I wasn’t going to get into how we form possessives; it will confuse and scare them.

IF you also have milk or some other source of dairy.

GHOW-da is about the closest English approximation. The G sound is quite different in Dutch though.

I kinda fell like Gen Z gets this right, or more right more often than the others. My Gen Z son is autistic (super high functioning, until the crash comes and he’s out for a day or more).

But his friends all understand, and many of them, although NT, identify with some of the experiences atypical people have. And I’ve seen this with his friends in the States as well. Nobody gives him shit, everyone is accommodating without making a big deal out of it.

Just seems like Gen Z will get this one right, like they have many things. Older Gen Xer posting, just for reference. Like a lot of things, Xers just didn’t know better until someone showed us.

Doing the lord’s work here.

But …crows are a type of corvid. So, you are not Unidan, but we may someday summon him yet.

Unidan?

Do we really spell it, “meems” My kids spell it memes?

I’ll always upvote this one, because I so want it to be true.

No I think what they mean was that we did not discover (or the Japanese, rather) that we have separate receptors on our tongues for umami until fairly recently. We knew what it was, but didn’t have a proper name for it.

If you like beans, the pressure cooker is your friend, and the best one is German: Fissler.

Fries, ok but NOT the stoopwafel!

I have a couple of (sane, nice) Afrikaans; now I feel compelled to ask!

Found the fellow Dutchie…unless, unless they are Belg!

Endless Sky. Open source and crowd developed. Its story lines, assets, and general size have only increased with age. Active Discord server as well (but it’s only single player, for now anyway).

Next up, Wikipedia (not to take anything away from this horrible development). Full memory hole.

Thank you that simplifies things. Not sure I want to store everything local, but yeah that’s an option.

Although looking deeper into what I found, initially, potentially disturbing about Proton mail, I’m not sure I should rule it out yet.

Hey thanks! Massive list, do you have a personal short list? Main thing is I need lots of storage.

Wait what? I was just about to switch to Proton from gmail to avoid giving oligarchs more money and data?

They really supported the fascists?

We have had these in Europe now for nearly as long as you North Americans. I tend to do daily shopping after work, nice little 15 minute walk calms me down.

But because of this, I was using the scan thing statistically far more than people who don’t shop daily. Another important thing is I use my backpack to pack groceries, and in a former life I did a shit ton of back country hiking, so I know how to pack.

I got so fucking tired of 16 year old kids asking to unpack my carefully packed stuff to scan a random number off items (it’s not by weight most places here) then trying to pack it back - no no no don’t mess with my system - that two years ago I swore off of self check out and only go to the humans now.

Yeah I have to wait in line sometimes, but I figure that evens out for the number of times I was “randomly” checked by some teenager.

At least our check out people can sit down.