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[–] 6 points 49 minutes ago

If it doesn't function as a downspout, then it's a grotesque, not a gargoyle.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 minutes ago

    Understanding an argument doesn't mean you agree with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 58 minutes ago (1 child)

    Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 33 minutes ago (1 child)

    Lutefisk is delicious served with warm cream and melted butter.

    ***For those that do not know, lutefisk is cod that has been soaked in a lye bath to change the texture of the meat and help preserve it. It was a pretty common food in Scandinavian country's back in the day. And came with immigrants to Minnesota. Though it's not nearly as common as it used to be. Interestingly, Minnesota imports cod from places like Norway and then makes the lutefisk and then exports it back. And it's often sold and eaten around Christmas in parts of Minnesota.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

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  • [–] 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
    • Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

    • On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

    • a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

    Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)

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  • [–] 2 points 41 minutes ago

    Also not a vegetarian and i agree 100% with your 3rd point. Cooking good vegetarian food requires more skill - to me, meat is like a cheat code for flavour. In my opinion, Indian cuisine offers some of the tastiest veg dishes because they are not adaptations of meat dishes, but their own thing entirely.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Good french fries don't need ketchup

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  • [–] 5 points 1 hour ago

    Code semantic should be separate from code presentation.
    In other words, tabs vs spaces is a stupid argument.

    We've learned that separating semantics and presentation is good for the code we write but we've never bothered to apply it to languages. Everyone on the team should be able to apply their own formatting preferences without affecting the underlying file.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    It feels like my understanding of "logic" as a "subject" is probably one big warm take: I think it is just a piece of maths and programming and maybe philosophy, because it exists in service of all the things that require similar rigor to maths. I'm too far removed from the 1920's to understand why "the birth of mathematical logic" in Hilberts search for metaMathematical Maths Proofs, Gödel, etc. is called that. (it's probably just a misleading name) Often it feels like people imply too big a distinction between maths and logic. Doing any maths, like solving a quadratic equation requires logic: Any of the common rewritings like adding to both sides are things where you know a logical implication from one equation to the next. Knowing an equation has two solutions means knowing a logical or between x = a and x = b. That makes me feel bad for early logicians as their ideas seemed to be boring for lack of applications.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago

    Highschool should be a compound word. So should eachother.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

    In German I deliberately write the word "Standard" (same meaning as the English "standard") with "t" at the end: "Standart". Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as "standartmäßig" or "Standartabweichung" ("according to standard", "standard deviation").

    The reason:
    Etymologically (although contested), "Standard" developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound "standhard" just as in "stand + hard", meaning "standing firm" or "steadfast" (like your morning wood :D ).
    The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French "estendre": such as in "extend".

    However, while the particle "hard" became "hart" in modern German, officially, "Standard" still has to be written with the "d". Thus, writing "Standart" with "t" is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

    In English I don't care, because "hard" is still written with "d", therefore "standard" is absolutely fine for me here.

    Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare "Standart" a common orthographic mistake.

    But I will keep writing "Standart", until "Standart" becomes the new 'Standart'. ;)

    Edit:
    I just remembered a second reason:
    In German "Standard" is usually even pronounced with the harder "t". Nobody says "Standard" with the soft "d" as it is usual in English. Same thing with "hart". So even more reason to update the German 'Standard' to 'Standart'.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    The word is "yeah".

    Not "yea".

    The later rhymes with "yay" and means something similar to but distinct from "yes'

    Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

    And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

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    White trim on houses make them look cheap/bad. You've got every color in existence paint your house something interesting.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    I'm Canadian and I had a lesson about filing taxes in grade 9 social studies. I think most of the class didn't learn anything. Maybe it should have been more than one class period but it was taught. I'm sure it is throughly taught at some schools

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  • [–] 17 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

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