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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like ![walkaway] (https://i.imgur.com/qhJSBYn.jpeg) has given up the pretense of being moderates displeased with the Democratic Party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the rule limits the actual container size if it contains liquid. Even if you have a nearly empty water bottle or are nursing the last dregs of a full size tube of toothpaste, it gets dumped or thrown out. So technically, if any water has melted at all, it counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains why my fuzzy terrorist always wants to bite them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love going shopping and getting my favorite snacksss 🥰🍬🤤⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the crayons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jd vance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s Art Van

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pages blocking you because you block their cookies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few observations

  1. Body temperature > room temperature. Lukewarm/tepid kinda occupies the space between. It is technically warmer than its surroundings, but does not provide a substantial warming effect to the body.

  2. Lukewarm is used almost exclusively for water, whereas room temperature is a reference to air temperature (either the current or a desirable one) Water and air exchange heat with the human body in different ways and at different rates. Room temperature air is fairly neutral to the body, but a 68F/20C swimming pool is rather chilly, and a 90F/32C room is not what I would call lukewarm.

  3. Warm & cool both have an implication of comfort whereas hot & cold have more an implication of danger or discomfort. Maybe there is something to thinking about these on more than one axis: relative temperature vs desirability or pleasantness.

  4. Context is weird. For things that are supposed to be “hot”, either “cool” or “cold could mean room temperature, above room temperature, but also not quite “warm”, or hotter than “warm” but below a target, expected, or usable temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duke!
  🤛💪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck!

  Over here the reaction has been “They want us to think critically? What are they hiding‽” “They’re teaching kids to think critically? That’s indoctrination!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kami⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, in English:

  Yoo-hoo! Thereau thoroughly thought ‘twas you, Hugh, who threw Theaux through the tough dough trough.

  Thou laughed, though! No? He ought not’ve thought aught of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Second point: the English language is heavily influenced by several historical processes

  WARNING: I am not a linguist or historian and the following is greatly simplified, potentially to the point of falsity

  1. The invasions of Germanic tribes: Angles & Saxons most notably, settled in what we now call England (Angle Land) and pushed the Celtic tribes west and north. Leaving mostly Germanic speaking peoples in the south and East.

  2. The Vikings raids: another wave of Germanic speaking peoples raided and eventually settled in parts of the island, while no less violent than the earlier invasions, it did result in more intermingling of the local Germanic and the Norse Germanic languages than the previous Germanic/Celtic languages did.

  3. The Norman Conquest: This invasion was more of a top-down invasion, where a French speaking monarchy replaced the English speaking monarchy. For a time French became the language of esteem, and state business was conducted in French, while outside the aristocracy, the common folk would use common English in their day-to-day. This is why a lot of modern legal and technical words have roots through French, like litigate, defendant, and plaintiff. Rude words (vulgar is Latin for “common”) often have Germanic roots. See: penis/vagina/intercourse vs. dick/cunt/fuck

  4. Colonization and globalization: English speakers went out and invaded a lot of places. In addition to extracting resources, wealth, and slaves from those places, they took a lot of words too, and just kinda squished them into the language where they could fit. Colonizers also forced English upon the invaded territories much like the Norman’s forced French upon England. Now you have many more English speakers in the world who are also have fusing their own languages into local dialects of English and English words into their native languages. All this gets mixed up into an era of global trade, travel and communication, and Some words just get caught up in the global zeitgeist and make their way into common English usage.

  5. Also, the Church and Romans are mixed up in there somewhere, but I don’t know how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Language is always evolving. A lot of “special” words are just lazy words that have fallen out of regular use over time, or have be pulled out of time and place to evoke the seeming of being old and authoritative. Sometimes "special” words or phrases are just memes used out of context, and sometimes the context is no longer relevant or it is forgotten. We have a “special” word for phases like that: Idioms. The rule for idioms is “Idioms mean what they mean”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rabbit? Like… the personal massager?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be possible to run two OSs simultaneously by hibernating one of the OSs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it is possible, I’ve done it before by accident. The problem I ran into is I was using a shared partition for data storage. At the time, if you didn’t properly shut down Windows it would not unmount the disks, and I couldn’t access them from Linux. I’m sure there was probably a way around that, but not without making the hibernated Windows angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Mama ain’t no lady.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing they will just sell their goods to those who can afford them. If individuals can’t afford an appliance, they will sell them to a landlord, a laundromat, a restaurant, another corporation, or rent them directly.

  once poor people have no more money to use.

  Unless you are referring to chattel slavery, or some barter system where people pay directly with goods or services, this is an impossibility. The poor will always be able to earn some meager amount of money (even if it’s company scrip), they just won’t be able to earn enough to escape poverty and debt. That’s what makes money valuable, that it can be exchanged for goods or labor.