dave@hal9000 @ redbr64 @lemmy.world

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Weird - I see a lot of comments about how this is some evolution in the war of bots vs CAPTCHA, but I have come across this once, and it was many years ago. I just assumed it was a weird small captcha company that was doing their own thing

It took me until this deep in the thread to realize compersion wasn't a typo lol. Thanks for introducing me to a new term

I am a fluent English speaker (in the US for a few decades) who knows Spanish (native speaker of Portuguese which also uses vamos), and thinks about etymology all the time - it never occurred to me lol. I just thought it was some weird old timey american thing lol

Meanwhile in new Orleans, guy on kayak during flood finishes his beer before entering the neighborhood bar

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What's that filament?

It appears many languages have an equivalent to this, and many like English, point to Greek with "It's Greek to me" - and the Greek say "it's Chinese to me" and apparently the Chinese say "it's heavenly script". Here's an interesting chart showing where many languages point for something incomprehensible. Source

Oh right, I hadn't thought about it!

Haha I was too slow for that one

Isso, e era competição entre meus irmãos pra exagerar ao máximo : tipo, enquanto você estava a caminho da loja pra comprar o trigo, eu já comi o pão, caguei, fiz composto com a merda e plantei mais trigo, etc, etc

I also heard a more crass one: dropping the kids off at the pool

Paleontologist working on pterodactyls? 😂

Alternative for "vai ver se estou na esquina" is "vai catar coquinho" (go gather little coconuts), I guess because it's a silly, futile task?

I always said it as while you're bringing the wheat I already ate the bread. But in my family we exaggerated it for effect: while you're buying the wheat seed, I already shat the bread 😂

Wash your hands of [something] is also in American English, although I think more typically used when you were already involved in something then removed yourself from the situation

I am a historian, who even in this scenario would be one of the least useful... But I work on history of aviation, so maybe that could work out somehow lol

Looks great! Saved it to my gardening collection for when I finally have time for hobbies again (work sucking the life out of me right now)

I just made this exact comment on another thread: My first smartphone was a Samsung, it was also my last Samsung device. I hate the bloatware, just want as close to stock android as possible. After the Samsung I had a couple of Nexus device by Motorola (pre-pixel I guess? Google designed built by Motorola IIRC) then went to OnePlus

I am on Lemmy for the first time today because of it!

I got my first one as a gift too. I am now on my 3rd one and haven't paid for any, since I just complained when the hardware got bad and they just replaced it, even though I hadn't bought it haha