Nougat
@Nougat@fedia.io
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 2 days ago:
That you know of.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 3 days ago:
From the little we know about Frisian, yes, very similar.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days ago:
It starts with proto-Indo-European (PIE), and is a fantastic mixture of history and language and how the two intersect. And no ads!
- Comment on What the fuck 4 days ago:
Fuck shit stack
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days ago:
I forget the numbers I've heard, but that sounds right, It's also important to remember that in the 11th century, English vocabulary was much smaller than it is today, so those 10,000 words were a much larger proportion of the English language than might be apparent.
Another thing to know is that English was heavily influenced by Old Norse prior to the Norman Conquest, too. The mixing of those three languages, each having some differences in grammar and inflection, ended with English dropping a lot of inflections and turning to word position in a sentence to determine what's subject, object, verb.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days ago:
You would love historyofenglishpodcast.com
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days ago:
This is exactly it, and it has to do with the Norman Conquest. After 1066, French was the language of the hurling class and English was for commoners. As such, a lot of French words got borrowed into English, and they usually carried a higher status. Cow vs beef, deer vs venison, that kind of thing.
- Comment on Leg day, bros 4 days ago:
Steal it just like I did.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Sectionallama.
- Comment on Leg day, bros 5 days ago:
Limousine spider.
They also appear to be smart, aggressive, and territorial. I have been chased by several. And I have run away with great haste.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
To quote the inimitable David Byrne: Stop making sense.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 days ago:
I hope you come out of the other side of that, and I'll bring you a pizza myself.
- Comment on Picasso artworks put in female toilet as part of art gallery response to court ruling 6 days ago:
If your socio-policital point requires the infringement of someone’s rights, I’m immediately inclined to disagree with you.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 1 week ago:
Palestine being a wholly recognized nation with borders would make it so much easier for the world community to use its leverage on both Israel and Palestine for any of their shenanigans. As it stands now, it’s still arguably “an internal conflict.”
That’s a lot different from “attacking a sovereign nation.”
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- Comment on The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie 2 weeks ago:
Professional courtesy should only be extended to professionals.
- Comment on A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty 2 weeks ago:
B-b-but Biden hasn't done anything!
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 2 weeks ago:
It was made within the last two decades
decent quality
Are you sure about that? I mean, maybe you're a person who's way more into blades than I am, but a regular person who be hard pressed to differentiate between a "quality" blade and a "mall ninja shit" blade.
- Comment on Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world? 2 weeks ago:
If we were trying, we would do things like going from 30 million bison to 325 (three hundred twenty-five) bison in a matter of 55 years.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 3 weeks ago:
Portugalman
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough - FBI was going after the old IT guy who had employed all the fuckery. I have no idea how the FBI got involved. My knowledge went from "Hey, here's what I see going on, and we're going to handle all of that" to "I am on the phone with the FBI."
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 weeks ago:
Can, yes, but that would most likely be someone who is selling computers with unlicensed Windows installed. I'm willing to bet that the only reason Microsoft even continues to make home versions cost money is because of the deals they have with OEMs who preinstall Windows, and pay Microsoft a bit for the OS.
For example, the time I was doing field service at a small office (like seven people), because they were tired of the rando guy they were paying crazy amounts of money to. He had set them up with three or four servers he'd built himself, all of the machines in the office were unlicensed, all of the server apps (MS SQL and MS Office were the big ones I remember, but there were others) were unlicensed. He "worked remotely" "at night" and never came into their office after having put everything in place.
After the customer cut the cord with this guy, he redirected their website to somewhere else. Site was still there, but his name was on the domain registration, and he wouldn't give it back to the customer he had registered it for.
I discovered the shady state of affairs, documented and reported to my chain of command at the MSP. They must have talked to the customer because a couple of weeks later my phone rings. It's the customer -- caller ID and I recognized the voice, and it was the late aughts, so AI fakery was not on the table. The FBI was in their office, and would I talk to them? I was asked, and answered, about all of the systems and applications that I'd found which were unlicensed.
Now, I'm not saying the FBI was involved solely because of the licensing issues. I'm sure they wanted the guy for some other thing and this was their way in the door. But yeah, that was fun. And interestingly, that's not the only time I've had to talk to the FBI about "computer fuckery" tangentially related to my employment.
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 weeks ago:
Its why they have never come down on people using illegal copies.
They will come down on businesses using illegal copies. An individual with one or two or three copies running is not worth the legal expense.
- Comment on What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men? 4 weeks ago:
If you're not useful, you're a burden.
- Comment on Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon? 4 weeks ago:
If the conviction is legitimate, the Electoral College has ways to shut it down.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
I am a much different person today than I was when I started at reddit so many years ago, so that might have something to do with my assessment, but --
Federated social media today is like what reddit was maybe eight years ago. Fills a hole, bearable, occasionally really good, but still a lot of shitposting and propaganda. Ten, twelve and more years ago, reddit was a really good place. As above, maybe it's because I was younger then, maybe it's because the world has changed so very much in the meantime. I'm sure those play into it, but in any event, it was better then than the fediverse of today, content-wise.
- Comment on predators 4 weeks ago:
Big Bird is the legendary Thunderbird.
- Comment on Tactical 5 weeks ago:
I'm not sure who you think the "average person" is, or what your insults against that person are, but you sure are trying hard.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 1 month ago:
"I don't want to talk about that" is perfectly honest and neutral.