lugal
@lugal@lemmy.world
- Comment on From moms pov 5 days ago:
The TV does. TV watching goes both ways
- Comment on From moms pov 5 days ago:
Why would you watch yourself instead of your mother’s series?
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
No, the bullet will stop them
- Comment on Bad news 3 weeks ago:
If 275 is half of 550, then what is half of 275?
Checkmate atheist
- Comment on Bad news 3 weeks ago:
When people don’t learn roman numerals at school anymore…
It’s 10, plain and simple
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 3 weeks ago:
Because the more you look for reasons, the realize there is none and that’s depressing
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 3 weeks ago:
Because people who always ask “why” don’t achieve anything. Did you get nothing out of the story above?
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 3 weeks ago:
As a kid, I had a book about a kid always asking “why?” and at some point, aliens came to conquer the earth. While everybody was freaked out, the kid just continued asking “why?”. “To exploit earth’s resources” “to conquer other words” “to exploit their resources too” “to conquer other galaxies” “to further our rule” “to conquer… well I see now that it’s all meaningless and we go home now.”
This is a story every child should read and don’t ask me why, it just is.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
Plot twist: There is no police police. ACAB
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
Thank y*u
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
S*rry
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
I’m not surprised T*kTok does that
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
Th*nks!
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
True, this self-cens*rship is ann*ying! We want our freed*m back!
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
While having two words for blue because “they look different”
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
People seem to believe this so let me clarify:
Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean “fruit” in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیبزمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc.
In fact, apple was a catch all term for fruits in many languages from time to time, hence pineapple (originally meaning pinecone, later used for the exotic fruit because of similarity) or German Apfelsine (orange, literally apple from China), …
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Nudel?? NUDEL???
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
My guess is he changed so much that he will be the guy who kills the real dictator but who am I to predict the future
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
We will see
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
As a prison abolismist, I am very sceptical about things like this. Sure, for this Hilter guy it worked and I’m glad it did, still on a whole, more people get radicalized than de-radicalized in prison.
Most prisoners are there for property crimes and the “bad guys” who really hurt people, aren’t helped or bettered either. We aren’t free until all of us are free. Don’t let positive examples like this one cloud your judgment on an overall bad institution like the prison complex. Transformative justice is a much better solution, also for people like this.
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
Patriarchy is for sure a cause many people die from, so maybe it’s time to fight and die for ending it
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
Just make sure you don’t develop an allergic reaction. Could happen with too much exposure
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
I first read it as “dying for a cause”. I guess cigarettes make you more revolutionary or something
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
I love how the last full paragraph shifts the narrative from tooting in general is strange to normalizing 2 toots, but a 3rd one???
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
Look at your calendar again, they repeat this date each and every year since than. Over are the times when 8/11 was directly followed by 10/11, and I’m afraid it’s over for good.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Where is lemmygrad? I would have expected them to make it on the list
- Comment on Bananas 3 months ago:
I remember vaguely from biology class that banana plants look like trees but are quite fragile indeed
- Comment on Bananas 3 months ago:
Actually bananas reproduce asexual
- Comment on pepper spray review 4 months ago:
Don’t worry about that. You have enough time to move to a new neighborhood before it explodes
