Xavienth

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

"Y'all" has wider reach than this map suggests, particularly in black and queer communities.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

English used to be like other European languages too. We had thou/thee for singular, and you/ye for plural, and for respectful singular. Eventually, people began using it as respectful singular for everyone, and so it just became singular and plural, eclipsing thou/thee. Around this time, the you/ye accusative/nominative distinction was also lost, so now we just have you.

If you're curious, the you/ye distinction worked like this: "you" was used for the subject (the doer) of the sentence, and "ye" was used for the object (the done to). you/ye are analogous to I/me.

"You come with me." (plural you)

"I come with ye." (plural ye)

As a result of the loss of thou, we also lost the conjugation of verbs related to it, like "art" instead of "are", and "-st" or "-est" for other verbs ("goest", "thinkst", etc). It used to be that "are" was only for plural pronouns, but now both "you" and "they" can be singular.

And if you're curious about what happened to "-eth", evidence suggests this was for a long time a typographic feature, and it was pronounced "-s" as it is today. It was used exactly like "-s". "He thinketh" would have been pronounced "he thinks".

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Asks the fucking developer of lemmy if they're lost. fucking lmao

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I am also aware that they are spelled the same, but I consciously use a U only for the organism.

For what it's worth, I'm Canadian, so nobody would bat an eye here at using either the American or British spelling of things.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nuclear is too expensive to run in the short term. Nuclear plants only start being profitable after like 10 years. But then they're really fucking profitable. So it makes sense a company could go bankrupt when you're 10 years in the red.

Also, on the topic of flexibility, this is only true for, like, 70s era nuclear. France has had load-following nuclear for some time now. Does it follow second-to-second variations? No, but it can load follow on the scale of the daily variations in demand.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

One. I was tired of their posts never loading for whatever reason and they were a prominent poster in a community.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've heard that newer generations are becoming less tech literate on average than previous generations. They don't try to fix their device, they just expect it to work. When it doesn't, they don't have the troubleshooting skills to fix it. They never had the opportunity to learn them.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

You act like your argument is infallible lmao the SCOTUS is so important and yet the Democrats refuse to pack the courts because it's not the right thing to do according to some bullshit idea of playing by the rules.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Roe v Wade decision and the Chevron decision literally happened under Biden, a democrat. Before you butter up the Democrats as the second coming of Christ, consider that the Democrats are literally in power and have been for the last four fucking years of hell. It's not that those decisions don't matter, it's that the venn diagram of what your vote can possibly do, and the ways to reverse those decisions, it looks like this: O O

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And permanently closed in 3, 2...

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Any mention of Baltimore.

FUCK YOU, BALTIMORE!

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That I'll get food lodged in my throat and my survival will be determined by how well I can thrust myself onto the back side of a chair before I pass out. A tough ask when you're short.

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