Nougat
@Nougat@fedia.io
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 3 days ago:
That you know of.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 3 days ago:
Monk doesn't go that far, and it's still obvious. "Here's a joke before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause. "Here's a little cliffhanger before commercial!" Pause. Fade back in to a new scene. Pause.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 3 days ago:
I've been watching Monk recently, without ads, and it's very interesting how television shows used to be written and edited for commercials. It's dead obvious where the commercials used to be, and even that detracts from the overall experience.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 3 days ago:
From the little we know about Frisian, yes, very similar.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days ago:
It starts with proto-Indo-European (PIE), and is a fantastic mixture of history and language and how the two intersect. And no ads!
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 5 days ago:
I forget the numbers I've heard, but that sounds right, It's also important to remember that in the 11th century, English vocabulary was much smaller than it is today, so those 10,000 words were a much larger proportion of the English language than might be apparent.
Another thing to know is that English was heavily influenced by Old Norse prior to the Norman Conquest, too. The mixing of those three languages, each having some differences in grammar and inflection, ended with English dropping a lot of inflections and turning to word position in a sentence to determine what's subject, object, verb.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 5 days ago:
You would love historyofenglishpodcast.com
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 5 days ago:
This is exactly it, and it has to do with the Norman Conquest. After 1066, French was the language of the hurling class and English was for commoners. As such, a lot of French words got borrowed into English, and they usually carried a higher status. Cow vs beef, deer vs venison, that kind of thing.
- Comment on Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks in US over windshield wiper, exterior trim issues 5 days ago:
I seem to recall that Mercedes did it without incident.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 5 days ago:
And relieve corporate from all sorts of other liabilities, placing those on the individual drivers, too.
Workers' Comp claims? Malfeasance (driver or passenger)? Health insurance? Paid time off? Vehicle insurance? All fall to the driver.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
To quote the inimitable David Byrne: Stop making sense.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
In this specific example, I believe the driver buckled the child, closed the door, then was unable to open any door before starting the vehicle. Is it possible to either start the vehicle or at least turn on the climate control from outside? If not, this was a horribly dangerous situation.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
The car’s owner, Renee Sanchez, was taking her granddaughter to the zoo, but after loading the child in the Model Y, she closed the door and wasn’t able to open it again. “My phone key wouldn’t open it,” Sanchez said in an interview with Arizona’s Family. “My car key wouldn’t open it.” She called emergency services, and firefighters were dispatched to help.
Just so nobody thinks someone left a kid in the car and then went into a store or something. Tesla should be paying for the broken window repair at the very least.
- Comment on Extreme sports are weird 1 week ago:
When the brain is evolved to recognize immediate and present dangers and react to them, an absence of those dangers (which is true for most of us, most of the time) means that "something is wrong."
Injecting pseudo-dangers, or purposefully placing oneself in actual danger, closes the "danger gap."
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 1 week ago:
Palestine being a wholly recognized nation with borders would make it so much easier for the world community to use its leverage on both Israel and Palestine for any of their shenanigans. As it stands now, it’s still arguably “an internal conflict.”
That’s a lot different from “attacking a sovereign nation.”
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
Exactly. This is the best I’ve got. I could be so much worse.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
I know who I am.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
"You're not wrong. You're just an asshole."
I made my peace with that a long time ago.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
Which IA failed to do, which is why they got sued, and why they can’t lend those publishers’ books at all anymore.
I have no sympathy.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.
- Comment on Make the switch today before the Windows AI gains sentience 1 week ago:
It is true that I am always cowering and crying because I am constantly threatened with being beat over the head by Linux.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
Then they will learn that Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 1 month ago:
"I don't want to talk about that" is perfectly honest and neutral.
- Comment on Existential trolley problem 1 month ago:
I know infinite guys.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 month ago:
Every exchange between people requires an exchange of value. If we both agree on a common "thing" as a representation of value, we can be more accurate and flexible in our transactions.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 1 month ago:
None, because I don't use lemmy.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Welp.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 month ago:
It's an analog fingerprint sensor.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Thank you for saying this in a way I was unable to muster.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
If you're okay with compartmentalizing that out of the production of goods and services you use, that's a you thing.