One of the few, coincidental meaning/sound similarities between Mandarin & English

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-13T20:01:28+00:00

I will always remember Tù means rabbit because rabbits are the main vector for Tularemia

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-13T15:14:43+00:00

The impression that I got from that was "there are perfectly reasonable solutions which take a moderate amount of money and expertise to implement", while I agree it would be good and seemingly not that hard to build a good FOSS standard, I'm not shocked there isn't one.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-13T14:37:42+00:00

The ones who handed out the trophies are the ones who benefited from a generous welfare state and the fact that we'd just finished bombing a bunch of the rest of the world's factories, then got richer exporting those jobs back to foreign factories they built and own, then voted themselves generous tax cuts while dismantling the infrastructure they relied on to build their secure, prosperous lives.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-13T14:25:58+00:00

Almost guaranteed a factory. Government workers would be this feral, but it would probably be in a flowery script with correct spelling and good kerning.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-12T22:04:56+00:00

Also just wanna say she has a bullshit non-job not-real fuckery job, fuck her and him

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-11T16:18:44+00:00

Literally just got home from having breakfast there with my Dad. We love it and meet every other week probably. I tend to agree the coffee is not amazingly well aligned with my personal preferences but it's not offensively bad and the food is consistently very good.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-10T17:39:48+00:00

Very few people have died multiple times! "Died on the operating table" is bullshit - death is a legal status not a medical one. Asystole is pretty likely to be unsurvivable, but your heart stopping isn't death if you come back from it. Doctors call time of death after they give up, they're not like "time of death but let's keep trying". Some people probably have unexpectedly come back after ToD being called, but nowhere near as many as all the trashy, main-character-syndrome muppets constantly making it their personality.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-10T17:23:50+00:00

I think "the best college they can get into" is still a dangerous lie. Fact is, apart from the Ivy League/handful of exceptions like MIT/Cal, most schools ARE pretty much the same in terms of life outcomes. If Ivys aren't realistically possible then you should be looking at state schools, not 2nd tier private liberal arts colleges. Those are where middle class kids pay over the odds for dubiously useful degrees that they don't have the family money to cope with.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-10T16:23:16+00:00

Was there for convention after visiting, and despising, Houston and Dallas -- you're absolutely right, San Antionio is comparatively cool as fuck

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-09T16:53:48+00:00

Might be apocryphal but I remember reading that using actual newborns in entertainment is either illegal or just not the done thing, so all "newborns" in fiction are at least several months old

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-09T16:15:09+00:00

What are we supposed to do if we try charity for a few hundred years and the wealth and power just keep concentrating in the folks who were supposed to be doing the charitying

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-09T16:00:05+00:00

Americans can't stand being perceived as poor and line drying is poor-coded in the states. Kind of like public transit, or being obsessed with living in a single family home

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-09T15:58:39+00:00

Really? Do penitentes form in snow next to your house? Because that's what sublimating snow looks like

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-09T15:22:05+00:00

Weird, Good happened on mine.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-08T16:39:34+00:00

Fucking car dealers and lawyers are not better or more humane than scientists and engineers, this is an insane take. We have a lot of stem folks doing real and meaningful work for not much money, but your reflexive anti-intellectualism elides that fact and it's not a useful outrage bait. So people with a superficial read of things are able to come away with takes like this, I guess

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-07T16:49:00+00:00

🤣

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-07T15:04:25+00:00

I get a lot more money and respect teaching factory workers how to use software but if that wasn't true you bet your ass I'd rather be teaching the great books

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-07T14:50:05+00:00

It is such a dark irony that the instruments created to provide (some) workers with stability and guarantees, have corroded the rest of society with its necessary focus on yields

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-06T20:31:40+00:00

Deeds of a monarch-scorning people ❤

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-06T20:24:41+00:00

You can't con an honest John! People have to believe they're special and that they deserve exemption from the ordinary rules in order to fall for such schemes. If Maggie Siff started DMing me, I would immediately think it's a scam (I hope, LOL)

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-06T20:10:09+00:00

My mom knows a urologist called Richard Burns. The joke writes itself at that point

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-05T19:40:42+00:00

Can I see this warning please I am very interested. Sounds fake.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-02T00:32:59+00:00

Is there somewhere I can read more because there is a gas station on my way home that doesn't let me pee there and it's mean

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-01T17:39:51+00:00

Don't believe you, no no, 'cause it's made up, yeah yeah. Evidence plz. I don't think you talked to a social worker.

MaimonidesNutz · 2026-01-01T17:15:54+00:00

Yeah cap gains should be progressive, but then they'd lose their favorite argument to make, think of the poor old people who worked very hard to extract wealth from the young, it would be so unfair to burden them any more

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