squaresinger

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

No, I am only one man, not more men.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You must be a hardcore alcoholic if you had to abstain for that long.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At least over here (Austria) only biodegradable bags are allowed to be sold in this capacity.

But they are also not comparable to the old single-use plastic bags when it comes to plastic used, but rather comparable to a clingfilm around e.g. a salad.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 32 points 2 years ago

Python sure has changed since I last used it.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Seems to be the same worldwide. Over here the blue ones are for sale, the yellow ones are for use inside the IKEA.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Was the same here before they were banned.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

In the EU single use bags cannot be sold anymore, so everyone now has some of what they call "bag for life". It's a similar material to the blue IKEA bags (if that's a thing in the USA).

They last really long and since the material requirements are basic as can be, they are usually made out of 100% recycled plastic.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

That was exactly what I meant. I chose the "Taylor Swift does everything on her own" scenario to disprove the notion that she does all or most of the important work on a show.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

That makes the babies even smaller.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Actually, it is.

It derives from Latin infans where "in-" is a negation prefix and "fans" is the present participle form of "for", which translates to "to speak".

So an infant is a non-speaker (too small to speak).

But my opener was of course a joke, where I purpously misunderstood what "fant" is derived of, by claiming that "fant" must be the opposite of a child, thus an adult.

There are tons of Latin words in the English language and many of them only survived in English in their compounded form (e.g. "in-fant", where no other version of the actual verb in there survived, except the negated form).

Often the parts of these Latin root words have no meaning at all anymore in English, so that people don't notice that they are actually using compound words and also the original meaning of the word is forgotten.

Not a lot of people would associate "infant" with "hearing".

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It's a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading ~~these~~ they at a young age.

FTFY

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's a good vintage. That one is fine. But it will make your baby smaller.

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