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[wildsurvival]

[bear--hearted]

This is a beautiful graphic but it doesn’t explain the pros and cons of each fire type.

The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, it’s controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log

The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly

The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide

The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isn’t as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side

The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesn’t have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started.

The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that don’t produce particularly even heat for cooking.

The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options.

[rinitachan]

reblogging for writing purposes. the exact reason will come soon enough.

[kornwulf]

For starting a fire, the Log Cabin is probably one of, if not the, most consistent and reliable kindling setups. It’s tighter packed and has more protection against wind than a teepee, but still has sufficient airflow to get a good ignition, and enough structural stability to prop up the bigger logs long enough to get them burning consistently.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

[latveriansnailmail]

Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

um = around

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#my german is still too basic for this but I desperately want a compound word for how much these compound words piss me off

das Monster = monster

das Wort = word

der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor

der Monsterwortgroll = …

[linguistikforum]

Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Bildung = formation

die Imitation = imitation

un- = un-, in-

fähig = able

-keit = -ility

die Unfähigkeit = inability

der Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll = anger about the inability to imitate the formation of monster words

[wildflower182]

Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Linguistik = linguistics

die Fehde = feud

der Handschuh = glove

der Fehdehandschuh = gauntlet

der Wurf = throw

der Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf = throwing down the linguistic gauntlet

[shiplocks-of-love]

*slowly backs in fear*

[meetinginsamarra]

@shiplocks-of-love, @thatswhywelovegermany

Monsterwortbildungsunfähigkeitsangstverzweiflungsrückzugsecke

Monster=monster // wort=word // bildung(s)=formation

unfähigkeit (s)=incabability  // angst=anxiety

verzweiflung(s)=desperation  // rückzug(s)=retreat // ecke=corner

=the corner in which you retreat when you´re desperate because of your fear when being unable to form monster words

[shiplocks-of-love]

*eye twitch*

But what I want to see now is two germans arguing over the construction of one of these monster words.

[melmey]

@shiplocks-of-love I don’t think that will happen. The words make perfect sense. I think if German is your mother tongue you get a feeling for combining words, like a 

Monsterwortbildungsgespür

Monster = monster 

Wort = word 

Bildung(s) = formation

Gespür = intuition

;-)

[a-german-learning-clown]

🤡

[dewdropbonnet]

Sprachirrgartenbelustigungsbeitrag

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Sprache = language

• irren = to become lost (also: to err, to be mistaken; to wander, to stray)

• der Garten = garden

der Irrgarten = maze, knot garden

• be- = prefix with a variety of functions: ¹as part of a compound word, it denotes a processing or change of state; ²as part of a compound word, it denotes a touch; ³as part of a compound word, it denotes a more intensive preoccupation with or thematization of something; ⁴it forms from a noun an adjective with a pseudo-participle form because the corresponding verb does not exist; ⁵as a prefix, it forms a transitive verb from a previously intransitive verb; ⁶as a prefix of a verb, it shifts the focus and thus changes the sentence structure

• lustig = funny

• -ung = suffix turning an adjective/adverb into a noun

die Belustigung = amusement, entertainment, merriment

der Beitrag = contribution, article in a newspaper or magazine, posting on social media, input to a discussion

[linguistness]

Bloody love this language <3<3<3

[randomgerman]

The thing is, since in German you have to decline/conjugate many words in relation to the noun they are refering to those monster words actually serve a purpose of making the language simpler. A common example is a (as in any) red wine (ein roter Wein) as compaired to the compound a red wine (ein Rotwein). If rot is an adjective it has to be conjugated: der rote Wein - des roten Weins - die roten Weine - and many more. But it if rot is part of the noun you only have to decline Wein: der Rotwein - des Rotweins - die Rotweine. So, die Verzweiflung über die Vermüllung der Umwelt is way longer than Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung and you would have to know three grammatical genders and the words’ respective declinations. Whereas for Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung you only need to know that Verzweiflung is grammatically feminine (die) and its deklinations.

[mareebrittenford]

Ok, now I want to see Germans playing Scrabble

[thatswhywelovegermany]

[the-lax-disciple]

Doomscrollaufhellungsrepost

Doom scroll // self explanatory

auf- // lit.: „up“ indicates rising, or something becoming bigger, better, healthier

hell // bright

aufhellen // to brighten something up

-ung // makes a verb a noun

-s- // the glue that keeps german compound words together

repost // self explanatory

Doomscrollaufhellungsrepost // a repost to brighten up your doom scroll

You‘re Welcome!

[allthingslinguistic]

The thing that I always want to point out to English speakers marvelling at German compounds is that we do this too! It’s a thing that Germanic languages are especially prone to!

