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- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 day ago:
Honestly, the John Wick films are a bit tired at this point. I think he should die at the end of one so that his dog can go on a 2- to 3-film killing spree during which he raises a troubled youth with a heart of gold, abandoned by the system, and then the dog gets killed at the end of those movies so the kid can go on a killing spree and maybe rescue an abused circus animal or something.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 day ago:
What if we film the dog and the hooker and call it art?
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 5 days ago:
I grew up in a very male-as-default English-speaking culture. Any animal, robot, or plant would be referred to as it or he, unless that creature/thing has additional female markers such as wearing pink, makeup, etc.
For examples look at the designs of Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Babs and Buster Bunny. If you draw a little blob with eyes, people will say “He’s/It’s cute.” If you put a pink bow on it, they will say “She’s cute.”
You can even look at the word “woman” itself. “Man” originally just meant any person, but “woman” was invented to speak specifically about a “wife-man.” Going to your German examples, why did they make special words for female bakers, etc. and none for male bakers? It’s because male is the default and female is a deviation from that norm. You don’t need a special word to describe the default assumption.
There’s this old riddle:
A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, and the son is rushed to the hospital. When he is taken into the operating room, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy! He’s my son!” How is this possible?
It plays on one’s assumptions about gender.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 6 days ago:
The predator in the films is also an alien, so 🤷♂️.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 1 week ago:
This is the first time I’ve seen a red circle without knowing what it’s supposed to be indicating. It centers on the number of shares??
- Comment on What would you do? 1 week ago:
Ideally they could just stop using AI to generate both the text and practice problems.
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 1 week ago:
I can stay up literally the entire night with an analog book and dim yellow light. But as soon as someone in my phone starts shining a floodlight directly into my retinas, it’s off to sleepy town.
- Comment on Where'd it go? 1 week ago:
I never saw that before because I never tried hiding read posts. That’s good to know, thank you!
- Comment on Where'd it go? 1 week ago:
Our supply vendor works like that. Looking for brown paper bags? Here’s every brown and paper item in the catalog, along with some plastic bags!
- Comment on Where'd it go? 1 week ago:
I use Summit and I don’t know the feature you’re referring to. Could you explain it?
I’ve used the instance name filter to block lemmy.world from my feed because it drowns out less popular/new comms, but it’s really annoying to have to go into the filter menu to add and delete the filter all the time because I don’t want it filtered permanently.
- Comment on puzzle rule 1 week ago:
I am not going to share the comic that immediately came up when I chose to look into this. The artist is unquestionably a transphobe.
- Comment on Really incredible. I want a set. 1 week ago:
I love that the name “mezzaluna” is so descriptive that I immediately knew what tool you meant despite having never encountered the word in my life. Nicely done, Italy.
- Comment on Curious 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Because people learn to understand language much faster than being able to produce it, both in terms of formulation and pronunciation. For babies in particular, they struggle with the fine motor skills required to produce sounds reliably. Babies can learn to produce nonverbal communication faster than vocal language because it’s easier in terms of bodily control.
- Comment on A simple misunderstanding 2 weeks ago:
You’re not falling—you’re redefining what it means to drive.
- Comment on I got an ad in this community 2 weeks ago:
BEANS
- Comment on I got an ad in this community 2 weeks ago:
I’m kind of shocked to realize just how closely their caffeine content lines up with how well I perceived them as headache cures before I learned about migraines and caffeine. I guess that’s how the ancients figured out which plants do what.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
What type of behavior? Did he do something to endanger the public?
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 weeks ago:
I have a celiac diagnosis now, but I had to diagnose myself online and fight to get tested. I don’t judge people who try to figure out their own healthcare because the system is happy to abandon them.
- Comment on who said satire is dead 3 weeks ago:
The Mythbusters proved you can polish a turd, especially if it’s from a carnivore.
- Comment on who said satire is dead 3 weeks ago:
It’s literally satire.
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly my experience growing up as a millennial. I think what you (and hater articles) are describing as a gen z thing is normal human behavior when caught in a situation with emotionally unhealthy people, especially if it’s an abusive power imbalance.
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 5 weeks ago:
There are also child gambling machines, like crane games, coin pushers, or that one with the moving light. I don’t get why stuff like that is okay. I’m not defending loot boxes, but I do think it’s really weird to single them out. Why don’t they just work to pass a law which bans all of them?
- Comment on ard 1 month ago:
Yes. It’s not too unusual for that sort of thing to happen. Feverfew and lungwort are plants named after their medicinal uses, and the tea plant and rubber tree are named for what they produce. Wheat means white, referring to the ground flour.
A lot of things might have had other names before a use was discovered, or they just might not have been named by anyone yet. I think most plants have probably had lots of different regional names within the same language. Flowers seem to collect a lot of names; I think they make us poetic because they tended to interact with human culture in many ways.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.
Really? I thought everyone knew T-rex when I was a kid. The only pick for Land Before Time I thought was weird was Duckie because I’m still not 100% sure what she is despite having looked it up a few times. The rest of the cast are what I’d consider your classic dinosaurs. But it’s hard to know what other people know when you’re an autistic kid.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All birds today are actually coelurosauria dinosaurs, a group of theropods (T-rex and raptor-shape dinosaurs) who are thought to have all had feathers for warmth, show, and/or gliding and flight. I know we have evidence that some other theropods had feathers (or at least hairy stuff), but I don’t know whether the rest of them are lacking evidence of feathers or whether we have evidence against them having feathers.
I would also love such a book, preferably with lots of pictures.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
While the look is based in old misconceptions of dinosaur biology, the Jurassic Park dinos lacking feathers actually works really well for the story. They were never meant to be real dinosaurs. They’re just theme park attractions, so of course they look how the customers expect them to. Just like how most of them aren’t even from the Jurassic period.
- Comment on ard 1 month ago:
It could have a negative connotation. One could be a genuine wise man or essentially a snake oil salesman, so the word could be applied in both ways. It’s like how we use “genius” as an insult; we’re using the word in an ironic and sarcastic way.
Here is a collection of various uses throughout history:
- Comment on ard 1 month ago:
It’s not “too” something; it’s just being strong (hardy) or remarkable in that trait. A lot of sources list it as derogatory, but it isn’t so in all instances of use.
A wizard is not too wise, but very wise. Renard or Reinhardt is someone who gives good advice or makes good decisions.
The “must” in mustard is juice and pulp which you intend to ferment, because grape must was an ingredient. There’s a lot of debate over whether the “ard” is the one in this post or ardens (burning).
- Comment on To yoink is to be human. You weren't using that part of your soul anyways 1 month ago:
Isn’t the person who owns the rights despite nothing being owned the one doing the hoarding?
