sunbather

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

orchid mantis gang represent

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

bro what are you on about. do you really think there were no equivalent problems back then weve since solved? i cant examplify because i was not alive at that time and im not read up enough but to me its obvious every time period will have their own challenges, and stop putting words in ppls mouths lol

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

but you think everything looks like a wizard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

source? plus "western wages" is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the base template of the meme is maslows hierachy of needs with every entry replaced with "forehead kisses from x" but instead the triangle is a ternary diagram. very creative meme

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

pretty funny how different reactions ppl can have, when i was younger and thought i might be lucid dreaming my first thought would always be to try generating flame in my palm or some other anime move

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

truly the spearhead of civilization

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

society has become so used to girls and women being considered less that there is a scary amount of rationalization as to why its fine actually to completely annihilate all remaining bodily autonomy they have left. this is an explosion in suicides of young girls and adult women alike begging to happen. wake the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

also as a swedish person i think by far the most notable aspect is how level the playing field is when it comes to respect, primarily in schools and the like but even in other spaces.

its the norm that students and teachers are on first name basis and honorifics are almost never used anywhere. the plural 2nd person pronoun "ni" has largely fallen out of use in its other meaning as a singular 2nd person formal pronoun, being replaced with its informal counterpart "du" most of the time.

students and employees alike can freely and commonly do criticize and talk back to teachers and employers/bosses if theres a genuinely valid reason to do so and the general dynamic between different social positions is so relaxed to the point of it being fascinating. i think meeting the literal king of the country would for many people not warrant that big a change in behaviour other than obviously just being particularly nice.

as a result of this i think people have an easier time seeing each other as people rather than just as cogs of society, and being a person who struggles a lot with reading social cues its an enormous relief to so far in my professional life never had to worry a single time whether i should refer to someone as mr. or ms. or if i should be speaking in a particular register

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

yea depending on how nitpicky you wanna get you can even point out that some language families are intercontinental between eurasia and the americas (not talking about colonialization, theres some related siberian and canadian languages iirc), but its pretty clear that this is supposed to be a general overview and pie languages do well enough for that

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

considering theres a small uralic bush the inconsistency is reasonable to point out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

high quality downloads also available on their bandcamp for free

 

went looking for some post-rock adjacent stuff and stumbled upon this neat noisy/mathy/jazzy mix, vocals can get quite drowned in the mix but they have their charm too nonetheless

 

I was pondering differences between endonyms and exonyms, but then I started wondering where demonyms really, originally come from. I imagine it might come from the name of the leader of a group of people, that name becoming associated with that group as a whole and when people start mingling more it becomes a name associated with a whole people and so it dominos on, but if anybody has any good reads regarding it I'd be interested to check it out. I know that demonyms often come from place names but that also begs the question how those places got their names to begin with, or if its more often than not just a matter of "you call that place that hence we will call it that" à la Sahara Desert for example.

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