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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If you put it in the crease of a foldable, it's stretched when stowed, and normal in use.

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

See, this is the problem with liberals. Kamala made absolutely no indication she would check Israel's aggression. It's wishful thinking based on no evidence. But she lost so she can be whatever liberals want now, she's full of endless possibilities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Adobe products often have no real equal. It sucks, but it's the way it is. Gimp doesn't come close to Photoshop, Inkscape is almost as good as Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects is the most capable video editing software I've ever used.

It sucks that they try and lock you into proprietary file formats, like Substance Painter.

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

It rearranges to secant of c

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah! Why should political parties have to earn your vote in a democracy? Democracy is when you are coerced into voting by a party rather than the party earning your vote by doing things you want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Like white collar crimes that police never go after

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The difference in relative acceleration implied by the meme is on the order of tens of yoctometres (10⁻²³ m) per second per second.

It's a difference so small that it would be overshadowed by the fact that you're holding one object femtometres (10⁻¹⁵ m) higher or lower than the other in the gravitational field.

Additional sources of error to consider at this scale might be the heat radiation from the surroundings providing radiation pressure on the object, the sloshing of Earth's core causing time-dependent variations in the gravitational field, the location-dependent variations in the Earth's gravitational field, and the difference in centrifugal (yes, centrifugal in this reference frame) force due to latitude differences of one micrometre, and also due to natural variations in the rate of Earth's rotation over time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

An embargo would imply its just America that can't trade with Cuba. In reality, almost nobody can trade with Cuba, because any ship that does cannot enter American ports to trade with America.

It may not be a blockade by the dictionary definition, but it's certainly not just an embargo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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