It’s just conventional in English to keep writing spaces in between larger compounds, whereas in German it’s conventional to remove them. But they sound the same! Grammatically, they’re identical!

You could call it the…

English-German compound word space omission overadmiration fallacy

[frawgs]

apparently vic’s vapor rub goes exitinct ? i’ve been using the same vapor rub for years and apparenlty it went bad in the 2010s ..

[frawgs]

expired .

[morganicapples]

[miscellaneousferns]

I mean...this particular packaging is almost extinct with the exception of a few listings on ebay

[mudaship3]

Happy fucking pride Jonathan was murdered for being queer AND native It was a hate crime His death wasn’t by natural causes Jonathan Joss being queer and also native is a big thing as to why he was targeted in a hate crime That’s being left out of this conversation by non natives esp white non natives right now We know why They erasing that part of this During pride and indigenous month no less too His queerness and being indigenous are linked in this

“Why was he living in Texas In the South We didn’t he move to a blue state?” He was a Comanche Native in Texas He was already fucking home I know what white people are doing in posts like these But natives queer people Black people disabled people and people of color also live in the fucking south Where is that meme about white people acting like the north doesn’t also have bigotry cuz they have pizza ovens Happy fucking pride Remember that bipoc and qtipoc exist

[wiisagi-maiingan]

People are not rich and The Enemy™ just because they're making a decent income and have good savings set aside. That isn't rich, it's supposed to be the norm for everyone working full-time and the fact that isn't the norm isn't the fault of people who are financially stable.

I know this is hard to hear when having enough savings to buy a new car out of pocket is ocmpletely out of your reach, but that is not rich, it's financially stable and that much money can disappear in an instant with one bad accident or illness.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

This post is old but I was looking through the notes and someone in the tags said that a good deal of savings can't disappear in an instant from an accident or illness if you have universal healthcare

and I understand the point but that. Isn't true? Yes, you wouldn't have to worry about hospital bills and that's great, but accidents don't always just cause temporary injuries and illnesses don't always go away perfectly.

A car accident means that you need to buy a new car, which healthcare doesn't cover. A house fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, etc could mean massive repair bills or a new house entirely, including replacing your belongings. Vet bills aren't covered by universal healthcare. An accident or illness can leave you permanently disabled and needing things like expensive speciality equipment (wheelchairs, lifts, accessible vehicles, prosthesis, and a whole lot of different medical devices), home renovations for accessibility, in-home caregivers or nurses, etc. Terminal illnesses, even with universal healthcare, can very quickly drain people's life savings in search of new treatments, new medications, traveling to specialists, medical devices, and aid either in a home or in an assisted living/hospice facility.

Universal healthcare is a goal because it would help countless people, not because it would fix every financial burden in the world.

[lakemojave]

Ok I noticed something with the pride tagging I'm gonna try something

[lakemojave]

Hey why is seemingly everything but lesbian and trans trending does that seem right to any of you

[victusinveritas]

[firefly-faire]

[aqlstar]

NATO members condemn Russia after drone slams into Romania apartment building, wounding two | CNN

An explosive-laden Russian drone hit an apartment building in Romania early Friday, injuring two people, its government said, as Moscow’s fo

[carbon-ate]

[transjester64]

Adding this from the comments...

[gogogadgetgolem]

Columbo is the only vibes based detective. He just goes up to a rich asshole with a completely flawless alibi and goes “you did it.” Zero evidence. Just vibes. And he’s always right.

[sugoiney-weaver]

For real though Peter Falk was pretty much blind without his glasses, which informed a LOT of his mannerisms as Columbo. His whole "head down, rub his forehead while slowly walking forward at the start of his 'just one thing'" was because he was looking for his mark on the floor

So I fully believe that Peter Falk didn't see the water here and genuinely got surprised when his feet got wet

[gogogadgetgolem]

Not just blind, literally missing an eye! He lost his right eye when he was 3 due to a retinoblastoma. That’s why he would squint like that.

[zettelkaestchen]

Stop Funding Russia’s War: Phase Out Harmful and Useless Russian Imports into the EU

Hello Europe! This petition is really important for Ukraine but also for everyone else who supports them and wants Russia's war to end. To be successful it needs 1 million signatures from people across the EU and additionally a majority of the countries has to meet their individual threshold. The deadline is February 12, 2027.

Please sign and share this widely! 🙏🇺🇦

This initiative calls on the European Commission to propose firm, immediate measures to end the EU’s remaining import dependencies on Russia and Belarus by introducing sectoral bans or decisive phase-outs, not slow or symbolic transitions. Despite years of sanctions, the EU continues to import billions of euros’ worth of strategic goods from Russia, money that directly finances its war and undermines Europe’s security.

