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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is your God now?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I once tried steeping (black) tea in a friend’s drip coffee maker. That shit was the strongest, most flavorful tea I’ve ever tried. 9/10 would recommend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On a very fundamental level, the scaffolding that makes words make sense is the neuron structures in your brain which fire when they recognize certain sounds/scribbles. Things like etymology and grammar are not necessary for a language to be used for communication (in fact, languages existed for much longer than the notions of etymology or grammar). Both of them help make the language more standardized and thus more understandable, but they are not required - you can totally make yourself understood without knowing about either of those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we now technically have a fusion reactor in the sky, and we can receive the energy it beams down right at our homes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Satellites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure the model of train is a proper name and it’s named after the satellite. I don’t think I would describe any train as a literal “sputnik” of the rails.

  Also Russian is full of composite words like that. “Explorer” in russian would be “исследователь” (issledovatel’) - ис (completely) + след (trace/footstep) + оват (make, imbue) + ель (he who). Literally it would be “he who makes (places) completely (covered in) footsteps”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Satellites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path

  It doesn’t though, it comes from French compagnon/compaignon and then Latin com (with) + panis (bread). It probably originally meant “someone with whom you share bread (eat together)”.

  And actually, looking at wiktionary, Old English had a word “ġefēra” (with the same meaning) which is constructed very similarly to “спутник”: ge (‘with’, still the same prefix in german e.g. ‎Gebrüder) + fera (‘to go’/‘to fare’, e.g. in seafaring)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is my filet knife?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still super fucked up that you’re basically gifting some other person a sizeable chunk of your income just because they were able to put up a down payment and secure a mortgage. Landlords are middlemen leaches that should not exist even by capitalist standards, see Adam Smith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally someone we can get behind!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual answer is “stop supporting US/israeli war effort”. The strait is already open for everyone who’s not helping the empire bomb Iranian schoolgirls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic fucking Linda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if you’re overweight, just be happy that she’s helping you reduce calorie intake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then maaybe stop defaming her? Like, this post should be ban worthy by any reasonable instance and community rules?

  This is a shitpost community, I’m pretty sure it is implied that everything posted here is satirical and/or ironic and/or made up for fun. You wouldn’t sue The Onion for defamation either (or maybe you would, IDK)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Imperialism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poland and Lithuania became “the west” very recently; hence “most” in my claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Imperialism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most “western” countries have been acting like this in the past century and are still to this moment reaping the benefits from colonial and imperialist plunder of the global south. It’s not just the USA, even though it is the most damaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was told it would be a cultural experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨simpler times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

  I think the fundamental problem with them is that the concept of “owning information” is ultimately absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it’s real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incel propaganda in my music app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man vs reeducation camp guards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incel propaganda in my music app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re ok with a little piracy, this exists: f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dd3boh.outertune

  And then you can also buy your favorite albums/songs on bandcamp to actually support the artists!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As another vegan: sorry, no, it’s not accurate. And the texture/meltiness is just completely off. It is similar enough for me to enjoy it and not want real cheese anymore. However, for many people (especially americans) cheese is some holy substance, so we do need to continue improving vegan cheeses for more people to jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not used correctly. The word UFO starts with a consonant in all major English dialects, as such the correct article is “a”, as in “a UFO”. See www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was very very little to complain about with her.

  • Promising full military support to a settler colony currently committing a genocide using US weapons
  • Campaigning with fucking Cheneys and pandering to fascists
  • Not promising any actual support for trans people, stopping at "I will follow the law"
  • Not being actually voted on by anyone, instead just appointed by DNC
  • Most importantly: she’s a neolib, and the working class has been suffering materially due to neolib policies for the past 50 years, people want change

  There is a shitton to complain about her. I would’ve voted for her if I was in the US, but it’s crazy to just shove a status-quo establishment neoliberal and expect people who are surviving paycheck-to-paycheck due to that very ideology to be excited about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny you should say that, if you look at the living standards & human development before and after, it’s pretty clear that the revolution was overall a really good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UK is clearly “shoes on” on the map though, it’s marked is green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH like a half of those questions is something I could ask when I was younger, and the other half might have been asked by my friends when they were high. I hope I didn’t upset the retail workers too much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nice guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to get rid of cars, the sooner the better. Whether self-driving, electric, or a combination of those, they are the worst transportation method for most use-cases, only used because they are the most profitable for the capitalist and seem immediately convenient for the user, resulting in a double tragedy-of-commons situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nice guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole thing seemed to be engineered for drama, and the “results” are an exceptionally clickbaity oversimplification of what’s going on. It’s like that numberphile thing with 1 + 2 + 3 + …

  It’s also more complicated than the lightbulb just “turning on faster than the electric field could travel through the wire”, in fact (depending on the exact circumstances) the current would ramp up very slowly, probably not enough to even meaningfully “light” the lightbulb, and only after the light-speed delay one-way would it ramp up to full-brightness.

  Electric field obviously travels in all directions, but the electrons which produce fluctuations in the electric field are constrained to the wire, hence unless your wires are so close together as to basically be connected to each other, air attenuates the electric field wave propagation. This is an actually good-faith reproduction of the experiment and an in-depth explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8 .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.

  Semi-relatedly, I’m salty they didn’t push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.

  Then they could make time consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) “metric seconds” in a day (which would mean 1 “metric second” ≈ 4 “normal” seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 “metric seconds” in a “metric minute”, 10 “metric minutes” in a “metric hour”, 10 “metric hours” in a “metric day”). Would be really quite neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the two, Celsius is less arbitrary because it is based on actual measurable reproducible things and not “we threw in some salts in water, and guesstimated a human body temperature”. It also makes a lot of sense in our post-industrial society because we do/don’t want to freeze/boil water almost every day for a variety of uses. Water is both an extremely important substance for humans and its freezing/boiling points occur in everyday life (unlike air or common metals).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it’s the other way around. Kelvin scale is Celsius scale shifted by -273.16 ℃.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just about the temperature, it’s also about how quickly the temperature is dropping. Usually when the temperature goes down, trees do some “clever” shit with the sap inside them, specifically so that there’s less moisture in them and when it freezes and expands the tree doesn’t crack. However if it drops too quickly the trees can’t do their magic quickly enough, too much water freezes, puts too much stress on the tree and it may crack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t last because the will of bureaucracy was placed before the will of the people, it was a long decline of democratic rights of the working class started under Stalin and continued by all following leaders. It was not due to socialism per se, more due to the specifics of CPSU politics. China seems to have figured out a better way to do democratic dictatorship of proletariat and is successfully combining aspects of capitalism and socialism, to both make the country appealing to capitalist investors and also build up a socialist economy to bring the living standards up. It’s not perfect (and is definitely not “the end of history” by any means), but it is doing fine as an interim solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A soviet era russian also had access to free healthcare, free childcare, free higher education, cheap (sometimes free) housing, excellent (for the time) public transit, and a safety net for unemployment or old age. Oh and there was ample opportunities to build community ties so that if something did go horribly wrong and you needed that help. Capitalism in decline will give you none of that.