Zeno btfo

When I was on my mission, my companion and I went over to a бабушка’s house one time to do some service of some kind (it’s been many years and I don’t remember what exactly we were helping her with). After we finished up, she said something like “thanks! I really appreciate it, maybe I’ll ask you to come help again sometime” or something to that effect. Being a millennial, I would always answer “thanks” with не за что, which means approximately “it’s nothing,” like “it’s no trouble at all” or “it’s my pleasure.” My companion was newer in country and didn’t speak Russian particularly well, and instead said ни за что, which in an American accent sounds almost exactly the same, except the stress is moved, which instead means something like “not for anything” or “under no circumstances.” Luckily, I caught what had happened pretty quickly and smoothed things over, because she positively blanched when he told her we’d never come back to help her again no matter how much she paid us.

edit: I’m pretty sure he was the same companion who said he was sterile (я холодной) when he meant he was cold (мне холодно).

Me? I dunno. I was trying my best to play along but I never quite figured out what the idea was. I dropped by their discord and the people who run it for other platforms were similarly puzzled. The whole thing was kinda weird.

We tried this in !simdemocracy@lemmy.world and the community’s completely dead so…

I’m big into sports but this seems like a reasonable take – it’s already the case that none of the good youth soccer leagues are affiliated with schools, and it’s easy to see how you extend that model to other school sports. Also, having the NCAA be the minor league for the NFL is enriching NFL owners at the expense of our university system. The downside, of course, is that we’ll exclude children whose parents can’t afford to pay for club sports, which generally I’m in favor of moving public goods (like getting children active and learning how to cooperate) to be paid for by government rather than private enterprise, but I get it. I’m not sure how it relates to trans athletes in sports, though – you’re just kicking the can down the road to a bunch of laws and lawsuits about discrimination and participation in club sports rather than school sports.

I delete comments pretty frequently. Sometimes you just realize you’ve said something that’s gonna lead to a bunch of unpleasant interactions, and you’d rather just everyone have a pleasant day.

This would be better than the current nickname “Husky Women” we have for UDub women’s sports.

I’m pretty sure OP means people don’t talk out loud as often. On average, people have been speaking 338 words per day fewer for each consecutive year since 2005 (source)

Poor kid. Saw the 1 in 6 chance of being destroyed every round and never quite grasped that the +15 mult with a chance on a x3 mult if it breaks and you find the Cavendish is totally worth a little bit of unpredictability in your build.

You’d have a hard time convincing me to support most of these (because that is how humor works), but lemme tell you I would wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support an entirely serious campaign to rename Washington to Obama. It would make talking about where I’m from like 84% less confusing.

Hell yeah, brother. You’re leaving Christianity, not vice versa — you can take whatever you want with you on the way out.

feddit.online has been great for me and I would recommend it. Also if your lemmy.zip account is a similar username, that would make feddit.online the power instance for soccer posting, which would be fun.

I think the most likely scenario is that the affair with the Chinese spy is much worse than has been revealed in the press so far, so NVIDIA is trying to get ahead of that story by revealing this and ousting Jensen for it, even though it’s fairly uncommon to fire a CEO over an affair.

This doesn’t seem right, but I don’t know enough about horses to say conclusively

The Guardian was more careful about their diction; I was more colloquial

Scott Colom makes history as first Black US senator ever chosen by Mississippi voters

Looks like they updated the feed since you posted: Colom is the first Black senator to ever be elected in Mississippi

To start in the more distant past, Colom will be Mississippi’s first Black senator since 1881, when Blanche Kelso Bruce, who was born into slavery, ended his single term during the post-civil war Reconstruction era.

But Bruce was elected to the US Senate not in a popular vote, but by Mississippi’s state legislature, in 1874. He then held that seat from 1875 to 1881.

I am also a happy Mela user, and I second this recommendation

Themporers

The definition of a nuclear family, per Wikipedia, is strictly two parents:

A nuclear family – also called an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family – is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

There should be some Harriet Beecher Stowe on the syllabus — I’d love to hear Clarence Thomas teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin.