syklemil

@syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it’s likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that’s an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that’s also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of last names here are frozen patronyms (e.g. at some point some dude named Hans had kids; now there are lots of people calling themselves his son, Hansen) or place names. I kinda like the place name bit: Just give kids last names to a place they have a connection to. Where they were born or conceived or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn’t be that weird.

  But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been making flu vaccines for a long time now, and the flu has always been a virus that comes in various strains so you need to renew the vaccine frequently (usually once a year, as opposed to other vaccines that can last you a decade), and the medical industry needs to know which strains to make vaccines for.

  Part of the thing with covid was that it was novel, and the vaccines were as well, because they needed to be not just developed fast, but deployed fast.

  This isn’t the first time H5N1 is making the rounds, and there have been vaccines for it for over a decade. Depending on where you live, your country may have a stockpile of vaccines or just ordered one.

  The problems humanity will face with the virus is one of uneven distribution of vaccines due to uneven distribution of wealth, poor health care policies, and science denialism / vaccine conspiracy nightmares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, to my ESL ears man/woman are nouns, not adjectives, and using them as adjectives comes off as childish.

  That said, “female X” can also sound clumsy, if it’s implied that a bare X is male, e.g. “politician” and “female politician”, vs male and female politician. There was a twitter account calling itself a “male programmer” which took the piss out of that trope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule of man’s plaid not conforming to Euclidean space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boobies !!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even with a “please keep your feet on the floor” sign right next to them.