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@jbburant

Tenure-track researcher | phenotypic plasticity | population dynamics | seasonality | long-term studies | birds | 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇪🇺

Katılım Ağustos 2011
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@sp6runderrated We don’t need to “let” people do anything. People can stay in their family homes when they retire, if they so choose. They can buy that McMansion, too. Have at it! Those choices just shouldn’t be subsidized by the government.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@jus2kaiju The point is that “I cut my own hair” and “I cut my hair” are seemingly synonymous, so why the “my own” clarification. It emphasizes that I cut it myself (counter to the norm). It *does not* serve to clarify whose hair is cut, which is already explicit with “my”.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@meowkoteeq There is a subtle difference between the two. “I did my homework” has a different implication than “I did my *own* homework.” Someone might exclaim, “You cut your hair!”, without making a judgement on who did the cutting.
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anna@meowkoteeq·
alright, let me try clarify this. 1. i know what "i cut my own hair" means 2. native english speakers know what "i cut my own hair" means 3. even though i understand the phrase and its meaning, it has always been weird to me that english uses the "i X my own Y" construction to convey "i do this myself, on my own" 4. whenever i talk about this to native english speakers and try to explain why this phrasing seems weird to me, they don't understand me, because it's obviously natural to them 5. i haven't even tried explaining it here, i only commented on how my explaining doesn't usually work with native speakers, in a form of a rhetorical question. so if you see something to argue about here, you made it up!
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anna
anna@meowkoteeq·
why can't native english speakers ever understand what i mean when i say that "i cut my own hair" meaning "i do it myself as opposed to getting it cut at a hairdresser" is really weird
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@RenaNetjes As a Canadian, the Dutch system feels very similar to US Obamacare. Mandated insurance with government set premiums, deductibles, and coverage. Differences: universal mandate, lower fees, not-for-profit insurers, and insurance completely independent of employment.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@johndrewmarkley It also apparently prevents communication. Like a simple "I'm going to be late" message is the barest of minimums.
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John Markley@johndrewmarkley·
Here's what it boils down to. Does time blindness or ADHD seize control of your vocal cords and force you to say, "I'll be there at 7" against your will? Because if it doesn't, it's very easy to stop being chronically late- simply stop making commitments you know you won't keep.
matargashti-pilled 🇵🇸@dilrhubarb

I'm so tired of lateness being viewed as a moral failing. I've been shamed for it my whole life because it's framed as "disrespect" (and no, it hasn't helped me be more punctual) and if I lost out on a major life opportunity because of it I don't think I could have ever recovered

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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@BrettKollmann That's how everyone fits here! Half the country is on holidays at any given time. Go anywhere in Europe, the smallest towns and the highest peaks, and you will find someone (loudly) speaking Dutch.
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Miss Jo
Miss Jo@therealmissjo·
The American obsession with water bottles is bizarre. I have an American friend who, when she came to stay with me in France, could not go anywhere without a water bottle. Even from my home (plentiful water) on a 10 min walk to a cafe for breakfast (free water). She insisted on lugging some stupid water bottle she had actually brought with her from the US!
Clint Fiore 🦬 DM for Biz Deals@ClintFiore

Is everyone in Europe dehydrated? Nobody carries water bottles. Water is expensive everywhere and not free at most restaurants. Bathrooms are scarce and often cost money to use. My theory is everyone is ok with this bleak situation because they’re all massively dehydrated, rarely pee, and don’t know the glory of what 1+ gallons of water consumed per day feels like to the human body.

