abrasiveteapot

joined 1 year ago
[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good. He deserves to be banned

TIL, and thank you for allowing me to avoid googling that

It's a real word. And used correctly in context so unlikely to be a typo.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym

https://www.wordnik.com/words/backronym

Acronyms were very rare prior to about mid 20thC.

A number of words sound like they should be an acronym or people searching for an explanation of them make backronyms out of them.

Posh and rap being turned into acronyms as per the first like are good examples of a backronym.

[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a lot of South Africans on reddit commenting that "wid kant" or "wit kant" (I forget which) is Afrikaans for open side - and he can be seen in the vids trying to get defenders back into position.

Apparently kant is pronounced the same as cunt

[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Insert surprised pickachu face here

Well that's out of character for Google

Yep this is exactly why I refuse to do the scan as you go, it ends up seriously frustrating. Self scan at checkout is fine if you don't have paracetamol or alcohol, otherwise you're waiting ages for assistance.

It's definitely an overall worse experience

Mullvad works fine on both LMDE and stock mint fwiw

[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What repository do you have added, there's only fdroid and guardian in the stock fdroid settings (and eternity doesn't come up)

Although wikipedia has that as the origin several other internet sources suggested a pagan pre christian origin

https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/fascinating-origins-of-everyday-hand-gestures

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55702/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-good-luck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-do-we-cross-our-fingers-for-luck/p06j436j

Noting that these are not proper sources although mental floss links to a text that may be reliable

Which one though ? There's literally 4 forks of infinity called Eternity coming up on obtainium

[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa is on Fdroid, but it's not good I'm afraid. The keyboard bug is maddening.

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