Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 days ago:
I try to listen to SMN once in a while, but I often leave it for when I can watch the video. It needs different editing to truly work as a podcast, there’s a lot of info presented as pictures or graphs and skimmed over by the narration. And you miss all the jokes made by the title card monkey.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 days ago:
The post includes a link to the very video, but here it is again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3rSA4FSqk
It’s a very good analysis of political violence in the US. Cody Showdy generally does great work discussing not just the news, but the olds too. Fair and Balanced™©® and all that.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 1 week ago:
It’s always so funny to see someone squirm under oath. They don’t dare lie, but they’ll do anything but tell the truth. Just lie at that point dude, reciting the alphabet to avoid answering is just sad.
- Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, not just because someone is being an asshole. Everyone should feel the need to protect their personal information, because the world is full of assholes of different levels and your personal information being publicly available can only cause harm to you. It really is as simple as setting your profile to “friends only” to counter the lowest level of assholes.
- Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone regardless of victim status should use the tools available to protect their personal information online.
If someone is publishing your personal information without your consent, local laws and regulations may apply. You kinda have to be lucky with police and the legal system to take you seriously though.
- Comment on Clock logic 3 weeks ago:
How important is it to your theory that “hour” is related to “house” in… ancient Assyrian language? Because they’re completely unrelated in English, “house” coming from Germanic hus and “hour” coming from French ore. If we look at ancient Greek, the two are hoora for “hour” and oikos for “house”. I think English post-vowel shift has to be the first language where those two even sound similar.
- Comment on Aged like milk 3 weeks ago:
They already made an editor’s note, but in case they decide to take it down after all: archive.is/Kb78K
- Comment on Anon doesn't believe 3 weeks ago:
Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 weeks ago:
The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.
- Comment on *They drew First Blood, not me.* 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if they are shopped or just imgen based on these hands, but they look very similar down to the light and dark patterns on the skin.
If the proportions match, I’m saying shop, but I’m still not quite ruling out imgen that tried to recreate this exact picture.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 5 weeks ago:
I recently saw a return of the “chimney”, but now they’re large grated cubes with the aircon unit inside. Instead of hanging an ugly box off the side of the wall, they’re up on the roof and camouflaged a bit.
- Comment on It's almost here 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 1 month ago:
My favorite part of not driving is the drinking. I’m lucky to live around a good train network and even luckier that the shop at the station has a fridge full of beer.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 month ago:
It’s the rare Golden Woodman, 1 in 10000 odds that you see him on the third night when you look at the security cam for animatronic storage.
- Comment on that's a sunday night 1 month ago:
How old is this picture? Or am I looking at the one retro game collection that doesn’t have a whole shrine built around it?
- Comment on Bird 2 months ago:
Why is bread bad for duck, but cooked rice good? Isn’t that basically the same thing? Bread is wheat, water, bit of salt. Cooked rice is rice, water, bit of salt. Or can’t ducks handle gluten?
- Comment on be gay, do computers 2 months ago:
A language isn’t Turing complete if it isn’t gay
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 2 months ago:
Now the next unsolved question is: when a person is multilingual, should that count as multiple languages or are they all facets of the same idiolect? Is code-switching between formal and informal English the same as code-switching between English and French? Can a person even have multiple idiolects?
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 months ago:
How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)
- Comment on Project Diva 2 months ago:
The girl from Fortnite. Here’s a video that explains nothing.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
Justwatch reliably tells me “this isn’t available for streaming in your region”. Sonarr tells me it’s an AMZN Webrip and I can Just Watch™
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 months ago:
Tsk, true left-to-right writing would do the crossbar second.
- Comment on Anon has been bullied 2 months ago:
I think the engineering would be so complex and so particular to a window type/size, that it’s just not worth it. At some point, installing an external unit and wiring/ducting through the wall is actually the simpler solution.
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 3 months ago:
Kimura-sensei did nothing wrong
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 3 months ago:
Inorganic? You think the CIA is MKUltraing everyone into liking Academy Award-winning films? I think the only culture shift that could potentially happen is that the films are old enough now that the fans feel the need to remind everyone how good they are. In the first decade after release, we kinda assumed that everyone was already aware.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 months ago:
It’s been working out a lot better since the invention of flash freezing. For both sushi and pickled fish, the risk of parasites was always present. Now it’s just as safe as cooked fish and it doesn’t taste any different from raw.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 months ago:
Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of “animal”. It’s only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).
My guess would be that the language gained the word “animal” from French and “deer” was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 3 months ago:
How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?
