Eiri
@Eiri@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 days ago:
I think I may have always mispronounced one or both of these then.
Man, English pronunciation, I swear.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 days ago:
Hmm, it is similar to a J, and may become the same depending on the speaker, but not necessarily exactly the same
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 days ago:
Ooh wow you’re right.
Close to me is “closs”
Close the door is “cloz”
I never noticed
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 3 days ago:
Close isn’t always pronounced the same?!
- Comment on gen z gorillas 4 days ago:
Both are young. I think that’s about it.
- Comment on Half as Hot 4 weeks ago:
Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t the US use to invade countries for much, much less of a reason than that? Sheesh.
These days I’m finding myself agreeing with the Iranian government more and more often because of Israel’s crap. I don’t like agreeing with the Iranian government.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 weeks ago:
What year is it? Locked devices have been illegal in Quebec for, like, ever.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
How is that unclear?
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 4 weeks ago:
Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.
“Between eight and 13 percent”
NO. If you’re writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.
- Comment on The 1900s 5 weeks ago:
I regularly say “from the 20th century” when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.
I don’t know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I’d say “not sure, mid-20th century I think”.
It’s a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.
Although in a more rude manner I’ll also say I don’t care about some 20th century movie or something.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
Another fun thing you can do is look at the sky (not the sun!) on a sunny day and start seeing your blood circulation and blind spot.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
For now. I suspect some evil person will eventually think of baking in default ads for when it can’t connect to the network to get new ones.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
Has something in particular been happening lately? I feel like Ubisoft has sucked for quite a while, but their stock price was fine until relatively recently, right?
- Comment on Hear me out 1 month ago:
I want to try the texture so bad
- Comment on I miss Adam West... 1 month ago:
They’re not?
- Comment on Delectable 2 months ago:
That looks delicious. I wanna try.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison Pt 2 2 months ago:
Poison… Metal… Isn’t that just mercury with extra steps?
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
That is not what I’m suggesting. I’m not saying charging only cables shouldn’t exist. I’m saying what everything does should be clearer.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
I’m surprised that happens! Seems like a complicated mistake to make.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
There should be a way to make it simpler.
Idk, something like “for USB 4 you NEED all of these”.
Or maybe USB 4 with levels like bronze, silver, etc.
Or make displaying data rate, display and charging capabilities all mandatory on all ports…
I’m not sure what, but “it’s a USB port; look in the manual and if you’re lucky you might learn what it does exactly” ain’t it.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
If I order an Americano and you serve me a filter black coffee, I swear …
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
The USB standards are just… Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.
But they won’t do that, will they.