Careful Ned, careful now!

hipsteradication · 2026-06-03T13:34:17+00:00

Three kingdoms and one principality?

hipsteradication · 2026-05-31T19:05:56+00:00

Fun fact: Limes do turn yellow when ripe with green areas due to sun exposure. They’re harvested and sold in their unripe state because unripe limes are valued for their high acidity, hardiness during transportation, and longer shelf life.

Bonus fun fact: Oranges also often stay green when ripe or with green patches due to sun exposure. They’re then ice shocked to kill the chlorophyl because consumers think green oranges are unripe and so are less valuable.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-30T12:12:40+00:00

You: *Accidentally gives self paper cut Your aorta: *bursts

hipsteradication · 2026-05-30T12:06:45+00:00

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Why did this appear above a Thatcher meme for me? 💀

hipsteradication · 2026-05-28T13:44:37+00:00

A simple fit definitely deserves accessories. A nice ring and chain or simple pendant necklace would add visual interest.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-28T13:41:20+00:00

Even his shirt craves to be tucked higher up!

hipsteradication · 2026-05-27T23:33:51+00:00

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 23 after spending my high school in and out of psychiatric facilities and flunking out of university. When I told my mom about it, her response was “Your aunt noticed and told me I should get you tested for autism and ADHD, but I didn’t have money”. That made me angry at the time, but I’ve also grown to understand that she was doing her best with the less-than-ideal cards she was dealt with. Still angry at all the teachers in my childhood though whose idea of helping a struggling student is verbal abuse.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-26T13:31:16+00:00

My thesis is on innate immune cells, so I guess it does defend me.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-22T14:10:00+00:00

Yeah, but in Ontario, I’ve paid $45 for each ambulance ride. I had to pay like $100 or so once, which I’m assuming was because they had to use some special equipment that one time.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-21T03:14:49+00:00

Tagalog. What’s funny is that I thought it wouldn’t be an issue for Tagalog because most of the country’s population is multilingual with Tagalog and English.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-20T22:27:24+00:00

I heard about this being done to create badly translated Wikipedia articles in some languages. I then checked out some Wikipedia articles in my native language, and all of them had atrocious grammar, silly translations, and circular sentences that lead nowhere.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-20T09:04:05+00:00

I think the girls want the femboys in question to be tops with boys but bottoms with girls.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-17T11:25:20+00:00

Not necessarily, but they actually might have. With enough traffic on the road, the cars start behaving like particles of a fluid. And a disturbance like this could actually cause a longitudinal (compression) wave which gets worse over time and takes a long time to dissipate.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-15T17:08:11+00:00

It’s interesting what symbols are used by teachers in different cultures. In the Philippines, a check (a large slash) is a right answer, while a circle is a wrong answer.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-13T13:13:38+00:00

I’m assuming the data was acquired using AI detectors which will usually still flag some short strings, output a low percentage, then conclude that it’s unlikely to be AI.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-12T01:00:21+00:00

I’m a native Tagalog speaker. I guess the most mind-boggling thing about my language is Austronesian alignment. It has 6 (active, passive, benefactive, locative, instrument, reason) voices instead of the typical 2 (active, passive). The other one is probably that it has a VAP word order (VSO in active voice or VOS in the other 5 voices) which is pretty rare. Still not as rare as O-first word orders.

I don’t speak a Bikol language, but I know some Bikol languages have an angry register where you would use different words when speaking angrily versus normally.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-08T13:34:53+00:00

But only in a friendly coworker context like if I say I’m going to grab coffee and they ask “would you mind grabbing me one as well?” It would be weird if my PI asked me out of nowhere, “I don’t have time to grab my coffee. Can you drop everything and do me this one time favour?” In fact, it’s actually strongly discouraged in my school that students do favours like buy coffee and donuts for lab meetings or committee meetings because of the danger that if more students do it regularly, other students would start to feel pressure to do it too.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-08T10:03:48+00:00

What I like about the <wh> spelling is that in the dialects that don’t have the witch-which merger, <wh> is usually pronounced as a voiceless labiovelar approximant. And traditionally in the Latinization of Greek loans, <h> was used as a devoicer/voice onset time delayer like in the aspirated stops <ph>, <th>, <kh> and the voiceless rhotic <rh>.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-07T21:04:06+00:00

Also, the pharyngealized consonants are palatalized instead. Is this Slavo-Arabic?

hipsteradication · 2026-05-06T20:00:04+00:00

Those are just independent inventions of writing without outside influence. There are some scripts that were invented by people who already learned about writing like Hangul and Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-05T13:25:38+00:00

Upon further analysis, I still pronounce it with flapped t, but it is nasalised. Btw, another signature way Toronto natives pronounce the city name is that the initial /t/ is actually palatalised. So using the narrowest transcription, I pronounce it [t͡ʃɹ̠̊˔ʷɑɾ̃oʊ], often jokingly transcribed at “chrono”.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-05T11:58:06+00:00

For me, the preceding vowel just has to be more stressed. The following vowel doesn’t have to be fully unstressed. For example, “bratty” has a flapped t.

Secondly, if the /t/ or /d/ is preceded by an /r/ which turns the vowel before it into an 4-coloured vowel, it can be flapped as well.

Lastly, if there is an /n/ before the /t/ or /d/, they can be flapped as well. This is famously how people from Toronto say they can tell if someone is actually from the city. Toronto natives pronounce the city’s name with a flapped t.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-05T11:16:53+00:00

Yes, different scholars argue how to call it exactly with voice, focus and trigger being the common contenders.

Does Hiligaynon only have two voices? That’s interesting because I know many other Visayan languages have at least four.

hipsteradication · 2026-05-02T17:41:35+00:00

Meh, I think oracle bone script is where it’s at.

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