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notkatniss

they look like they run a ceramics studio like the navy

notkatniss

scarysigns

bodhimcbodeface

I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

bodhimcbodeface

*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.

cipheramnesia

Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so

nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix

Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).

Did anyone notice the fun thing?

Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

derinthescarletpescatarian

You know how people buy boxes of ladybugs to release in their yard to get rid of aphids

Picture this: slew of missing people from all over the world, just vanishing in small groups. Serial killer ring, some say. Some kind of widespread natural disaster, say others. The statisticians shrug and point out that people go missing all the time and one expects peaks and troughs in random data. Sometimes a lot of people are going to go missing and it doesn't necessarily mean anything weird.

Everyone turns out to be wrong. It's alien abductions. Aliens are coming to Earth, pinking up random groups of humans and not bringing them back.

Turns out aliens are trying to settle a new planet and there's a problem with a bunch of prey animals breeding out of control and upsetting the ecosystem. They can't wipe them out wide scale without destroying complex environments, and the predators aren't keeping on top of them. "Hey," says some random bureaucrat who's had Project: Deal With The Alien Deer Issue dumped on their desk and hasn't taken an ecology class in four decades, "you know what species I hear are really, really good at clearing other animals out of the environment?"

electronicthesaurus

No wonder aliens only abduct rednecks.

alicent-florent

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

nitewrighter

“It’s so hard to get into comic books”

What are you talking about. It’s easy. You just grab whatever the hell extremely limited selection your library has and form your experience around that. Do I have any actual familiarity with Kyle Rayner’s origin story? No. But I think his writers suck and he’s kind of stupid because all I ever read of him was the Ion arc. My formative experience reading Gwen Stacy was not her death but when she was breaking into Peter’s house and the artists were giving her visible thong straps in every panel because the only spider-man my library had was the Ultimate Spider-Man run. This is how western comics work. Easy.

derinthescarletpescatarian

And then you go on the internet and argue with someone who got into them via a different run and pretend you're both talking about the same character because they have the same name and general appearance.

electronicthesaurus

And then you spend lots of money on it for ever and ever. Amen.

creative-clawmarks

I’ve been watching Danny Phantom and I get it. I get it now.

This show loves to make some offhanded comment, not a hint of consideration or concern in its tone, and just moves on without addressing it like that wasn’t the most creatively horrific concept this side of Nickelodeon. Shit makes up wackass lore on the spot and then disregards it immediately after, asks fascinating questions then looks at you funny when you try to answer them.

I now fully understand how this show has legions of fans dedicated to taking this somewhat mid cartoon and running so far with the implications of the premise they created an entirely different show that’s so much more interesting I’m upset it’s not real.

datasoong47

I just want to hibernate through the summer. Wake me up in the Fall

a-book-of-creatures

Hibernation is for winter. Aestivation is for summer!

gallusrostromegalus

OH. I learned a new word today!

...Do we have a specific word for becoming seasonally nocturnal to avoid the summer heat?

harbingerofsoup

there’s death of the author and then there’s whatever the fuck is up with danny phantom

nerdygaymormon

strxwberrychocolate

Unpopular opinion:

I actually liked the ending of Duty After School. Yes it was traumatizing and fucking heartbreaking but it definitely made sense in my mind. Like someone going fucking crazy and murdering everyone over something so little because shit like that actually happens.

I understand people wanted a happy ending but I think from all the dramas and stuff I've watched I really liked the way it played out.

funnelcloudd

How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

funnelcloudd

“Henlo I am big twuck pwease give me wots of woom tank u :)”

“I WILL FUCKING PANCAKE YOUR CUCK ASS”

spontaneousmusicalnumber

@trainwreckgenerator why did you hide these in the tags

digitaldiscipline

This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.

cheesedemon

I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.

American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.

kedreeva

To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.

ub-sessed

I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.

nudityandnerdery

From my understanding of Australian wildlife:

dreorzen

Does anyone know if/how American School Busses are related to trucks?

Pics for reference:

The classic long-nose schoolbus

But short-nose varieties exist, I remember when they first started appearing in my district!

kedreeva

@dreorzen While school buses ARE in the automobile order, they are actually part of the Van family, not the Truck family, due to their passenger capacity. As you can see in the photos, they have no cargo bed or hookup, and are not really built for object transport. But they DO excel at carrying passengers, particularly children (although certainly not limited to just children)

They’re known to be exceptionally protective of any passengers, and if you look closely on that second image you can actually see a specialized appendage that is (I think) unique to school buses- a small, red, octagonal fan, which they extend when there are small creatures around them that they are acquiring or releasing. Much like an angler fish’s bioluminescent bulb appendage, this fan (along with several bioluminescent patches on top of their faces and on their hindquarters) works to mesmerize any other vehicles in close proximity, to where those vehicles will cease movement until the bus lowers the fan. It’s super fascinating behavior, and little wonder why we trust our children to these gentle, protective giants.

kikokuso

Australian trucks could most accurately be compared to a Dachshund, where they are bred to be longer and longer, resulting in specimens whose speed and capacity is unhealthy by itself

fake-married-my-dead-fiance

One of the fascinating trope subversions in Alchemy of Souls is that Jang Uk is a Chosen OneTM, but instead of the usual paths, where he's specially trained, or hidden away for safety, or famous or something, everyone who knows Uk is special is actively trying to hinder his progress.

