Hoimo
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- Comment on One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds 6 days ago:
There’s a lot of numbers in that article, but the most important number is missing: how common is it in the UK to have closely related parents? The only number mentioned is the 1 in 6 in Bradford, which is unbelievably high, but would mean that “1 in 14 of deceased children have consanguinous parents” is actually lower than expected.
- Comment on Just a few 1 week ago:
Society changed a lot since Biblical times. They didn’t “live together” in the same house, but these people certainly “lived together” in the same street or village before getting married. People didn’t really have a lot of “home life” like we do now, they’d be out in the fields, or cooking in front of their home. So they’d see each other’s home life and it’s more “getting a house for themselves” than a big change in privacy or contact hours.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk: The Man Who Broke Politics - Alexander Avila [2:55:08] 1 week ago:
In case any Lemmings are new to Alexander, also be sure to check out Hannah Montana’s Guide to Life Under Capitalism
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- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 1 week ago:
do so knowing that the evidence is to be produced during a legal or court proceeding
If they haven’t accused you of anything yet, deleting “how to rob banks.txt” is just normal cleanup. Anon can’t know what might be relevant evidence after some cops ask to see his computer and leave. Of course, some files may have legal restrictions regardless of crime, for example financial records.
- Comment on welp 3 weeks ago:
I tried to read it, but I was filtered by the first chapter being a rant about how no one wanted to buy his books. (I think it’s Genealogy that does that?)
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 4 weeks ago:
Change the black to white and change the scary eagle thing to a friendlier image, like a maple leaf? OH CA-
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
So your invention is 4 octopus-like appendages mounted on your back, sensitive enough to do science experiments and strong enough to fight spider-themed vigilantes?
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- Comment on the 'wow you're really annoyingly explaining simple items with complex words cause you're a nerd' starter kit 1 month ago:
I gave it a try too, but I also got stuck on spoonerisms and malapropisms. Of the literary examples given by Malapropism (Wikipedia), could it be Constable Dogberry, Dogberryisms? He likes to use big words to sound imposing, but often says the opposite of what he intends:
Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.
Then we have Delusions of Eloquence, where a character is using big words wrong, to humorous effect.
Or the opposite, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness), where big words are used right.
If we’re looking for a trope that’s named after a character, maybe Asperger Syndrome fits the bill?
But no, I can’t find this specific variant either, if it was ever notable enough to get a name. Maybe you can think of more examples? Is it always the right word with the wrong shape? It sounds like something a child might do, because adults are more likely to do the wrong word with the right shape (a malapropism). Maybe a side character in Charlie Brown or Dennis the Menace.
- Comment on Battle Bun 2 months ago:
The hare was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.
- Comment on free advice. only take one. 2 months ago:
So is Giorgos Mazonakis the new Malicious Advice Mallard?
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 months ago:
But if it was growing in Europe at that time, wouldn’t it be all over the place and be in books in the Middle Ages? Unless the Bronze Agers somehow smoked all of it.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 months ago:
You could make it single-use tokens and rate limit individual users when they request too many tokens in a short time. Someone could still share their tokens with a friend, but it doesn’t scale to where thousands are verifying with some stranger’s id.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 months ago:
6 years is post-cave diver. He bought it after Elon went crazy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Community links:
!asexual@lemmy.world
!asexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Both could use some more activity. (Like an asexual’s sex life amirite?)
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 months ago:
You’re all talking about this as if he’s gay, but he clearly says his wife is the one having orgasms during gay sex.
- Comment on Law 3 months ago:
Kinda disproven, but it’s also a question of what a word even is. Most of those snow words might not make it into a dictionary, but they will get their separate entries in a glossary for a book on snow, because the general sense of the word can be extracted from the parts, but words take on more precise meaning when they’re used more often.
However, we shouldn’t single out Inuits and snow, because the general principle is “words are created and forgotten according to need”. Carpenters have a lot of words for wood. Barely anyone still knows a lot of words for stone tools.
And sure, people who spend a lot of their life in snow will have a lot of words to describe their experiences with snow. But every human language can be used to describe any experience, even if you need to combine some words in new ways to do it. So when we say “Inuit have this many words”, we ignore that people don’t really communicate in single words, but saying “Inuit have this many sentences” makes it immediately obvious that it’s a silly thing to say: all languages have infinite sentences.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 months ago:
It was JFK Jr, he crashed a plane in the ocean in 1999, the year after Seinfeld ended.
The episode is S04E10 “The Contest”, “The Sponge” is S07E09 and Elaine is in a steady relationship with Puddy around that time, so who knows what she was using with Kennedy.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
What’s this flattened piece of metal doing on the table? Wait a minute… Are you Superman in disguise and the bullets fired from a silenced gun bounced off your invulnerable chest and landed on the table? …What am I saying? If that were true, Superman obviously would have eaten them to hide the evidence.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 4 months ago:
Picture for reference:
- Comment on wish 4 months ago:
I wish I was anime
I wish I looked anime
I wish I had an anime name
I wish I could go to an anime school - Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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 [deleted] 5 months 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 [deleted] 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago:
Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.
