I am not deciding shit for anyone. I’m concluding your kid is most likely MtF, based on the info you provided — “in my simple brain he has a dick he’s a boy” + usage of the word “trans”.

And, even in the chance my conclusion is incorrect (the kid is actually genderfluid, or non-binary, et cetera), my point still stands, even if you pretend it doesn’t dammit. You highlighted you use “he/him” because the kid has a dick, regardless of the kid’s identity, that’s an arsehole move, doubly so coming from a parent. The right approach would be to use the ones the kid chose.

You’re the one assuming shit here

Not really.

I’m laughing […] I find that funny.

Said Egnatius the Celtiberian.

EDIT: I usually don’t bring shit from the modlog up, because it’s often a diversion tactic. However, in this case, it’s 100% relevant: the user above defends physical violence against children. In his own words, “I’m saying this with all the honesty. We need to start beating our kids again.”

It explains a lot, doesn’t it? If a person doesn’t get why physical abuse against kids is bad, the idea of respecting someone else’s choices is a bit too complex for that person.

Summer? See you guys in December… okay, sorry for the dumb joke. Here’s what I’m planning to pick up, roughly by order of how much I want to see it:

1. Mushoku Tensei III
2. Youjo Senki II
3. Otomege Sekai wa Mob […] 2
4. Black Torch
5. Ryoumin 0-Nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama
6. Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game […]
7. Koko wa Ore ni Makesete Saki […]
8. Hell Mode […] 2
9. Sekai Saikyou no Kouei
10. Reiwa no Dara-san
11. Suterare Seijo no Isekai Gohantabi
12. Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou

I’ll also keep watching: Re:Zero, Iruma-kun, TenSura, Ascendance of a Bookworm. Then there’s the older stuff I’m only watching now, like Mahoutsukai no Yome and Highschool of the Dead.

So a total of 18 series, 12 being new ones. Two~three episodes per day.

This is a good piece. I’m saying this as a user (I’m a translator, not a programmer); plenty times my connection is unreliable, for a thousand reasons (such as a broken connector — uuurgh, that weekend!), and because my internet service is far from stellar. I also like how the author highlights some caveats and potential solutions, like: rely on the TCP instead of IP, use buffers, etc.

But I bet that most of the time those incorrect assumptions pop up simply because plenty devs don’t fucking care about user experience. And because even if assumptions are the bane of any good programmer (or any good human being, really), not assuming requires you to think, and some people treat thinking as if it was one of the Twelve Labours of Hercules. Also because this affects more people with crappier internet, and they don’t really care about poorer people.

Now, I’ll focus on the usage of the word “fallacy” within this text, because it’s rubbing me the wrong way. And because plenty people get fallacies really wrong, even if shit matters.

“Fallacy” is not just a fancy way to say “incorrect assumption”, like the author does. A fallacy is a faulty reasoning. It means that, even if you started out with solid info, the conclusion is unreliable. It’s stuff like this:
P1. Felines are animals.
P2. Dogs are animals.
C. Dogs are felines.

Both premises (P1 and P2) are true, and yet the conclusion © is false: dogs are not felines. Because the reasoning sucks; you can’t assume one set (“dogs”) is a subset of another (“felines”) because both happen to be subsets of a third one (“animals”).

But what if we replaced “dogs” with “cats”, and kept the reasoning intact? Like this:
P1. Felines are animals.
P2. Cats are animals.
C. Cats are felines.

The fallacy is still there, even if the conclusion happens to be true, because I did not change the flawed reasoning; it’s still a brainfart.

Why this matters: because if you start with true premises and your reasoning is not fallacious, the conclusion is reliably true. Like this:
P1. Cats are felines.
P2. Felines are animals.
C. Cats are animals.

As long as both premises is true, since this is good reasoning, the conclusion will be also true.

[HN comment] On the one hand, the list isn’t wrong. // On the other hand, more fortunes have been made by assuming that physics will catch up (closely enough, anyway) to computational needs, than by assuming that every byte and every cycle and every nanosecond matters.

Now, this is a fallacy. Actually two: moving goalposts + nirvana fallacy. Typical HN dumb commenter.

It’s moving goalposts because it’s clear the focus of the author is to encourage good practices, that ensure good user experience. It is not about “making fortunes” or crap like this.

And it’s a nirvana fallacy because the user disingenuously (or worse, idiotically) implies that not assuming better hardware means assuming “every byte and every cycle and every nanosecond matters”.

Sure, people in general will probably get better connections over time. But

1. you’ll most likely see plenty, plenty exceptions.
2. the present matters too, not just the future.

