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I convinced my partner (a non scientist working with scientists) to watch Murderbot with me.

At the scene in episode 2 with Mensah on the hill, he related so much to Murderbot that he had to pause the show and tell me how just on point the characterization of the scientists was: generally kind, smart people who can talk themselves into doing the most incredibly stupid shit.

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This is entirely based off of you posting a translation of UltraBra’s Hauki, but my family has a problem faced by many descendants of immigrants: translation.

For context, my parental unit no. 1 met a guy from Finland at a convention, mentioned his family had immigrated from Finland but all he ever learned were old-timey ways to say merry Christmas and swear words.

They started trading swears, until my parental unit said one that made the Finnish guy pause, say “that’s disgusting”, pick up some swag from my parental unit’s table and leave.

We don’t know what it means.

In English it’s phonetically something like "heist ah nopp uh luh"- my limited study of Finnish makes me think it might be phoneticized to häistynapylla or similar, but given that it’s been through two generations of American I don’t know for sure, and automatic translation software gets me nowhere.

Do you know any resources for translating dirty words in Finnish, particularly those which might have been in use circa 1919?

Hello my Finnish-American friend!!! Ooh you’ve thrown me a tough one. Heist-ah looks to me like a way to write out “haista”, which literally means “smell (commanding)” but is used in tandem with swear words and the like to basically say “piss off!” or “fuck you!” (an example would be “haista paska!!” which I told my evil sister the other day). It’s the second part that confuses me though! I think I’d need to hear it said out loud because I don’t recognise it as any swear words. It looks a bit like “näppylä” which is like a zit or a pimple, or “pylly” which is just ass, but I don’t have any idea why somebody would be seemingly extra offended about hearing “haista näppylä” or “haista (na?) pylly”. Unless it’s all one word, in which case, I’ve got nothing! Häisty- rings nothing in my mind.

Unfortunately I don’t have any translating resources or sources of old swears, I’m Finnish so paradoxically I never really had to learn these things ^^’ Get back to me on this though, please? I wanna know what that swear might’ve been!

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Working on the dice trays! We got down to a handful and realized we need to step it up. I reread the whole series again recently so this was stuck in my brain.

I’m really proud of this one in particular because of all the little details. Seriously, burning the house emblems into the top was rough. The type was fun but for some reason the lowercase A was a little different every time.

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I’ve been trying to limit my news consumption to specific times of day but boy does it suck to open up a bunch of headlines about challenges to same sex marriage, the whole continuing hostile government takeover thing with DC, and a new storm being in the Atlantic being likely to turn into a major hurricane before September even thinks about starting.

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I’m making a felt book for an incoming infant

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There have been more amphibians this year than previously and I’m so excited!

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Ok so just going to rank joints and their surrounding musculature on a scale of 1/10 based on how hard they are to fix/how prone they are to breaking down/vibes

Necks 4/10 easy to tweak harder to break than you think but when they go they take everything with them. Also no I’m not doing every intervertebral joint that would be silly

Hips 7/10 WHY DO THEY HURT but surgery is usually not too bad if it’s a replacement just god forbid your soft tissue gets borked actually on second thought they keep betraying me 3/10

Knees 0/10 God’s greatest failure. they fail us all. There’s just a floating bone. Replacement is 50/50 on feeling better. They crumble beneath the most healthy of people given enough time. One of the greatest arguments against intelligent design.

Shoulders 2/10 another soft tissue floating bone situation, but at least most of us don’t need them to walk. But if you do need them to walk then fuck me i guess. Did you know you (I) can partially subluxate a shoulder from leaning forward on a bike?

T spine 7/10 like the C spine harder to break than you think, easy to tweak but often recoverable with a reasonable amount of rest.

Ribs 7/10 they don’t move much but when they do.

Cranial sutures 10/10 perfect joints. No notes. They sure joined.

Ankles 6/10 they built a little dinky brick wall of funky bones and then put two big columns and then balanced the rest of the body so they’re doing better than they have any right to considering.

Toes 9/10 usually fine

Fingers 6/10 too useful to stop using which means you just keep using them

Wrists 4/10 see fingers but more nerve damage.

L spine 3/10 WHY DOES GOD HATE US?? At least they’re connected to something. But it’s just a little stem that fails to protect our saddest organs and holds up all the important stuff.

Sativa 5/10 stinky but fun

Elbows 8/10 I don’t play tennis and love a democratically applied people’s elbow

Clavicle to sternum 9/10 only problem is if it breaks but don’t get hit by any cars or climb trees and it’s usually ok.

Jaw 6/10 I can’t chew gum any more and there’s a lot of weird bits if you want to do things surgically but it’s a relatively chill and simple joint

Sacrum zone 3/10 works with the hips to betray me on the regular.

Thumb 6.5/10 it’s so beautiful but points deducted for high risk of rsi and arthritis

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Guys I think something is wrong about me because two Jehovah’s Witnesses stopped by my apartment and my first instinct was to excitedly into dump all my physics and bio knowledge at them when they asked cosmological questions.

Basically I had a lot of fun explaining exactly why I’m an atheist. And they couldn’t leave until I finished. The conversation lasted at least thirty minutes.

I may have made a mistake though, they said they might be back next week, and I haven’t brushed up on my non trinitarian theology.