[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

More like those Ancestral Archers down in Siofra. They're hitting me with railguns travelling at Mach 12 from halfway across the map.

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

I think blue and red are supposed to be "Profit" and "Loss", not revenues and costs, since I'm pretty sure all Olympics have both revenues and costs. Also, the Y-axis is already labeled deficit and surplus, so why not just use those instead of conflicting, misleading terms?

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 74 points 4 days ago

I still have deep-seated, instinctual nightmares of the merg.

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn't spoiled the whole thing.

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

never use my main for anything

Are you sure it's your main?

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Mead/honey" followed basically the exact same path, except for the final borrowing of the Japanese word back into English.

Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > English "mead"
Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > Tocharian B (not A) "mit" > Old Chinese "mit" > Japanese "hachi-mitsu" (bee-honey)

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The 'p' is only silent in English because English doesn't allow syllables to start with 'pt'. It was perfectly fine to do so in ancient Greek, where both the 'p' and the 't' would be pronounced, but when English borrowed the 'pt'-initial words, the 'p' gets deleted to make the word pronounceable.

But, it's perfectly fine in English for one syllable to end with 'p' and the next to start with 't', so English speakers have no problem saying 'cop-ter'.

Same with, for example, 'tsunami' vs. 'Mit-subishi' (which in Japanese is actually syllabified 'mi-tsu-bi-shi').

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Is it bad that I would legitimately love to live there?

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because there definitely isn't a reason why Israel sending troops to other Middle Eastern countries would be a bad idea. It's definitely just because they're a bad ally.

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Shoe's never been right wing, and she's steadily moved further left throughout her career.

[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

The other historians have never had any friends so they can't relate to close platonic relationships.

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[-] hakase@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: while a much more often occurrence than once in a lifetime, "Thursday the 20th" is tied with "Saturday the 20th" as the least-likely combination of days of the week with the 20th day of the month, even though you'd think the chances would be exactly 1/7.

Here's the math about the Gregorian calendar that explains why. (Even though the post is about Friday the 13th, it straightforwardly can be applied to any other day/date combination as well.)

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