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- Comment on Can't wait. 11 hours ago:
I would like to recommend Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language.
It’s a pretty quick read and it explains exactly how the English language became such a mess. For each thing that doesn’t make sense, it provides a reason that explains it. Short version: the timing of the Great Vowel Shift relative to the invention of the printing press really screwed it over. There’s quite a bit more (Norman invasion in particular), but that was what codified all the badness.
Learning the “why” of so many previously preposterous language and spelling rules was gratifying and enlightening. They’re still preposterous but slightly less maddening now.
There’s also an excellent podcast interview with the author on 99% Invisible. Check it out. It made me buy the book and I definitely recommend it every time a post like this comes up.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Even a blogger. I like to read. I don’t waste my time with videos that I can’t reliably skim to get to the real information and skip over garbage.
- Comment on Sick of this shit 1 week ago:
Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means “set everything on fire.”
I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying we have different definitions. Cheers!
- Comment on Sick of this shit 1 week ago:
Best advice I’ve seen in a long time.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 week ago:
I feel like that’d be the stats even if we didn’t have a component disruption. Do all gamers build a new machine every year? They’d be broke (said the guy who buys / builds a lot of toys).
It’s cool to phrase non-news as clickbait. 50% people think $MYTEAM will win the big game. Holy crap, that’s news!
- Comment on Star Wars and Jurassic Park music composer John Williams, aged 94 1 month ago:
Immediately thought he must be dead. I was just saying to my partner how awesome the JP music is while we watched whatever the new piece of crap (but entertaining) thing was. Great music. Some of the best.
- Comment on I'm new around here, and learning about all the different instances and the culture/history behind them has been fun but overwhelming. Is there somewhere I could go for a crash-course? 1 month ago:
Or just stick with an instance that doesn’t block others and judge for yourself. I thought Hexbears were descent people experiencing crisis as we all flooded in.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 1 month ago:
Send it to the admin(s) of the instance. I’m sure they don’t want to host that bullshit.
- Comment on Weird... 2 months ago:
I mean, I’d have expected at least some acknowledgment.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 months ago:
Nothing pissed me off like a city with no trash cans when I still smoked cigarettes and carried the butts with me. Walked for blocks and blocks with no place to dispose of them responsibly. Fuck you, Berkeley.
- Comment on relatable 2 months ago:
I woke up at 3am after seeing Nine Inch Nails last night because I didn’t take my (prescribed) sleeping pills. I drank a LOT, but I just don’t stay asleep. I’m tired! I just can’t stay asleep. I’ll be close to falling asleep in several hours when I’m trying to pretend to work. Sucks.
- Comment on The workers at the Sheri's Ranch brothel in Nevada decided to unionize 2 months ago:
Salute to my fellow union members! Fight fight fight for fair treatment!
- Comment on Will they lie to you like the others 2 months ago:
They’re lying liars, I can tell you that much.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 3 months ago:
PiHole and Plex? Plex will help generate need for a NAS. It worked for me.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 3 months ago:
What a fucking zero.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 3 months ago:
Go back to bed. You’ve already won. The day can’t possibly get any better from here.
- Comment on Long live the king 3 months ago:
Oh, that was a good laugh.
- Comment on 17 years* 3 months ago:
If those stats are true, eff. I already hated that industry.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 3 months ago:
I go to sleep drunk a lot. I forget to turn off lights. My partner calls me out for it. I have not shame.
- Comment on Can't block this 3 months ago:
I’ve never been ashamed of or regretted licking ass.
- Comment on What a great idea 4 months ago:
Can we also make people who still pay for things at a store with a check go to the bad one? It was before the pan, but I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when a lady pulled out her checkbook in front of me at the checkout line. Gtf outta here.
- Comment on Still trying to figure it out... 4 months ago:
Yes, that’s exactly why we had to stop. She pounced when we weren’t playing and scratched my eye. Luckily, no permanent damage. (I was lying down when she got me.)
- Comment on What that steel woolussy do? 4 months ago:
Every man who posts the meme should have to use this.
- Comment on Still trying to figure it out... 4 months ago:
I used to wrestle with one of my kitties and had to stop because it went from cute to painful (for me). She absolutely thought she could kill me.
- Comment on get out of my head 5 months ago:
And just like that, I found out that the scar is still fresh.
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 5 months ago:
Working IT, it’s impressive how many people don’t understand basic computer functions. Even young people who grew up with technology. I impressed someone by fixing something by quitting and relaunching an app the other day. C’mon…
For those who don’t know, the title of the post refers to an error code, ID-Ten-Tee, meaning IDIOT.
Another would be PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
- Comment on So upset during the holidays! 5 months ago:
Sure, but at least I don’t have to apologize for being white! /s
- Comment on Dayum 5 months ago:
That was pretty good.
- Comment on Tried to do the right thing and donate blood today. Never again too many BS questions. 5 months ago:
Are you saying I took too much blood?
- Comment on Clippy had the best suggestions 5 months ago:
I support this message.