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Chicken TACO

Alright, do people in the US only get eggs with ridges and flat surfaces in a V shaped box, or did the poster just attach an AI photo because they couldn’t find a bloody egg photo on the Internet?

Had there not been a change of regime, we could have had an alternate future with that getting censored.

Haha, I used to work at Neo Bankside. One of my Italian coworkers instructed customers to get to Suh-duck station.

I also find the English custom of putting an 's at the end of whatever business (even when it’s not there by default) quite cute. The same happened when another colleague referred to the store as Fenwick’s. First I thought it was the local pronunciation of Phoenix.

Most likely I’ll live the rest of my life not owning a car, using public transport, mainly.

If most of the humans were decent I would be absolutely furious that people still use cars to get to work.

Most humans are absolutely disgusting. Smoking right under the no smoking sign at the stop, blasting TikToks, shitty (or, in fairness, any kind of) music from their phone speakers, getting on the tube without a mask while coughing, sneezing at everyone in the crowded carriage, taking up two seats just because why not either by placing their stuff on the seat or just manspreading, having phone conversations on loudspeakers… I could go on forever.

I will keep using public transport till I kick the bucket, but FUCK I totally understand everyone who prefers to have their own private space.

In my country the most common attempt is lei-Chester.

As it turns out after a few decades, CDs also degrade over time.

I am actively trying to avoid using ‘her’ for the same reason, but who am I to judge?

It’s entirely possible that Lemmy is horny anyway, but yeah, I’ve seen other users post similar stuff, as well, but I couldn’t tell if it was an alt or a copycat.

I never even assumed their posts were about things that have actually happened. Based on the wildly different kinks, it was rather suspicious to me that those were just lewd fiction.

Plus, if it’s the same one username then the “haters” can just block that one user and there will be fewer of them complaining.

There is (was?) this user called Violet (I think by the time I caught up, their username was violet_08 - they might have changed it to did_you_find_violets, or it might be an entirely different user; I don’t follow them too closely) who has been posting mostly thirsty/lewd/NSFW memes. AFAIK there have been several generations of accounts, deleted, new one created, and so on.

I don’t get the hate, though. As long as the NSFW stuff is tagged I don’t mind it, and having one permanent username also helps against complaints since people can just block them once, instead of having to block every new account.

As a non-native speaker, it has always been weird to me, but this is still considered a normal, grammatically correct conversation:

• Who is buying glasses?
• Me.

You still wouldn’t say “me am going to buy glasses”.

While “I and a friend” seems to make more sense to me, considering all the weird stuff present in English, I’m fine letting this slip.

Around the selfish gene. The thing that guaranteed we survive and “emerge” became the guarantee our own combined greed and lack of empathy will be our undoing. You or I might be fine making sacrifices for the betterment of humanity; the ones who are the end result of aeons of racism, aggression, selfishness and hubris will make sure that their selfish genes get passed on, they gain wealth and power, and they ignore everyone else around, except maybe the closest friends and family. Even when they are actually burning up the planet in the process.

This is how it has worked since the dawn of humanity, even before that as animals. Most mammals ostracize their peers with albinism, leave behind or eat the weak, and the greediest fledgling will become the largest one.

We are past that. We don’t need this behaviour anymore. Survival isn’t an everyday challenge for the most of us. But similarly to leg hair, the tailbone or your ability to move your ears, they can’t just disappear as quickly as the environment, circumstances and society have changed around us. Little children are still mostly suspicious with strangers, or people who look different from what they are used to. Our built-in vestigial BIOS settings are also the reason those greedy, aggressive human fledglings are eating up everything from others, shitting the nest, and ruining the planet for everyone.

I think there isn’t a definite point where we’ve gone wrong. It’s been a looong process.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/264afb96-631b-47f2-9496-8754114cbfa9.png

It’s a bit like -er. It can be used for objects, as well. Based on the word, it can end with ó or ő.
Vezet (drive, lead, etc) -> vezető (driver, leader).
Hűt (cool [verb]) -> hűtő (cooler, fridge).
Üt (hit) -> ütő ([sports] bat, [sports] paddle).
Olvas (read) -> olvasó (reader).
Úsz(ik) (swim) -> úszó (swimmer, fishing float).

All these might also mean -ing (as in, the continuous participle, NOT the noun), depending on the context.

…which sounds surprising to me, because AFAIK Polish also has separate he/she words (on/ona).

Neither does Polish. I know at least one polaka who confuses the/a(n) 15% of the time.

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