balian

@balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  German and French aren’t scripts, they are languages that use the same script as English - Latin. And LOL if you think they are any better than English.

  By more sensible scripts I mean Hebrew or Arabic, which are a lot more efficient and clear in packing words than Latin or Cyrillic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoah, I went down the rabbit hole after googling this “great vowel shift” and damn if it isn’t insanely interesting! English should have naturally split into descendant languages but the arrival of the printing press in the middle of the transition messed things up royally and now the entire world has to bear the idiosyncrasies. Nothing short of amazing, thanks a lot for your reply!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What science and sociology did you learn from these shows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy it thoroughly, but it is still in all senses a kids show though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is weird how this kind of writing won out in Europe when it literally had exposure from all sides to far better more sensible scripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How to do that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Such ideal popular democracies generally need a culture conducive to those. Not all cultures favor democratic politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This implies that the radical regime somehow was more conducive to US interests and did not in turn want to “sell their oil by themselves” too, which is… doubtful. Had that been the case things would have turned out differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nutritional Hexes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my past flatmates literally self-diagnosed himself with diabetes out of nowhere and started extreme dieting - made all sugar and high-carb foods haram and even started mixing his own flour to make it “multigrain”. Since we were sharing kitchen expenses all of our meals then started involving coarse bread and either chicken or tofu at all times. Made me constipated for a while.

  I think all he really wanted was an excuse for that diet and it does seem to have worked well in him; shame it didn’t do so on me and just made me eat outside more instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nutritional Hexes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  +1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with people liking old devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I prefer wearing the clothes and shoes that I’ve already broken in and gotten used to instead of crisp new items just out of the store? Guess I’ll never know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is terminally lonely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe enjoying these things needs the kind of environment that had it been available, you simply wouldn’t need narcotics to enjoy yourself in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is terminally lonely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it does, but you need to want that first. Many people turn their misery into a comfort zone and refuse to move out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is terminally lonely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t it be? You can be lonely despite having company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is terminally lonely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried, doesn’t work. Just makes you feel sick.