The case of Uralic vs. PBS + PGerm can be explained by interaction, but the Ainu doing the same is interesting.

In the Indo-European family it’s mostly the Balto-Slavic and Germanic branches that avoided the original word, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos - the first one replaced it with “honey-eater”, the second one as you said with “the brown one” (IIRC it would be *bʰérh₃os or similar)

If *h₂ŕ̥tḱos survived in Germanic it would’ve become **urght [ɜːt] in English, and probably **Urcht [uɐ̯χt] in German. Not sure in the Slavic languages, but Lithuanian (Baltic) does keep irštvà for “bear den”, so the bear itself would be probably **irštas.

I thought you was the more respectful form of thou in singular, and “ye” was the plural form of that. In Ireland you still hear ye used for plural you sometimes.

Originally the difference between ġē→ye→ye and ēow→yow→you wasn’t one of number, but of case: you’d use “ye” for the subject, “you” for the subject, regardless of being a plural or a respectful singular. Much like “I” vs. “me”. Eventually however “you” displaced “ye” even for the subject role, in most varieties; what you see in Hiberno English is also an innovation, but a different one.

That’s why you need truck-kun. Being isekai’d gives you automatic comprehension of all languages spoken in the world.

I noticed it’s easier to shift back to the “pink döner” first perception if you hide the top half of the pic.

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To add to that: my ship-of-Theseus computer is probably older than quite a few adult Lemmy users.

All current pieces are relatively new, as last year I felt like splurging and had money to do so. Except the hard disk - it’s a few years old, I think.

I remember when I installed the predecessor of my current GPU. I put the computer on the floor, and my nephew was crawling in the way, curious. Nowadays my nephew has a stubby beard, and he’s taller than me.

My old case was even older. It had a hole, where I glued cardboard. That hole used to hold a 3½ floppy disk drive. It saw the predecessor of that GPU I mentioned above, that I bought in 2004.

I’m diabetic, you insensitive clod!!one!!!eleven

Is there some story behind PPB? As in, why do you guys like that pic so much?

Ok have you personally taken responsibility for the fact that your media consumption has made your worldview delusional?

This is a loaded question on the same level as “did you stop beating your wife? Yes or no?”.

But let’s bite: yes.

I come from a scientific background. And you don’t get to keep delusions about something when reality is making you interact with that thing over and over, regardless of the origin of said delusions. You face them, as soon as you step into the uni. And one of the things I often talk with people is how science is misrepresented in media, specially after that clown of the former president of my country started babbling about Ivermectin*.

And, due to the nature of the content of this community, I expect at least some of the other people in this comm to be in the same situation as me - to be from a scientific background (or even scientists themselves) and to try to spread awareness on how media misrepresents science, the scientific method, and scientists.

So your “all of you”? Bullshit.

Unless you’re decontextualising the whole thing to talk about media-based delusions in general, even if the context screams “regarding science”.

(Or perhaps you’ll try to change goalposts and say something like "ackshyually, taking responsibility is something else lol lmao.)

Nope? Ok then I am not making an assumption,

Even if your assumption was true (it is not), it would be still an assumption. You’re still vomiting certainty about something you cannot reliably know, such as what all individuals in a whole group of people do or don’t.

I am stating human nature

I think that both of us know that you’re bullshitting.

*just to point out another assumption you’re voicing in your comment: “It is why we have a racist reality tv show actor as president”. Why do you think everybody here is American?

EDIT: note this topic itself is already a way to take responsibility for all the crap media shows dressed as science. For a start:

what are LadyButterfly, Admetus, klemptor and me doing here, if not highlighting that media grossly oversimplifies Physics?

Some users there are fairly decent, but their collective reputation is deserved due to how they behave outside their instance.

all of you refuse to face

Stop assuming.

why isn’t there H₂O₂

Because the undergrads used it for acetone peroxide.

