SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 11 hours ago:
NOM are great, but in this case I prefer Blümchen’s cover (unfortunately not in any way composed by Blümchen, as she was sixteen at the time of the release).
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 11 hours ago:
If you’re perplexed by that, check out ‘Entertainers’ Choir of the Conductors Reserve’.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 2 days ago:
Check out also Psygnosis’ role in PS1. They had some superhits like ‘Lemmings’, were directly involved in the development of the console, ordered cheap test kits for it instead of custom workstations, made ‘Wipeout’ which singlehandedly changed the audience of consoles from schoolkifs to college students. Under Sony, they were the liaison with third-party developers and stayed semi-independent, publishing other people’s games. Until they were rewarded for all this in 2001 by being relegated to the ‘Wipeout’ and ‘Formula One’ series. (‘F1 '06’ was so goddamn hard that the player could straight up become a support driver and needed to do test laps and display consistency after that. But they lost the license to Codemasters the following year.)
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 days ago:
Sega CD might have even caused the PS to exist because Sony and Nintendo were working on a joint console that was going to be CD based but then Nintendo backed out and made the N64 instead.
That’s Nintendo and Sony, Sega has nothing to do with this. There are known SNES-based PlayStation prototypes. Nintendo then turned around and bungled the deal, consequently invoking the biggest gaming brand into existence.
- Comment on Low rating 4 days ago:
Zero sexual content with the name like ‘Gabi Belle’? I’ve jerked off already, no need for anything extra.
- Comment on I need an adult 4 days ago:
For bonus points, terms for colors are developed differently but similarly in different languages: see e.g. ‘Color term’.
- Comment on onions 4 days ago:
By the way, try Georgian ajika if you ever have a chance: it’s chili pepper mixed with a whole lot of other spices, and is great even in commercial varieties.
- Comment on onions 5 days ago:
Eh, there are like five or so different kinds of ‘hot’, acting upon different tastebuds. Aside from peppercorn, i.e. black pepper, you’ve probably heard of Sichuan pepper, mustard, and horseradish (i.e. what is typically sold as wasabi). If you ever want to really clear your sinuses, get yourself some Russian mustard and chow down half a tablespoon of it, preferably on bread. I know for certain that it’s available in the US via some shady importing companies.
I have it in my ‘try sometime’ list to mix all the different kinds of hotness, and perhaps add mint since it’s felt by separate tastebuds that apparently still work through the numbness.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
I also have the suspicion that there must be some overlap between the cuisine of Middle East (and possibly Central Asia) and that of South Caucasus, namely Georgia with their love for spices and hot foods. Which would then mean the existence of something in the spirit of shawarma, but hot and spicy. Haven’t encountered such a thing yet, but I’m guessing Armenian cuisine is the place to look, since they definitely use lavash flatbread for something.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 6 days ago:
It’s pretty evident that he’s not completely present already.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 6 days ago:
Trump’s perverted brand of charisma is what propelled him to the two-time presidency. It was glaringly obvious in 2017, when the rest of Republicans started competing in who can best emulate his assholery.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
Not entirely same, of course, but shawarma and burrito are imo similar templates that can be used with various fillings. You can have shawarma with beef or chicken, etc. You have some cheap local vegetables: where I am, it’s typical to see tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, maybe peppers, cabbage, or carrots. Of course, rice, guacamole and salsa are unlikely in a shawarma, but mayonnaise can be used, and that’s not too far off from sour cream, which afaiu is encountered in burritos. And for myself, I’ve been making a fusion dish of shawarma with rice, chicken, and various local vegetables.
Likewise, foods using pita or leavened lavash, e.g. gyros, can be seen as templates similar to tacos.
Personally I’m surprised that lentils aren’t used more often in shawarma and similar foods, given Middle-Eastern liking for fava beans and chickpeas — although reportedly falafel can be found in shawarma in some regions. Then again, I’m pretty sure I’ve used fried peas or beans when making my mishmash burwarma.
Apparently the al pastor method of meat preparation is directly derived from doner kebab, having been brought to Mexico by Lebanese immigrants — although it uses pork instead of lamb or beef, since Christians didn’t have restrictions about it.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
I’m saying that the word list is probably specified by the instance admins in the settings of the instance server, and isn’t accessible to users. Lemmy.ml is known to be rather opinionated. However, I’m not familiar with the settings of a Lemmy server firsthand, so can’t say for sure.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
Pro tip: Turkish and Central-Asian food like shawarma is basically Mexican food but with wheat.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
Most probably server-side, since any of a variety of clients can be used to connect to the instance.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
‘Former anthropologist’ but can’t find how to open the paper, eh? Took me two clicks from the Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
Kinda wish i could re watch the earlier WWf / WWE series
I checked Rutracker, and it definitely has videos from the 90s and early 2000s. Being wilfully and blissfully ignorant of that artform, I can’t tell if the releases are any good or if there’s any system to them.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
I don’t know what’s stopping you from opening links from the page I linked.
In other words, nobody has ever been reliably documented as having done this.
Indeed, nothing written before 2000 is true, the history and people actually never existed.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
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The practice was reported as abandoned in most places before the late 20th century, but the San people and other hunter-gatherer tribes are known to have used it in the 21st century. A 2024 study found hundreds of recorded examples of this method being practiced on all inhabited continents.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Specifically The Cranberries, or anything with O’Riordan?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
there is absolutely no evidence of any kind supporting it
Isn’t the fact that there are tribes currently using the exact same method, supposed to be evidence for it?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Hmmm, apparently being infuriatingly stupid and useless is human potential in its purest form.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Since you mention cars and trucks separately, it seems that you don’t realize that trucks handle last-mile delivery of groceries in cities, after the goods are offloaded from trains (in normal countries). And that any decent-sized city would fall apart in a week tops without constant supply of groceries.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I think you’re describing Neomodern architecture, which basically continues what has been established by the 1980s corporate style. However, the term seems to mostly be used for office buildings and such, rather than apartments and houses.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Try rooibos for a particularly tasty tea-adjacent drink.
Of teas proper, personally I’m a fan of Jin Xuan aka milk oolong, and Earl Grey with bergamot.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I sure hope that their chairs are of about the same sturdiness as Hong Kong action-film chairs, which crumble into woodchips from any moderate contact.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
his opinions are not quite as unpalatable as Admiral Patrick’s
I’ve seen it mentioned that he apparently also had a blacklist of users, namely those who criticized him. But the linked post about it had an image as the central piece of content, which image was giving me 404 by the time I gotten to it — so can’t confirm if that’s really true.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Unfortunately untrue. A couple of drinks local to my country taste better than fizzy drinks or juices. But I don’t handle caffeine well these days, and of course that stuff is pricey for some reason.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Is there a language ðat’s actually used today ðat uses theta?
Odd question, considering that it’s famously a Greek letter.
In Ancient Greek, θ originally represented the aspirated voiceless dental plosive IPA: [t̪ʰ], but it later became a voiceless dental fricative IPA: [θ], which is the value it retains in Modern Greek.
Latin theta, based on the lowercase letter theta from the Greek alphabet, is used in Cypriot Arabic, Gros Ventre, Comox, Fox, Thompson, Tuscarora, Halkomelem, Wakhi, Yavapai, Havasupai–Hualapai, and Romani.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Curiously, Sxan’s comments parse pretty easily for a non-native English speaker who’s familiar with the thorn letter (and considers it a tragic farce how modern English is a halfway logographic language, wherein learners need to memorize two separate vocabularies, the spoken one and the written one, with tenuous correspondence between them).