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on Every single time · c/memes · 2 pts · 28d

Not OP, but I used to always have to show up early so I could get good seats — why do the rows just feet from the screen even exist — but I guess now that selecting seats when you buy your ticket online is normalized, it isn't usually necessary. Hadn't considered before, though tbf I rarely go to the theater.

on me & my bike at Greece · c/pics · 2 pts · 34d

Hey now, maybe they're one of the people on the beach across the water and someone else took this photo /j

on Set for life · c/memes · 45 pts · 57d

They said they have to buy them if they want fresh tomatoes, not just in general. ie frozen isn't fresh

on New names are hard, ok? · c/memes · 2 pts · 59d

Michigan and Ontario both have Bois Blanc Islands. Michigan's is "Boys Blank" and Ontario's is "Bob Low".

on New names are hard, ok? · c/memes · 3 pts · 59d

Can't forget Noordeloos, Vriesland, Overisel, Drenthe, and Borculo. Been to Borculo a few times. Lotsa folks with Dutch/Frisian/Low German surnames in the area, including the (in)famously wealthy Van Andel and De Vos families of Grand Rapids.

Supposedly, the phrase "if you ain't Dutch, you ain't much" used to be common here, but I've never heard it used unironically. Likely died off with time.

It's not actually from Adam Smith, it's a Marx quote from some of his unfinished notes posthumously published as Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. The quote is specifically from Rent of Land in the first manuscript.

Adam Smith does talk about how landlords are parasites in Book 1 Chapter 11 of Wealth of Nations, Of the Rent of Land.

Genuinely just dumbfounded when I got to the point in the video where the little popup blurb refers to Epstein with the memed "disgraced financier" title. Holy shit, just call him the "infamous child sex trafficker", that's what almost everybody who knows his name knows him for.

on going on a west asia trip · c/europe · 2 pts · 72d

Most LatAm I've spoken to online (including Brazilians) insisted that it's one continent and that North, Central, and South America are subcontinents. Several of them have ranted at me about how it's immoral for the US to monopolize "American" because of it.

fwiw in the US I was taught that North and South America are two continents and that Central America and the Caribbean are subcontinents of NA; the Panama-Colombia border demarcates the continents.

Only other one that really ever gets brought up is Australia vs Oceania as a continent. Don't think I ever heard of Oceania until after graduating.

on Caption this. · c/science_memes · 9 pts · 83d

Yeah, though I can see how it looks like it's going the other way at first glance, what with the fish facing the wrong direction.

Somebody I've known online for a few years in now making plans to move to the US from a nicer western European county after having fled there from a politically declining eastern European country 5 or so years ago. And to the Midwest, specifically, too. I live here, and I'd welcome them, but I'm also very much in the "why the fuck" camp.

on It's free real estate · c/tenforward · 2 pts · 103d

Very late response, but I was thinking back to this and realized that, to be pedantic, yeah, female lycanthropes should actually be called wifwolves, or something to that effect; a woman becoming a werewolf would include turning into a man, if the root words are taken literally.

Kinda like how female automatons should technically be gynoids, not androids, because "andro-" means "male" in Greek, like "wer-" in English, but language doesn't always evolve neatly like that.

The word itself is possibly a combination of sylvestris and nympha (forest and nymph), but they're air spirits from Paracelsus' 16th century works. Sylphs go along with undines, gnomes, and salamanders (water, earth, and fire spirits).

Some different kinds of nymphs are dryads (oak trees), oceanids (oceans), oreads (mountains), and plenty of others.