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3 days agoIt’s a reich-winger, you’re absolutely wasting your time responding to it. Block and move on
Jännät
Jännät (/ˈjænːæt/). Finnish adjective, plural: “interesting, cool, neat, exciting”.
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Interestingly “spelling” isn’t related to the magical version of the word “spell”:
In Middle English, spell meant “to mean” or “to signify,” which probably developed from Anglo-French espelier, itself from Middle High German spellen, meaning “to relate” or “to talk.” This spell, in modern English, then came to mean “to read slowly (letter by letter).”
Spell referring to magic incantation is of different origin. That word is strictly Germanic (from the noun spel) and refers to talk, storytelling, gossip, and a sermon. It also is the derivative of gospel (which translates to “good tale”) and is the source for the magical power and enchantment senses of spell.
(Interestingly, glamour shares an etymology with grammar. Spell and spelling.)
Not only was your wider point interesting, this digression was also really interesting. Makes sense though, the association between language and magic seems to be pretty common.
I dug up an M-W page on this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-history-of-glamour
1·6 days agoYou’re assuming that literally every workplace is a surveillance panopticon.
Not likely. There’s a reason why the Simple Sabotage Field Manual recommends exactly what klay1 was talking about (see my other comment in this thread)
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual actually has a lot of recommendations for this. Here’s a part of it, just to give you an idea (in a spoiler block because it’s loooooong)
Excerpt
(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.
(2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
(3) Misfile essential documents.
(4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.
(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.
(6) Hold up mail until the next collection.
(7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.
(d) Employees
(1) Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, use little force where considerable force is needed, and so on.
(2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lathe or punch, take needless time to do it. If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions twice as often as you need to. When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary. Forget tools so that you will have to go back after them.
(3) Even if you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
(4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.
(5) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
(6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker. “(7) Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.
(8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.
(9) Misroute materials.
(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
14·7 days agoSurely denying medical attention is illegal?
Not if you’re a part of the fascist violence machine it’s not
301·24 days agoYou used a nonsense method to come up with a justification for believing in more nonsense, congratulations. It’s still nonsense.
To be fair, in my case both are about as good for thinking so it’s understandable
Damn, they must have gotten my knee and my brain mixed up
16·1 month ago“Sub? What sub? We didn’t sink any subs. If a Russian sub sank they probably sank it themselves.”
Sweden should get to sink one of them, as a treat
My point was just that since I don’t use iOS Safari, I don’t know about its ad blocker situation
their support team suck…
Eastern European customer service, argh.
I use Firefox and not Safari so I really can’t comment on the ad blocker situation for Safari, but I thought there’s a few available? I know that we’re all supposed to hate ABP because by default it allows “acceptable ads”, but it at least seems to be available – although I obviously can’t vouch for how well it works.
1·1 month agoAh shit, figures
Yeah they’re somehow all complete fucking garbage. I don’t understand how there isn’t a single keyboard for iOS that isn’t shit, you’d think there’d be a market for that.
SwiftKey seems to be the least shit. It’s still shit, but it’s not as shit as all the other options – at least for someone who uses 2 languages daily. At least it has autocomplete for both English Finnish; fucking iOS still doesn’t have autocomplete for Finnish.
And to the inevitable “switch to Android” replies: iOS is also shit, but it’s less shit than Android
Interacting with them is what makes them feel welcome. They need attention, and giving it to them is a mistake