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"They" always takes the plural conjugations. It's perfectly grammatical to say something like "They were outside before" or "I saw them over there" regardless of if it's singular or plural. You can say things like that even if you know their gendered pronouns and nobody will even clock the fact you used a gender neutral pronoun. It's a perfectly normal, common construction native English speakers use all the time.

on Which is it Lemmy? · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 38d

You don't even need to think about reference frames for the answer to be B, because each layer is being displaced by the layer behind it. Take the limit to go from a discreet to continuous domain and you exit the portal at the same speed you entered, which is exactly the speed of the falling portal.

on Death Wish Power Surge · c/coffee · 2 pts · 51d

Fwiw it's a robusta blend, and the whole "light roast = more caffeine" thing is actually moot, darker roasts are easier to extract, so the caffeine destroyed in the roasting is offset by being easier to extract into the cup.

on The irony trap · c/comicstrips · 5 pts · 56d

I think it's trying to be meta-commentay, utilizing diagetic irony as a form of meta-irony. At least that's the only reading that really coherently parses. Ironic spaces/jokes have always been infiltrated by those who genuinely hold those beliefs, it's basically impossible to defend against, the kinds of things you would want to make fun of via irony are almost always held by those who are unable to understand more than surface level interpretation of media more generally.

The thesis is probably better read as "fuck it we ball" and refusing to let go of irony just because supider people misunderstand it.

So, a woman rejecting the sexual advances of a powerful man should be punished and told to shut the fuck up? Yeah, great moral lesson there, let's use that one instead.

on Why tho? · c/Memes · 11 pts · 112d

Minutefood did an entire video on it, with the conclusion that none of the hacks actually work. Some of the methods get closer than others, but it's going to take time whatever you do if you want a good result. https://youtu.be/V6R_xMzov0U

on Just like me fr · c/whitepeopletwitter · 9 pts · 118d

Americans reduce the Middle vowel to schwa in the adjective form but not the verb form, so you'll often see the adjective spelled with an e and the verb with an a.

on The tailor has spoken · c/tenforward · 8 pts · 130d

I have even more bad news for you, cyanide smells like bitter almonds, not sweet almonds(the ones you eat), and as it turns out, bitter almonds smell like that because they contain cyanide. People started saying that because they lived in places that bitter almonds are native to (Europe), and they are still used in cooking (after being processed to remove the cyanide).

Cyanide actually smells like poison, bitter and chemically.

Actually moron is newer, first coined in 1910 from Greek roots as a medical term (nearly 100 years later), so entirely coincidental.

Nimrod coincidentally only became an insult because of bugs bunny calling Elmer fudd nimrod ironically, and Young kids not clocking the reference.

Zip+four is only down the the block level, you need 2 more digits (zip+6) to uniquely identify every possible address in the US. That said, a 9 digit barcode is way too close to a full address for most people to be comfortable with sharing online.

on Adventuring Gold · c/comicstrips · 9 pts · 171d

If you wanted to be more accurate to actual gold and silver, the historical exchange rate is only 20:1 silver to gold, which is why there are 20 (silver) shillings in a (gold) pound piece.