lugal
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- Comment on I'm Different 3 days ago:
Just pals being different
- Comment on I'm Different 3 days ago:
That’s why we all came to the comments
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 5 days ago:
I focused on the US because that’s what the post was about but here in Germany, it’s only gradually better but I’m far from happy with it. There are topics with a majority of the population in favor but a minority in parliament. Granted, some of the elements of my first mental list have changed by now but also, all the parties are moving to the right.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 6 days ago:
As long as you vote blue no matter who, there is no need for the party to listen to your demands. If you don’t vote because you’re not happy with the candidates, they will blame you if they loose. Representative democracy is a scam and not by accident
- Comment on Hmmm 6 days ago:
I think you misunderstood the meme and worded your first comment poorly.
The meme is saying that the equivalent of guacamole on the island of Ireland is mashed potatoes. It doesn’t say the Irish invented it, it doesn’t really focus on national identity. I mean on Ireland is the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Different nations and the meme just says Irish.
And instead of saying “there is no such thing as Irish”, you said “potatoes aren’t Irish enough because they came too late”, implying that there is such a thing as Irish culture but potatoes don’t qualify.
If you read correctly it’s my interlocutor that made the point about the British repression forcing the potato on the Irish, and the argument of that being the National dish is even more silly to me.
The interlocutor was me and all I’m saying is that the British Empire forced potatoes on the Irish and because of that, potatoes were so wide spread in Ireland that they quality as a national dish. How is that silly? I still don’t follow. Imagine having to grow potatoes and then trying out a variety of dishes. Silly.
- Comment on Hmmm 6 days ago:
the Aztecs was almost completely destroyed.
How is this even relevant? I really don’t see any connection.
The idea that the portal became Irish because it was forced upon them by the English is a bit ironic, with a whiff of Stockholm syndrome, at least for me.
How so? The potato was force upon them, not mashed potatoes specifically. It would be totally understandable if the Irish would choose to get rid of everything that has anything to do with the British. This happens to a degree that the language Gaelic is revitalized. But it’s not up to me as a foreigner who never set foot on Ireland to expect that from them. Potato is an important food item all over Europe. “The idea that the portal became Irish because it was forced upon them by the English” is just an observation. You can’t dispute observations because they are “a bit ironic”. That’s not how history works.
The appropriation of certain dishes as national is, in itself, a rather novel idea.
How is this even an argument for your side? Nations are a social construct developed long after Columbus. By saying, anything that came after the 1400s can’t be part of a national identity, you are implying that nations exist since for ever.
- Comment on Hmmm 6 days ago:
You think cultures can’t change? Ireland was colonized by Britain. They forced them to grow potatoes. You don’t think that influenced Irish culture?
- Comment on Time flies 6 days ago:
Sure, I never meant it as a value statement, just an observation
- Comment on Time flies 1 week ago:
This is Lemmy. Chances aee that this is a repost from years ago
- Comment on Few adult men are killed by adult women. 1 week ago:
The article is 7 years old. That’s how far you have to use back to find an example
- Comment on Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars? 1 week ago:
This is hypothetical! Why doesn’t Israel have a right to exist but Czechoslovakia, the Ottoman Empire and the Soviet Union do? #doublestandard
- Comment on The Evolution of Streaming 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's been a very wet summer around here 1 week ago:
September will be fine tho but don’t quote me on this
- Comment on Someone pissed off the urban planner 1 week ago:
Everything reminds me of her…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
!reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 1 week ago:
Are they orphans?
- Comment on I mean just look at them... 1 week ago:
I looked it up so why not share it: the two meanings of school have nothing to do with each other. While the learning thing comes from Latin and untimely from Greek, a school of fish is a Dutch borrowing with Germanic roots.
etymology of place of instruction
Middle English scole, from Old English scol, “institution for instruction,” from Latin schola “meeting place for teachers and students, place of instruction;” also “learned conversation, debate; lecture; disciples of a teacher, body of followers, sect,” also in the older Greek sense of “intermission of work, leisure for learning.” This is from Greek skholē “spare time, leisure, rest, ease; idleness; that in which leisure is employed; learned discussion;” also “a place for lectures, school;” originally “a holding back, a keeping clear,” from skhein “to get” (from PIE root *segh- “to hold”) + -olē by analogy with bolē “a throw,” stolē “outfit,” etc.
Etymology of large number of fish
late 14c., scole, from Middle Dutch schole (Dutch school) “group of fish or other animals” (porpoises, whales), which is cognate with Old English scolu “band, troop, crowd of fish,” both from West Germanic *skulo- (source also of Old Saxon scola “troop, multitude,” West Frisian skoal), perhaps with a literal sense of “division,” and from PIE root *skel- (1) “to cut.” Compare shoal (n.2)), the assibilated form of the same word. For possible sense development, compare section (n.) from Latin secare “to cut.”
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 1 week ago:
I only count 9. I’m I missing one or is this just a lie?
- Comment on I don't think I need to bother translating... 2 weeks ago:
Warum sollte man überhaupt Pferde ausgraben? Das ist das aller dümmste was ich je gesehen habe! Meine Nichte hatte sowas mit Dinos, Edelsteinen und Pharao aber Pferde???
- Comment on Thursday 2 weeks ago:
This will age very badly in a day or two
- Comment on 🤓☝️ 2 weeks ago:
Notice how it’s spelt “atenttion” here and you spelt it correct, showing you already have enough
- Comment on Do it now!!!!! 2 weeks ago:
Double standard…
- Comment on Do it now!!!!! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I clicked through ALL of them and left without posting. 2 weeks ago:
But those should not be confused with c/1960s
- Comment on what in the 2 weeks ago:
It’s the royalist Iranian flag, those who side with Israel. In Germany, I often see Israeli flags, this Iranian flags, German flags and more often than not US flags on the same protests (most often the counter protest of the Palestine protest I attend). So I would argue, this is a collage of allies.
- Comment on In my good Christian server?! 3 weeks ago:
What the frell?
- Comment on A shooting star! Make a wish! 3 weeks ago:
When you’re in a bad mood and wish for everyone to day and don’t live long enough to realize that it actually worked
- Comment on I prefer mine with the bone 3 weeks ago:
Neither do bananas
- Comment on Anon's jobs 4 weeks ago:
Who’s “us”?
- Comment on Vegeta 4 weeks ago:
All I’m saying is, I’m not and who ever says I am is a liar
