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I’m not super far in, but I have heard it. The first time I remember hearing it is in the opening act when Lin is telling Barrett about you. Also when Sam talks to the marshal about you in Akila City. I suppose there are only so many opportunities for other characters to talk about you while you’re standing right there, but it does pop up, so it’s nice to have the option for those moments.

I live on a fault line along the pacific ring of fire, and so building with wood was an absolute necessity for us so long, as they were structurally more lenient to the constant earthquakes. Even now I believe our old government building is the largest wooden building in the Southern hemisphere (and it’s only 4 stories tall). These days as construction techniques have changed, we’ve obviously built things with concrete, steel, brick, etc., but the wooden tradition remains strong, with a huge majority of modern houses here still being built like this.

That aside, wood was also just a much cheaper material to build with, so it was the most economical material to use for a long time for much of the “new world”.

They absolutely are! A convenient place to hold it while dipping into that sweet, sweet, sweet and sour, for maximum sauceage.

Isn’t this a pro-bussy stance? I’m unfamiliar with the signage but to me it feels like it’s saying “no ahead, left turn only, except busses”

Having never watched star trek:

Jokey answer: recess but they have access to deadly weaponry and only the strongest will make it to maths class.

Serious answer: I presume this is some kind of proof-by-combat scenario? A local culture demands the protagonists fight one of their own in some cactus-pugilism jungle-gym arena in order to prove their worth, and only then will they grant them whatever boon they asked of these people?

What is the most unusual thing you’ve found buried in there?

pickled children

Well there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to hear, well, ever

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a thousand dollars!

Linguist here, if I may share my 2¢.

We do know that even over a thousand years ago, speakers of Old English were still calling these kinds of fruits berries, such as strawberries and blackberries (although pronunciation differed somewhat, of course). A word for strawberry as “earth berry” is even reconstructed for the proto Germanic language around 1500 to 2500 years ago. Beyond that, it becomes difficult to trace the word berry any further.

The Botanical sense of the word berry seems to come largely from at earliest the 1500s, from the writings of Caesalpinus, although the definitions were inconsistent and later writings on the matter constantly redefined things and added new terms. Although, largely, these writings all used Latinate terms for their botanical concepts, such as bacca (the closest to the modern botanical berry), and also words like pomum (pome/pomme), drupe, etc. for the other categories of fruit.

So, somewhere since all of that, some English-speaking botanist decided it would be a good idea to use the word berry to describe this concept of a bacca (even though berries had been used for distinctly different things from what that concept described), and now we end up in our current silly predicament where strawberries aren’t berries but pumpkins are.

I’d propose we call botanical berries “bayes” or “bayfruit”, the word bay/baye being an alternate word for berry that ultimately derived from the Latin word bacca, via Old French.

And it’s very cool for people who live nearby who can see these birds at their house!

That’s one of the things I definitely miss most about living in Karori, so many cool birds just hanging out and perching around the house.

It’s such a bizarre scenario, given Luxon isn’t popular, what exactly are people choosing National for? Their… “Policies”? I could understand if people were just swayed by the identity politics of it all, even if I think that’s a bit shallow, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I think it makes perfect sense for groups like these, that will potentially have a lot of official accounts under one umbrella. A bit like an unofficial official badge, knowing a profile comes from a certain instance gives it a sort of credibility.

Didn’t expect to see something like this pop up! I’m really curious to see if he’s recognisable to people in other countries!

Or you could just use Firefox? Mozilla has stated that it opposes this stuff.

This implies the existence of a Kirb that is just a pink sphere.

Down here in NZ my city used to have these too! Apparently it was the last commercial trolleybus network in Oceania. But as a mostly suburban kind of city environment (not quite American suburbia but still low density), their utility definitely was quite limited by the predefined routes. Eventually more and more routes weren’t even using them. But they were still servicing the old main road high frequency routes, so they were still very useful in those instances. Much better than the diesel buses, too, which were so loud you could hear them coming from several stops away! Eventually they phased the trolleys out in 2017, citing all the usual rubbish like maintenance costs and such. But we hadn’t yet electrified our bus fleet, so for a while we had to borrow a bunch more diesel buses. Still on the road to having a fully electric fleet, and I imagine it will be a good while yet before that happens.

Absolutely get a filter! My local tap water tastes a little weird to me, too, but a filter is great for that, and is so much better than getting bottled. It also wastes less plastic!

I think I have too many subreddits that I’m subscribed to for this to work! Won’t let me create a multiteddit, might have to manually create a few and do it bit by bit. Supposedly I’m subscribed to 613 subreddits and it will only ever pull 250 at a given time… This is probably a good opportunity to start fresh and only subscribe to the important stuff (although many probably won’t have communities here yet anyway).

Does anyone know if Lemmy also has a limit on how many community subscriptions it can present?

Sure, It’s a good number for room temperature, but not for body temperature.

The Ioniqs are absolutely sexy vehicles, they’re at the top of my list too!