• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Unrelated to meme:

    But, did you know: You can make so that the meme has a spacing at the bottom, so the “imgflip.com” goes into the bottom spacing, then you just crop out the entire bottom space along with the “imgflip.com” watermark lol

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    20 hours ago

    I lol’d

    The actual origin is almost as goofy. “‘Wisconsin’ (originally ‘Meskonsing’) is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for a river”

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    15 hours ago

    A “pro” is the opposite of a “con”, so what’s the opposite of progress?

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        11 hours ago

        I was looking for “congress”, and while that is currently controlled by Republicans, there’s been some Democrat congresspersons that have worked that side of the ratchet in the past.

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          Republicans drive the Overton window Ratchet or not, there wouldn’t be rightward movement if they didn’t exist.

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    9 hours ago

    I’ll never understand why (mostly older) Germans keep replacing unvoiced English th with unvoiced s, when f is right there.

    Logically it’s because voiced th is replaced with voiced s (aka English z) in a German accent, but that actually makes some sense phonetically. Still strange how historical German speakers pretty consistently replaced the archaic voiced th with d in later forms of German while modern Germans completely ignore that when it comes to English, though.

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    22 hours ago

    But the German W sounds like a V. Wein, Wissenschaftler, Weiß, all start with a V sound.

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    19 hours ago

    “Sin” means without in Spanish, but “syn” is derived from with in Greek