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Dicska

@ Dicska @lemmy.world

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  • Multilingual people, do you feel better about yourself than those that only speak one language? Monolingual people, do you envy/admire Multilingual people? And why?

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  • I love learning languages because it constantly reassures me how similar we all are regardless of superficial differences

    One of the many things I find fascinating about learning about different languages is how differently people can think about certain things. You add water to vodka in English? You water it down (since you're decreasing the concentration, right?). Same thing in my language? You water it up (since you're increasing the volume, right?). Most of the adjectives after nouns in Spanish. Entire structures that you would expect at the beginning of a sentence in English being pushed to the end in German. SVO/VSO differences. Different or similar idioms, phrases for the same thing. Two birds with one stone? Two birds with one throw? Two flies with one slap? Two pigeons with one bean? I'm boring already and I can't even stop.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I'm not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I'm not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it's really frustrating how I don't see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.

  • Show your pride

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  • That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.

  • Space is beautiful

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  • Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That's when you learn your ways.

    You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.

  • mercy merci

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  • mercy merci

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  • You have to jump this high to be let inside

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  • As a kid, being indoctrinated early on by fairy tales with knights, then watching action films later on, I kind of understand, since you only know about the romanticised side.

    As an adult, by the time you're supposed to understand the endless pain, suffering, atrocities, needless death of millions (even one single person), the barbarity of trying to resolve conflicts with violence, the immense sadness and sacrifice that comes with war... putting it lightly, I don't get war lovers.

    But fuck me, I fucking LOVE to learn about the technological advancements, smart solutions, brilliant engineering (hey, even strategies) that came with those, from the first stone tools to holographic sights and radar camouflaging. On one hand, it's rather sad that we could only develop technologies due to threatening violence or trying to crush others. On the other hand, without wars, we would probably still be amputating limbs due to infections we can either prevent or treat now (thanks to field medicine development), and a civilisation that doesn't develop its own weapons (since why would they, they are peaceful) won't have fun when running into one that isn't as friendly.

    (And for that reason, YT already thinks I'm a WW2 nerd)

  • How will YOU choose

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  • Hell. I will need it tomorrow when I wake up after 4 hours of sleep.

  • What would you do if you found an infinite money/duplication glitch in real life?

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  • Duplicate money.

  • Oh the humanity

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  • It's even more natural to handle when you have arms long enough, plus the angle of the handle doesn't make it dangle.

  • If proton decay isn't true

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  • You don't need to, I can tell you what's inside.

    Iron.

  • In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?

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  • Hmmm... Left handed? I have the same setup, but on the opposite sides (thick wallet, but it fits, and I don't care how it looks).

    right back pocket for important stuff (tissues, paper tickets, notes), left back for rubbish.

  • Barbequed rats along the roadside. Cambodia

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  • 4 bottlecaps per mole rat.

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    Are you anti or pro genoside?

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  • Oma says she's sick of the untermensch.

  • do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • Oh, yes you're right - I'm not a native speaker and I think we phrase it slightly differently, and I took that literally. Thanks for the explanation!

  • do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • Oh, I was thinking they meant 65-75 people before the pendulum (the second counter on the grandfather clock?) swung back, so 65-75 people per second. I didn't think so deeply about the maths behind it, just accepted it as a possible meaning. But I'll do it now.

    UPDATE: Checks out for 2-3 years, but something is telling me there was enough time for even more years to fit between 1939 and 1945.

    UPDATE: Unless you consider "swung back" as 2 seconds, because then it's even possible.

  • Found this wolf spider husk today, check out those fangs!

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  • Those fangs. He grew out of them. Now they are bigger. Have sweet dreams.

  • Bible rule

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  • On a second read: sorry if I didn't word it clearly; by "you", I meant the general you, not you, personally. I also have no problem with people being religious in general, but what Brandon does in the original post is just plain harmful.