And yet you don’t need to pretend every bit transmitted over the internet counts. As long as you keep the eight points from the author in mind, and… well, ask yourself

• do you really need to send that shit through the network? It’s often unreliable (#1), it’s a security risk (#4), and there are associated transport costs (#6).
• am I expecting the network to be better than it actually is? Packages won’t arrive instantaneously (#2), the delay is often unpredictable (#2), bandwidth might be a bottleneck (#4), and there might be some hidden cost (#7).
• etc.

She’s Ram’s palette swap from the Re:Zero fighting game. People bullshit she’s a maid in Roswaal’s mansion, but that is not true — there’s Ram and Frederica, no REM sleep or Rem sleeping or whatever.

If MS is forcing this anti-feature regardless of how badly the feature hurts user trust, it means it gets more value out of the former than the later. Likely paving way to make Windows SaaS in the future, Adobe style.

First let me talk about the 6-7 meme. You probably saw it; as someone mentions “six seven”, someone else does the “grab balls” gesture with their hands, alternately, while repeating “six seven~”. It doesn’t really have semantic meaning, but it has a social one, that made it so popular: it signals someone belongs to the group of people who know the meme.

Now lemme talk about carbonara. See, there are a lot of reasons why the “canonical” recipe eventually settled this way, instead of another. For plenty (most?) people, the canonical recipe is perfect:

• garlic and eggs don’t really go well together, they fight a bit
• pecorino’s sharp taste improves the dish in a way gruyère or grana/PR wouldn’t
• guanciale is chewier, and the smoky flavour typically found in bacon would also fight other ingredients

Bear in mind every single of those points is subjective: they’re a matter of taste, and while I do believe this taste should be shared by plenty people, this is not a true/false matter. As in, someone out there might actually like garlic x eggs, and that’s completely fine.

However. When people gatekeep carbonara, they never talk about those points, right. It’s always that “authentic” babble, being parroted over and over: “ackshyually lol carbonara should be made with $ingredient_1, never $ingredient_2 lmao”. Because the gatekeeping is not about helping you to make the best-tasting carbonara for you, it’s about signalling “I know CHRUE CURRBONAWA”. Much like 6-7, except coupled with disdain for what the others made.

It’s a bloody meme. But a really cringe one.

…I’ll be honest.

You’re saying you’ll defend whatever she decides to be, but I don’t think you accept it yourself; that’s why you’re still treating your daughter as if she was a boy. It’s perfectly possible this actually hurts her, but she doesn’t complain because it’s complicated to do so with your parents before adulthood, like it or not you’re still a figure of authority.

EDIT: to be clear. I’m saying it’s preferable to treat a trans child by the gender they identify themself with, than by the gender assigned to them by birth. Doubly so if you’re in a position of power over them, like a parent is.

I’d argue those still count as messing with the consonants, given they’re usually from [Vn, Vm]→[Vŋ]→[Ṽ] in Portuguese, French, and Lombard. And old Romanian, too (the language eventually lost them, but apparently it had nasal vowels at some point).

In fact some in Portuguese still interpret those nasal vowels as vowel+consonant sequences, proposing some “nasal archiphoneme” for that. e.g. “lã” wool /laN/. Often due to the presence of a nasal appendix (trailing nasalisation, after the vowel ended) in those words. I personally don’t buy it, but hey, still consonant weirdness!

It’s all Latin with clipped endings. And some weird consonants.

This would be a real mess to check. I bet there’s a really small overlap for some pairs, like Egyptian Arabic vs. Japanese*; but for others the overlap is rather large, like Hindi vs. English. And sometimes counting if you can speak a language or not can be tricky — like, how much Spanish does a Portuguese speaker need to learn, or vice versa, in order to be considered “speaking” it?**

*I can think on at least one example of that, though: Fairouz Ai. Two if her brother also learnt Arabic.

**The Venezuelans (mostly ES speakers) in my city (mostly PT speakers) come to my mind. Sometimes their portuñol is easier to understand than some Portuguese varieties. Do they “count” as speaking Portuguese? No idea.

inb4 I know the post is 6m old, but I hope the info is useful, to the OP and/or casual readers.

Clicks + labial-velars is not intrinsically “unrealistic”. It’s just that both are rare features due to their complexity, and in our world they’re associated with different areas:

If history went another way, I think it’s perfectly possible you found both features in the same language. For example, if the Khoisan unified, expanding down north, and carrying with them click consonants. (IRL the Bantu expanded down south; and the Bantu languages with clicks — like isiZulu, isiXhosa, siPhuthi etc. — mostly borrowed them from the Khoisan family.)

