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I know this community is not strongly in use but... I find the linked letter to be helpful to me when times out in the world get difficult. It's odd, because the message is quite religious and I'm staunchly agnostic.

Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope.

It always works for me, hopefully it might work for someone else out there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's a real shame Australia doesn't have any empty, sunny places that they could install massive solar farms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Well that was fascinating, thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Those are the ones! It's quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing, thank you for that. There's so much that's fascinating in linguistics!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's one of the many ways I know that as a species we're fucked

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn't sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Michael, but he prefers Mikey

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like Superman 2 all over again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Maybe this thread will be the start of something! What I liked about this challenge was the starter beak and feet, made it a little easier for those of us who are artistically challenged

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)
 

My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on!

Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide.

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I'm sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

 
 

Don't tell me that's going to parse in a CLI

 
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