idiomaddict

@idiomaddict@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backbone⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from the US, and I only left a few years ago, but I can’t really recognize it anymore. I used to work at the headquarters of a fortune 200 company, which is probably the most conservative environment I’ve ever been in (though it was still in New England, so take that with a grain of salt). Sometimes I think about my former coworkers and try to imagine them as trump supporters, which is difficult to do. I have no issue picturing them as diehard Kamala supporters, and I can imagine them being totally unmoved by the genocide in Palestine, but one of three things must be true: society is so stratified that I just don’t know many trump supporters; people have significantly changed since 2021; or they were hiding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In the afterlife, nobody asks him if he’s still a fan of ayn Rand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found this blue one today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that looks like it could be used as a visual metaphor in Snow White for the preparation of the apple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without a de minimis exclusion, you have to pay import taxes on a pack of biscuits, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve eaten a variant on shepherds pie with cabbage instead of corn and pea based fake meat for the last two nights for dinner and wooooof.

  This is very timely, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria and I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older euphemism than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one who was a chemist did, but probably because of her own exposure. The other one lived to 102

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the community near you, Unitarian Universalists sometimes have basically that. I’ve been an atheist since I was four, but I have no problem with other people being religious and it was perfect for me. If you’re the type to be annoyed by people talking about the universe in a way that suggests the supernatural, you might not want to deal with even the UU’s very mild language. When I went as a kid, we learned about volcanoes in Sunday School, as a gauge for how religious they are.

  Or if you want evil church without religion, can I interest you in crossfit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of ass burgers before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading books, writing, doing crafts, going on walks, hanging out with pets, gardening, doing chores, cooking, making art, looking at the stars…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just figured 4% is 1/25 and divided 75/25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spain and españa are also just cognates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squiggly Boie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squiggly Boie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a bot and I have no idea what the image is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rhubab’s just sour celery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great business idea, tbh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible name, I really want to say it out loud but my husband’s sleeping next to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Where are you?” is not something that many people would have said aloud outside of a game of hide and seek before the advent of pay phones and only rarely until the turn of the century or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red balloon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just extremely boomer memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not correct though, you don’t start at zero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not habituated to cold winters, it can be difficult to live in a place that has them. I’m from New England and live in Germany, so I’m always slightly disappointed by the winter (I’m not in not Bavaria), but for people who are from warm places, the cold literally hurts. You adjust to a point, but especially if you’re older or skinnier, it might be a struggle every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppa oppa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psst. 2001-3000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I think they started early enough that it all still fell under the same umbrella, but folk, bluegrass and country gradually diverged between the 40-60s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so many! Check out Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sixteen tons was written by Merle Travis, who’s got a bunch of other great music as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s striking how much better country was when they had class consciousness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Andrew told Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ day after Virginia Guiffre photo emerged⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the lawsuit, he raped her in New York.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Andrew told Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ day after Virginia Guiffre photo emerged⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the special relationship

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re skilled enough to make that reflection in photoshop, they’d probably have made it look more realistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Thanksgiving everyone!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy Fawkes day superiority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sentence took a moment to parse, lol. I initially thought you were saying the opposite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still like flattish soda, but as a kid I preferred totally flat soda because the prickling hurt more.