[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago

They're popular because they're broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they're likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don't really care about music aren't going to go out of their way to support or defend them.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, 1-12 are influenced by the old base 12 Germanic/Norse system, which is why -teen starts at thirteen, same as in German (11: elf, 12: zwölf, 13: dreizehn, 14: vierzehn & so on)... The -teen for 1x in english is also a carryover from this, being threeten, fourten, fiveten etc. with only numbers over 20 having their orders reversed - German has something similar with "und" only appearing in numbers over 20. English did historically too, eg. "four and twenty blackbirds".

Base 20 was historically used for large numbers though, eg "four score and seven years" by Abraham Lincoln, which was a poetic way of saying 87 inspired from Psalms 90:10, which says "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." in the King James Version, which reflects that using base 20 for large numbers (and not just 80) was not uncommon in the 17th century.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

I'd wager the same one who put all their energy into the the big bang then has just had the worst hangover ever since

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I play it exclusively for the Gwent

Difficulty: story only
Cutscenes: skipped
Gwent Difficulty: hard

Optimal.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

I doubt society will go fully paperless, there are times when you need a thing that can be crushed, folded, whatever and doesn't run out of battery, so unless e-ink technology develops in a very specific way I don't think every eventually will be replaced, and even without purely functional applications I think art would never ever go fully paperless for many data security (leaking art before it's complete), economic (things are more expensive when they're limited in supply, and making either legal or illegal copies of digital things is so much easier) and sentimental reasons (it's just nicer to have something physical) reasons

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

See also "they have a hot head" vs "they have a hot body/face"

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

Idk, last I checked the European Honey Bee was native, but I guess you could prefer bumblebees?

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

The correct plural is actually wug, or dialect weg.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, but all mammals by definition produce milk

Thing is this isn't even the second time mothers secreting food for babies has evolved - some birds do it as well as mammals (birds are basically just mammals 2.0 really, warm blooded, big brains, produce milk, highly active)

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

Implicitly includes Taylor though, she's not off the hook

Just all the others are also on the hook now

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Le Creuset pot - I got one for Christmas 2018 from my parents shortly after going to university and despite being used around 3 times a week since then with plenty of stews burnt onto the bottom it still looks like new

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

I actually did a big project on this and we basically found that for people in flats wanting to grow small plants they're amazing, but there's very little point for actual farming

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