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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • poppy@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•big rule
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    3 months ago

    But minimalism isn’t about just having the least amount of stuff and purging literally everything you’re not using that minute. It wouldn’t encourage buying and purging the same tools over again. Rather, encourage you to think deeply on weather you need X tool, or maybe Y tool you already have could manage the job, or if you can borrow X tool. If you cannot substitute for X tool in any way, you would still buy it—but you still would want to be mindful of what version of X you buy, whether you need to super fancy one with lots of bells and whistles or if a basic version will keep you in working order.

  • poppy@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Mystical land pirates (with pizza)
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    4 months ago

    You got some right! All 60s-70s houses. Mine was split level. Decidedly middle class. However, it was smack in the Midwest and basically all the houses are about as different as houses built in that era can be. Now, the subdivision that popped up in the field next to my neighborhood in the 00s were cookie cutter 3-4 of the same houses (but sometimes the floor plans/elevations were mirrored to make it seem different haha).

  • poppy@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Mystical land pirates (with pizza)
    37·
    4 months ago

    ”Because I had to use complex mathematics to derive your house number among all of the unnumbered houses on your street."

    Wouldn’t even be able to do that in the neighborhood I grew up in. They numbered the houses in the order they were built/the lots were purchased and that wasn’t often next to each other lol. So 64, 67, 88, 90 are next to each other for instance.

  • poppy@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•They lied to us
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    4 months ago

    Also Turkey (the bird) has to be the most hilariously named bird. Different languages attribute the bird to a different location.

    https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/11/turkey-in-turkish-and-other-geographically-implausible-names-for-this-bird.html

    Snippet:

    But English, Turkish, Hindi, and French aren’t the only languages with geographical confusion over the origin of this gobbling bird. Irish and Welsh call it after Turkey, but that’s probably just borrowing via English. Armenian, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Russian also refer to it as some sort of Indian bird, while Dutch, Indonesian, Icelandic, and Lithuanian get slightly more specific with their inaccurate Indian geographical references and call it a bird of Calicut. Khmer and Scottish Gaelic, on the other hand, call it a French chicken, Malay calls it a Dutch chicken, and various dialects of Arabic refer to it as a Roman, Greek, or Ethiopian chicken. The most sensible of the geographically confused names are the languages that name it after Peru, including Croatian, Hawaiian, and Portuguese. I mean, at least Peru is on the right continental landmass, even if it’s home to the Incas while it was the Aztecs who domesticated the turkey.

    Fun!

  • poppy@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Queerbaiting rule
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    4 months ago

    I think the above comment was kind of blowing the comic out of proportion—I mean it’s a 4 panel comic it’s obviously not going to be able to give great nuance but I think it’s easy to read it as “proper” queerbaiting.

    Anyway, the Wikipedia page has a good list of examples if you’re interested in mainstream examples.

    Ones that stick out off the top of my head I’ve personally watched were Sherlock, and Teen Wolf and Rizzoli & Isles to a lesser extent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queerbaiting