This is just me, I know, but it bothers me that they went through the trouble to copy the P and the SS, but didn’t do that for the first letter I, so it looks like “P|SSIMIST”.

I was about to bring this up!! Yes! It was a two page spread. My jaw dropped. Awesome comic.

I’ll never understand why low res images like this always have half the text cropped off. I get why it’s done when they’re conveniently censoring something, but…ugh. :(

I get that in pop culture, Latin sounds mysterious and ancient, but demons were ancient by the time folks were speaking Latin. It sounds like I’m nitpicking, but my point is that it’s kinda funny when you think about it.

The whole concept that demons speak Latin implies that Hell universally chose to learn a new human language between around 600 BC and 700 AD only spoken in Europe, North Africa, and West Asia, (completely ignoring every other civilization on Earth), and that also implies that, despite somehow successfully becoming almost universally fluent and literate in Latin, Hell couldn’t be bothered to pick up another textbook for the following 1300 and some-odd years till today.

ADHD. A lot of people might say depression, and ADHD gets misdiagnosed this way too, especially because people are much more familiar with the way depression manifests rather than how ADHD actually manifests beyond stereotypical hyperactivity and difficulty focusing.

What you’re describing is executive dysfunction and energy regulation problems. The reason you can’t stop scrolling is because your brain doesn’t produce dopamine enough, and it’s only used to the short bursts it can produce. This creates a feedback loop where you’re stuck stimulating yourself with quick, easy dopamine hits, and that’s why anything that seems like a prolonged task feels like an impossible endeavor. It’s also why you’ll get tunnel vision if you ever do start playing that game.

Yup. That phenomenon is called “analogical change”. The opposite happens too though! For example, “person” and “parson”.

Actuallyyy…

Goose comes from Old English, where they pluralized [go:s] (think “goes” with a soft S) by adding [iz] (like “ease”).

When saying [go:siz], it was kinda hard for the mouth to switch the vowels from the [o] to the [i] quickly, so to save themselves the trouble, they’d change the first vowel to make it a little more similar to the second, so [go:siz] became [ge:siz].

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [z]. [ge:si] (think “guessy” but the “e” lasts a bit longer than usual).

Then, that was too long, so they dropped the [i]. [ge:s] (“guess” with that same drawn out “e”).

📯It’s the Great Vowel Shift!📯 Now, [go:s] and [ge:s] become [gu:s] and [gi:s]. Almost there!

The vowels become a tad short over time, and now, you have [gus] and [gis] which are written “goose” and “geese”.

But “MOOSE”? That’s Algonquin. It has nothing to do with all that noise. “But they sound the same and are written the same?!” So? Haven’t you heard? English orthography is a dumpster fire. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Not even the words.

Buddy…

1. Turn your shirt inside out before putting it in the machine.
2. Set the machine to cold water, delicate/gentle cycle.
3. The picture you posted is of a dry, hot desert, right? What do you think a machine called a dryer that uses heat will do? Hang them to dry on a cheap rack from Amazon or your shower curtain rod instead.

I have shirts that still look practically new after dozens and dozens of washes.

Not all famous people’s friends are famous. 🤷🏼 They both used to be part of the cosplay community that would attend a lot of anime conventions, but somebody made a joke about doxxing myself, so I don’t feel comfortable saying much else.

Wtf that’s my partner’s friend! I’ve seen people I know on Reddit a few times before, but I didn’t expect it on a less populated place like Lemmy. It’s a small world.

I loved the desirepaths subreddit. It’s a shame it’s, ya know, a subreddit.

I won’t sit idly by while there is a PRETENDER TO THE THRONE.

I hate to be “that zoologist” (because I’m not a zoologist), but isn’t that a shrew?

I swear to God, all these Linux/Unix posts look like such a word salad from an outside perspective.

“Plasma mobile pine phone rice”??? Wingding with a blender goose nunchuk paddleboat.

Therapy has taught me the greatest pain is the pain of not feeling heard. 😞

But I don’t know. Getting slapped in the face like that seems pretty bad too.

A lot of Austin, Texas too.

Slames James

“Euphemism Treadmill” on Wikipedia. Very interesting subject!