Kornblumenratte
@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 week ago:
Just use a cheese slicer. You’ll find out that it’s impossible to cut cheese with a knive to the same sliceness.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
Well, Romance languages have thousands, too, like e.g. French poser and sup-poser, dé-poser, re-poser, trans-poser, pro-poser, im-poser, ex-poser, pré-poser, anté-poser, op-poser, super-poser, com-poser, juxta-poser, ap-poser, dis-poser, postposer,
If I call up a random French or Spanish article on wikipedia, a decent amount, if not the majority of verbs (not counting auxilliary verbs) are compounds. Somehow Romance speakers seem to have lost the ability to spot them, a Mexican coworker of mine was absolutely convinced Spanish does not have compound verbs as well.
Oh – I see. The Romance prepositions have changed. Knowing Latin I cannot not recognise the loads of compound verbs, but with sur, de, derriere, travers, par, en, hors, avant and so on the compounds are not recognisable any longer and our poor Romance friends have to learn all the words by themselves instead of nice semilogical groups.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
Are there words in German ending in -e that are not female?
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s because chauff-eur/euse means neither driver nor prostitute, but “heater”, as in “someone who makes hot”. One heats the steam engine, the other their clients. The sexism is not built in the language or the gender system, but in the patriarchal culture.
- Comment on why 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get the weirdness of phrasal verbs? It’s a basic staple of every Indoeuropean language to generate verbs by tacking on prepositions. Ok, it’s a bit weird to use prepositions after the word, but that’s just standard Germanic separable verbs that are a bit regulized. So what?
- Comment on A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog 4 weeks ago:
If I am not mistakem, they did not cite OP but pretended that OP joined their community and committed posts on their blog.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 4 weeks ago:
If they tell you they love you, they love you. But there are many, many different kinds and aspects of love, many ideas what love is. If they tell you “we love you” but you cannot feel or sense this love, you are both using the same word, but not the same idea of love. Or maybe you have even the same idea what love means, but have different ways and needs how to express and experience this love.
The key would be not to doubt their love but to discuss and reflect with them what they mean when they say “We love you”, how they try to show you their love, how they want you to show your love, how you want them to show their love.
Sadly, for most people such conversations are very hard, if not next to impossible. Counseling, mediation or therapy can be helpful, if you’ve got access to any.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 4 weeks ago:
@gigachad@sh.itjust.works has a point, though. I agree with you that love is expressed by words, but I also agree with them that words alone are meaningless if not backed by loving behaviour.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 1 month ago:
Just take them out 1–2 days before you consume them.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They usually feed the mom, IIRC.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
Now include perclude and reclude! (Ok, I’m afraid English forgot to loot the last two from Latin’s pockets, after she robbed her in a dark alleyway)
- Comment on Easter can't come soon enough. 1 month ago:
Only for the real thing. [Reenactors]m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZusqHYkVgU) don’t want to wreck their wrist and feet and use ropes for suspension and nails for show. A pretty damaging show, still.
- Comment on Easter can't come soon enough. 1 month ago:
Well, they did use ropes, so this technique would work.
I’m not entirely sure that there are no religious fanatics who reenact the crucifixion. Using ropes for fixation and putting nails through the center of the palm, they would avoid crippling their hands severely.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Only problem – which year? They’ve got different lengths.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Just use the speed of light as base and measure the distance in time units (implying *c). 100 psc (lightpicoseconds) are a bit more than 1⅛ inch, 4 ~ 1 mm, 1 nsc (lightnanosecond) is 1 foot or 29.9 cm, 1 μsc (lightmicrosecond) ~ 299 m. Would be totally possible. Within city boundaries we should introduce a speedlimit of 1 pc (picolightspeed), pretty easy to implement.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Come on, you are able to analize words! Fun is obviously fun, and ding is obviously an abbreviation for dingbats, so fun-ding is having fun with dingbats!
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
If you were used to analog clocks, you’d read the remaining time just off the clock. As you would just read the time off it – no need for any translation or comparison, just one glimpse and you’d know it. For several decades this superiority of analog clocks was a main argument against the use of digital clocks. Digital clocks are more precise, though.
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
IIRC, the current theory is that stars do not move apart, but that space itself expands, which generates the impression that they move apart.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 2 months ago:
Spotted the vim user! (sed doesn’t like missing slashes)
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 months ago:
Well, back in the day they successfully ousted Mr. Boycott by boycotting him. So at least the first boycott successfully worked.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 months ago:
I’d say all of history until 1968?
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 2 months ago:
Here is a good video explaining the trend: youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 months ago:
They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?
Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 months ago:
Next US presidential elections.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 months ago:
There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.
- Comment on Good luck! 3 months ago:
This image is far older than generative AI.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 3 months ago:
I’d like to agree. But I’m stuck with Windows at work. At the moment, our IT guys upgrade a couple of PCs a day from Win10 to Win11. The GUI sucks, and the complete network is getting slower and slower. I crave the good old DOS times, when the system used to be faster than me.