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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.

  I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The word goes back to at least 1580 and at the time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until those two nations joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A brick a day keeps the pigs away.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong. I love me a nuanced conversation about the intersections of sustainability and accessibility. If you want to, we can have that.

  But this is a shitpost community. Posts here aren’t really expected to conform to reality, let alone provide exhaustive coverage of all corner cases. This stupid shitpost also neglects to consider folks who need to have fluids introduced intravenously and the plastic waste created by single use saline bags, or the material/lifetime of the cup in which a straw is used. This is a dumb meme about the choices that some people make with the options that they have. It is not an indictment against the people to which those options may not be available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eco-vengeance iconoclast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Javelina?

  I don’t even know Alina!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purrfect costume⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll let you in on a little secret: I had to look up the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purrfect costume⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I immediately thought T’Ana

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  It’s shower_thoughts_ not shower_posts_

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her legs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the front of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salmon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where were you when you heard that the president was shot?

  Where were you when you heard that the towers fell?

  Where were you when you heard someone shout “Geht en mah bel-ley!” for the first time?

  These are the questions that shaped generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is worse? Getting hit with bird poop while standing still, or while riding a motorcycle down the highway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't wipe off your humanity, now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoutout to the The Besties Podcast who created this merch

  P.S. I’m not affiliated with them in any way. Just a listener and Patreon supporter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨here there be lions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m an Alpha male”

  Ah, you’re so stressed, scared and disconnected from your community that you resort to intimidation and violence in some desperate grasp at self respect?

• Does measles effect allergies?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like ![walkaway] (https://i.imgur.com/qhJSBYn.jpeg) has given up the pretense of being moderates displeased with the Democratic Party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the rule limits the actual container size if it contains liquid. Even if you have a nearly empty water bottle or are nursing the last dregs of a full size tube of toothpaste, it gets dumped or thrown out. So technically, if any water has melted at all, it counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains why my fuzzy terrorist always wants to bite them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love going shopping and getting my favorite snacksss 🥰🍬🤤⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the crayons?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jd vance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s Art Van

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops. Good catch! so about 4-30 times the size of the Death Star. That would mean the gravity of the Death Star is at most 1/24th that of earth’s if it were solid rock, and my math is correct. That’s at the surface, though. As you go inside, gravity will decrease until you reach the center where there will be no gravity at all because all the mass of the space station is pulling you away from the center equally. (assuming a uniform mass distribution).

  g ≈ M/r^2
  V ≈ r^3.
  uniform density: ρ for simplicity’s sake
  M = ρV
  —> g ≈ ρr where r is the distance from the center of the death star, but no further than the surface

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did gravity worked on the Death Star?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The gravity is negligible. The official sizes of the Death Stars have been 120 - 900 km in diameter according to rebel scale. For comparison Earths moon is ≈35000 km in diameter and it’s gravity is 1/6 of earth’s. On top of that, the Death Stars are mostly hallow, being a metal framework, instead of solid rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying that the in-office mandate only applies to employees that can’t afford to move away from the office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Second point: the English language is heavily influenced by several historical processes

  WARNING: I am not a linguist or historian and the following is greatly simplified, potentially to the point of falsity

  1. The invasions of Germanic tribes: Angles & Saxons most notably, settled in what we now call England (Angle Land) and pushed the Celtic tribes west and north. Leaving mostly Germanic speaking peoples in the south and East.

  2. The Vikings raids: another wave of Germanic speaking peoples raided and eventually settled in parts of the island, while no less violent than the earlier invasions, it did result in more intermingling of the local Germanic and the Norse Germanic languages than the previous Germanic/Celtic languages did.

  3. The Norman Conquest: This invasion was more of a top-down invasion, where a French speaking monarchy replaced the English speaking monarchy. For a time French became the language of esteem, and state business was conducted in French, while outside the aristocracy, the common folk would use common English in their day-to-day. This is why a lot of modern legal and technical words have roots through French, like litigate, defendant, and plaintiff. Rude words (vulgar is Latin for “common”) often have Germanic roots. See: penis/vagina/intercourse vs. dick/cunt/fuck

  4. Colonization and globalization: English speakers went out and invaded a lot of places. In addition to extracting resources, wealth, and slaves from those places, they took a lot of words too, and just kinda squished them into the language where they could fit. Colonizers also forced English upon the invaded territories much like the Norman’s forced French upon England. Now you have many more English speakers in the world who are also have fusing their own languages into local dialects of English and English words into their native languages. All this gets mixed up into an era of global trade, travel and communication, and Some words just get caught up in the global zeitgeist and make their way into common English usage.

  5. Also, the Church and Romans are mixed up in there somewhere, but I don’t know how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Language is always evolving. A lot of “special” words are just lazy words that have fallen out of regular use over time, or have be pulled out of time and place to evoke the seeming of being old and authoritative. Sometimes "special” words or phrases are just memes used out of context, and sometimes the context is no longer relevant or it is forgotten. We have a “special” word for phases like that: Idioms. The rule for idioms is “Idioms mean what they mean”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be possible to run two OSs simultaneously by hibernating one of the OSs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it is possible, I’ve done it before by accident. The problem I ran into is I was using a shared partition for data storage. At the time, if you didn’t properly shut down Windows it would not unmount the disks, and I couldn’t access them from Linux. I’m sure there was probably a way around that, but not without making the hibernated Windows angry.