I’m a lot of things, but not a Velociraptor

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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • Thousands of years ago, when we were smashing rocks to make knives, probably.

    We’ve never been an intelligent species as much as a dumb branch of apes that happen to give birth to some glitched individuals with a form of intelligence every now and then. But jesus fuck, the last years, with the unversal internet access that we achieved, we became dumber than ever.












  • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club explained it very well in their comment. To add, in Spanish, the letter “g” when followed by either an “i” or an “e” will be pronounced in three different ways depending on whether you add an “u” in between, and if that “u” has a diaeresis on it. If you add the dieresis, it means you have to pronounce the “u”. Think of “pingüino” (penguin in english). In order to say the “u” in the word, we add the diaeresis that says the reader that they have to say the “u”. In Spanish, “guillotina”, “pingüino” and “ginebra” you will read the sillabe with a “g” and an “i” differently on each of those words.

    Spanish has tons of grammar rules. It’s hard to learn them all, but when you do, it makes extremely easy to know how to say a word when you read it. Even where to put the accent (even if there is no tilde in the word).



  • I’ve been working on this company for 3 years.

    We have a “cable cabinet” that has around 50 different types of cables. Around 45 of them have been there from the early 90s. I still haven’t used them. And none of my colleagues (some of which have been there for 20 years or more) have ever used them. Yet, everyone refuses to throw them away, we don’t want to risk needing them and not finding them.