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- Comment on If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult? 11 months ago:
Happens in most languages.
Also, many languages have a link between deafness and lacking intelligence, e.g. dumb meaning “not able to speak” and “not intelligent”.
In general, being sensitive to people with disabilities (both physical and mental) is a rather young concept, hence anything that would make someone not be able to be part of society is often also an insult.
That’s also why e.g. terms linked deafness/muteness are often an insult to someone’s intelligence, while e.g. terms linked to blindness are not. Blind people might be unable to perform some things seeing people are able to, but blindness doesn’t necessarily limit someone’s ability to be part of a society unaccomodating to people with disabilities.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
Yeah, same here. I was just making a joking advocatus diaboli argument.
- Comment on How Can I Make this Legless Bed Rise 2-inches? 11 months ago:
Put books under it.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
I dodged it as a youth, no point starting it now.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
No, I am only one man, not more men.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
I am such a hard alcoholic. I really need to keep that stuff as far away as possible. So I literally never had a single alcoholic drink in my life.
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 11 months ago:
At least over here (Austria) only biodegradable bags are allowed to be sold in this capacity.
But they are also not comparable to the old single-use plastic bags when it comes to plastic used, but rather comparable to a wrapper.
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 11 months ago:
Thanks! Seems to be the same worldwide. Over here the blue ones are for sale, the yellow ones are for use inside the IKEA.
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 11 months ago:
Was the same here before they were banned.
- Comment on Imagine if all this discount programs were linked not to the card, but to the bag. Bringing the same rugged bag with a chip could've become a new normal. 11 months ago:
In the EU single use bags cannot be sold anymore, so everyone now has some of what they call “bag for life”. It’s a similar material to the blue IKEA bags (if that’s a thing in the USA).
They last really long and since the material requirements are basic as can be, they are usually made out of 100% recycled plastic.
- Comment on If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult? 11 months ago:
Actually, it is.
It derives from Latin infans where “in-” is a negation prefix and “fans” is the present participle form of “for”, which translates to “to speak”.
So an infant is a non-speaker (too small to speak).
But my opener was of course a joke, where I purpously misunderstood what “fant” is derived of, by claiming that “fant” must be the opposite of a child, thus an adult.
There are tons of Latin words in the English language and many of them only survived in English in their compounded form (e.g. “in-fant”, where no other version of the actual verb in there survived, except the negated form).
Often the parts of these Latin root words have no meaning at all anymore in English, so that people don’t notice that they are actually using compound words and also the original meaning of the word is forgotten.
Not a lot of people would associate “infant” with “hearing”.
- Comment on Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it. 11 months ago:
Well, political forecasting is like reading tea leaves even for professionals and even when it’s just for the next year.
So it’s safe to say, nobody knows what’s going to happen.
But generally speaking, political tensions like the one currently in the US need some form of release. They build and build until something lets all of this vent.
Historically, these vents have been (civil) wars on their soil, revolts or catastrophies that require the country to be literally rebuilt.
The US hasn’t really had any of these for a very long term. Wars in foreign countries can reduce the temperature a bit, but only until the public’s attention span hasn’t passed.
The US system is also built for polarization, so let’s see what happens.
If they are lucky, some kind of worker’s uprising could be enough. If they are unlucky, they are going to have a dictatorship next year.
But nobody knows what’s going to happen.
- Comment on If "infant" means child does that mean that "fant" means adult? 11 months ago:
You mean, what am I fanting about?
- Comment on Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it. 11 months ago:
I mean, it worked in Austria and Germany
- Comment on Mouse is an upcoming FPS heavily inspired by old-school Disney cartoons 11 months ago:
Thanks! Couldn’t be bothered to look it up :)
- Comment on Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it. 11 months ago:
In that case, let’s hope he’s an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he’s gone people all agree that this wasn’t a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.
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- Comment on Mouse is an upcoming FPS heavily inspired by old-school Disney cartoons 11 months ago:
Cuphead will now be renamed to whatever the cup from Beauty and the Beast was called.
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 11 months ago:
If all other executives would earn as much as the guys from Wikipedia, the world would be a better place.
- Comment on What's the deal with buying single cans out of a multipack at a bottle shop? (Australia) 11 months ago:
Is there a reason why you ask this here and not just ask the staff at the shop?
Stuff like that can differ from shop to shop. So better ask the person who knows the answer.
- Comment on storing of filamenter bewteen prints 11 months ago:
That’s a bit high. PLA still won’t care, but PETG will probably only print perfectly for a quite short time (maybe a day or two).
- Comment on storing of filamenter bewteen prints 11 months ago:
Depends on the relative humidity in your house and the type of filament you use. I have usually ~30% humidity in my flat.
- PLA reall doesn’t care about humidity. I’ve got some 5yo rolls that still print like new, without storing them air-tight.
- PETG is fussier. After a few days they start to act up. I always have them in the filament dryer while printing.
- Specialist filaments (e.g. Nylon, Carbon, Wood) might be much more hydroscopic, depending on the material.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 11 months ago:
Yeah, noticed that too. This is really annoying.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 11 months ago:
They’ll probably have to offload that to a server farm in real time. That’s not gonna be easy.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 11 months ago:
Now guess how it feels to type German with predictive text. Most of our words can have more than a dozen different word endings depending on time and how the word is used. And that’s not taking into account that we use compound words, which word prediction pretty much cannot predict and often doesn’t even know. So spell check will mark a legal compound word as misspelled, because it doesn’t understand the concept of compound words and doesn’t know this specific word combination.
To show what I mean, the term “Danube steam boat captain’s hat” becomes “DonauDampfSchiffKapitänsMütze” (I added capital letters which shouldn’t be there to show where the next word in the compound word begins).
While this is an extreme example, it’s pretty common for compound words to consist of 4-5 words.
- Comment on Generally speaking, how much temperature can an ambient enclosure account for? 11 months ago:
To add to the great answers of the others:
The enclosure will only help you to keep heat in, not to keep the contents of the enclosure cool.
If it gets really hot and you print parts that need a lot of cooling, consider opening or removing the enclosure (if possible).
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
Tell me where Google claimed that they don’t delete comments. They obviously clear spam and other shit. And they do that completely officiall.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
Then you are probably shadowbanned on Youtube directly. Can happen if you post too much shit too frequently.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
Everyone here understand the point. It’s just that this point is dumb.
Tricks like that worked in the early 2000s. Nowadays, these tricks are much more likely to get you banned rather than the other way round.
All of these automod bots have features that can decypher stuff like that.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 11 months ago:
Are you new to the internet?