wieson
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- Comment on Skill issue 2 days ago:
Tetris is about trying to fit into a society, that wants to destroy you.
Space invader is about uniting all of earth’s peoples against a common challenge.
Pong is about the heated but honest exchange of ideas that makes a democracy stronger.
(/jk I agree with you)
- Comment on Not the worst offender 3 days ago:
Have you ever experienced not being French in France?
Yes. And always have they been nice and helpful to me. When they sensed that I was stuck with my french, they tried to switch to English. Which wasn’t better than my french, but hey, who’s counting.
Have you ever experienced the French in their (former) colonies, how they act towards the locals?
No. And I respect that the perspective from (former) colonies can be quite negative.
Have you ever experienced a French tourist in a different country, being angry because not everyone speaks French?
No, not ever. I have heard tourists speaking french here and there, but no notable occurrences.
I doubt you are French
I’m not.
- Comment on Not the worst offender 3 days ago:
Laughing about the “Fr*nch” without knowing why is an uneducated American thing.
As you are probably Swedish or German, I expect more informed jokes than just >hatred towards France, the French people [etc.]
- Comment on Not the worst offender 3 days ago:
Sad. I was hoping these uncreative, racist jokes wouldn’t appear under this comment.
At least make a joke about things the french do or say, then it would be racist but funny.
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- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 days ago:
Only Faber-Castell for me
- Comment on Not the worst offender 4 days ago:
What do you mean? Are one’s native language and the validity of one’s opinion connected?
- Comment on Not the worst offender 4 days ago:
Just fyi, in French orthography it is correct to put a space before a question mark. So please don’t disregard comments here on international lemmy, since i.e. phone keyboards put it there automatically.
- Comment on Win win 5 days ago:
and the looong hat
- Comment on I've done it again... 5 days ago:
I learned that as a child from my mum, so it seemed basic knowledge to me. But I guess, Americans don’t use scales that much.
Most recipes say 100g per serving (1/5 pound) but it’s best to know your individual needs.
- Comment on Hopefully, Future School Kids Will Have to Write Essays About This 2 weeks ago:
Saddam Fußein
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
Back on the old site on one of those text based subreddits there was a question posted:
Would you rather have free WiFi wherever you go, or any apple product you wish at any time.
My (then unrotted) brain was like: mmh WiFi everywhere is good, but apple cake, apple pie, apple sauce, apple spritz, apple cider, apple strudel, dried apples… Yeah I’m going with apple products
- Comment on Canceled Wonder Woman 'Was Gorgeous and Expansive,' Comic Book Writer Who Consulted on the Game Says 3 weeks ago:
Less American superhero slob
- Comment on This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting. 3 weeks ago:
The phone rings, that’s the knock. You can hang up for many reasons. Maybe it’s the culture of 100% availability that’s wrong, and not phoning.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 4 weeks ago:
You don’t finance it, you take a loan from a bank on the company. If the company folds, it goes bankrupt, not you. You don’t take anymore risk than the other workers.
If the company is dead, you’re still a human and now just another worker on the job market. You don’t go to jail for going bankrupt.
- Comment on SEIS!? 1 month ago:
And thou shalt count to three. Three is the number thou shalt count to. Four, thou shalt not count to, neither two shalt thou count to. Five is right out.
- Comment on SEIS!? 1 month ago:
Me llamo T-Bone la araña discoteca
- Comment on Shut up, haters 1 month ago:
Calves, lambs and kids don’t suck with a vacuum neither. They just kinda chew.
- Comment on Welcome 2 months ago:
One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
"The wrong amazon is burning."
- quoting some comment I read somewhere
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 months 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 months 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 months 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" 2 months ago:
Yea, but a burning heart also works well as a symbol for Caritas
- Comment on sorry 2 months ago:
True comedy. I chuckled out loud.