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learning through the medium of geoguessr that my left-right confusion does extend to east and west
in reply to wayfinder

and now it has me wondering whether it has something to do with my inclination toward left-right symmetry in art...


i sometimes worry that i've made the wrong parts of my memory searchable



auto-antonym: wie man in berlin auf dem fahrrad überholt wird, ist gleichzeitig ganz dicht und nicht ganz dicht

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where does this apparently omnipresent desire to put a comma after the subject in a sentence come from? i see it in english and german
in reply to wayfinder

I’ve seen ot called ‘boomer comma’ in English, but haven’t found any discussion of the phenomenon. For German, there’s this blog post: https://derzwiebel.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/vorfeldkomma/. I’m not sure we’re talking about the same comma position, though


(dt.) Heiratsschwindler = (spa.) mariposa
(dt.) Telefonhörer = (ital.) amore
(engl.) teetotaler = (dt.) Kanone
(dt.) Imker = (ital.) carabinieri



peace of mind only arrives when you have blocked enough users in a discord that you don't know who the 10 blocked messages are from


our demo PARADISE won 1st place at evoke! i am beyond stoked!

watch it here: https://mfx.drastic.net/view/paradise/

in reply to wayfinder

Watched it now, cool stuff! Photosensitivity warning wasn't a joke :D


I'm at evoke, having a blast!

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in reply to wayfinder

wish i was at zvokz having a blast 😍


I'm officially adding a new phrase to my list of fart euphemisms:

Seatbelt.


(The list also includes: SoundCloud, After Effects, ringtone, backdraft, and the German-only Pomelo and Rückenwind)

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who called it incest porn and not pumpkin spice


wieso heißt es verifizierter account bei x und nicht kreuzhaken

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i am a bit annyoed that the paris olympics graphics do not correctly display letters outside the english alphabet

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i really wish the map at whentaken.com would work, but it's so broken that i can't play. why even use apple maps in the first place?! anyway, i can't do anything about it, so no more whentaken for me :(


Von Waschen und Trommeln
Ein Gedicht

Die WaMa war schon immer schlecht,
Doch wird es immer schlimmer, echt.
Drum hab ich für Verband gesorgt,
Drei neue beim Versand geborgt.

Die Shirts, die ich beim Testen wasche,
Kenn' ich wie meine Westentasche.
So weiß ich welches Modell gut war
Und bei welchem ich vor Wut gar'.

Auch wenn's Maschinchen leise schaut,
Sind die Dinger scheise laut!
Was sie aus meinen Stücken rein'jen,
Lässt Nachbarn meinen Rücken stein'jen.

Doch das entlockt mir massig Lachen,
Das bin nicht ich, das lass' ich machen!
Ergebnis in Kartei gepackt,
Auf and're Mietpartei gekackt.



when people draw using their right hand, it always just looks wrong



You're telling me the Commodore's name is Seasick Steve, or..?


update done


people of the abraum, just to let you know, friendica has been updated to the latest version!


"noice" comes from whiskey jargon and just means "neat"!


Gehörgang, Naselaufen und Seepromenade sind auch nur Spezialfälle von Sinneswandel

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wieso heißt es tetris und nicht kompass
wieso heißt es pornhub-abo und nicht kompass
wieso heißt es pc-spezialist und nicht kompass

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🎶 everything mounts in large accounts 🎵


ich habe gerade erfahren, dass "MTB" die abkürzung für "mountainbike" ist, und frage mich seitdem mal wieder, wofür das T steht (ähnlich wie beim RTW schon mal - da war es eingefügt, weil "RW" schon vergeben war.)

wenn es das t in "mountain" sein soll, dann müsste es doch eigentlich "MtB" geschrieben werden, oder?

in reply to wayfinder

Mt. Ainbike, das ist der Berg auf dem die ersten Downhill-Rennen veranstaltet wurden
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Ich denke, hier spielt die Assonanz zu »ATB« (all-terrain bike) und »ATV« (all-terrain vehicle) eine Rolle

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das tut mir leid. Ich hatte mal einen Twitteraccount mit Fotos von Hermes-Paketshops, da sind mir manchmal Beschwerden in die DMs geslidet.


