Fahrenheit decided to define the lowest possible temperature as 0° to avoid negative temperature, and the normal body temperatur of humans as 12°. Yes, he lived pre-metric times. Of course he soon realized that these big jumps of the 12° scale were pretty unusable, so he redefined an 1/8^th° of his first draft as the steps of his final scale. I don’t know whether he lived to realize that the coldest temperature he could achieve in his lab was not the coldest temperature possible. Oh, and he got the body temperature slightly wrong. Still pretty impressive achivement for 1708.

Somehow I’m a bit sad he didn’t keep the 12° scale. Just imagine Americans would have to take fever like: “the patient has 12⅞ °F”.

I hope the technology for extending our livespan develops fast enough that people like him can be held accountable. I think serving several thousand 3-year sentences for negligent homicide would be fair.

I agree that the success of Trumpism has been due to his personality cult and nothing else. But they are basing their power more and more on open violence, terror and propaganda. It is very well possible that they manage to consolidate this rule of fear before Trump becomes unfeasible.

I had this discussion about the usage of “murder” vs “execution” a couple of months ago with some guy on lemmy.

To people who are fond of judicial sanctified vengance killings aka capital punishment, the term “execution” has a positive connotation. To you and me, calling this cold blooded murder “execution” enhances the abhorrence. To them, it expresses justification.

The “truth” is “poor mom mislead by left hate speech went rogue and an innocent good guy was forced to defend himself”. At least in the MAGA world.

Moms being murdered won’t convert a single MAGA, they’ll cheer it on as long as they are told this mom was aedomestic terrorist.

Affordability affects even the most brainrot MAGA supporter personally.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/showy

It’s miasmas.

Thanks.

Well, Romance languages have thousands, too, like e.g. French poser and sup-poser, dé-poser, re-poser, trans-poser, pro-poser, im-poser, ex-poser, pré-poser, anté-poser, op-poser, super-poser, com-poser, juxta-poser, ap-poser, dis-poser, postposer,

If I call up a random French or Spanish article on wikipedia, a decent amount, if not the majority of verbs (not counting auxilliary verbs) are compounds. Somehow Romance speakers seem to have lost the ability to spot them, a Mexican coworker of mine was absolutely convinced Spanish does not have compound verbs as well.

Oh – I see. The Romance prepositions have changed. Knowing Latin I cannot not recognise the loads of compound verbs, but with sur, de, derriere, travers, par, en, hors, avant and so on the compounds are not recognisable any longer and our poor Romance friends have to learn all the words by themselves instead of nice semilogical groups.

That’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.

Yes.

Are there words in German ending in -e that are not female?

Well, that’s because chauff-eur/euse means neither driver nor prostitute, but “heater”, as in “someone who makes hot”. One heats the steam engine, the other their clients. The sexism is not built in the language or the gender system, but in the patriarchal culture.

I don’t get the weirdness of phrasal verbs? It’s a basic staple of every Indoeuropean language to generate verbs by tacking on prepositions. Ok, it’s a bit weird to use prepositions after the word, but that’s just standard Germanic separable verbs that are a bit regulized. So what?

AWK?

If they tell you they love you, they love you. But there are many, many different kinds and aspects of love, many ideas what love is. If they tell you “we love you” but you cannot feel or sense this love, you are both using the same word, but not the same idea of love. Or maybe you have even the same idea what love means, but have different ways and needs how to express and experience this love.

The key would be not to doubt their love but to discuss and reflect with them what they mean when they say “We love you”, how they try to show you their love, how they want you to show your love, how you want them to show their love.

Sadly, for most people such conversations are very hard, if not next to impossible. Counseling, mediation or therapy can be helpful, if you’ve got access to any.

@[email protected] has a point, though. I agree with you that love is expressed by words, but I also agree with them that words alone are meaningless if not backed by loving behaviour.

Like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana

If you want software that analyses an image and produces tags that describe the image’s content, you want a combination of image recognition, image interpretation, text generation and a promp generator to link these three parts. There is no way that any single of these applications can be “lightweight”, not to speak of the combination.

If you stop at radical acceptance, you’ll end up being fatalistic and spineless, giving up your own needs and wishes, hurting yourselve in the process.

In psychotherapy, the next step after acceptance is comittment. What do I really want? For what do I really care? What do I really need? My coworkers are morons, Ok, accepted - but what do I really need? Perhaps I need to take pride in my work, and need to commit to get a job I can take pride in. Maybe I need friends and need to commit finding friends outside of work. Maybe I just need money and can commit to just earn money. In either case I don’t have to be upset about my moronic coworkers any longer.