BluesF
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- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 days ago:
The tie is the most egregious part, if you zoom in the pattern makes no sense at all.
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 days ago:
Unfortunately most English speakers don’t really understand the reasons we use a lot of the weirder cases & tenses. I don’t know if the same is true when learning German as a first language, but certainly in English most people just learn past/present/future and that’s about it… You don’t really get into the nitty gritty around situations like “I had intended to go to the pub later that day”, i.e. speaking about the future from the perspective of the past.
Anyway, in the case of was/were I will do my best with an acknowledgement that I am no expert despite being fluent in the damn language.
Was/were are usually singular/plural words that take you into the past continuous rather than simple past - consider “I worked” vs “I was working”, “we worked” vs “we were working”. The former of each pair implies that the work was a distinct event while the latter implies it was ongoing (I used it again there with “was ongoing”).
The “subjunctive mood”, mentioned in the title is about hypotheticals, e.g. “If I were you, I would go to the park today”, “I wish I were taller”, . In the subjunctive the verb remains in its infinitive form, which in this case is “were”.
To be completely honest though… “I wish I were never born” might be grammatically correct, but to my ear it sounds quite old fashioned, like something a Jane Austen character might say. I don’t think the majority of people would blink an eye if you said “was”.
There’s also “had been” and “would have” to consider… “If I had been taller everyone would have thought I was pretty”, this is also a hypothetical but honestly I don’t know what the case/tense we’re using here is… I’ll just have to leave you with that :D
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 6 days ago:
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Open source smart fridge software
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- Comment on The struggle is real 1 week ago:
Well hopefully after you use the bidet there won’t be any shit there lol, but no. The last few times I used a bidet there was TP as well, you just dab yourself dry with a little bit and put it in a bin. Less paper, not in the sewer, but you get a dry arse. Best of both worlds.
- Comment on The struggle is real 1 week ago:
Alternatively you could dry yourself afterwards.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Steam/Proton on android would be quite something, I would finally be able to play something decent on my phone that wasn’t originally released for the PS2
- Comment on Learning to drive 4 weeks ago:
Drying a dinner plate was how my teacher described turning. Starting with both hands opposite (10/2 or 9/3 would work fine) - push with one hand and slide the other one towards it until they meet at the top, then switch which hand is holding and reverse the motion, so you end up doing both, but you never cross your hands.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 4 weeks ago:
I knew there was something I wasn’t doing
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
Ahhh brings back memories from my YuGiOh days, sitting in the back of the shop opening extortionately expensive packs and playing game after game. I’d miss it if I didn’t now see just how much of a horrible waste of money it was.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 11 months ago:
I think a major issue is that if the corporation cannot find work for all of its employees, how will it pay them? And since, presumably, there will be admin staff required who also need to be paid, the amount this corporation will charge the employers of the workers will have to be more than is paid to the workers. If this amount is significant, employers can poach employees from the “union corp” by offering more money, while still saving themselves money.
- Comment on A tense moment. 1 year ago:
I had a “whoa” once, or perhaps something slightly more extreme. The condition wasn’t, particularly - I had a lump on my finger as a kid. The first doctor said it would go away on its own, which it didn’t at all, 2 years later it was much worse and started to hurt, so back we went. The next doctor suggested basically that we just cut it open and see what it was lmao, so that we did. He sliced it with a scalpel there and then, while, me, the doctor, and my dad peered at it.
As soon as the scalpel went in there was a small explosion of goo from in there and both my dad and the doctor recoiled in horror (“whoa!” lol). He proceeded to poke around in the goo hole somewhat with a needle (looking back this seems like an odd way to do things) and fished out a ~inch long hawthorn that had just been in there, chilling for the past 2 years.
- Comment on alpha 1 year ago:
Does it exist in humans, though? I’m fairly certain that it remains pseudoscientific in humans as well as wolves.Oh, wait, I read point two. I stand corrected.
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 1 year ago:
Sure, but the joke is skele-ton
- Comment on Makes more sense than the Imperial system 1 year ago:
I think he’s proposing a skele-ton which is 0.01 tons, (i.e. 10kg), not a skelegram which is 10,000g. A skele-gram in this case would be 0.01g.
- Comment on Percentages 1 year ago:
Even more confusing when you hear that the odds of catching a disease have increased by a %. In many ways odds can be more intuitive, but we’re so used to working with simple probability that it’s a total nightmare to wrap your head around at first.
- Comment on Make sure your priorities are straight 1 year ago:
Nah man, people just love butt stuff. This is not really new, it’s just more visible than ever.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 1 year ago:
Well I agree there. I think we should be focusing on renewables, but like I said I think we also need nuclear unless we can solve the energy storage problem.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 1 year ago:
Thing is this has been said for longer than I’ve been alive, and will probably still be said after I’m dead
I’m not making this argument in the past, I’m making it now.
in the intervening 70-80 years we could have and could be actually building the damn things
Well, they are being built? It’s not like the world has abandoned nuclear power. We need the base load, there’s certainly an argument to use some nuclear, but the safety and waste issues mean it shouldn’t really ever be our only way to generate power, at least until some of those problems are solved. Modern reactors are much safer than they once were, but as I said before - the fossil fuel situation is immediate and pressing. I’m not sure I disagree with anyone who made this argument in the past - renewables are a faster way to convert away from fossil fuels. It’s more pressing now than ever, but it isn’t a new problem and it’s been urgent for a long time. Just because we failed to solve it before doesn’t mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. What’s your reasoning to focus on nuclear rather than renewables today?
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 1 year ago:
The energy problem we have isn’t beyond my lifetime, it’s now. There is a finite amount of investment available for new energy projects, and if we pour it into nuclear that means 10+ years of continuing with present usage of fossil fuels. Obviously I know noone is suggesting we do only nuclear, but the point remains that renewables projects can be completed sooner and cheaper. Even if we continue to use nuclear to support the base load and decide to develop some level of capability beyond what exists today, the majority of investment should go to renewables.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 1 year ago:
Oh man, frog fractions! Been a long time but that is an experience I will never forget.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 1 year ago:
SMRs also produce significantly more waste for the amount of power generated.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 1 year ago:
It’s sort of too late for nuclear though. They take years to build and cost a fortune. The time to invest in nuclear power on a large scale was probably 10 years ago (although, was it as safe then? I don’t know)… Right now we need answers that get us away from fossil fuels much, much quicker. Nuclear may still be a part of the picture, but renewables are more pressing.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 1 year ago:
That seems like it’s only a good thing! Have fun, save cash, I’m jealous haha!
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 1 year ago:
I kinda wish I had. Maybe I still will… 50 hours in I finally got my first escape and I now find I’m struggling to go back to it because it just keeps getting harder lmao. I just wanna tell Dusa how great she is.
- Comment on Meaty lifehack 1 year ago:
Hamburger is body parts, just squashed
- Comment on PSA before one freezes 1 year ago:
Times are hard for all those folks who identify as attack helicopters. I wondered why we didn’t hear from them so often anymore, I guess now we know. Poor lil guys.
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 year ago:
I stand corrected, owls are indeed some exorcist shit
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 year ago:
That’s still not 270 in either direction, that would be a total of 540!! That’s seriously exorcist shit
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 year ago:
I really doubt they can go 270 degrees in either direction.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 1 year ago:
Even the American constitution contains exceptions. There’s a whole wiki article on the subject!