hakase
@hakase@lemm.ee
- Comment on Basic courtesy 4 days ago:
Why can’t I, hold all these eggs?
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
Uh, the tiny amount of info in that article is also in the video I linked - that Edison wasn’t a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.
The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing.
Nothing in that article impugns Edison’s name whatsoever, so, combined with your posting history, I think we’re done here.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
Should be really easy for you to produce some of this evidence that he was a monster then.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
This is false. Here’s an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you’re interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science).
- Comment on Long-Gone Classics The Sims 1 And 2 Are Finally Coming Back To PC 3 weeks ago:
They’re not gone though? My wife plays Sims 2 all the time.
- Comment on As an English language pedant, I find this text message mildly infuriating. 3 weeks ago:
/c/badlinguistics
- Comment on Chameleons 1 month ago:
I laughed way too hard at this.
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
Compare this to all the other Europeans saying how absolutely fucking delicious American burgers and food in general is.
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 2 months ago:
Sekiro for me, for similar reasons.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 2 months ago:
That sounds amazing. I already eat spoonfuls of ground beef out of the pan when prepping for other meals, so why not?
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 months ago:
We’ll just do it anyway.
- Comment on Eating your feelings 4 months ago:
The TSA allows food though?
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 5 months ago:
Or, y’know, Vietnam.
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 5 months ago:
Here’s my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):
“There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.”
It’s always been synonymous with “envious”, as far back as we can trace.
- Comment on Burning Up 5 months ago:
This isn’t the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from “comfortable” on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.
- Comment on Burning Up 5 months ago:
This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren’t scientists and therefore don’t need to learn Celsius, so this isn’t really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.
- Comment on Seriously. 5 months ago:
According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.
- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 5 months ago:
I just cancelled my gas station rewards program because they moved everything to a mandatory app. I will not use your app.
- Comment on children 5 months ago:
Lol, I spelled it “ov” on my spelling test.
- Comment on [I just watched] 13 Going on 30, chill rom com with Jennifer Gartner and Mark Ruffalo, what are your favourite movies in this genre? 6 months ago:
This is my favorite romcom.
- Comment on I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America. 6 months ago:
I always just go to America’s Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.
- Comment on Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance? 6 months ago:
Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!
- Comment on turkey 7 months ago:
It is difficult to pull a moral out of this story
Uh no it’s fucking not. Big corpos do whatever the fuck they want and see no real consequences. That’s it. That’s the moral.
- Comment on All jokers fault probably 7 months ago:
Instead he should be paying higher taxes so the city/state can ~have more money to build a bigger and stronger social safety net~ funnel more money to the organized crime syndicates well known to operate at all levels of Gotham’s government.
- Comment on I should be banned from using microwaves 7 months ago:
I have one of those and it’s cost me who knows how much time and effort. The only times I ever really use are 15 seconds (for melting butter), 50 seconds (for water for baking bread; 1 minute is too hot), and 1:45 for coffee (again, 2 minutes is too hot). I can count the number of times I’ve actually used the “push 1 for 1 minute” feature on one hand, and instead I have to press an additional “timer” button for absolutely no reason Every. Single. Time. I want to microwave something.
- Comment on Measurements 7 months ago:
Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
- Comment on Make it stop. 7 months ago:
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Best admin. <3
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 7 months ago:
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 8 months ago:
Unless you’re talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly.
I’d even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation.