Osan

@Osan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s that some older people tend to be overconfident and think they’ve figured out everything in life (not that this behaviour is exclusive to old people but the older you’re the more likely you’re to think that you know shit). Another factor might be that over time you’re more likely to confirm to your surrounding, being too tired and old to “rebel”.

  Just stay curious, open minded and always willing to learn and do new things.

  I’ve noticed that most of the professors I liked in college were the ones to admit when they’re wrong, understand that not everyone learn the same and willing to accept nonconventional answers in exams, not use the same material from a decade ago, etc. it might be trivial facts but it shows that on the larger scale this person is still evolving and adapting to their surrounding not being stuck in some old mentality.

  I also believe that while age has a role in this it’s not actually about age but rather the mentality the person has and whether they can see the big picture or not. I think the fact that OP has noticed it and didn’t want to become like this is an indication that their mentality is moving in the right direction.

  PS: English isn’t my first language and I’m kinda tired while writing this so please forgive me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Arabic we use DD/MM/YYYY but it actually gets written as YYYY/MM/DD since Arabic is written and read from right to left. When the year is dropped the confusing part is not what format is used here but rather does this website/software support RTL or is it just regular unformatted ASCII.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We do that in Arabic too. It’s called “badal”, a figure of speech where you replace “the whole” with “the part” to emphasize that part’s importance in the context; in this case that would be either where the government is located in the country or where the report originated from.

  For example when Arabic news agencies want to refer to the USA’s government they say Washington or the white house. Since that’s usually where the news come from.