wieson
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- Comment on Welcome 1 week ago:
One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 week ago:
Ah thanks, I googled it quickly and it gave me both (as titles on webpages, not like in a dictionary). But with the number of spelling mistakes on shopping sites, I shouldn’t have trusted the titles alone :)
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 week ago:
The other commenters have already explained it diligently, but I wanted to hop on for something related.
As a German speaker, it actually irritates me a little, that English doesn’t agglutinate. Let’s take the word “gum ball machine”.
Which is it? It’s a machine. So are “gum” and “ball” descriptors of “machine”? Well no, they’re all nouns. But they’re not all subjects or objects of a sentence. They’re one subject together. But they’re not written together.
If I had a red gum ball machine, is it a red machine made out of gum that produces balls? Ok, it can also be spelt gumball machine. But that’s still multiple words per concept.
I like my nouns to be one word if it’s one thing and one subject.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 week ago:
No, it’s literally not. It is “tool” or “gadget”. Not just any object or dingsbums.
Zeug used to mean something different back in the day.
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 weeks ago:
“Ongezellig” is dutch and means “unsociable”.
It’s a story about three adoptive sisters Maya, Coco and Mymy. It’s in dutch, but the subtitles are great.
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 weeks ago:
You should watch “Ongezellig”, an animated pilot with 5 short episodes á 5 minutes.
You will get the relevance to this comment in the first episode.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 2 weeks ago:
A déodorant that’s made from more organic ingredients.
For example Cocos oil and soda. In my experience it has been streets ahead of a commercial déodorant. It allows me to sweat but eliminates all smell, even when applying after I’ve already started to sweat.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 2 weeks ago:
"The wrong amazon is burning."
- quoting some comment I read somewhere
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
Empty landmass isn’t the only important thing.
I.e. Florida, the third most populous US state (21M), is about half the size of the whole of Germany.
But Germany’s most populous state (North Rhine - Westphalia / NRW) has a pop of 18M.
It’s waaaaay smaller, but the n of inhabitants is comparable.
To the point: I don’t think , it’s necessary to know the names of foreign states. But it’s good to know roughly what’s going on in the world. It is no secret, that US Americans are exceptionally caught in their own bubble.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 2 weeks ago:
Historically
You use that term rather lightly. Idk, if I think “historically” my mind goes further back than 120 years. At least to the Spanish Habsburgs’ occupation, maybe even Burgundian era, Lotharingia, the Franks or the Belgae tribes.
It is technically history, but that’s like saying: “Historically, I nourish myself with broccoli pizza” just because I had some yesterday.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 4 weeks ago:
Yea, but a burning heart also works well as a symbol for Caritas
- Comment on sorry 4 weeks ago:
True comedy. I chuckled out loud.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 4 weeks ago:
I think that for terrorism you need the goal to instill terror in the population. Since it was so specifically targeted and only one victim, I don’t know how well it fits. Also, most of the population doesn’t feel terror, maybe he should be hit with satisfaction charges.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
There’s literally a province called Inner Mongolia where the Mongols not just used to live but live to this day.
- Comment on I choose innovation. 5 weeks ago:
But if you closed the blinds
Does it almost seem like this would really work
- Comment on Depressing awful town 5 weeks ago:
No-one ever talks about white on white violence
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I’m in Germany
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 month ago:
So, I’ve never owned one, but did a test ride on a con. It was the most plasticy, janky mess I ever sat in. Ok, a Hummer I once sat in was maybe equally bad.
Every surface your hand could touch wasn’t fastened properly and moved in ways it shouldn’t. The door handles wiggled about. The touch screen replacing the middle console - absolute nightmare. The swinging door got stuck halfway.
You could say, all of this is the interior and not the engine. But it’s what the user interacts with. If I can’t trust the manufacturer from my experience with the door handle, I’ll have a hard time trusting them about the brakes.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 1 month ago:
weak
- Comment on I've got a double peen AMA 2 months ago:
The best one imo: the carpenter’s hammer
Wikipedia translates it to claw hammer, but the built and functions are very different.
- Comment on Time to go to the Soup Store 2 months ago:
Stew ist Eintopf. Soup can be different, clear broth, cream soup or pureed soup (see here for more)
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 2 months ago:
Step 1: braid your hair. Two braids to the sides or two pigtails, either works
Step 2: get one of those big swirly lollies
Step 3: ba-dee ba-daa
Left- right – air time – right-left – air time
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 2 months ago:
Maybe if you skipped?
- Comment on Get into that shrigma mindset 2 months ago:
What a rainfall
- Comment on lemmy rn 2 months ago:
I think the strat would be too found a new party ( let’s say American Worker’s Party AWP) on the state and country level.
Get in the state parliaments. Later, if the party is established, get as many seats in the senate and the HoR as possible, but don’t touch the presidential race until it’s actually realistic.
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 2 months ago:
BlackHoodedDeathRiderOfTheApocalypse.jpg
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 2 months ago:
I’m out here actively going against my biases and selling someone else’s house above market value 😤
- Comment on Mine's a Juicer 2 months ago:
I just found the American, no mention of wether that’s a bad thing. It just makes your nation unique, that you use measuring cups.
- Comment on Mine's a Juicer 2 months ago:
We typically use a kitchen scale