We target sectors where viable alternatives already exist within the EU and among trusted partners, such as iron and steel, inorganic chemicals and potassium fertilisers. These imports are replaceable, economically unjustified, and politically indefensible.

The objective is to stop the flow of EU funds to the Russian state, eliminate structural vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and reinforce a coherent, values-based trade policy. Europe cannot claim to support Ukraine while sustaining trade patterns that fuel the aggression. Real security requires real decoupling now.

[mariacallous]

“There is also a lot of elitism in food. I always say to people that in the old days you had to be very rich to get a pineapple. If you were poor you ate seasonally and locally and everything was organic. Now that the masses can go to the store and buy food that comes from all over, suddenly it’s considered not quite the thing. There’s a new elite which is saying it has to be local, it has to be seasonal, and it has to be organic. Yes, there are very good health concerns and very good ecological concerns. But at the same time there’s always someone trying to feel better about the food they eat and trying to make other people feel they’re making the wrong choice. That’s where snobbery can creep in. Sometimes I want to talk about condensed milk and canned peas simply because I get so cross with the food snobs. It so goes against our deepest desires when it comes to cooking for others. You want to make people feel welcome in your home. It’s such a basic human instinct to share food; all cultures have that. And instead you have ungenerous associations with food that sadden me too much. So many people are there to make other people feel bad about what they eat. It is quite expensive to eat seasonally and locally, and most people don’t have that choice.”

— Nigella Lawson

[abfark]

Years ago I heard someone mention that fur coats were normal for people to have, but they went out of style and became considered cruel in the US around the time when Black people were entering the middle class and were able to afford them and I haven’t forgotten that. I can’t speak to whether that particular instance was true, but I can say that that’s a helpful lens through which to view changing trends: are the trend goalposts moving because fashion and desires change naturally, or are they moving to distance the rich from the “undesireables”?

[zettelkaestchen]

Stop Funding Russia’s War: Phase Out Harmful and Useless Russian Imports into the EU

Hello Europe! This petition is really important for Ukraine but also for everyone else who supports them and wants Russia's war to end. To be successful it needs 1 million signatures from people across the EU and additionally a majority of the countries has to meet their individual threshold. The deadline is February 12, 2027.

Please sign and share this widely! 🙏🇺🇦

This initiative calls on the European Commission to propose firm, immediate measures to end the EU’s remaining import dependencies on Russia and Belarus by introducing sectoral bans or decisive phase-outs, not slow or symbolic transitions. Despite years of sanctions, the EU continues to import billions of euros’ worth of strategic goods from Russia, money that directly finances its war and undermines Europe’s security.

We target sectors where viable alternatives already exist within the EU and among trusted partners, such as iron and steel, inorganic chemicals and potassium fertilisers. These imports are replaceable, economically unjustified, and politically indefensible.

The objective is to stop the flow of EU funds to the Russian state, eliminate structural vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and reinforce a coherent, values-based trade policy. Europe cannot claim to support Ukraine while sustaining trade patterns that fuel the aggression. Real security requires real decoupling now.

[sophsun1]

Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[scenerwiththegreenery]

Okay, so I don't spend a ton of time using these features, but more than a lot of people, because I'm in school and so I have to write papers, emails, etc. I thought I was going crazy because the suggestions just.. do not make any fucking sense. Increasingly over the past few years (started back to college in 2023), Word and Outlook are both making terrible suggestions, and I don't get it because I've been using Word since the late '90s and it has never been as bad as it is now...

Did they add AI to Micro$oft's products? I already turn off Copilot, but is there anywhere else to turn off AI?

[thatdisasterauthor]

Disabling copilot will turn off the generative AI features, mostly, but the problem isn't coming directly from generative AI. It is coming from where these grammar checkers are pulling their data from, because they are essentially crowdsourcing their data now, rather than relying on real, determined rules.

You CAN make it somewhat better in Word at least by going to File>Options>Proofing>Writing Style>Settings, which will open up this big long list:

Unchecking everything from the "clarity" and "conciseness" sections will get rid of A LOT of the suggestions that try to really change your voice. It won't fix a lot of the stupid ass suggestions it makes for other stuff, but it at least gets rid of a bunch of the distracting junk.

However, the settings never seem to stick for me so I have to go back in and check this list pretty often, sometimes even in one editing session where I haven't closed and reopened the document at all.

[birdofork]

Yes, the spelling/grammar check has grown increasingly horrible, but Microsoft DID add AI a couple years ago and didn't tell its customers!

