The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
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
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.
Kids are as smart as we used to be. And we didn’t save the then-future, now-present. Same deal with boomers.
Names will change, corporations will change, investors will stay the same. For us things won’t get meaningfully better or worse than they are.
Thanks for the additional info. The article is a mess.
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
The association between meaning and word is arbitrary, but socially dictated. You’d need to have other people accepting that that word conveys that meaning in at least some context.
Bluesky is too busy RP-ing as federated to be actually federated.
Urban Dictionary never ceases to amuse me!
This reminds me 4chan /int/'s weird synonyms for country, from analysing the word as “cunt tree”. Stuff like “vagina bush” and similar. Oddly enough everyone understood it, even when translated.
I’m probably creating a group to deface the largest government/country flag on the canvas, regardless of: which government it’s associated with, screechers trying to boss us* against it, “ackshyually you all* should stop and define whut is a cuntry flag” sea lions, liars claiming that this is harassment or prejudice, muppets saying that I’m “welcome” to contribute to their used toilet paper on a pole “monument”, so goes on.
Additionally, I’ll use an alt account to draw some stuff that I can’t disclose here, because I kind of predict that pissed nationalists will ruin it as some petty revenge. It has zero to do with countries.
*“we” = anyone who joins the group. Potentially just me.
EDIT: ah, I’ll also be helping out with some drawings here and there, like I did last time.
[Bluesky] is in breach of EU regulations for not disclosing key details about the group […] “All platforms in the EU . . . have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many users they have in the EU and where they are legally established,”
The commission cannot regulate Bluesky directly as it does not yet reach the threshold of more than 45mn monthly users in the EU to be designated a very large online platform.
So, basically: it isn’t there yet because it isn’t necessary yet.
…as suspicious as I am of Bluesky, the title of the article is kind of misleading.
Thank you!
In a lot of Indo-European languages you’re stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).