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- Comment on wth is the hole for 🙏😭 1 week ago:
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 3 weeks ago:
Nah, level 1 is actually correct. Regardless of its etymology, octopus is an english word and should be pluralised accordingly.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Our very own John Lennon
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 3 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for this as the only sources I can find (e.g.) suggest that’s an order of magnitude out
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 3 weeks ago:
I think they you so hard you a whole word there
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 3 weeks ago:
People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.
By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dog
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
It means the opposite of itself.
Fun fact: there’s a word for words like that, they’re called contronyms.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
Technically they’re terrapins (specifically red-eared terrapins).
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 4 weeks ago:
Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
- Comment on Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17 4 weeks ago:
Iirc adding
-vulkanto the game options worked for me, might be worth a shot. - Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 4 weeks ago:
To quote some youtuber I recently watched:
Hank Green?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
- Comment on EEEEEERRRRRUUUUUUUUPPPPPPTTTION 1 month ago:
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 month ago:
I believe what he was trying to get at is that the shikimate pathway that glyphosate inhibits is also used in the bacteria and fungi that make up the gut microbiome.
Not sure what his overall point was supposed to be (or whether he had one) but that’s the “microbiome is plants” part.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 month ago:
I’m afraid I’m not a real topologist
But you are topologically equivalent to one!
- Comment on THE BRITISH COLONIZED OUR NIPPLES 🇬🇧☕️🧐 1 month ago:
This is very much glossing over ~600 years of Muslim rule between when the Khajuraho temples were built (and subsequently largely abandoned - likely a major factor behind their survival) and the British arrival…
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
k
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Just go to your local law enforcement and look for the “people who for some reason think making themselves extremely noticeable will stop us tracking them” folder. It’s basically doing this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on An old excuse 2 months ago:
How can I delete someone else’s comment?
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
Where we’re going we don’t need commutative multiplication.
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
No, it’s the Force so it has to be the Mass times the Acceleration.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 months ago:
I too liked the series but I dont think it’s sad that it’s over, some things should be left to lie no matter how good they were.
- Comment on Our kryptonite 2 months ago:
Depends how hard it’s being thrown at you…
- Comment on W for Uncle Ted 2 months ago:
On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:
Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown. - Comment on W for Uncle Ted 2 months ago:
Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 2 months ago:
He would pronounce it “yif” to piss off both sides
- Comment on Duckeo, Duckeo, wherefor art thou? 2 months ago:
How big is your bathtub?
