tigeruppercut
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- Comment on Soup 6 days ago:
I also like Thai “salad”, aka a pile of meat
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
- Comment on Know the difference 6 days ago:
Agreed, but it’s still a tough line to draw. Here’s a scale:
We’ve got some problems, and it’s probably because of “someone”.
Aren’t the X suspicious? We should keep an eye on them.
All the X have rights but it’s their fault for all our problems.
We should give jobs to everyone before all the X.
We should expel all the X.
We should genocide all the X.At which point is it ok for the cops to come have a conversation with you?
- Comment on This man is suffering 6 days ago:
I didn’t know they updated their logo to give the owl a vag wing
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 1 week ago:
I remember having to beg my folks to be able to call the Nintendo hotline a couple times during childhood when I was completely and utterly stuck in a game on NES. At least the people answering were pretty prompt–I don’t think it took more than 5 mins to get the info I needed.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure about how the pronunciations developed. I know that in modern Japanese there are only certain ways syllables can change their sound. Japan uses a syllabary rather than an alphabet, so for example they can only say the sounds bu and ra, but never “bra” because they don’t have a standalone “b”. Their syllables get modified in predictable ways, like ka can change to ga, going from a voiceless to voiced velar stop. In much the same way, the ho syllable can become po.
I don’t know much about the history of when nippon became nihon, but the article you linked has a short section on it
Japanese 日 and 本 were historically pronounced niti and pon, respectively. In compounds, however, final voiceless stops (i.e. p, t, k) of the first word were unreleased in Middle Chinese, and the pronunciation of 日本 was thus Nippon or Jippon (with the adjacent consonants assimilating).
Historical sound change in Japanese has led to the modern pronunciations of the individual characters as nichi and hon. The pronunciation Nihon originated, possibly in the Kantō region, as a reintroduction of this independent pronunciation of 本 into the compound. This must have taken place during the Edo period, after another sound change occurred which would have resulted in this form becoming Niwon and later Nion.
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
Yeah, Japan has thick carrots and thin eggplants (which seem to have fewer seeds as well)
- Comment on Fact 1 week ago:
She accidentally an apostrophe
- Comment on Fact 1 week ago:
You’d attract MC Frontalot
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 week ago:
They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.
Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There’s an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of “nipponized steel”.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 1 week ago:
Yeah I listened to his songs a lot as a kid as well. It was just jarring to hear the silly song guy repeat quack conservative conspiracies when I looked back into him later down the line, though like you say, not unexpected given his demographic.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 1 week ago:
I’ve seen them occasionally in Japan hotels as well, but it’s pretty rare
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 1 week ago:
Ray Stevens went a long way from that song in 1987 to his one about how dems get dead people to vote for them in 2012
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Assuming this AI shit doesn’t kill us all and we make it to the conclusion that robots writing lies on websites perhaps isn’t the best thing for the internet, there’s gonna be a giant hole of like 10 years where you just shouldn’t trust anything written online. Someone’s gonna make a bespoke search engine that automatically excludes searching for anything from 2023 to 2035.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 weeks ago:
Swinger parties are getting weirder
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah maga place looks like it’s up to 21 idiots sharing a brain cell now, whereas I think it was 12 a couple weeks ago. Wonder if there’s a critical mass for those fucks or if they’ll find lemmy too progressive to stick around. I guess they could just circlejerk on their own instance.
- Comment on Why are my fingers black 2 weeks ago:
Great story. I’m glad I went looking for it (haven’t read it in 25+ years) because I got to discover that London wrote a slightly different version 6 years earlier.
- Comment on Why are my fingers black 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Build_a_Fire
Jack London’s husky survived, the guy didn’t make it
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 weeks ago:
I always find it interesting when comparing cuisine between cultures of stuff that exists in different places but only eaten in one (or a few) of them. Like ok, I get that if you’re not used to much seafood in general you maybe will eat some grilled salmon but you’re not gonna be eating the guts out of crabs or lobsters or whatever. But then there’s something like burdock root, which grows in the US, doesn’t have a strong taste, and is just like various other root vegetables we do eat (although not as sweet as something like a carrot). But the US doesn’t eat it while east Asia does.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
Do you use as many conveyor belts as Josh does in Satisfactory?
- Comment on TRUMP 2 weeks ago:
Shoulda called her a cunt
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 3 weeks ago:
Ah, a fellow lover of metonymy. I hope your cat brings you all the dicks attached to people that you could ever hope for.
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 3 weeks ago:
King Missile has entered the chat
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
That’s an optimistic perspective and I feel like we need more optimism these days. And maybe sometimes people do change their minds on things with social media discussions, though I think it’s already a difficult medium to work with.
For maga shit though, those people are basically cultists, and from what I understand it’s pretty much impossible to get people out of a cult without a personal connection helping them.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy has everything from libs to anarchists to tankies. If that’s an echo chamber I think I’ll survive without fascist voices in the mix. The North Korea apologists are bad enough.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And some dogs don’t
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m still bouncing between apps bc none of them have all of what I want (mostly to do with swipe gestures plus picture and video functionality–basically trying to replace sync but nothing lives up to it). But at least the new user icon shows up on desktop these days.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Is that an app? I’ve been hoping someone makes a desktop client that improves the lemmy experience like the reddit ones used to do
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
I’d say critical thinking is divorced from any one subject. You can learn it in a humanities context just as easily as a scientific one.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 4 weeks ago:
They tried pay toilets in the states but people vandalized the shit out of them until they were gone. These days it can be hard to find public restrooms in places though.
