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- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 days ago:
Better or worse than a cup of Jill though?
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 days ago:
Well how else would you use synonyms for a noun?
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 days ago:
I fucking love the etymology of animal and food words. My favorite is deer, which is related to the German Tier, and originally meant “animal,” because I imagine early Germanic speakers looking at a deer and thinking “this is it, the quintessential animal.” I get it, honestly.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 days ago:
Like having sex in a canoe
- Comment on Is it a prison break if the prisoners have been unjustly detained? Who decides when it is a hostage rescuse situation? 3 days ago:
I suspect the idea of other countries/British citizens/colonists eventually responding violently to the British treatment of India played a role in britains calculus as well.
- Comment on If unused Chip Dip gets thrown out or composted then it was never actually chip dip. 3 days ago:
It comes from hamburger steaks. Adding -er to the end of a city name in German and English (now to a lesser extent) forms an adjective meaning from that city or a noun meaning someone or something from that city. Another example is frankfurter, which comes from frankfurter Wurst.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 3 days ago:
That’s not even a stretch. Her full (married) name could easily be Dana Velma Scully, but she doesn’t go by her very distinctive middle name anymore. If I’d had a super funky middle name, I definitely would have used it in high school and definitely wouldn’t as an adult. And I’m not half as (lovably) joyless as Scully is.
- Comment on Suggestion 1 week ago:
Tbh, this meme should go on that index, because 460 likes on instagram is nothing compared to ~120 (so far) upvotes on Lemmy.
- Comment on Always nice to have a guest room 1 week ago:
I was typing out a question about what this is referencing, and then it occurred to me. Cowabunga, dude!
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
But it’s not completely covered in fur. A partially hairy sphere doesn’t need a cowlick.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
Unless the mole just doesn’t have hair on its face or ass or somewhere, then it’s possible to comb all hairs flat.
That is the case, it has bald patches around its mouth and, uh, hands. I don’t want to look up pictures of mole ass, but I can’t imagine the anus itself is hairy, that would be a biohazard trap in the environment moles live in.
- Comment on Oink 1 week ago:
More importantly, how do we know that he knows it’s a kink?
- Comment on Make it stop 1 week ago:
What a great term!
- Comment on climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1. 1 week ago:
Though to be fair, they’re not exactly known for their creativity. Perhaps they haven’t ever had an idea they didn’t read about first.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
That’s up to you, I much prefer Mrs. Ms. feels somehow condescending to me.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
Correct. I didn’t say there was an r sound, but that it was going off of the spelling. I agree there’s no r sound.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
That came later though, as in “I had dinner with the Mrs last night.”
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
Mrs. originally comes from mistress, which is why it retains the r.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
I don’t, but it’s abbreviated with one.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
I know there’s no logic, but it’s funny to imagine it’s because it’s pronounced Mrs. Sippy
- Comment on Los Angeles Pigs' Department thugs straight up mugged a protester in broad daylight 2 weeks ago:
They’re just thirsty and lazy and unafraid of the people outnumbering the hell out of them.
- Comment on ICE thugs pounced on a man right there in the courthouse, mere minutes after his immigration case was dismissed 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but if I’m going to be kidnapped and sent to a black box prison to die, I don’t know if I would care much about that.
Bystanders who are obviously white and documentably citizens are in the best position to try to unarrest people, if they can. It’s not illegal to prevent a kidnapping if you can, and a group of people who don’t show a warrant or identify themselves taking someone off the street against their will is a kidnapping.
I’m aware that it requires bravery and has very serious potential consequences, but I cannot emphasize enough that just because a person is not currently the target of this type of violence, does not mean that they can stay uninvolved. I understand not wanting to do it, but it’s like not wanting to go to the doctor about a sketchy mole because you’re afraid of hospitals.
- Comment on ICE thugs pounced on a man right there in the courthouse, mere minutes after his immigration case was dismissed 2 weeks ago:
If you’re being apprehended by ICE, you’re almost certainly losing some of those no matter how you respond. I don’t know that you’ve got better chances if you fight back alone, but if people around you join in and try to unarrest you, you might have a shot at going home that evening.
- Comment on Too many complaint posts, do this instead. 2 weeks ago:
Huh, good to know. I wasn’t planning on sucking my thumb, but there are probably other things to avoid with that in mind. I’ll look into that book.
- Comment on Too many complaint posts, do this instead. 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, even if you do it for less than an hour a day as an adult? I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I’d be surprised if occasionally doing it after your bones have finished growing would cause huge problems. I don’t know anything about dentistry or anything relevant though, so I could totally be wrong.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
I was once called down to the principal’s office and told I would be expelled from my Catholic school because in spite of my catholic upbringing, I was an atheist (in the US, at a time when this was obviously unconstitutional, given that the school accepted non catholic students of other religions). They called my dad and had me wait in the hall outside the principal’s office. For context, my dad’s an agnostic who doesn’t harbor any positive views towards the Catholic Church, but is a huge fan of educators and would always side with the teacher, no matter how unfair they were being.
My dad went straight in without acknowledging me and spoke with them inaudibly for about a minute, before the secretary came out and sent me back to class. I never heard anything about it from the school again and when my dad got home, he just said I didn’t need to worry about it. Decades later, he still won’t tell me exactly what happened, but I honestly think he might have forgotten and doesn’t want to admit it.
- Comment on Maybe need a little ivermectin for that. 3 weeks ago:
I’m an American living in Germany and married to a German. The first time I brought him to the US, he thought we paid way too much for gas because he forgot it wasn’t by liter.
He’s been driving for over twenty years and he’d never seen as low a price as the ones posted right next to the airport in New York City.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
We gossip about our coworkers, shared hobbies, and upcoming plans together.
- Comment on Late 3 weeks ago:
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 3 weeks ago:
Whaaaat, bottom middle for me, except he’s got mean eyes. That might be a reflection of his recent circumstances though, I can’t imagine he’s in a great mood.
