Quilotoa
@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
- Submitted 22 hours ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 288 comments
- Comment on Croutons are just stale, dry bread with good PR. 1 day ago:
Giving food French names seems to make them more marketable.
- Submitted 1 day ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 3 days ago:
More than just Europe. 99 % of the world’s countries use Celcius.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Smartphones made an incredible change. We used to plan trips months or even years in advance. Mailing to foreign embassies for visas, gathering maps, buying travelor’s cheques, making reservations by mail, researching by borrowing books from the library - all took a lot of time and effort.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 2 weeks ago:
Hey, thanks. That makes sense.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 2 weeks ago:
That is the best question by a dam site.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I’m guessing it’s harder to write songs in tonal languages.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but is it using recycled plastics?
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 3 weeks ago:
I always found the idea of singing in a tonal language weird. I guess it works though.
- Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you are embarrassed just make it sound classy 4 weeks ago:
French chef: What will we do with all this dry, stale bread? French owner: We’ll call it crouton and sell it for lots of money.
- Comment on How do slang words and phrases start? 5 weeks ago:
- Submitted 1 month ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 months ago:
But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 3 months ago:
Many countries have pay per use public restrooms. Sometimes there’s someone sitting outside handing out toilet paper after you pay. Sometimes it a coin insert turnstile. Us oldsters call them Johnny Cash.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 3 months ago:
What are you wiping with???
- Comment on xkcd #3135: Sea Level 3 months ago:
Tides in the Bay of Fundy, Canada are 16 metres (50 feet).
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 4 months ago:
It shouldn’t have happened at all. Abiogenisis is so hugely unlikely, it defies probability.
- Comment on Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency 4 months ago:
Not a huge sample pool.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 6 months ago:
The early church was actually kinda communist, having all things in common.
- Submitted 6 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish Explorer, spent two and a half years on an island off Greenland waiting to be rescued.www.vintag.es ↗Submitted 6 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish Explorer, spent two and a half years on an island off Greenland waiting to be rescued.www.vintag.es ↗Submitted 6 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 6 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 6 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 6 months ago:
We are living in one of the best times in human history.
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 125 comments