aberrate_junior_beatnik

@aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel much better now that I’m reminded of my insignificance, ty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  massgrave.dev works just fine with ltsc as well and www.pcrf.net can always use more money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those were decisions to change the specific names of specific places, not a decision to handle country names in the general way OP was describing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why did they decide

  Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do. It organically happened the way it did for no particular reason other than it works well enough.

  why don’t we change everything back to how the countries’ place names are pronounced by their citizens out of respect

  Nobody cares enough to undertake this. I don’t particularly care that people call the US by different names in their languages. People in Turkey aren’t asking us to pronounce their country’s name the same way they do. Most people are happy to apply the inverse golden rule on this, i.e., I don’t pronounce your country’s name the way you do, so I’m not going to expect you to pronounce my country’s name the way I do.

  Would it make things harder or would it allow us to grow?

  Yes, but I think it would be a lot of work for not much growth. You don’t learn a lot about a place by just pronouncing its name differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all trusted us?! Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warren Buffett: Tariffs are ‘an act of war’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until someone tells him about sanctions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish they'd stop calling themselves Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservative doesn’t mean wanting lower taxes. It means the other thing. The lower taxes thing was always about the other thing anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what bread or chocolate chips you are eating, but this isn’t even remotely true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes your jaw drop in amazement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “have to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An average bowling ball is 8.5 inches in diameter, giving it a cross sectional surface area of roughly 60 sq in. Restricting ourselves to feathers made by non-human animals, the longest feather measured was on a Yokohama chicken at 34 feet / 400+ inches. I can’t find the width of the feather, but it’s still likely it outdoes an average bowling ball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A feather has smaller surface area than a bowling ball.

  Depends on the feather and the bowling ball. Even relatively small (by volume) feathers might outdo a bowling ball thanks to the numerous fine shapes they have.