lugal
@lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on France is next 1 day ago:
To quote Oscar Wilde:
A map of the world that does not include New Zealand is not worth even glancing at
Was it New Zealand or Utopia? I always confuse those two.
- Comment on France is next 1 day ago:
Not only that.
c/mapswithoutnewzealand - Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 1 day ago:
Who else is in the lower right corner? 🙋♂️
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 1 day ago:
They are actually closer related to mammals than to any modern reptile
- Comment on sporgbang ventures #19 3 days ago:
Literally 1984
- Comment on Birds are infact real 3 days ago:
Bird watching goes both ways
If it flies, it spies
- Comment on When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test 3 days ago:
Wrong again. If you knew the first thing about Roman numerals, you knew that X is 10. So it’s 30 points in total (or in metric units: 3000%)
- Comment on When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test 4 days ago:
I think it’s intended as “X”, not “0” but I’m not a mathematician
- Comment on it's a real chicken or the egg scenario 1 week ago:
I’m vaccinated against autism
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 1 week ago:
- Comment on What odds are you giving? 1 week ago:
There is a German novel about a boy called Timm Thaler who sold his laughter and in return would win every wager. If he loses one, he will regain his laughter. First he enjoys horserace betting, later he tries to regain his laughter by betting on things that seem possible but he still wins all of them. It takes him 250 pages to finally bet that he gets his laughter back so he gets it either way.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk. - Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 1 week ago:
I did have aha moments during tests. It’s not too late.
- Comment on wizard posting 1 week ago:
The link is broken. Please fix
- Comment on If you are going to be snowed in this weekend please take this advice 2 weeks ago:
And how would I change it without hunting it first?
- Comment on It’s a beautiful morning! 2 weeks ago:
And then, after the series came to a logical end, there still is a sequel nobody asked for
- Comment on It’s a beautiful morning! 2 weeks ago:
No spoilers, please
- Comment on humour 2 weeks ago:
Relatable
- Comment on He must be a great guy 2 weeks ago:
Well, who didn’t?
- Comment on xkcd #3195: International Station 3 weeks ago:
This took me far longer than I’m willing to admit
- Comment on Onion forgets the satire (again) 3 weeks ago:
This is clearly fake. Conservatives don’t know enough about the bible to know it contains that verse.
- Comment on Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's? 3 weeks ago:
Not yet
- Comment on Bees 3 weeks ago:
Beekeepers are more likely to be allergic to bees since allergies develop at contact. This is irrelevant because the bees are already supposed to be venomous but now you know
- Comment on Hey Beter 3 weeks ago:
What 15 th15 ab0ut?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
You think English has many irregular verbs? Don’t make me laugh. Compared to which language exactly?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
You think English has many irregular verbs? Don’t make me laugh. Compared to which language exactly?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lamarck wasn’t the first to come up with a theory of evolution and Darwin wasn’t right about the mechanism.
Charles Darwin’s grandfather already had a theory of evolution and arguably, even he wasn’t the first.
Charles Darwin wasn’t aware of genes. His idea of inheritance was basically the same as Lamarck’s. Only when Darwin and Mendel were combined, the “modern” theory of evolution was born, the “new synthesis” or something it’s called.
The reason we single out these two isn’t that one was first and one was right, neither was. It’s because of the Great Man of History idea. We could talk about Wallace, how he was on the same path as Darwin but Darwin published first to outcompete him. But we don’t because we like to believe in great thinkers who singlehandedly changed the world.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
That makes it harder. 7 is the limit of Balto-Slavic languages but I know that one Baltic language used to have more, loaned from Estonian or something, but lost them over time. So my guess is your local dialect preserved one? Otherwise I have no clue. I think modern Indo Aryan languages have less, Semitic languages have 2 genders and I don’t know how many cases. I could rule out some more to show off but not much.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t mention genders so I guess you have none which leads me to Uralic or Turkic languages maybe?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
All languages have their difficulties. English pronunciation and spelling is a mess but grammar is easy for example. My native language has 3 genders and 4 cases for example and there are languages with more.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
I took one semester of Russian in uni and I still can read the Cyrillic alphabet
