lugal
@lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What odds are you giving? 12 hours ago:
There is a German novel about a boy called Timm Thaler who sold his laughter and in return would win every wager. If he loses one, he will regain his laughter. First he enjoys horserace betting, later he tries to regain his laughter by betting on things that seem possible but he still wins all of them. It takes him 250 pages to finally bet that he gets his laughter back so he gets it either way.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk. - Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 19 hours ago:
I did have aha moments during tests. It’s not too late.
- Comment on wizard posting 3 days ago:
The link is broken. Please fix
- Comment on If you are going to be snowed in this weekend please take this advice 6 days ago:
And how would I change it without hunting it first?
- Comment on It’s a beautiful morning! 1 week ago:
And then, after the series came to a logical end, there still is a sequel nobody asked for
- Comment on It’s a beautiful morning! 1 week ago:
No spoilers, please
- Comment on humour 1 week ago:
Relatable
- Comment on He must be a great guy 1 week ago:
Well, who didn’t?
- Comment on Onion forgets the satire (again) 2 weeks ago:
This is clearly fake. Conservatives don’t know enough about the bible to know it contains that verse.
- Comment on Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's? 2 weeks ago:
Not yet
- Comment on Bees 2 weeks ago:
Beekeepers are more likely to be allergic to bees since allergies develop at contact. This is irrelevant because the bees are already supposed to be venomous but now you know
- Comment on Hey Beter 2 weeks ago:
What 15 th15 ab0ut?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
You think English has many irregular verbs? Don’t make me laugh. Compared to which language exactly?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
You think English has many irregular verbs? Don’t make me laugh. Compared to which language exactly?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lamarck wasn’t the first to come up with a theory of evolution and Darwin wasn’t right about the mechanism.
Charles Darwin’s grandfather already had a theory of evolution and arguably, even he wasn’t the first.
Charles Darwin wasn’t aware of genes. His idea of inheritance was basically the same as Lamarck’s. Only when Darwin and Mendel were combined, the “modern” theory of evolution was born, the “new synthesis” or something it’s called.
The reason we single out these two isn’t that one was first and one was right, neither was. It’s because of the Great Man of History idea. We could talk about Wallace, how he was on the same path as Darwin but Darwin published first to outcompete him. But we don’t because we like to believe in great thinkers who singlehandedly changed the world.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
That makes it harder. 7 is the limit of Balto-Slavic languages but I know that one Baltic language used to have more, loaned from Estonian or something, but lost them over time. So my guess is your local dialect preserved one? Otherwise I have no clue. I think modern Indo Aryan languages have less, Semitic languages have 2 genders and I don’t know how many cases. I could rule out some more to show off but not much.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t mention genders so I guess you have none which leads me to Uralic or Turkic languages maybe?
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
All languages have their difficulties. English pronunciation and spelling is a mess but grammar is easy for example. My native language has 3 genders and 4 cases for example and there are languages with more.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 2 weeks ago:
I took one semester of Russian in uni and I still can read the Cyrillic alphabet
- Comment on Water time 2 weeks ago:
There is no shame is enjoying a hot water fountain
- Comment on Please the Beans 4 weeks ago:
c/dontdeadopeninside (or the other one, I always confuse them)
- Comment on Would you? 4 weeks ago:
Not necessarily exactly 7. My guess is somewhere around – let’s say – 6 – 7
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 4 weeks ago:
Duck is my favorite fish
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 4 weeks ago:
Not a huge difference or should I say not very different
- Comment on me and who 4 weeks ago:
This could be us but you keep posting fake news on shitpost
- Comment on me and who 4 weeks ago:
I would apply “irrelevant” to shitpost on Lemmy. It’s not posted on mainstream social media but on Lemmy and not even on a serious community
- Comment on get it Mildred 5 weeks ago:
Still makes it unlikely that Mildred’s grandson is one
- Comment on get it Mildred 5 weeks ago:
They are hiring losers because they have none
- Comment on Radiating 5 weeks ago:
Unexpected Warp 10 meme