And not just the bad guys! The good guys too. It's like if every single teacher in Harry Potter was Snape.

His father cripples and abandons him, Park Jin will not let him be trained and actively encourages him to be lazy, and Jin Mu writes him off as useless but also refuses to train him. All the other important mages dislike and refuse to train him (though they don't know the whole truth). Master Lee is the only person in the entire series who knows Jang Uk is the Prophecy King Star Baby and actually helps him.

inkskinned

“if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly.

cerusee

Things I am doing today to avoid writing: daydreaming about a ChengQing canon divergence AU where when Wen Qing says “Jiang-zongzhu, what can you do?” in clear recognition that the young leader of a decimated sect with no political clout and minimal manpower can’t protect her whole family, whom she will not divest herself from, a Jiang Cheng slightly more besotted and slightly less dutiful/realistic, comes back with “I’m going to ATTEMPT THE IMPOSSIBLE” and commits himself to sending his disciples out on secret side missions during the Sunshot Campaign to find and relocate her whole family to smuggle into Yunmeng once it’s been reclaimed. And they totally get married!

Except that this isn’t a fixit AU, it’s the prelude to a “rocks fall, everybody dies” ending that takes out the entire Yunmeng Jiang sect and a lot of other people, too. Because young sect leader Jiang Cheng secretly sending his new disciples into danger to rescue Wens doesn’t go over super-well with all of them, so the Jiang sect is internally unstable and less inclined to close ranks. Meanwhile, even if the larger Dafan Wen family being relocated to Yunmeng remains an open secret among the Jiang (for now, until some disaffected disciple decides to take this information elsewhere) Wen Qing herself as Jiang-furen is hard to miss! For every one person who thinks the story of Wen Qing defying her family to give safe harbor to her lover and his remaining family, and said lover subsequently rescuing her from Wen Ruohan’s dungeons and marrying her is just the HEIGHT of romance, there’s three more who think, never mind all that, what kind of filial son would marry a girl from the family that murdered his parents? It just ain’t right. That Jiang Cheng is too young, too easily influenced, he doesn’t have the best judgement, does he? I heard this Jiang-furen was very close to Wen Ruohan; did she really defect, or is she manipulating the boy? None of this makes Jiang Cheng’s life any easier at post-war conferences and social events, or other sect leaders inclined to take him more seriously, and in this AU, he’s got an internally unstable sect in addition to the existing outside political pressures.

The good news is that with the Dafan Wen safely in Yunmeng, there’s no Qiongqi Path incident to give Jin Guangshan an iron-clad excuse to target Wei Wuxian and his Stygian Tiger Seal, and Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian never have to pretend to break up over it. The bad news is…Jin Guangshan is still out there, still ambitious, and he’ll eventually find another angle of attack.

You know what would make a great angle of attack? The news leaking out from that disaffected Jiang disciple that Jiang-zongzhu didn’t just marry a Wen, but that he committed his own disciples to rescuing her family members during the war, and without Nie Mingjue’s knowledge! That’s a wonderful foundation for the accusation that Jiang Cheng is setting himself up to be the next Wen Ruohan—why else is he turning a blind eye to his brother-disciple’s heretical demonic cultivation? Why else would he welcome the people who helped to slaughter his own family into his home? Clearly, the rest of the Jianghu has to band together and put an end to this before the situation can escalate! Never again, vow Jin Guangshan and Lan Xichen and Nie Mingjue.

When the mob shows up at borders of Lotus Pier to demand that Jiang Cheng surrender all the Wen, including Jiang-furen, as well as the Stygian Tiger Seal (JGS and LXC and NMJ can certainly agree the seal shouldn’t remain with the Jiang, even if exactly who’s supposed to take custody of it remains vague) and commit to neutralizing Wei Wuxian’s demonic cultivation, or else the combined alliance of the great and minor sects of the Jianghu will regretfully be forced to disband the Jiang sect…yes, with force, if necessary….

That’s when Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian fall silent, exchange one long, loaded glance, and without words, they come to an agreement.

Everyone who came here today to kill Lotus Pier a second time is going to die.