test, but that should be the only barrier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some languages use gendered nouns?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes more specific (sometimes. Verbs carry some widely different meaning and depend on propositions to differentiate), but not always more concise. If you’ve done or compared German-English translations, you see the English is always shorter, both in word and—especially in—character counts. My experience has been usually about 20, up to 30, percent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some languages use gendered nouns?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are just esoteric or poetic uses. It’s perfectly fine to just say “it” in all those cases, but there is still a distinction for people. It’s worth considering the possibilities of that disappearing as well. In any case, we don’t conjugate differently for genders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me a wireless earphones/headset with good audio...that is PINK in color⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I upgraded to a year or two ago. Handles switching input sources no problem; something the Sennheisers couldn’t do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me a wireless earphones/headset with good audio...that is PINK in color⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a bad experience with the Bluetooth on Sennheiser and got so frustrated I broke them into little pieces and threw them away. I’ve since bought two pairs of Bang & Olufsen and have been happy. It seems they have a sort of light pink on at least one of the models

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will people show off their old computers and phones in say, 30 or 50 years in the future?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one specific models I’m nostalgic for are the IBM ps/2 30 & 50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does going to a mental institution do for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s therapists for—well—therapy, doctors for medication, and social workers for problem living situations. However, the time away is just a break; a person has to continue all three of those aspects after they leave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what to tell you. If that’s his experience…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the radio is a bit more efficient

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word meaning health-related?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, then it’s the opposite, but it can’t be neutral like the OP wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word meaning health-related?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “healthy” is inherently a positive word. It’s like trying to turn “happy” negative. You could change the form and put the risk on that noun: “…found to be a risk to ones health/happiness”