Dojan

Whenever you think they can’t bury the bar any lower, they somehow manage to fucking find space under it.

Learned something new! Love it.

Has the orange arse even hit the seat yet? People were really fucking fast with throwing out all their pretense of progressivity.

I hadn’t heard of this. I was shocked to find out that unpasteurised milk could be sold to begin with, didn’t expect a second shock in the comments. Think I’m going to go back to just not touching social media for a while.

Respectfully, I don’t want to see any trains or buses made under his guidance.

This. Let’s put the critique where it’s actually warranted. Being weird isn’t hurting anyone.

It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles.

Well, of course it’s not selfishness. Having children is a purely selfish act, because who else are you reproducing for? You can’t do something for someone that doesn’t exist, and bringing existence to someone who hasn’t asked for it, knowing what the world looks like, doesn’t strike me as a kindness. So who else is benefiting? The capitalist machine?

Nope. That’s just people living their identities. You and I don’t get to decide who they are.

What are you even talking about? Men don’t identify as women.

I mean they promise violence if they get their shit through so the only option is to challenge them.

A small step in the right direction is still a step.

Let’s remember that the rich will have ways of making this happen even without it being legal. You don’t think that the criminalisation of abortion in various U.S. states actually affects the rich, right?

It’s silly to downvote you for wanting the leaders and representatives of a country and its people to be held to a certain standard.

Roe v. Wade was overturned under his mandate period as well. Sure it’s a Supreme Court decision, and the SC is mostly republican but it’s not like Biden couldn’t have pushed harder. He could, but then he wouldn’t be able to campaign on it.

“Vote for me and I’ll return some rights to people, maybe.”

It’s funny to me how they are announcing this like it’s supposed to make us thankful that they’ve vaguely sort of almost addressed an issue they’re single-handedly repsonsible for. So much for a “responsible rollout.” Joke of a company.

Wow. Calling your own child pig in front of millions of people.

People do this even today, too. I’ve somehow started getting videos of babies and toddlers recommended to me (I’m guessing various algorithms thinks it’s time for me to graduate from dogs and cats), and yeah, it’s cute as hell, but it would’ve still been cute had you not shared it and kept it private.

Thank you for sharing! I had not heard of this before. I particularly enjoyed this bit

Farang khi nok (Thai: ฝรั่งขี้นก, lit. ‘bird-droppings Farang’), also used in Lao, is slang commonly used as an insult to a person of white race, equivalent to white trash, as khi means feces and nok means bird, referring to the white color of bird-droppings

That’s so colourful. I love it.

It also made me think of the fictional race in Star Trek, the Ferengi. At least according to Wikipedia that is precisely the origin of their name!

I started talking to a dude from Brazil a couple of months ago, and was blown away just by how different Brazilian Portuguese is from Portuguese, even just phonetically. I should’ve probably mentioned that I really only speak English, Swedish, and Japanese, so any other examples are ones that I’ve dug up in lexicons and the like, so there may be terms that are direct translations but not actually used colloquially.

I can totally see different words being used between Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal-Portuguese.

What I think is interesting about the word flea market is that it’s a calque in pretty much all languages.

The Swedish word is “loppis”, which is a cutesy colloquial term for “loppmarknad.” Loppa, meaning flea, and marknad meaning market.
Flohmarkt in German also means lit. “flea market.”
Marche aux puces is French, where “puce” means flea, I think this might be the origin of the term.
Japanese has the casual term フリマ (fleama), short for フリーマーケット, which is just the English term “flea market”, there’s also the term 蚤の市, just meaning “market of fleas.”

I believe Portuguese calls it a “thieves’ market”, but Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, and Mandarin all use their own native words for “flea market”; mercado de pulgas, mercato delle pulci, Блошиный рынок, Bit Pazarı, Vlooienmarkt, 跳蚤市场.

For all of the concepts and such that are identical across cultures, few things have universal names. Typically they enter the language as loanwords as well (e.g. karaoke, from Japanese ‘空オケ’, hollow orchestra), so the term “flea market” stands out to me. I’m sure there are lots of other similar things I’m not aware of though.