Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on Law 14 hours 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 1 day 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 1 week 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? 3 weeks ago:
Picture for reference:
- Comment on wish 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month 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.* 2 months 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?? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 2 months 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 :) 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 months ago:
A language isn’t Turing complete if it isn’t gay
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 3 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 3 months ago:
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
- Comment on cookie combs 3 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 3 months ago:
How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)
- Comment on Project Diva 3 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 3 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! 4 months ago:
Tsk, true left-to-right writing would do the crossbar second.
- Comment on Anon has been bullied 4 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.
