Lumidaub
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- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 10 hours ago:
Please do.
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 11 hours ago:
People used to go outside their houses and shake hands or even hug. Any storage media they had in their pockets could infect each other in this type of close contact.
- Comment on Who are romance scammers? 11 hours ago:
i love this so much im gonna cry
- Comment on Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. 1 day ago:
Idk, in this day and age it sounds just vague enough to me to make me suspicious.
- Comment on A wristwatch is like a handcuff to time 1 day ago:
Analogies are never perfect.
- Comment on Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. 2 days ago:
Sooo… Robert Picardo has voiced navigation instructions in character. Yes? He was personally involved, right? The text is weirdly vague.
- Comment on A wristwatch is like a handcuff to time 2 days ago:
Sure, and lungs are like handcuffs to air, they constantly remind you to breathe.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Ah, got it. Yes, but is that an argument against what I said? Both non-shrink-wrapped dinosaurs and dinosaurs with feathers haven’t reached the general public conscience (and I’d argue feathers as a concept are easier to convey, actually, so they should take less time). So when popular science like the post in the OP talks about what depictions “do” instead of “did”, it’s talking to the public.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Weirdly, the notion that swans are particularly aggressive is one I learnt on the English-speaking part of the internet (so I instantly assume it’s an USianism). Any references to swan behaviour that I can find in German talks about how they’re associated with calm and serenity.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Sorry, not entirely sure what you’re saying?
- Comment on he just like me fr 3 days ago:
Is he inviting me to play dice?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That post is of course a billion years old itself and the images created by shrink-wrapping are still in people’s heads. Feathers on dinosaurs are rarely what people think of first as well and the notion has been around for quite a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Goodness there is so much wrong with this, where do I start.
What is that name? It means nothing to me. If you’re trying to reach a predominantly English-speaking audience, that is not the name to do it.
You need an About page, at least. I’m not signing up for whatever this is but I’m doubly not signing up on a page that gives me no information whatsoever. Also, do you want to do business in the EU? Because that’s another can of worms.
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
AND you fail to properly link. Brilliant.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
And you announce this as a shitpost, nice, 5/7 perfect score no notes.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
Context, nao.
- Comment on can't they js fix their moderation already 🙏😭 6 days ago:
The mention of “Robux” implies I’m too old to understand.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 1 week ago:
The shots just go around you.
- Comment on How could online identity work without permanent usernames or unrecoverable accounts? 1 week ago:
I have little of substance to offer. But specifically regarding the permanence of usernames I’d assume part of it is to prevent impersonation. “Hey guys, 'sup, it’s me, ya boi, I know I deleted but I’m back! Now, I have a big favour to ask my dear followers because, you see, my grandmother’s budgie has turbo cancer of the tailfeather [etc]…”
- Comment on Without getting in a fight. Why is it called coming out of the closest? Where did it begin? I mean why not a garagde or a bedroom or something? How did it become a reference to homosexuals? 1 week ago:
Isn’t “keeping it in the closet” an English language idiom that just means “to keep it secret”? I’d always figured “coming out of the closet” evolved from there.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 1 week ago:
I always feel bad for uploading anything here because I feel like I’m wasting precious space. Yes I know it probably doesn’t matter at all but still.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 1 week ago:
Since the red shirt draws all the fire they’d be safer than anywhere else.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 1 week ago:
If anything, it’s still a Doctor Who site, if we’re going by “biggest science-fiction franchise”, but why would this poll suggest that?
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
The “American” one would suggest “an autistic”, rather than “an autist”, no? He is American, he is an American.
This may be an issue with English not differentiating precisely between most nouns and adjectives relating to countries. In my head “an American” is clearly a noun but that might be me. Better examples might be “a New Yorker” or “a Londoner”.
I’ve said repeatedly that this isn’t a settled debate within the autism community, and at no point have I suggested that other people aren’t free to use whatever terms they want
You did say you don’t want to accept a term just because it’s popular and I was agreeing to that. The fact that we’re talking about this seemed to suggest to me that you felt at least some pressure to conform to what everybody else is saying.
I understand that. I’m specifically talking about the English word “autist”. Ich rede nicht über Deutsch.
And I was drawing parallels between two very closely related languages of two closely related cultures. The words “autist” and “Autist/Autistin” are obviously related so it’s interesting to see if there’s differences in how they’re used and what they are.
I suppose that asks the question why is “autistic” one of (if not the) only example with a dedicated noun?
Language is under no obligation to be consistent and logical. Speakers of English for some reason didn’t see need for dedicated nouns here and they dropped out of use (or never developed in the first place). Why English doesn’t have a word for “doch” is beyond me but here we are. English also doesn’t have dedicated nouns for “person from [country]”, as we established above. Does that mean anything profound in particular? To my mind it suggests simply that English somehow tends to prefer adjectives.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
“This is an American.”
You don’t need to accept a term you don’t like for yourself but others may not mind.
Btw, autistic brains exist outside the UK and the US. In German, it’s becoming more common to say “Menschen mit Autismus” (people with autism) but I suspect that’s actually more to do with an effort to de-gender because constructions like “Autistinnen und Autisten” (female autists and male autists) are clunky.
Also, your “blindist” and “deafist” don’t exist in English which is why they sound weird, they do exist in German.
- Comment on Sometimes I wonder if my older brother and I both were in grave danger, who would my parents save first... 🤔 1 week ago:
Probably the one who’s more easily accessible.
- Comment on Smokin' meat 1 week ago:
Understandable, have a nice day.
- Comment on Smokin' meat 1 week ago:
What happened here?
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
Yes but is that worth the utter and complete agony of stopping what you’re doing and then starting again 10 minutes later? /s
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
You try having ADHD and going 24 hours without food.
That is literally so easy, I regularly do it by accident because I hyperfocus on some nonsense.