Qwel
@Qwel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on why 1 week ago:
“penis” is masculine while “bite” is feminine, too
I would argue that “chauffeuse” for feminine drivers and “chauffeuse” have drifted appart so much that they should be considered different words, homonyms. A feminine driver should be called a chauffeuse, and theorically an easy boy could be called a chauffeur. It will not happen because nobody uses the slur this way, but that’s unrelated to the grammatical structure of the language. Wouldn’t call it built-in.
Words meanings always slide around and we have markers in some of them that determine whether the word describes a man or a women. Since we treat women and men differently, it’s not surprising that the feminine variant might end up with different connotations than the masculine one. But the words in question do not have gender, they inherit the gender of who they describe. It’s a different thing, unrelated to the assignment of genders to objects
To be clear, I am not defending the idea that you should give gender to things, nor that you should change the suffix in all the words that refer to women. I think it’s stupid and I wish we didn’t even have pronouns in the first place
- Comment on why 1 week ago:
You’ll be right 50% of the times. Or 33% in german. And it doesn’t match between languages. Like, cat is a she in german and a he in french. Often synonyms have different genders : une lettre/un courrier (both mean a mail).
The issue is that you are searching your mind for correlations between gender and sexism-related, which is often easier than searching for non-correlation. If I ask you “quick, think of a singer that wears leather”, you’ll find one instantly. But if I ask “quick, find a singer that doesn’t wear leather” it takes a while.
If you want a better impression of the phenomenon, open a dictionary, go over words one by one and count the points.
*And also “organ” (the instrument) in french is male when singular and female when plural. “C’est un bel orgue” and “Ce sont de belles orgues”. *
- Comment on why 1 week ago:
How does anyone manage to keep allll the words pronunciation and spelling they know is a mistery, craming pronouns on top of that isn’t that much worse
- Comment on why 1 week ago:
You will be understood, it will just give people a small pause.
Sometimes it may cause confusion, like “the phone (he) went through the washing machine (she) and now <she/he> is broken” changes meaning if you get the pronoun wrong. But then if you are used to disambiguate that as you have to in english, it shouldn’t happen too often
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 2 weeks ago:
fyi, the drivers for AI and gaming are not the same. They’re in the same project, but they don’t use the same parts of that project. I wouldn’t use them to argue for the stability of gaming.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 weeks ago:
They’re not allowed to collect data as long as the “yes” button hasn’t been clicked. Now, in practice, implementation correctness may vary
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 1 month ago:
They might disinherit you for being disrespectful? That’s insane. Did they threaten you to do that? If the relation is that bad I can understand why you would care. My parents would just think I’m being weird.
I hadn’t thought about a DNA test, but I definitely don’t see how it could help me with my life. If it comes positive, nothing changes. If it comes negative, I don’t see the administration doing anything about it. They won’t even know you passed a test, even if they had procedures for these cases. You or your parents would need to bring up the issue in a legal procedure for the administration to consider it.
What I mean is that if you have issues with your parents or tutors, knowing what they are exactly does not fix the issues by itself (surely there is a better angle to think about it?). I understand that you would think about it, but if you don’t like thinking about it, I think you usually don’t need to invest yourself into it. Like, you can keep the obsessive thought without worrying about it. And that will make it stop over time. I don’t know how much sense this makes, it made sense to me back then :shrug:
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 1 month ago:
I did, and shrugged it off
for me this is the same kind of questions as “maybe the universe was created 5 seconds ago”. It’s impossible to resolve, and doesn’t change anything
- Comment on for future fireflies 1 month ago:
It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely
*math vocabulary may be approximative
- Comment on Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware 1 month ago:
And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 2 months ago:
Is the franchise still popular nowadays?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The body is not designed to keep effort going at all costs. You will be informed when you have a cramp, because you should slow down and wait it out before continuing. The whole point of pain is to react to broken stuff, usually by stopping using it.
It will however keep life going at all costs, sometimes digesting replaceable muscles into energy for non-replaceable elements. But it’s more about starvation resistance than about chasing. It could also be the case if we were a specie of static filter feeders
A lot of the human body has been affected by long walks and runs, and we do have (well, not me in particular) over-average stamina developped presumably for hunting. It’s just the specific exemple of muscle digestion that I’m going after here
this knowledge comes from, uh… idk :3
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 2 months ago:
Hey so, is this a normal thing in meta analyses ?
We identified 46 studies for inclusion in our analysis. Of these, 27 studies reported positive associations (significant links to NDDs), 9 showed null associations (no significant link), and 4 indicated negative associations (protective effects).
27+9+4 is 40 I think ? What happened to the 6 other papers ? I’m always confused by the whole “we ignored half of the studies and we won’t tell you why”, if they can also ignore some of the 46 studies they selected, what does the 46 number mean ?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick
I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium