ThePlague-Daemon posted:

For whatever reason, I decided to look around at raccoon etymology, and it seems like cultures that were doing a lot of colonialism in the Americas adopted local terminology and other languages translated the old taxonomic name. Washbear comes from ursus lotor, which is how Carl Linnaeus classified them in his taxonomy. Meanwhile, raccoon is adapted from Powhatan. The French term raton-laveur means little washer rat, which doesn't make sense, except that raton sounds kinda/sorta like raccoon and I guess the washer part was added later. Spanish has mapache, which comes from Nahuatl, and Portuguese has guaxinim from Tupi.

I'm not a linguist though and the Italian term is procione, which is just the current genus name, so I dunno.

Jurgan posted:

It reminds me of this comic. The gist of it is that it's okay to patronize sex workers and similar, just remember that it's a performance. You're there for a fantasy, so remember that they're just normal people once they leave and you shouldn't expect anything more from them.

orange sky posted:

here's an idiot on social media

https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/904008582290710528

jivjov posted:

Jurgan posted:

"The condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life... You can live up to your God-given potential." He really doesn't see the contradiction here, does he?

Absurd Alhazred posted:

You can play around with the consonant roots of words in Hebrew, so you'll find a lot of names for animals that are weird variations on the name of a similar-looking animal. So Raccoon is דביבון = dvivon, where bear is דב = dov.

Similarly, Jays are all types of עורבני = orvani, where crow is עורב=orev.

WrenP-Complete posted:

I've always thought that's because jays and crows are corvids, and orev and corvid sounded alike to me as a kid. Probably just an incorrect childhood connection.

Azzur posted:

Hey, I live in Japan and just got back from an Owl Cafe in Sendai. Sympathy owls.






I feel like I should contribute some IoSM, but I think my social media has been kept well pruned...

Mikl posted:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/904389024697200643

Mikl posted:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/904389024697200643

https://twitter.com/helenbirch_/status/904506733674029057

I will never get tired of stupid idiots getting owned

e. No, seriously, check out the replies to the idiot's tweet. He gets dunked on relentlessly

Besesoth posted:

My favorite is still the Icelandic word for "computer", which is tölva - a portmanteau that means "number witch".

jivjov posted:

Mak0rz posted:

They're from different genera

Spider Barbie posted:

Why won't these meidos talk to me and only me like in my animes

I Said No posted:

Speaking of FU, one of my mod users brought something amusing to my attention.

A few weeks back I released my Diverse Weather mod which adds a bunch of new weathers and allows different planets of the same biome to have different climates or weather patterns, using a system that was already ingame and functional but only really used for planets that have optional meteors. Five days later, Frackin Universe releases an update featuring many of the weather types in my mod (earthquakes, cold snaps and heat waves being particularly similar) and diverse climates.

Like I don't mind people re-using ideas (I wouldn't even really call them my ideas, I don't exactly own the concept of an earthquake), but it's kind of dumb they're still up to their old anti-competitive bullshit. They've always had a streak of not wanting any other mod to compete with them and if Diverse Weather and FU didn't have compatibility issues before that update, they probably will now.

I Said No posted:

I did actually look at the files and they're really similar, with some numbers changed here and there and a lot of the file naming syntaxes really similar to what I used, but honestly it's impossible to tell if they actually swiped my files directly or just remade them using the same techniques I did. I mean how many different ways are there to basically remake the same thing?
Even if they did theoretically straight up swipe my poo poo there's not a whole lot I can do about it though, so I just view it as more amusing than annoying really.

I Said No posted:

HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT
So, my wife said she was gonna poke through FU's public discord channel and I pretty much shrugged and said go ahead if she feels like it.

She found that not only did they straight up swipe my stuff:


BUT as an added bonus, they specifically set out to override and brick my mod because they're pissed at me not working with them:


And wants to "bury me" and take away my subscribers as a punishment for not working with/around them:



Like... bro. Seriously. What the gently caress are you doing? Are you THIS mad I don't support thieves?
Full archive of all the Good poo poo my wife found can be found backed up right here, just incase they abuse imgur's systems to pull the screenshots down like they've apparently done before to other mod authors they didn't like (read the top bit of the description).

