@idiomaddict - eviltoast
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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Rhetorical, just FYI. I’m an American in Germany and I’ve literally never met a native German speaker who wasn’t a linguistics professor who didn’t say “rethoric” though, so it’s not a big mistake at all. I do wonder if there was a misprint in a popular textbook or something though, because it’s weirdly consistent, even more so than I would expect from a word with a silent (in German) h somewhere.


  • Yeah, I don’t know what the problem is, but attorneys in general make terrible fucking websites. Under the statements section, this is a quote from the (current) third post down, a court transcript:

    And I want to just bring to your Honor’s attention my shock, frankly, that the chief of detectives of the NYPD along with the New York City mayor had time to sit down with HBO and put hair and makeup on and provide information about the arrest, the prosecution, their theory about the case, and evidence about Mr. Mangione that we have not even received.

    This journal that they’re calling his manifesto, we have never have been provided copies.

    There are other mentions here and there, but this is at least a clear and specific accusation: the NYPD was talking about evidence in a press conference which had not yet been provided to the defense.

    In terms of believability, statements given before the court like this one are pretty high for me, as long as the judge is not biased towards the attorneys (not in this case), because lying to a court can be career ending.






  • They’re receptive to other viewpoints, so I’ve had pretty successful conversations with them, they just start off with terrible takes. Plus they posted a couple of good memes and spurred some good conversation in the comments sections of those memes because of their perspectives.

    When I noticed someone had a few downvotes, I took it as a red flag, but I don’t like to block people who aren’t trolls or awful people.


  • I had that enabled, but then I felt bad because I had one user at like -50. They don’t seem to be a troll, they just have consistently terrible takes (imo) and try to make jokes at the wrong time. I’m not a big down voter, and I started to wonder if I was seeing the negative number and becoming prejudiced against them, so I got rid of it.

    I don’t know what the record is now, but I at least don’t have a reminder of previous bad takes next to their name, meaning I stay unbiased as long as I ignore usernames, which I do.



  • If your minor child gets hurt at my house, you can sue me for negligence. If I didn’t talk to you beforehand, you’ve got a much easier case. If I then present evidence that you were abusive, you’ve got a much harder case. You’ve got to feel out the situation a little bit, but currently there’s no indication that her parents are crazy. They could tell their son that they’ll need to talk to the parents first and see how he responds.


  • That’s what it was like for me to go vegan. I don’t feel as much guilt as I did before just for satisfying my basic needs. I’m not trying to convince anyone, not many people think about things like I do, but it was definitely a good choice for me, even with the added hassle. And it is a hassle, even for me who lives in a very leftist college town in Germany and genuinely loves tofu and beans.







  • I’m very, very susceptible to addiction, but the thing that makes it easiest for me to curb a habit is to pretend I’ve already moved past it. If I think about junk food, I intentionally think of overly sweet, salty and artificial foods and (internally) express my distaste. With smoking, I think of the smell of an ashtray in the rain; with drinking, I think of cleaning up day old beer with a hangover.

    Saying “I don’t really have a sweet tooth” is what made me lose my sweet tooth.


  • My Spanish teacher in high school gave a lesson on direct personal pronouns that started with her singing this song, subbing it for DPP. For background, this was her first year teaching, she was incredibly naive and very Catholic. When my class gleefully explained what OPP in the original song meant, she was a bit blindsided.