GandalftheBlack @ GandalftheBlack @feddit.org

Posts

1

Comments

52

Joined

1 yr. ago

If you're paranoid about food poisoning, maybe cook your own food.

Edit: Just realised he's not worried about someone trying to poison him, he's worried about poisoning himself

Finally got Bannerlord a couple of weeks ago. After a bit of tinkering I got the GOG version running on Manjaro, so it no longer freezes randomly all the time. I'll be honest, I don't think it's a massive step up from the original, especially given the wait, but I'm still really enjoying it and will definitely look into modding it at some point.

In Europe we have GOG instead
G - science technology engineering maths
O - ond
G - gumanities

Imagine doing a Gate of Ishtar maneuver but with the pyramids

Death of the author engineer

If Trump likes us, I feel like we've gone wrong somewhere

Also, even if "people with job X" caught on, that wouldn't actually achieve anything. The impression or image in your head that you get when you hear "people who work in a factory" vs. "factory workers" is the same, even if the wording deliberately makes reference to people.

I appreciate what the intention is behind it, just like with "people with disabilities" vs. "disabled people", but it doesn't address the societal issues that result in the actual discrimination/problematic views.

This is more of a theoretical argument, but from a linguistic perspective there's a common misconception that language shapes our perception of reality, when in fact it's the other way round. If you talk about subject X which is looked down on for whatever reason, the commonly used word for it can take on a derogatory tone, which leads to well-meaning people using a more positive word. This is commonly seen with words for women in patriarchal societies, and it leads to a cycle of neutral words becoming derogatory and polite words becoming the new standard, until that word becomes derogatory and has to be replaced in turn. None of this is to say we shouldn't be careful with the language we use, and in fact it's a good way of signalling respect, but I just want to highlight that adopting new terminology is itself won't achieve much.

Yore rite. (Ancient ceremony)

Don't forget low quality copper

But if you've learned IPA you can read it just fine

Relevant Onion video

Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?

Yeah, it was Fred. We should thank him more often.

See if there are evening classes you can sign up for in your area. This has a couple of benefits over pure self-study: firstly, if you don't really know any other languages yet, having a teacher to explain new concepts for you will be a big help. Secondly, it keeps you accountable if you need external motivation to keep at something. It can also be a good way to meet new people!

If you're going with self-study, look up what textbooks people recommend using for self-study for your target language (i.e. not one that relies heavily on having a teacher explain things for you). Obviously a textbook alone is not enough to learn a language, but imo it's the best way to get to grips with the basics of grammar before you move on to more advanced stages. There are also plenty of online communities to help you out with any questions, especially for more popular languages.

Finally, do NOT expect to make worthwhile progress with Duolingo or apps like that. They are not designed to help you master a language. You might learn some useful vocab from them, but if you're serious about learning a language, don't waste your valuable time.

He's certainly much bigger now, or maybe just extremely flattened

Thankfully he didn't actually put in any of the dangerous ingredients

miniminuteman and Archaeology with Flint Dibble are both excellent archeology channels. They fight misinformation put out by grifters like Graham Hancock and share really interesting actual archaeology.

Esoterica is a fascinating channel which explores the less well-known aspects of religion and philosophy from an academic perspective.

Sebastian Lague makes very cool programming videos. He does coding adventures where he sets out to build something from scratch (e.g. in his latest video, he made a software rasteriser), going through the basics of how it works and explaining the challenges involved. The thing that sets his videos apart from coding tutorials and videos that explain how things work conceptually is that they follow his journey as he is learning himself. He doesn't exactly go in 'blind' (he is a very skilled programmer and has a good idea of what he needs to do), but he also doesn't immediately have the optimal answer he copied from someone else or prepared in advance.

Tautocarcinisation

Vibe-reaping what you vibe-sow