Dunkin Donut’s website just doesn’t work. The app is mandatory. Noped out of there real quick lol

Don’t get rid of ordering online, I have bad vision and like sitting for 30 minutes deciding what to buy and how much is way too much to spend on the food I’m getting

ketamine

Is that why they call him Sleepy Joe?

Look, asking for instructions on how to build a pipe bomb isn’t welcome here, but just so you can recognize and avoid the danger of seeing somebody explain how to build a pipe bomb, I’ll give you the instructions just this once…

They’re a troll who posts a bunch of pseudointellectual/pseudophilosophical comments saying stupid shit mentioning quantum physics or lambda calculus or euclidean geometry or other fancy looking math words

This is not what the French intended for us to do with their language

The original post is NOT Scots, please don’t spread misinformation about the language more than internet people already have. Scots writing looks way different than this. The post is just English with some of the words being spelled eye-dialecty.

Among other things, you can tell by all the English words like “standing”, “light”, “thought”, which would be “staun(d)in”, “licht”, and “thocht” in Scots (although “standing” could probably be used too). Reading the Scots Wikipedia page in Scots should make it obvious

Relevant Scots drama from a few years back

mmm mercury 🤤

I think lemmy.ml mods/admins often wipe entire comment histories in the community/instance when they remove specific comments. Say something about Taiwan and boom, your comments talking about toilet paper patents are gone

Don’t quote me on that though

I remember watching Techno every week for like 7 or 8 years straight. I was pretty sad when he died, I remember being at work seeing the notification “so long nerds” with a black screen and i was immediately like oh it’s so over, but it took a minute of watching for it to really sink in that he was for real gone.

Yeah I think it’s especially construction by analogy with similar words (phonologically or semantically), people tend to say words in a way similar to other words when their mind sees a possible pattern, e.g. if you know it’s mug->mugs, hug->hugs, rug->rugs, pug->pugs, tug->tugs, nug->nugs, you think “obviously it’s wug->wugs” for -/ʌɡ/ words, especially monosyllabic ones, but also maybe polysyllabic words or words that sound similar in some way but not the same, like -/ɔɡ/, -/ʌk/, -/gʌ/, etc. This also goes for words with somewhat different phonologies but similar semantics, e.g. if you know child(er)->children and broth(er)-> brethren, you’ll probably think it would look something like sister->sistren (which is a less common dialectal variant actually). If you know goose->geese, foot->feet, tooth->teeth, you’ll probably think it’s moose->meese and noose->neece and shoop<-sheep and hoof->heef unless you have a reason to expect irregularity. Or mouse->mice and louse->lice, you’ll probably think house->hice and spouse<-spice and blouse->blice.

But if you haven’t processed enough words that pluralize in a way other than just appending /s/~/(ə)z/ to the end, you’ll of course just think “gooses” and “tooths” and “fishes” and “foots” and stuff. Like what children do. Also common for children to say is “fishies” and “goosies” and anything else with /iz/ added at the end, since singular /i/ and plural /iz/ are common for adults to use as a diminuative/cutesy way of saying them, and the kids pick it up of course.

All these sound cursed, so I’d rather not think about it too much.

Is this the r/linguistics logo bird

Usually people like that are one reality check away from unmasking and going full-on “it’s just unnatural, it’s not normal and it’s disgusting”.

Arguing with conservatives is basically just peeling an onion full of concern baiting, sealioning, plausible deniability, and euphemisms; when you shatter their initial disenginuous line of reasoning (which may seem innocent or reasonable at first to the naked eye), they start digging into arguments that get more and more misdirected and irrational…

When you exhaust their load of fake arguments/“reasoning” that they bend at will, the ones that only exist to defend their already pre-determined position, they start to show their true colors and get into their real irrational and hateful motives for propogating their beliefs.

“Well I’m just concerned about LGBT people grooming children”… “I’m fine with the gays as long as they keep it to themselves, this cancel culture is just excessive”… “It’s allowing trans people [[trans women]] in bathrooms and sports that I worry about, think of the real women who are scared and have a biological disadvantage against men”… “Biden is encouraging 8 year olds to transition, this ‘transgender’ thing is just a trend, pride is a ploy for corporations to make more money and you’re just a tool for participating in it”… “Same-sex relations and transgenderism are a sin, I don’t think their freedoms should be restricted, but I disagree with them personally, also gays have a higher rate of abusive relationships”… “Straight people [[men]] are persecuted, there’s nothing made for normal people anymore and it’s all catered towards the gays, it’s dangerous to be straight now, I’m scared of telling someone I’m straight in case they blow up on me and call me homophobic like a blue-haired feminist”… “You shouldn’t be queer in public, what if children watch it and transform into gays themselves, it’s all inordinately fetishistic”… “Being queer is fucking unnatural and seeing men kissing in public is disgusting, your kind are child groomers and rapists, keep your hands off of children, you’re going to Hell, stop spreading your Wokeism ideology and ruining my video games and anime, also traps aren’t gay I’m straight for liking them and MHA and Konosuba and K-On and Dragon Maid are the best animes”

is about how it goes – minus the anime part, unless you’re on an online anime community, lol (fascists love prepubescent anime girls a lot). They’re very supportive of queer representation as long as it’s exclusively in their pornography and kawaii anime, but only if you objectify and tokenize the queer characters and refuse to acknowledge their queerness, hmmm curious… what amount of Astolfo (Fate) and queer porn addicts do you think aren’t raving homophobes that call feminine male, non-binary, and androgynous anime characters & actors objectifying terms and slurs while simultaneously convincing themselves that what they’re doing is completely straight and that they’re not sinning to the lord? It’d be a faster count than those who are I bet.

It’s a meme community… mostly about girlcock, abstract art, sexed up abusive emo lesbians, and shark plushies

You went to 196 and you didn’t expect balls?

me: takes ur king

you: “u can’t do that that’s not how chess works!!!”

me: fucking shoots you uwu

No idea what kind of wish.com etymology book you have, but “to each his own” and variations have been a common saying in English (and “Jedem das Seine” in German) since the 1500s, it’s a calque of the Latin phrase “suum cuique”. And it is still a common saying in English that is not associated with Nazis by normal people. It being plastered on the gates of Buchenwald has absolutely nothing to do with common usage of the phrase.

Even after the German variation was used in Buchenwald, it didn’t become very controversial until a neonazi published a book of the same title in the 90s – still, most people speaking German won’t think of Nazism if you use the phrase, and it’s the motto of several German government organizations (including the Feldjäger/military police, who also have the Latin version on their insignia). Either way, it doesn’t affect the English language at all, it is not a “Nazi slogan”.

(shame I can’t remember what exactly the question was. Please still me? 🥺)

I think about half the threads on stackoverflow fit this criteria

This likely isn’t far from the truth, “straightness” is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the “norm”, and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there’s no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.

Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn’t as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates; but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence.

Anyways heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than “nature”. And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

*Fun fact, bonobos have been shown to be able to competently & rationally communicate in complex English (complex, as in around as well as a conversational/intelligent 3-year old) and can even understand & respond to human speech accurately; they can have a lexicon of hundreds of words, associate those words with concrete ideas/real objects with near-100% accuracy, and distinguish “fake” words from “real” words in English speech. They’re the only non-human animals to have been proven to have the ability to actually understand and communicate in human language (both with humans and with other bonobos), and understand human spoken language. They’re also in the stone age (an equivalent of it, at least) and can be observed in the wild making intentionally cutting-edge tools (unlike chimps), and also have separately been trained to manufacture Oldowan human archeological industry stone tools and have found ways to use them, but I’m more interested in linguistics than that. It’s kind of sad that people sensationalize fraudulent cases of alleged human language comprehension in other non-humans, like Koko the gorilla, when you have the actual phenomenon legitimately right here… It’s also sad that bonobos and chimpanzees are caught in the middle of human warfare in the Congo and are being hunted for meat, and are predicted to become extinct within a few decades because of humans… a majority of simians/anthroform primates are likely to go extinct soon, both because they’re being eaten and because they’re being sold off as exotic pets. We’re literally hunting, slave trading, and cannibalizing our closest relatives to extinction, some of which are capable of early human-like thought & society/culture and spontaneous invention of technology only ever seen in archaic humans.

I say we do this: Bonobos in capitivity can already light fires, and they use that cook food. Bonobos and chimapnzees are also highly cultural & social animals, and tool production & cultural customs have been observed to spread within groups and between groups (even of different great ape species/families). We should teach a group or a few of bonobos this skill, watch it spread, and destroy humanity and store the survivors in vats or something. Then, in a few million years, bonobos will have evolved modern human intelligence and sophisticated futuristic technology, and then they’d bring us back to life and out of the vats into the future. And then boom, humans and future bonobos live together happily forever after. It’ll be just like Stellaris (not the genocide part though). I’m only joking of course…