I had to websearch this so might as well share it here: 6DOF = six degrees of freedom. You can move and rotate in all three dimensions.

Accurate for Descent. I played this game as a kid. At the start I hated it, because unlike Doom you need to aim vertically (Doom has three degrees of freedom: X axis, Y axis, rotation). But eventually it grew on me, it’s like going from stale bread to a buttered toast - harder but nicer.

More like both talking at the same time. In a huge cacophony.

What’s profitable about losing sales of adult games?

From Visa/MC’s PoV the situation looks like this:

1. force itch.io - lose sales associated with that content
2. leave itch.io alone - lose sales associated with anyone who takes Collective Shout’s noise seriously, while Collective Shout starts smearing shit on Visa/MC by saying “they finance rape!”

Visa/MC likely determined #2 to be more than #1. In other words it’s more profitable to do #1 instead.

Also, what leverage do these groups have over banks and payment processors? […] I just don’t get it. Some random group in Australia has leverage over Visa and MasterCard - American companies - is that what we’re saying here?

It’s mostly their ability to cause brand damage (reasons people avoid your brand because they see it negatively - like #2).

Visa and MC know that, when it comes to sex, people become really irrational. They take insane troll logic seriously, even if they wouldn’t otherwise; and those religious groups like Collective Shout are really good at weaponising that irrationality. The way those alt right groups work is that you don’t even need to know about the group to repeat their talking points, and spread support to those talking points.

I think you might have too much faith in government.

I don’t. I’m picking the lesser of two evils here: a government is less worse than those megacorporations.

But ironically, I think YouTube and many other platforms quietly accept that if we want to live in a somewhat harmonious society, we can’t leave it to the government to make all the rules. (eg. YouTube banning vaccine misinformation and disinformation during a public health emergency.)

They didn’t ban vaccine misinformation “because it’s misinformation” or “because society would be better without it” (even if both things are true). Truth and morality doesn’t matter for those platforms; what matters is brand damage.

but there’s a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.)

• scam - AFAIK already illegal in most of the world.
• spam - should be illegal, at least in the most egregious forms.
• deepfakes - it depends a lot on what is being done with the deepfake in question; plenty of them (like non-consensual sexualisation of someone) are either illegal or should be.
• hate speech - it targets the dignity, well-being and often the lives of marginalised groups. Should be illegal.

Are you noticing the pattern? Those are things that should be handled by a government in defence of the public interest of everyone, not by a platform in defence of private interest of its shareholders. Even if a population has weak control over its government, it’s more than it has over a corporation.

The law isn’t fast or flexible enough to keep up and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

This problem is not a good reason to create an even bigger problem. Like the one we’re seeing - private interest dictating what should be allowed or not in the public sphere.

And, seriously, if the problem was just porn who would give a fuck. (Okay, some people would, some wouldn’t.) The problem is that those corporations will happily target any group, any interest, any person, as soon as they deem profitable; because they have the power to do so, so porn is in this context only the canary of the mine. And this power needs to be curtailed.

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that implementing such a wide law would be unviable. Well, focus on financial service providers then - banks, payment processors, and the likes. Problem solved.

I don’t go so far. Only my pets get a surname, and it’s the family’s surname. (Some of the household appliances have kind of melodramatic names though, specially if they break often. Like Solineuza, the washing machine.)

This, too: if E = hc/λ and E = mc², then we can combine both as hc/λ = mc². Rearranging this shit you get m = h/λc. Since h/c = 2.2*10⁻⁴²kg*m, you’d get:

…BLOODY ULTRAVIOLET IS MAKING ME FAT!

You certainly know it, but sharing it for the ones who don’t:

The full equation is E² = (pc)² + (m₀c²)² where E, p, c, m₀ are respectively: energy, momentum, the speed of light, inertial mass. The (pc)² part is kind of a big deal, because otherwise massless particles (like photons) would have no energy.

If p = 0, then the equation simplifies into that famous E=mc².