I Said No posted:

Wife found more poo poo.
That nexus mod by an author known as CLeF I posted at the end of the last post; turns out sayter really, really, REALLY hates CLeF, apparently because of this old pre-release reddit argument. Turns out sayter REALLY doesn't like to be told "no" and may have harrassed the poo poo out of this CLeF dude by digging up all his internet footprint and also getting his imgur library deleted as I mentioned in the previous post. All of this poo poo because someone disagreed with him in a reddit argument, as far as i'm able to tell! (second image in paticular - REALLY doesn't like being told he's wrong, apparently)

And yeah I can't really DO anything but I got a loving laugh out of his overblown this guy's ego is, and I don't see why he should just get to do whatever he wants without being called on it.

there wolf posted:

Not actually. The murinae subfamily is called the old world rat and mouse family, and while it includes genera rattus/mus, pretty much every species in it has rat/mouse in their common names despite being from different genera. What most people would call a field mouse isn't part of the mus genus at all, but it's still considered a mouse.

there wolf posted:

Not actually. The murinae subfamily is called the old world rat and mouse family, and while it includes genera rattus/mus, pretty much every species in it has rat/mouse in their common names despite being from different genera. What most people would call a field mouse isn't part of the mus genus at all, but it's still considered a mouse.

Besesoth posted:

"There's no taxonomic difference between rats and mice" and "there are a few critters we call mice that ended up being more closely related to rats than other mice" aren't even close to being the same thing, my friend.

Besesoth posted:

"There's no taxonomic difference between rats and mice" and "there are a few critters we call mice that ended up being more closely related to rats than other mice" aren't even close to being the same thing, my friend.

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You might have heard of the PETA wackos who thinks that whales are "mammals", despite the fact that whales lives and swims in the sea, just like other fish species, and most important of all, The Bible says that whales are fish, and therefore they are fish! And it all makes sense since they live in the sea

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It is clear for people with common sense that whale is a fish.

Some of these crazy monkey worshipers try to say that bat is a mammal too, when it is clear that it is infact a bird.

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Whales are fish that have by convergent evolution (which the Designer) set in motion do the best adaptions would keep the animal alive and healthy. This supports my idea that God designed everything perfectly. For a whale to be best suited to its environment God designed it very similar to mammals. A good designer does not throw away designs that work.

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The King James Bible is 100% perfect, not a single word is mistranslated, and real Christians follows The Bible by letter. The Bible tells us that whales are fish, therefore they are fish, they are fish who breathe atmospheric air and are usually much bigger than other fish species, but they are still fish, both because it makes sense and because The Bible says so.

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Whale meat makes for a nice sandwich. Gooks like you bathe in the blood and oils, and eskimoes like to eat the blubber. Most other fish have less blubber.

Jurgan posted:

Leviticus 11:19 refers to bats as a type of bird, so there's really no taxonomic difference between birds and bats.

In searching for a citation for that sick burn, I found this, which is maybe not "social media" but is too good to keep to myself.





RACISM AHEAD.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I keep forgetting that there are babies on the internet who don't know what Landover Baptist is.

Besesoth posted:

"there are a few critters we call mice that ended up being more closely related to rats than other mice" .

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I keep forgetting that there are babies on the internet who don't know what Landover Baptist is.

WrenP-Complete posted:

I was talking with some linguists tonight about the etymology of corvus vs עורב and we found this weird thing by accident - edenics.org. Phone posting but the articles are amazingly bizarre.

Picnic Princess posted:

LMAO as a chronic pain sufferer with problems in my entire body I wish I only had broken ribs to worry about. I had costochondritis in all my ribs for 2 months that is infinitely more painful than breaking them and I worked my retail job 5 days a week. Real tough guy there. Like, most people just carry on with their lives even when in pain and don't publicly demand praise for it or belittle others for not having as much strength. Pain is relative anyway.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I think I saw a book that was making a similar claim about English deriving from Hebrew somehow when I was still in Israel. Folk etymology sure is greatdumb!

LOL at that cover image:

Warmachine posted:

There is no way this dude is flying that low without the FAA screaming at him.
Speaking of, this came across my Facebook today. It counts because the article I was reading lists the predictable result: homeboy gets fined for violating FAA regulations. How'd they find out? Social media.

http://www.foodandwine.com/news/friend-air-drops-subway-sandwich-farmer

Volcott posted:

Adobe Photoshop my dude.

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Hebrew, with its right brain/left brain neurological keyboard demonstrates that Greek and Latin are merely grandparents, while Hebrew is the common ancestor, the original computing language of our biological random access memory, which was scrambled during the output stage by the Master Prog rammer

there wolf posted:

That's still not quite it. The point is that rat and mouse are used so indiscriminately to label the members of the murinae subfamily that they fail to describe any meaningful relationship between the different species. I guess I could see how "there's no taxonomic difference" could read as "all the same", but in my head I was thinking of even more casual usage. Most people seeing a small rodent aren't going to be able to identify the species; they'll just call it a mouse if it seems small or a rat if it seems big.

WrenP-Complete posted: