Erika3sis
@Erika3sis@hexbear.net
An anarchist here to ask asinine questions about the USSR. Alt account Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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- Comment on faen 2 days ago:
Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.
Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.
This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 6 months ago:
I favor gorilla tactics in conservation the same as I do in many other respects!
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 8 months ago:
I want to say Kin-Dza-Dza. It’s a very silly and memorable work of Soviet science fiction.
- Comment on Hear me out 8 months ago:
Yim Yum!
- Comment on Neuronita 8 months ago:
My mental MP3 player in response to this image decided to put on “Blumenkranz” from the Kill la Kill soundtrack
- Comment on For the Lizadies out there! 8 months ago:
And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.
- Comment on American Sex Education 9 months ago:
Honestly I thought the dementors were squid ink at first
- Comment on What have we done? 11 months ago:
Well, it is now 3 years since that article was published back in 2017, and I’m proud to say that my memories have not been altered in any way that I can tell.
On an unrelated note, I’ve been hooked on this sparkling water called “Dr. Breen’s Private Reserve”
- Comment on Mushroom ID 11 months ago:
Whatever you say, Bazinga Neutron
- Comment on Mushroom ID 11 months ago:
Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid
- Comment on Mushroom ID 11 months ago:
Washington Post is @washingtonpost.com, so evidently not.
- Comment on Caption this. 11 months ago:
The long awaited sequel to Tako Luka Maguro Fever
- Comment on Mushroom ID 11 months ago:
Amanita bisporigera, or the aptly named eastern North American destroying angel, if anyone’s wondering.
From Wikipedia:
The principal amatoxin, α-amanitin, is readily absorbed across the intestine, and 60% of the absorbed toxin is excreted into bile and undergoes enterohepatic circulation; the kidneys clear the remaining 40%. The toxin inhibits the enzyme RNA polymerase II, thereby interfering with DNA transcription, which suppresses RNA production and protein synthesis. This causes cellular necrosis, especially in cells which are initially exposed and have rapid rates of protein synthesis. This process results in severe acute liver dysfunction and, ultimately, liver failure.
I could not confirm that it causes liquefactive necrosis of the liver specifically, however. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I couldn’t confirm it.
- Comment on evangelism 1 year ago:
This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.
The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.