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I noticed how many of the verbs in English can mean different things depending on what word comes next, e.g.

• Put
• Put down
• Put up
• Put upon
• Put on (wear)

English has so many words that mean the same thing, it’s amazing, astonishing, bewildering and flabbergasting, there was a thief, mugger, robber, bandit… Who stole, robbed, nicked, thieved from me… I don’t know how anyone ever learns all the English words for stuff, I honestly don’t know how I have.

It also made me reflect on how languages are just noises we’ve all agreed to make at each other. The rules try to match the language and fail, not the other way around.

Recently I was also thinking about how interesting it is that some words we use are SO OLD, and we just… use them like it’s no big deal, but if we we’re transported back thousands of years, people were still calling vanilla something very similar to vanilla and arteries something very similar to arteries, and that is super cool to me.

I was essentially certain that this meant: “their face when”

It took me a while but “cocktails” for anyone else out there like me

“You ARE the droid I’ve been looking for”

Or to quote Terry Pratchett:

Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

This feels to me like one of those optical illusions where the “wall” is in reality the floor.

Yeah, it did suck. It is much much better now though. I genuinely enjoy it at the moment.

I know this is completely unrelated, but I think I’d actually find it impossible to get to 11:50 in the day with only 7 steps. That’s a one way trip to the toilet…

Haha, if someone remembers something that everyone else has forgotten is it really embarrassing… No one would believe him anyway!

“no, car go road” would be better in my opinion.

This is a great quote, I also like to say (especially in places like airports or government buildings):

It’s not a rat race, it’s a rat queue.

Ok, I can agree with this logic “it’s better to try than to give in” much more than “there’s always a solution”.

That to me still leaves some people starving of hunger due to a lack of money and an excess of bills. But I agree that even in that horrible situation it’s better to keep trying than give in.

I was worried the argument here was closer to “you’re in this terrible situation because you didn’t try enough” which I wholeheartedly disagree with.

I feel now that we’re in agreement though?

This is reductive to the point of absurdity, if this were true no one would ever die from any problem (i.e. drowning, falling, etc.) They’d simply activate ingenuity.

Some problems do not have a solution in a given circumstance.

E.g. I’m locked in a prison on a sinking ship that’s already 1km underwater, and my cell is completely full of water and I’ve held my breath for 2 minutes now.

Not trying to suggest that this makes an ebike your answer, but an ebike typically moves at ~25kmph (and can be cheaply jigged to go up to 50kmph), so the trip should be 2 hours or less, depending on terrain and all that fun stuff.

Even so, 4 hours of commuting is still too much, and as I said, I’m not trying to argue with you - or tell you how you should be moving yourself around - just looking to correct what appears to be a bad estimate of travel time in your comment.

This is my favourite comment of all my experience with Lemmy so far.

Can you elaborate on this? With some sources?

There are no noodles in this picture

I suppose in reality it’s the average of people who post pictures online and are willing to display it publicly, and probably weighted slightly by how many pictures of a person are uploaded (e.g. if someone has uploaded tens of thousands of pics of themselves - a celebrity or whatever - they will throw the average slightly towards their own face). Assuming the sample set is something like: all of social media photos of a person’s face.

“i can see right through you and your lies”

“That’s just one facet of my personality”