Zelda

Won’t you lend your lungs to me? Mine are collapsing.

I’m glad you called them out on it because that’s an insane thing to say to someone when you’re about to get married.

I used to see this guy bike past my apartment all the time. He had a speaker blasting country music and he’d scream-sing the lyrics. Not my type of music at all but his passion made me fuck with his vibe.

I’ll gladly take the septum-pierced ladies. I’ll take the septum-pierced enbies and men, too.

I’ve never seen an ugly person with a septum piercing.

Which is why I said biological parent and not father.

Nothing in this comic necessarily implies that the dad isn’t the kid’s biological parent, though.

Pretty sure that’s heronsy.

I honestly feel that’s less of a diss on the Neo and more of a statement on how overpowered phones are now, especially considering the limitations placed on mobile OSes.

Apparently, buck used to be a slur in the US for a black or Native American man.

A suggested etymology for buck naked is that it refers to the the nude state of black men when they were sold at slave auctions. AFAIK it’s not attested anywhere, just a hypothesis.

Fluent Reader was my stopping point when looking for a good desktop RSS reader. I’d rather a non-Electron-based app, but hey, non-programmers beggars can’t be choosers.

Both butt-naked and buck naked are used.

Comparing them with Google Ngram does show that buck naked predates and is slightly more frequently used than butt-naked, but I’d say butt-naked has been widely accepted into the lexicon. Bonus, it doesn’t have (possibly) racist origins like buck naked has.

Peggle was released 19 years ago.

We’re as far from Peggle as Peggle was from games such as Super Mario Bros 3 and Ninja Gaiden.

Hey! As a vegan stoner, I resent that. I use an Arch-derivative (EndeavourOS btw).

French people and French-Canadians both use anglicisms, just in different ways.

For example, if we take the sentence “I parked my car in the parking lot for the weekend”, someone from France might say:

J’ai stationné ma voiture dans le parking pendant le weekend

whereas someone from Canada could say

J’ai parké mon char dans le stationnement pour la fin de semaine

Both have influence from English, but in different places. English loanwords in Canada tend to originate from the beginning of the 20th century (a reason why many car-related terms in Canadian French are anglicisms, such as “bumper”) and in France loanwords tend to be a more recent phenomenon.

I’m French-Canadian. My native language is French, I spoke French at home growing up and the entirety of my education was in French.

When I’ve visited Paris, I had people switching to English despite me speaking exclusively in French to them.

Peanut Butter Sunday and FUUDGE are two French Canadian bands worth checking out!

I wish my commute had me going along such a nice trail!

unbiased source of news

I honestly don’t think this is possible.

Who’s deciding what counts as “biased” or “unbiased”, and how do we ensure there’s no corruption there?

How do we determine “the truth” about controversial subjects when general opinion is split?

Even if you did determine a magical method to broadcast exclusively factual information without any spin; the choice of which information gets broadcast inherently introduces bias. You can’t put literally everything that happened on Earth in a day on the evening news, so you have to choose and prioritize which information to broadcast, introducing the bias.

I’ve always thought a better solution would be having news sources be more explicit about their biases, rather than pretending they don’t have any, but I realize that just introduces more problems without necessarily fixing anything.