name_NULL111653

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[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

You've got þat backwards... Þorne is þe unvoiced letter, as in þem or boþ, whereas eð is þe voiced, as in faðer.

Source: A semester of Old West Norse language class (wherein þorne and eð are used in the same way as in English).

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago

And the Satanic Bible of course. And Nietzsche for the atheist philosophers, prose and poetic eddas for us heathens, some text or another for Wicca, and a Latin edition of Ars Goetia... right? No? Then I smell religious favoritism worthy of the supreme court.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I instinctively tried to open mine with vinyl gloves on once and immediately thought "I'm dumb, gotta take these gloves off first." That was a good shock when it actually worked first try, much confusion...

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago

Boston dynamics is trying to focus on research until they create a product they think has value, rather than release what they have now. AI is mostly running on hype, it's severely underdeveloped for what the media is saying it's capable of. Atlas isn't ready to be alone in an airport loading baggage. Spot, on the other hand, is ready for survey operations in hazardous areas, and has been released now that it's a viable product.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

"Church's role in harming kids..."

That's a funny way to spell "church officials raping kids..."

Editorial watering down like this is disgusting. Even if it wasn't intentional, if you as the reporter aren't comfortable calling sexual abuse rape in a headline and have to water it down to "harm," that's another reason to keep it full-strength. If it makes people mad, good. The truth should make people mad in cases like this.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thor:

Hahaha, this stupid Jotunn wants to be struck! Time for target practice!

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Technology? Who uses technology in the military?

Archaic, painstaking methods of uniform maintainence build discipline. Why would this change even in a thousand years?

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This has got to be such a pain to sew when you rank up...

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 14 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I'll die trying to pet something I shouldn't, and at least get to cuddle with a lion cub before mommy lion rips my throat out.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what too much English grammar does to one... I hardly understand myself. But nah lol that's not how I always talk, I was just trying to use perfect grammar since the whole point was to defend an unusual grammatical construct.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

"Below" is used as a stranded preposition in your case (the more generally accepted usage), whereas the original post uses it at an adjective. While usage of "below" as an adjective is not universal, it is still accepted by some dictionaries. I could only find the Webster English Dictionary as an example, so I suppose it's mostly exclusive to American English. So yes, your example is the more universal mode (as well as my personal preference), but American English generally accepts the above usage as proper grammar. (The sentence above, as well as this one, demonstrate the usage of "above," a relative locus, as both an adjective and a preposition in modern English).

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