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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • 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.



  • 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.











  • Sounds like someone speaks the language here : ). No and no. Plural of tea: teák. The ‘is’ is still not needed, but the plural gets added to the adjective, too: a teák biszexuálisak.

    For I, you (singular), we and you (plural) we actually use the appropriate form of is/be (but note that pronouns are not needed, unless you want to emphasise them). ‘Be’ gets inclined accordingly to the person/pronoun, therefore:
    I am bisexual -> biszexuális vagyok

    You (s) are bisexual -> biszexuális vagy

    We are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagyunk

    You (p) are bisexual -> biszexuálisak vagytok

    I can’t wait for the future recommended words by my keyboard app now.