tigeruppercut
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- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 day ago:
I’m not disagreeing with your larger point but I don’t necessarily buy the part of your explanation saying
This is easily demonstrable since “a” and “the” have the same vowel sound in fluent speech (for most dialects of English), but while we get “a cat” but “an apple”, we don’t get “the cat”, but “then apple”
because in most dialects (at least of American English) “the” before a consonant uses ə while before a vowel sound it’s ē.
- Comment on Every time 1 day ago:
libertarian house cat analogy
I searched this and found a bunch of reddit libertarians coping about how much they aren’t stupid children living off the government while hating it.
- Comment on Children never lie 4 days ago:
If I could go back and slap the shit out of the inventor of katakana I would. Can you imagine a French class in the US where some kid says “Joo my apple John Clod Van Dam. Joo soois Americane,” and the teacher telling them it’s perfect?
- Comment on Japan to raise bar on foreign driver's license conversion test 5 days ago:
I’d be in favor of upping the written test requirements, but the “practical” test is already stupid. If people drove like they have you drive on the test it would be a nightmare. For example, to make any turn you have to check two mirrors and turn to look over your shoulder, then repeat that sequence again just before the turn.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
Until billionaires are illegal we’re probably all fucked anyway.
- Comment on Fart kontrol 1 week ago:
In Japan, they used the title “Old Man Carl’s Flying House” for Pixar’s Up.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
The UK arrested people for being anti vax??
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 1 week ago:
I’ve played a bit but haven’t had enough time to really get into it. Did you see Romero playing it when it first blew up?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIl_TqFJNO8
I just checked for the vid I saw and looks like he’s got another one playing it from a couple months ago as well.
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 2 weeks ago:
I got back into doom in the last few years and there’s a huge number of amazing maps people have made over the years you can play for free. I had no idea about the total conversion wads, where it doesn’t even feel like doom because everything has been changed.
If anyone’s looking for a good place to start you can check out the yearly cacoward winners
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 weeks ago:
Do they just like, not have screens over there? I stayed in Germany once and the whole house had no screens on the windows, then I started noticing that I couldn’t see them anywhere I went.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
I think to most of those people it’s like the US is trying to “steal” the name America from the rest of the continents, but it’s really only the Spanish speaking parts of the Americas that feel that way about it. But they can have it their way in their language, and it doesn’t detract from anything. It’s like getting pissy because some cultures count continents by separating Europe from Asia and others have Eurasia (without even getting started on Afro-Eurasia).
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 weeks ago:
pest toast, please ignore
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
Vagina is (mostly) inside, so it’s more like saying testes (or balls) when we mean scrotum plus everything inside that.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
I mean, colloquially it is.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing minecraft beats it. Or if you look at an individual player with thousands of hours it’s probably one of the mario speedrunners.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 2 weeks ago:
Titan Souls is a fantastic boss rush game where you die in one hit but the bosses only take a few hits as well. You only have one arrow to shoot and you need to go pick it up or stand still to recall it to yourself before firing again.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
I have a tablet that came with a C to 3.5 adapter and it worked well enough for a bit but soon enough it was only intermittently allowing the headphone connection to work, with a message about the port being dirty or something. Yet I could go right from unplugging that and putting the charger in and it worked fine.
There’s just no substitute for a dedicated port, especially when it barely takes up any room
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 3 weeks ago:
Hot pink - Sex
Red - Life
Orange - Healing
Yellow - Sunlight
Green - Nature
Turquoise - Magic/Art
Indigo - Serenity
Violet - SpiritAo I’m seeing on Wikipedia that the original colors represented stuff like sunlight and life. Who was excluded by these categories?
- Comment on Absolute unit 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on lik lik lik 3 weeks ago:
my name is lynx,
and wen it snows,
or wen the moon
shines on my toes,
i run all day,
and then nite falls,
leg stuck in air,
i lik my balls. - Comment on Devil May Cry 1-4 is on GOG 3 weeks ago:
Are these any fun or are they mostly products of their time?
- Comment on What the fuck 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, all those boomers reliving the time they were in on the ground floor of a meme from 17 years ago
- Comment on Grim ass picture 3 weeks ago:
Someone on reddit crocheted this a couple years ago
- Comment on Dear Kevin 3 weeks ago:
I literally couldn’t tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.
- Comment on Google used to show ads I didn't mind. Now Google is THE reason I use adblockers. 5 weeks ago:
Were the adblockers in the mid 90s blocking parts of pages like banner ads, or were they just the popup blockers? I think I may have used the latter.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Turns Two! 🎂🎉🥳 5 weeks ago:
Good to be here! Thanks DGR!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip staff welcomes lemm.ee users, with between 150 and 200 registrations in 24 hours 5 weeks ago:
Cheers DGR, you always seem like a real one
Hope things are good with the new life stuff👍
- Comment on Lemmy.zip staff welcomes lemm.ee users, with between 150 and 200 registrations in 24 hours 5 weeks ago:
I believe the issue was that the UK seemingly wants sites to block people under 18 from seeing porn by collecting IDs from everyone. Rather than police the ages of its users or remove all adult content from the instance the .zip admin decided to just block everyone from the UK to forestall any legal issues that might arise.
- Comment on Most American headline 5 weeks ago:
There’s no contradiction for these people. All fetuses have a right to life and children should suffer if they don’t have enough money. Shoulda worked harder at the bootstraps factory if they didn’t want to eat shit their entire lives.
They max out at a 4 on Kohlberg’s morality scale, ie the laws are immutable and nothing can change them. The law says that everyone should live and our system is perfect because it’s our system.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean I’ve been commuting 2 hrs a day in Japan for almost 10 years now-- you’d think I would’ve seen these brake lights by now
