Best admin. <3

Thank you for your service.

Excellent post in general, but it should be noted that the meaning of “wine-dark sea” is still very much disputed.

I’m just here to second the opinion that, while 7 was uninteresting, 8 basically destroyed Star Wars as a franchise, and that as imperfect as 9 is, it’s practically a miracle that it was as good as it was with what it had to follow.

Sekiro has the best combat of any game I’ve ever played, so I’d be satisfied with just having something like it in other FS games.

That just means that it’s internalized misogyny, so it’s still men’s fault.

…entirely in Sony’s hands.

You can very easily decide. 2, 4, and 5 are outlandish and incredibly unlikely, and 3 isn’t newsworthy.

The most likely choice is 1, by an enormous margin, and guess what, that’s exactly which one it was!

Not on lemmy.ml there isn’t!

What actually happened is that these roots were borrowed from Ancient Greek by paleontologists to form the word “pterodactyl”, not modern Greek.

In Ancient Greek, they would have pronounced both the “p” and the “t”, but “pt” isn’t a possible beginning of a word for English speakers, and so borrowed words that start with “pt-” (and “mn-” and a few others) have the first sound deleted as a repair mechanism to allow English speakers to pronounce them.

In modern Greek, “pt” consonant clusters that used to be pronounced as-is have undergone dissimilation - both “p” and “t” are stop consonants, so the “p” has instead become an “f” (which is a fricative, not a stop), to make the cluster easier to pronounce.

God Emperor is where I always finish my rereads.

Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.

Every shitty Biden apologetics post like this that I read just further solidifies my decision to vote for Oliver.

Just bought $50 of merch off their website – this is the sort of journalism we should all be supporting.

That’s about a pound of cheese every two days. Pretty sure I could hit that number without any trouble at all.

I still cackle like a twelve year old every time that comes up in Duolingo.

And 5 was a significant downgrade from 4.

I’m still playing civ IV. With the direction the series has been going, it looks like I probably always will.

You’re the one that originally said that Anglo-Canadians didn’t realize how racist they are toward French-Canadians, not me. All I’m doing here is agreeing with you, and adding that French-Canadians do realize how racist they are, because for them it’s literally a matter of widely supported, highly publicized government policy in addition to being a deeply-ingrained cultural chip-on-the-shoulder.

You can either take our lived experience at face value and gain some perspective, or you can continue to bury your head in the sand. Either way I’m tired of yet another Quebecer gaslighting me about how good I have it here, so I think I’m done. Bonne nuit.

I’ve been here two years, so my family is right in the middle of the “get fucked” zone in basically every possible way for the foreseeable future. (This also includes being repeatedly denied permanent residency that we would automatically be granted if we lived 50km west of where we do, i.e. in Ontario. According to the HR director at my company, after the passage of the law Immigration has started an unofficial policy of putting residency applications that otherwise have enough points to qualify but don’t speak French directly into the “reject” pile.)

I appreciate you taking time to provide the links and advice though.

I’m definitely not saying that French-Canadians have it better in the rest of Canada and that has never been my argument – I completely agree with your original comment that Anglo-Canadians are unintentionally racist toward French-Canadians, but my original comment is also 100% true, that French-Canadians are instead intentionally racist toward English speakers.