hakase
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- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 20 hours ago:
It’s ironic, by trying to get them to hate each other he accidentally became something for all of them to rally against.
Major Payne already taught us that this works:
“They hate you!”
“Good. It’ll draw them close together, make 'em a team.”
- Comment on Game library 1 day ago:
Yeah I can always stand to put another thousand hours into Monster Hunter World.
- Comment on It's always been women in STEM. 3 days ago:
Yup, never let a pesky thing like the truth get on the way of a good story.
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t either - it’s probably just as arbitrary and socialized as boob size preferences. Maybe someone here with a background in sociology or anthropology can shed some light?
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I get it. It’s much harder to acknowledge the biases you’re showing in this comment and be a force for positive change than it is to just reflexively lash out at the messenger.
Until that happens though, the problem will remain, and you’ll remain a part of it.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of “beef milk” from Parks and Rec.
- Comment on Anon likes a girl 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s actually what happens though. Two weeks ago my wife and I were setting up two friends of ours on a blind date, and literally her first question was “how tall is he?” She of course got pissy when I asked what I should tell him when he asked about her weight.
The manosphere is only able to capitalize on this rhetoric because it’s largely based in truth. Hashtag not all women, but enough of them for practically every guy under six feet to have a rejection story for being too short.
Hell, I got rejected back in college once because I apparently have an ugly nose. To act like stuff like this isn’t happening to guys literally every day is being willfully ignorant. Rules 1 and 2 exist for a reason.
- Comment on Billionaire opinion is not news 2 weeks ago:
Someone read Manufacturing Consent
- Comment on Wendnesday 3 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah, quite possibly, good catch. I suppose it could be either assimilation to final -t before it dropped off, or final nasal merger to -n, a la Greek. I’ll check and report back.
- Comment on Wendnesday 3 weeks ago:
This type of analogy is specifically called series contamination, where items that frequently are pronounced together in a series affect each other. Also happened in proto-Germanic with the ‘n’ in ten, from the ‘n’ in nine (and in the opposite direction of Latin novem and decem; cf. nonus “ninth” to see the original ‘n’).
Also probably at least partially responsible for the common American pronunciation of Wednesday, based on Tuesday.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, heaven forbid anyone have fun on the Internet.
- Comment on We can't see them because they don't move 4 weeks ago:
So spinosaurus is Deviljho?
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
Toward YouTube and Google instead? If you say so.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 month ago:
I mean sure, as long as I don’t care about getting tenure or finding a permanent position…
- Comment on Traumatizing 1 month ago:
How can she slap??
- Comment on 'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species 2 months ago:
Uhhh… humans?
- Comment on Clock logic 2 months ago:
precluded
- Comment on Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! 2 months ago:
Oops, thanks, I was watching it on my phone and grabbed the wrong link. I’ve corrected the link to point to their video.
Note that it is back up - I’m watching it on their channel on my phone right now.
- Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction!www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Haha, it’s a fruit tree so it smokes similar to an applewood.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.
- Comment on Vague design choice 2 months ago:
This is the correct answer. There’s even a slight plastic indentation to let the user know that both of the buttons in question are “start” buttons.
- Comment on Call me... 2 months ago:
It’s a good name in my humble opilion
- Comment on IYKYK 2 months ago:
Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.
- Comment on Misty Mountains 3 months ago:
Newclams can’t triforce
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Fig. 7a. End result of prototypical torus transformation of a sphere.
Fig. 7b. Process of sphere elongation into a torus.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
“Discovered portion of the skeleton of the previously unknown camelid ancestor”
- Comment on TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear" 3 months ago:
Interestingly, Latin ursus and Greek *arktos are cognates. Both come from the Proto-Indo-European word for “bear”, h₂ŕ̥tḱos.
This word is interesting in that it contains an example of what’s called (for various reasons) a “thorn cluster”. Certain words in PIE containing the cluster “tk”, for whatever reason, underwent metathesis (switching places) in most of the IE daughter languages. This is why the PIE word has a “tk”, but the Greek word has a “kt”.
This is one of the many reasons for thinking that the Anatolian branch of Indo-European (Hittite, Luvian, etc.) branched off from PIE first - the Hittite word for “bear”, ḫar-tág-ga-aš, still shows the PIE order of “t” and “k” (the Hittite double-g was probably something similar to a “k”), meaning that this family of languages branched off before the rest of the family underwent this shared change of “tk” to “kt”.
Another fun fact about the “bear” word is that all of Germanic has completely lost it. Instead, they innovated a formation meaning “the brown one”, which is still reflected in Modern English bear.
This is thought to have been due to taboo avoidance. When you’re hunting the bear (or maybe when the bear is hunting you), you don’t want to actually say the true name of the animal, because that would either scare it away or bring it to you, whichever is worse under the circumstances. So, you instead call it “the brown one”, and so, over time, the true word for “bear” in Germanic was completely lost.
Also possibly the source of one of the primary Slavic words for “bear”, medved <*medu-ed “honey-eater” (the first part cognate with English “mead”, and the second with “eat”).
- Comment on And so it was 3 months ago:
Specifically, the process by which cucaracha became cockroach is called folk etymology, whereby words that people have trouble making sense of in their native language can be remade with pieces they are familiar with.
Other examples of folk etymology include Key West from Spanish Cayo Hueso (Bone Key), crayfish from French creviche, Alzheimer’s Disease being called Old Timer’s Disease, and many, many others.
- Comment on Mainstream media does not want you to know this 3 months ago:
Turns out we were living on the Bionis after all