dactylotheca @ dactylotheca @suppo.fi

Sarcastic bitch with a wine problem

---

Read more

Posts

49

Comments

647

Joined

1 yr. ago

Oh yeah I'm a staunch descriptivist, but I do sometimes mourn the changes that are going on in Finnish which is my native language.

Change is inevitable, especially when there are more learners whose native language is from a completely different family (which'd be the vast majority of immigrants here, Uralic languages aren't exactly common), but it's still a bit sad to see the language start to lose some of its unique features that have made it so expressive – but also hard as fuck to learn.

The program's path from a CP/M app by MicroPro onward is winding, being shoved into a half-baked office suite, acquired by SoftKey, which became the Learning Company, acquired by Mattel, spun off to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, and is now the archival property of—well, nobody's quite sure.

Looking forward to the eventual frivolous takedown notice and/or lawsuit – suits seem to have absolutely zero brains when it comes to this stuff. Or, well, when it comes to anything except making themselves and their buddies on the board richer, really

I am deeply saddened by the news that I won't be seeing this in any classical music concerts.

Might as well sell those tickets I bought, then ☹️

I don't think we as a species have it in us to not be pieces of shit. Individuals absolutely do, but I'm not very conviced we'll manage to unfuck our plains ape selves before things go really sideways due to climate change and resource scarcity, and we revert back to a more "natural" state

no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

(yes that's Hobbes. No I'm not sorry.)

I need more caffeine

Or less caffeine? Could go either way

Is this really "world news" even though it's a DW article?

Linguistic descriptivism 💪

Yup, a lot of Nazis were "washed clean" and kept their positions of power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein

Persilschein is a German idiom and literally means "Persil ticket" ("Persil" refers to a brand of laundry detergent). To own or have a Persilschein is akin to having "a clean bill of health" and may refer to the granting of a wide-ranging permission or "carte blanche" to pursue a business or a previously morally or legally suspect interest.

Denazification certificates

The term Persilschein dates back to the denazification period in Germany. For a German to be given a Persilschein meant to be given a certificate that they had a clean political past. Suspected Nazi offenders could be exonerated by statements from others, ideally victims or former enemies of the Nazi regime, and thus accepted as having a good reputation.

Colloquially the affected person was said to be "washed clean" of accusations of Nazi sympathies; "cleanliness" in this context meaning "innocent". They were attested as having a so-called "white vest" (innocence) and were now allowed to apply for a house or open a business again. During 1948, the interest of the Americans in systematic denazification waned markedly as the Cold War and the threat from the Soviet bloc hove increasingly into view. Faster processes were introduced to bring denazification to a swift conclusion, however, that led to questionable judgements.

Excellent way to get hemorrhoids and/or blood clots

Conservatives are fucked up

Out of curiosity, what is Harris' stance on Israel? I'm from YUROP and I don't actually know very much about her policy positions

Any bets on whether this will change anything? I mean yeah, it doesn't seem likely and the prevailing opinion seems to be "fuck no", but I have no idea how informed that opinion is.

Now that's a meme I've not seen in a long time. A long time.

Probably yeah, it's not like conservatives have been getting less unhinged

I, on the other hand, had no idea what that is. Apparently one of the filmatisations of the American children's book by the same name?

This'll of course depend on the species, but usually the super long ones that people walk in to are the strands they use to get to a spot of their own after hatching. Many spiders just sort of yeet themselves to the wind after they hatch, attached with just that one single strand – that way all the hatchlings don't just build their webs in the same spot. A huge percentage of them don't make it, but that's the r reproductive strategy for you

Oh I haven't been there in yonks either, I just used it as an example of a… err, less than ideal destination for a very queer person. Based on news and things I've heard from others I've understood they have a bit of an LGBT+ hate crime problem (see eg. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birminghams-hate-crime-hotspots-map-22654363)

Russian population growth isn't 0, though. Yes, the war's going to make a demographic dent, but they've turned their schools into military indoctrination machines