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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Gen 3 was my first, so it is the one I am most familiar with and have the most nostalgia for. I can't remember anywhere near as much about any of the other generations than gen 3.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

in some Austrian/Bavarian dialects people say things like "i hob koa Gööd ned" which translated word-for-word to Standard German is "ich habe kein Geld nicht".

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There are languages (e.g. Spanish) where a double negative is still understood as a negative.

Standard varieties of English aren't among them, but some dialects are.

The same is also true in German.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Die Schweiz ist klein genug, dass nirgends wirklich ernsthaft weit weg von der Grenze ist. Ist bei uns in Österreich nicht anders.

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Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

https://explainxkcd.com/3025/

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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

I like tomatoes and most foods prepared from tomatoes, but in my teens I had to eat gazpacho a few times and hated it.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

vegetarian, not vegan

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 days ago

the rules are also changing as more and more people are complaining about reading things they don’t agree with

which is why people need to start understanding that moderation is different from censorship

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago

I intentionally didn't register on big instances like lemmy.world or mastodon.social in order to avoid being part of obvious places to censor.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

In my language the expression is "jemandem einen blasen" (to blow one to someone) and I remember reading a long time ago about a story where a teenage girl (?) actually injured her boyfriend when she blew into the penis. Seems not to be a very good idea.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

Honestly I have to remind myself of this myself. Yes, these are images of events in (say) 1938. No, things weren't actually black and white in 1938, people saw colors the same way, with the same sharpness, they do in 2024, it's just photographic technology that has improved since then.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago

Ideally, the fediverse will help people in censorious countries access information their governments don't want them to see, but I am not too optimistic, I used to think that about the entire Internet and look where we are now, governments around the world are very much managing to control the spread of information on it.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

At what point in time? If the aircraft is still on the ground, it wouldn't take off in that condition, i.e. you would be ordered to leave it again and need to take a different one. The explanation by @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world is, I think, correct for what would happen if that happened during the flight.

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In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

https://explainxkcd.com/3024/

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