ziggurat

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[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You make a joke but it is true. The vest isn't meant to save troops life, it is meant to get to troop to go to the front line

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Not defending them, but they need the line to go up, or else the person who decides your paycheck doesn't get a raise

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Or NATO just allows them to destroy airfields Russia is launching rockets from.

So our choice is to give the purse to the thief that wants more land in the future, or slap the knife out of his hand

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No they are saying straight out that on fox news that it's good if Russians help the Republicans win

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

The problem is not free speech, the problem is the absence of teaching critical thinking and healthy scepticism

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the GOP that increases their chance of winning the fewer voters vote. They actively try to suppress voters. The more people that vote the higher chance the democrats win

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Fox news was brought to court over fake news. They lost and had to pay 6 months of revenue. But their argument in court was not that they didn't have fake news, but that they are an entertainment channel, not a news channel.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

There is a word for that, it is cognate. When words from different languages stem from the same word

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Been using Linux since the early 2000's and I've dual booted a few times, but mostly had Linux as my main os for this time. This has happened so many times to me, the last time like 4 years ago, I just will live without the software that doesn't work in wine...

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, because just that you learned to read analogue clocks, makes your brain more plastic. I am sure you know what that word means, but for anyone else, plastic means adaptable. The more things you learn the easier it is to learn more things.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

You sound like someone who doesn't know how to read an analoge clock.

I bet you could figure it out if you looked it up. And you would be better for it ❤️

 

I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

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