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randomguy@notfake100real·
@therealmissjo It’s capitalism at it’s peak. You go to the states and everybody carries their 1L tank to put in water, coffe, but normally they fill it with a high sugar content beverage. They sold them the “stay hydrated” idea, but not for health purposes, but to make them spend more money.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@FamStudies @lymanstoneky Are people just way overestimating their housework, childcare, etc? The idea that a couple spends 70 hours per week on domestic and care work is astonishing. How is possible for the sum to be increasing when people have fewer kids and more domestic conveniences than ever?
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The Institute for Family Studies
The Institute for Family Studies@FamStudies·
Modern dads are helping out at home more than ever, @lymanstoneky finds. Married dads of young children in 1965 did, on average, less than 10 hours a week of child care or help around the house. Dads in 2024 contributed nearly 30 hours a week, an increase of approximately 300%.
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ARobotLikeYou
ARobotLikeYou@SurelyAutomata·
@Simon_Cleret @StubbityChubs Starch is not sugar in the relevant sense because it doesn't taste sweet. By splitting it up, you are transforming it into something meaningfully different.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@SurelyAutomata @Simon_Cleret @StubbityChubs Sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose under heat. That's it. The other carbohydrates in an onion (mostly inulin) are heat stable. The onions taste sweeter because the sugars concentrate and because fructose has a higher relative sweetness.
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ARobotLikeYou@SurelyAutomata·
@Simon_Cleret @StubbityChubs When you are caramelising onions you are breaking down carbs into simple sugars. There's literally more simple sugar after you cook them like this than you started with.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@antoniogm Latitude, elevation, and continentality explain similar amounts of surface temperature variation in North America and Europe. It’s primarily a difference one of intercept (caused by the Gulf Stream) and range (NA is massive with greater distances from coasts + fewer inland seas)
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)@antoniogm·
My addition to air conditioning discourse, and why Americans might be a wee bit more obsessed with it than Europeans. Most of the US Southeast is at North Africa's latitude. 'Southern Italy' is at Ohio's latitude. Paris is in North Dakota, the UK is at Manitoba levels. Few.
Euthenos ♉︎@Euthenos_

It's crazy how far south the US is compared to Europe. How is Chicago further south than ROME. And New York is like Madrid

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😐👍@vampirepoem·
this is a genuine question. do americans actually believe this shit or are they just saying it
Contra Mundum@LiberaNos_AMalo

@number_pizza111 There is greater cultural difference between San Francisco and Boise than there is between Berlin and Paris.

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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@christasyd 😂 judged by the company they keep?
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Christa Sydney
Christa Sydney@christasyd·
Just found out that Romanian and Italian share a 77% lexical similarity by accident because I followed a Romanian influencer through a video of her speaking Italian, and then the next video I wondered why her Italian sounded funny but I could still understand it. It was Romanian.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem I am a native English speaker, and have been to all four cities and many besides. Thanks though.
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Chemical Walrus
Chemical Walrus@harpersealtako2·
@jbburant @vampirepoem In addition, if someone who has actually been to all four cities is telling you that you are wrong, please maybe have a little grace and assume you are misunderstanding something instead of arrogantly assuming you are correct. Unless you'd like to tell me all about Boise, Idaho.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem This has basically nothing to do with speaking English, and everything to do with your worldview as shaped by your national identity.
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Chemical Walrus
Chemical Walrus@harpersealtako2·
@jbburant @vampirepoem Yes, we are speaking English on an American platform. I am educating you, a presumably non native speaker of my language, of the unique nuances of the word as Americans use it. Now you know!
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@Jaboolie Italians don’t say “pass-tuh”, that ending sound (called a schwa) doesn’t exist. Both As sound the same when an Italian says pasta.
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem So you changed the definition to fit your environment. Thats normal, but doesn’t make you correct. Germans and French have different lifestyles and behaviours (culture), languages and histories. American culture is diverse but homogenized in a way European cultures are not.
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Chemical Walrus
Chemical Walrus@harpersealtako2·
@vampirepoem I've been to Berlin, Paris, San francisco, and boise. It's correct. We have a conception of culture that is about behavior and lifestyle moreso than language or history
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Joey
Joey@jbburant·
@hi_im_envy This is different from the original point. English is trying to make 44 sounds with 26 letters. It’s not a phonetic language. English accents/dialects also lack phonetic agreement on how graphemes are pronounced “in place”.
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Envie
Envie@hi_im_envy·
but also thinking youre pronouncing letters instead of writing sounds is way too common like why would it possibly be that way round. do you have any idea how language works
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Envie
Envie@hi_im_envy·
american exceptionalism is really funny actually because why are they describing the way they speak as "normal" lol. just out here trying to argue that r-coloured vowels are the way youre supposed to speak english instead of something special and unique
florence 🦐🏳️‍🌈@morallawwithin

I’m really in love with the fact that, because British people don’t pronounce Rs, they think you added an R when you say a letter normally. To them, every word I say is filled with an incomprehensible number of Rs

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Joey@jbburant·
@hi_im_envy Vowels are gonna sound “R coloured” if you don’t pronounce the actual Rs. Father and farther do not sound the same in “standard” (North) American English pronunciation
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Keşfet

@sp6runderrated @jus2kaiju @meowkoteeq @RenaNetjes @johndrewmarkley @BrettKollmann @notfake100real @therealmissjo