I have a shit computer and was wondering why Microsoft Word was basically unusable and it's because the AI takes up so much more processing power than normal, it was basically crashing my system.

BUT!

You can delete the AI without affecting the rest of the program.

Instructions under the cut cause they got long.

How to delete the AI assistant (in Windows):

Open your C: drive which can be found in "This PC" as OS (C:)

Then open the following folders:

Program Files Microsoft Office root vfs ProgramFilesCommonX64 Microsoft Shared OFFICE16 AI

In the AI folder, there will be two application files called ai and aimgr. Delete both of those.

Unfortunately, every time Microsoft updates, these files will come back and need to be redeleted. I've saved myself time by adding the "AI" folder to my Quick access in the file explorer folder (on the left of the image below) so I can just click on it and delete the ai/aimgr every time I need to (which is pretty much every time I use Word).

This forum also has the instructions about how to delete the files if you scroll down https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4649157/outlook-how-to-disable-artificial-intelligence-(ai

On a related note, Microsoft 365 also started charging users more for a subscription

because they added the AI (that we didn't want). The only way to get the normal pricing back when you're up for renewal is to go into your online Microsoft account and basically go through the motions of cancelling your subscription and they'll offer you the old option.

Absolutely insane that we have to do this for a basic word processor...

[thatdisasterauthor]

Thanks for the tip!

[prismatic-bell]

I'm now wondering if Apple also did this. Because my autocorrect has gotten so weird, it'll do stuff like....

Jack lived in a big brown house, and in that house was a big brown dog, and on that Dog Oregon was <- in which case the last bit should have been "on that dog were big brown fleas," and I might have mistyped as "dgo" or "dogwere."

I've been thinking it was something wrong with my phone. I'm questioning that now.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Alright this is going to be a very controversial thing to say but.

I really and truly believe that the "treat yourself" culture and people living well above their means and going into a ton of debt just to have fun and live lives of luxury with no regard for the future is a form of passive suicidal ideation. I am only now dragging myself out of a hole of suicidal ideation after being in it since my very early teens and the idea that what you do now doesn't matter because you don't have a future is like. Classic passive suicidal ideation. You aren't actively planning to hurt yourself, you don't actively want to die, but subconsciously or not, you are envisioning a future where you do not exist.

"It doesn't matter if I max out a dozen credit cards because I don't have a future anyway." Okay, why? Why don't you have a future? Where are you in this mystery future where none of your actions now can touch you? I am not trying to be mean, but I need people to really think about this and realize that they are setting up a future for themselves where they are not present and there's only one way that can happen.

Talk to a therapist. Get help. Build a support system. Reach out to your friends and loved ones living like this and express your concern. If they aren't willing to listen, fine. Lots of people living with passive suicidal ideation don't want to listen or acknowledge they have a problem. But maybe they will listen. At least you've tried either way.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

It's so scary and horrifying to see this become so common among younger generations and so much of it is because our economy is in the fucking trash. People see how difficult it is to buy a house, get a job they can survive off, get a job that makes going to college worth it, start a family, pay off loans and debts, buy groceries, etc and it's filling them with a horrific and deep existential dread. It's so easy to overspend and get into debt when you can't see a future where saving will ever be worth it, where you will ever face any consequences for spending recklessly now.

And again, that is a form of suicidal ideation. A future where you face no consequences and where you can't benefit from savings is a future where you are dead. Full stop. End of statement. Get help.

[ms-demeanor]

I've seen this pop up when I talk about Roth IRAs and 401Ks and such, especially among younger people. "I'm never going to be able to retire, I'm going to have to work until I die, so why should I try to save for retirement?"

I started smoking at fifteen because it didn't matter, I figured I'd never make it to twenty-five, why should I care about cancer? (classic passive suicidal ideation).

I'm turning forty this year and I really really wish I'd been aware how much building up debt would fuck me and what options there were for me to save when I was younger.

You probably aren't going to die before you retire. You are probably going to live past the age where you will be able to work. There is a tomorrow and we want you in it and we want you to be okay.

Talk to someone. Be kind to your future self and the people who love you in the future.

[salmonandsoup]

Also, as someone who's learning to become a financial educator: LITTLE SAVINGS, WITH THE PROPER AMOUNT OF INTEREST, WILL TAKE YOU SO FUCKING FAR. Put away $50 a month every month, and by the time you're in your 60s, if you have good interest rates and at least 25 years until retirement, if you just let it grow, you will have SOME nest egg to sit on. And the compound interest continues to grow. Save when you're young. Take care of your future self. You will be here for it.