As such I don’t see anything wrong with having both in the same conlang. Even in a realistic one. Specially if it’s spoken in a conworld, since areas won’t be the same as in our world. Doubly so if the conlang has a large consonant set, so you can’t “migrate” the odd feature to another manner of articulation and get away with it.

Now, strict word order (= marking case through syntax) + case system (= marking case through morphology) is IMO another can of worms. The Abralin link OP provided shows it rather well; but to keep it short, they’re redundant, and you don’t expect a language to keep two whole full-fledged systems for exactly the same thing. At most they might combine both systems, like German does, but that’s different.

Any more you can think of?

Little to no allophony in a simple phonetic system. It’s one of those things that scream “conlaaaaaaang” from a distance.

Specially for the vowels, since they tend to spread and occupy the whole vocalic space. A good example of that is Quechua, due to its /a i u/ system. In Cuzco pronunciations:

• /ˈqiʎ.qa/ [ˈqel.qɑ] stroke, letter
• /ˈaʎ.qu/ [ˈal.qɔ] dog

Note how /i/ gets lowered to [e], and how /u/ becomes [ɔ], because… well, it’s easier to pronounce it this way after an uvular, and it isn’t like they’ll get confused with some non-existent /e/ or /o/.

Same thing happens with the consonants. For example, let’s say your conlang has the following stops: /p t k d g/. Note the absence of /b/. You’d expect [b] to pop up at least in some situations, such as when /p/ is sandwiched between voiced sounds.

My trouble is always ending up with too much leftover whey.

Add some fruit juice to it, and sugar to taste. IMO it’s delicious. (Note: this works better with sour fruits. Lemon, orange, passion fruit, cashew, pineapple, this sort of stuff.)

I’ve never made paneer, but I have made a lot of ricotta (well, this type of ricotta, there’s also leftover whey ricotta, which I haven’t made). I had no clue paneer was basically just pressed ricotta.

It’s possible what you made is paneer.

At least traditionally, ricotta is the one made from leftover whey; that’s why it gets this name (ricotto = recooked). You make some low temp cheese like pecorino, re-heat the leftover whey to ~80°C, add some white vinegar (and probably salt), transfer the curds outside of the liquid and here you go.

Last video was rather sad, seeing the hut crumble down. Glad to see he found ways around it, like building it slowly this time, but I wonder if there isn’t some material better than mud to use as a mortar; near the end he mixes it with ashes but I’m not sure if this helps at all.

Another possibility is to change the shape of the bricks, so they naturally fit together, so the mortar is less relevant (albeit still necessary). Or even bricks with holes in them, so as you stack them you can wood in the holes for additional resistance.

As a kid I often picked those to throw them into gaucho spider webs, in exposed brick holes. Weird child me found hilarious to see the spider trying to crack the woody pig, failing hard, and then the woody pig eventually untangling itself and leaving.

No woody pig was harmed by this. Unlike by my “terrarium”; I gathered hundreds of them into a bucket, a bunch of dead leaves, and left them to their own devices. Most of them died.

“Now”, right? Well…

That’s me with Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo!

So that’s what made Emilia into the witch of envy!* Rem might as well not leave the coma now.
Congratulations Patrasche, Barusu!

(*inb4 that’s fan speculation, not spoilers)

Then I’ll admit to be a tentacular monster. And might as well share my “Levantine” spice mix for other monsters here:

• 5 parts smoked paprika
• 5 parts black pepper
• 5 parts cinnamon
• 4 parts coriander seeds
• 4 parts cumin
• 3 parts allspice
• 3 parts cloves
• 2 parts cardamom
• 2 parts star anise
• 2 parts chili pepper
• 1 part nutmeg

Just blend them all together and store in an airtight container. This stuff is amazing in meats, specially beef.

Probably because I accidentally made chlorine gas.

You tried to electrolyse table salt, right?

I did the same as a kid. The chlorine reacted with the transparent plastic from my electrolysis apparatus, and made one side opaque and ugly, I hated it. (The “electrolysis apparatus” was a transformer, two pencil leads, two plastic bottles, a bunch of aquarium tubes, and glue. Lots and lots of glue. Even then it leaked a lot, it was hilariously unsafe.)

Then I learnt I should care about the electrolyte, and started using lye. (Nowadays I wonder what my parents had in their heads to let me play around this sort of stuff. It’s surprising I’m still alive.)

It’ll also output SATOR squares that are all wrong, instead of either giving up or providing a real one.