zaphod
@zaphod@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on be gay, do computers 1 day ago:
The first functioning programmable computer was Zuse’s Z3.
- Comment on 😭😭😭😭😭 1 day ago:
Maybe they’re NOT american.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 4 days ago:
These lines are not straight enough, they appear to follow already established administrative borders. I propose a straight line that completely ignores all this. I think that is the only sensible solution.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 4 days ago:
Wtf is that second map?! Krefeld?! Mühlacker?! Eilenburg?! Bad Düben?!
- Comment on I'd never let my tongue touch a pineapple 1 week ago:
Why would anyone censor asshole and not
pineapple? - Comment on Panama Proxima 1 week ago:
It’s comforting to see that the large cities will still exist in 250 million years.
- Comment on W.XP 1 week ago:
Was sometime in January 2009, switched to Linux.
- Comment on Don't do it, we all care about you 1 week ago:
Don’t give me reasons to start smoking crack.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 1 week ago:
What a cruel world we live in where even smol cats need to find jobs.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 week ago:
Coffee messes with iron absorption.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
A bit of market research showed that interest in Nintendo shifted slightly more towards boys. 55%‐45%.
Need a source on this. The more appropriate action in those days with those numbers would’ve been to sell a blue version to boys and a pink version to girls.
- Comment on I'm not fancy bird doctor 1 week ago:
Not an expert, but that’s a Ken.
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
But PTFE is used for more than nonstick pans.
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
Up to 5mm is still considered microplastics.
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
You don’t like glitter in your brain?
- Comment on oops 2 weeks ago:
What’s the proprietary alternative?
- Comment on Anon has standards 2 weeks ago:
I like Björk, but I also can see (hear?) why people might not like her music.
- Comment on call of the void 2 weeks ago:
The only kind of void I need in my life.
- Comment on what 2 weeks ago:
Alright, 25€$, but that’s my last offer.
- Comment on Blobfish 2 weeks ago:
Humans don’t explode in vacuum.
- Comment on Milking dust 2 weeks ago:
Better than Dominion isn’t hard.
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 2 weeks ago:
I used to use some felt-tip pens, perfect fit.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 3 weeks ago:
Just goes to show how insane society has become that you’d rather go to therapy than take a 29 day break by being lost at sea.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 3 weeks ago:
Honestly no, I think it’s worse here. I blocked so many communities because they’re just about US politics, but that stuff is still everywhere, even in generic meme communities.
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 3 weeks ago:
In general, most words follow certain patterns, for example words ending in -ion are always feminine, -age is always masculine, most words that end in a consonant that is not “n” are masculine (la mort evidently doesn’t follow these patterns). For most words using the wrong article sounds unnatural to the trained ear. Most new words are either derived from old words and keep their gender or they are picked up from other languages and adapted to French either by sound or by meaning (only works if there’s already a french word with the same or similar meaning). Sometimes it’s undecided, for example le covid and la covid are both acceptable, personally I think it should be le as it sounds more natural.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
Otorhinolaryngologist
Ot- => ear
rhin- => nose
laryng- => throat
or just ENT, I’ve heard that being used.
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 4 weeks ago:
The noun death is always la mort (le petite morte as used by the other poster is just wrong). The dead person can be le mort (masculine) or la morte (feminine). The adjective for dead is mort for masculine and morte for feminine, as in l’arbre mort (the dead tree, masc.) or la fleure morte (the dead flower, fem.).
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 4 weeks ago:
No, that would be la petite mort.
- Comment on They control the black box. 4 weeks ago:
:p
- Comment on Moon Dust 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you think allergies work but if it was actually an allergic reaction it probably went something like immune system encounters a foreign never seen before substance and overreacts. Alternatively he was just the unlucky guy who didn’t clean his suit enough and breathed in more of it than the others.