Lvxferre [he/him]

Worst hypothesis, even if counting just to 8, you’re still using a single hand, so it’s an improvement over counting to 5 with fingers. Couple it with the other hand and you’re counting up to 64.

There’s also the Chisanbop method @hesh@quokk.au mentioned, for that your unbending joint shouldn’t be an issue, and it allows you to count to 9 with a single hand (99 with both).

This is cute but not practical.

Memorising all 2^n for 0≥n≥10 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024) is reasonable, but you’ll need to add a lot of them at the same time to convert the counting in your hands to a base 10 number (that’ll use elsewhere). Stuff like 256+128+64+8+2+1; it isn’t difficult but laborious, you know?

Plus the gestures can be sometimes awkward, depending on how flexible your hand is. For example, at least for me it’s a bit tricky to lift the ring finger up without either the middle or the pink.

I have a different strategy to count large numbers by hand. It’s up to 12 with one hand, 144 with both. But it feels comfortable, and rather intuitive:

Put the tip of your thumb on the indicated places to count 1, 2, 3… 12. With one hand; if you want to count past 12, use the other hand to count dozens (12, 24, 36… 144).

Provided you memorised the multiplication table for 12, for any given number you’ll perform at most a single addition, like 84+7 or similar.

(I have a suspicion the Sumerians counted this way with one hand, and one finger per dozen with the other. That’s why a lot of their units 5*12=60 as a basis.)

Too caloric for me. I’m trying to lose weight, okay??

The one from my childhood is almost identical to this one, plus the three weights from the video pelespirit linked. Even the “IIII” instead of “IV” for the four*. I have no idea on its geographical origin, but it still exists — I saw it last week, now it haunts my brother-in-law and nephew my sister inherited it.

*something I’d only understand years later - “IV” is for Jupiter (IVPITER). Just a bit of respect for the old gods that survived.

Unlike “cuckold”, “chupim” isn’t really sexual. It’s mostly that sort of person who wants everything, but never gives back.

For example. You and your brother got each their own toys. If you play with his toys, he throws a tantrum: “THEY’RE MINE!”. If you don’t let him play with your toys, he also throws a tantrum: “WAAAAH YOU’RE SELFISH!”. That’s a chupim.

In South America too, although they’re shiny cowbirds instead. Their parasitic behaviour is so famous that, at least in my Portuguese dialect, their local name “chupim” is often used to refer to people who take advantage of the others’ goodwill.

I’m so fucking glad those birds don’t exist in South America. Because this is one of the sounds I hate the most.

When I was a child, my home had a cuckoo clock. Already centennial back then. Noisy and loud. And it made that “cuckoo!” noise once 1AM or 1PM, twice 2AM or 2PM… can you picture the bloody hell that shite was at midnight???

…okay, the birds have no fault for that. But I’m still glad they don’t exist here.

I think it’s a mix of what both IninewCrow and Jay said: survival bias + higher early exposure to dirt, pollen etc.

In a lot of Indo-European languages you’re stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).

As other users highlighted, canola is a specific cultivar of rapeseed. The name is for Canadian oil, low acidity. It was originally a brand.

Wiktionary also lists “colza”, ultimately from Dutch koolzaad (cabbage seed). I never saw it in English, only in Portuguese (and even then it was an “ackshyually” moment).

As others mentioned it was rape as “rapeseed”. Unfortunate homophone of another word referring to non-consensual sex.

Middle English borrowed the word “rape” (for the seed) straight from Latin, rapum, rapa. The Latin word actually refers to turnips, but they’re relatives and their flowers look really similar:

Top is turnip (Latin rapa), bottom is rape. Latin inherited it from Proto-Indo-European *[s]rā́p- “wild cabbage, turnip”; it’s a really weird word, that *ā shows it was borrowed into Late PIE from some pre-IE language.

Then the word referring to non-consensual sex was from Norman French “rap” instead. It’s ultimately from Latin “rapere” (to seize, capture, rape), in turn inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rep- “to snatch”.

There’s an even earlier version of that script, used by the Zapotecs already back in ~500 BCE. And it’s probably not even the first.

And much like you see with the other families of scripts elsewhere, over time you see a lot of developments. The video mentions it around 8:00 - the Mixtec culture used the script as almost pure logographic, and the exceptions followed the rebus principle*; in the meantime the Nahuatl-speaking Mexica and the Mayas were using them also for sound sequences.

*Rebus principle is to represent words by logographs for other similar-sounding words. In English for example this would be like representing “I” and “be” with an eye and a bee.

back in 2006

My “two decades” guess wasn’t too far from that, then.

I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.

So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.

If by “a little toxicity” you mean a little bit of aggressiveness, sarcasm, etc., I agree with you. It depends a lot on the community though - in some, allowing it will be counter-productive.

If however you mean harassment and hate speech, as the author of the text, I strongly disagree. If the mod doesn’t curb down those things, they might not be “lording” over the discourse, but other users are - because

• users shut each other up through harassment
• hate speech silences whole groups, as they leave the community

Another detail is that you don’t need to control the discourse to curb down harassment, since it’s only behavioural and not discursive in nature.

So IMO when it comes to those two things the problem is not overzealous mods, but dumb ones not doing due diligence, who are a bit too eager to falsely accuse their own users to be voicing hate speech or harassing each other when it is not the case.

[Sorry for the wall of text.]

You’re reading too much into my “look it up”. It was basically “I’m not wasting my time with your rhetorical question”.

I’m aware of what you’re explaining (semantic drift + polysemy), however neither is relevant here.

Wtf is “hate speech”?

Look it up.

To call hate speech and harassment “toxicity” downplays both issues.

Optimists cause more harm than good.

I’d be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it’s kind of unlikely that they’ll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I’m OK with it. As long as the body doesn’t leave my city.