"shudder" is just a shorter way to say "calm your tits"


don't like these always-attached bottle caps. when i pour, the cap slides down and the liquid starts to pour into the cap instead of where i am aiming; when i drink, the cap gets me in the chin or in the nose. and as a final fuck you, it takes a lot longer to find the right position to screw it back on than one that you had in your hand in the correct orientation while you were drinking or pouring

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in reply to Abílio Costa

the ones i was fighting with when I wrote the post were these:

with this type, most commonly, one or both of the connections will break the first time you tilt the cap into its "open" position.

and even if they don't break, they'll be flimsy enough and deformed enough that the ring slides around



nobody's already selling this sort of thing, are they? a little laser in a bubble on a gyroscope swivel that you'd clip on the outside of your bike handle, and it would draw a bright line on the ground at an adjustable distance from the outside of the handle (like 150cm, for german cities) to remind would-be overtakers of the necessary distance. with a bit of logic in it to adjust for handle movement, angles etc. to make sure the distance stays the same.

i'd probably buy a thing like that, but i couldn't build it.

i found a 2012 article on a rear light that would project a too-close line in either direction - but it does not appear to have gone anywhere? you can find it secondhand, but the company seems to have gone under, and it appears to have been too gimmicky and too narrow in any event.

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in reply to wayfinder

'laser bike lanes' are still around: https://www.niterider.com/products/sentinel-250 and https://ride.lezyne.com/products/laser-drive-rear for example

but the lasers in general just aren't bright enough and even at night they're kinda hard to see.

a friend of the family just has a full-size "BIKES MAY USE ENTIRE LANE" actual road sign bolted to the back of her bike. seems to work.

in reply to khm

Note: This light is not being distributed within the German market.

lmao



cw: a funny butt


Content warning: nsfw



baby are you classic video game company taito, cause you make me argh! annoyed


resilienter fußfetischist, der immer wieder auf die beine kommt



so this serial ponzi-like thing where people build hype but tank a company, create a new one and hype that to pay off the previous failure's refunds, debts, etc., then tank it, move on to the next, ... does that have a name that actually gets to the predatory nature of the pattern and doesn't glorify it as entrepreneurship?

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in reply to wayfinder

I've been wondering this too. I hear 'pump & dump' and 'leveraged buyout' a lot, but those feel... incomplete and imperfect in these situations.
in reply to cathos

i suppose the leveraged buyout is kindof the opposite side of the tech startup thing where they build a company fast on loads of debt, hoping to be bought out and liquidated.
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i just had the stupidest idea for impractical footwear, and i'm wondering if anything like that already exists:

the floatshoe

basically, a ring for your calf to sit in, possibly with a sort of funnel or straps to more evenly spread the weight, mounted on struts that connect to a "sole", so that your feet hang in the air freely as you walk

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in reply to wayfinder

Hm. Problem I see with this is the lack of forward stabilization that feet provide. Plus you introduce an additional pivot point. I would imagine that walking in these devices will prove to be quite difficult.
I'm curious - what's the use case?
in reply to wayfinder

chell wears an early version of this in portal



hochqualitative berichterstattung bei der funke mediengruppe

👻

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sorry, funke medien gruppe - zeit fürs deppenleerzeichen muss sein


trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

in reply to wayfinder

I wonder what the "you ask" pattern is, exactly. Pitch rising higher at the end than normal question intonation?
in reply to Kilian Evang

yeah, basically.

rhetorical questions in particular fall victim to it a lot of the time.

in reply to wayfinder

Interesting, I'd never noticed the "name in commas" pattern. Using the terminology of Schneider and Zeldes (2021), I would describe it as name descriptors (more specifically: embellishments) treated incorrectly as appositives in orthography.

https://aclanthology.org/2021.udw-1.14.pdf