They aren’t different sources of info, but parts of the same process. And they’re three:

1. The utterance. Like you said, the words and how they’re arranged and such.
2. Your internalised knowledge. It’s all that bundle of meanings that you associate with each word, plus your ability to parse how those words are arranged.
3. The context. It’s what dictates how you’re going to use your internalised knowledge to interpret the utterance; for example, selecting one among many possible meanings.

Without any of those three things, you get 0% of the info. They’re all essential.

So no, it is not solipsistic at all, since it depends on things outside your head (the utterance and the context), and those are shared by multiple individuals.

For further info, check it here:

Lack of moderation tools link // The choice to defederate from an instance can also be based on our inability to effectively moderate that instance’s users. As of now, only two of our defederations are on this basis (lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works), and we hope to eventually refederate with both of them.

It was less about LW and SJW being “poorly moderated”, and more about being large enough that they were bringing a lot of mod work for Beehaw.

IIRC when that happened lemm.ee was still small. (Note that the page was last updated 8m ago.)

Yes, it is a problem - depending on your tastes “subscribed” won’t be enough. But going “subscribed” and then “all” is bound to show less political posts than going straight for “all”.

Browse by “subscribed”, and subscribe to a lot of communities. Only do it by “all” when you can’t find good stuff in the subscribed view.

I do this and, while I do see a few intrusive US politics posts, it’s far less than when browsing by “all”.

It works well, specially with thinner peels - the syrup penetrates faster, and the peel gets a bit thicker after candied.

Coca is delicious, and I heavily recommend. I typically prepare it with candied fruits and an egg-based cream, but if you want you could do it with the candied clementine slices alone.

I’d probably candy the peels and squeeze+freeze the juices.

EDIT: jordanlund recommended candying the slices instead. That would also work well. They’re specially great on coca de Sant Joan.

Finally! That’s amazing - and thank you for sharing this link, by the way.

Now it would be a good time for itch.io to rework its search feature, so you can exclude results with a certain tag.

I’ll copypaste an interesting comment here:

[Stephen Smith] This article is a great example of a trend I don’t think companies realize they’ve started yet: They have killed the golden goose of user-generated content for short-term profit. // Who would willingly contribute to a modern-day YouTube, Reddit, StackOverflow, or Twitter knowing that they are just feeding the robots that will one day replace them?

You don’t even need robots replacing humans, or people believing so. All you need is people feeling that you’re profiting at their expense.

Also obligatory “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product”.

Macanudo time? Macanudo time!

1. Martincito has no friends.
2. Until an imaginary person appears.
3. They say that they’re called: Olga.
4. And they have no friends either. [Speech bubble: “Hi Olga.”]
5. Now Olga and Martincito are friendless together.

1. Do you like this dress, Madariaga? (Madariaga is the teddy bear.)
2. It’s my favourite.
3. Which are your fav…
4. :O
5. Madariaga! You’re naked!
6. Fellini! (Fellini is the cat.)
7. Have you noticed that Madariaga is naked? He doesn’t wear cl…
8. You too!
9. And why would I cover this masterpiece?

No worries - plus the whole thing is damn counter-intuitive, both “sounds fusing together but still conveying two phonemes” and “that sound was analysed as one phoneme, now as another” are kind of weird.

Yeah, it doesn’t. Specially not for stuff like butter, as it’s really hard to measure a “normal” tablespoon.

(It could be worse though. My grandma’s measurements were basically “put an amount of [ingredient]”, “aah, you eyeball it”, or “enough to fill that dish”. I guess cup/tbsp/tsp is a progress from that.)

We know that the modern /u:/ is not from that old /w/ because other words followed the same change - even words without /w/, like “moon”, “poop” (yup) or “boot”. In fact it’s how the digraph ⟨oo⟩ became associated with the sound.

The case of “hwo”→“who” is a bit more complicated. As you said the “wh” digraph used to be “hw”; the change happened in Early Modern times, and it was likely for readability - less sequential short strokes = easier to read. People around those times did other weird stuff like respelling “u” as “o”, as in the word “luue”→“loue” (modern “love”), for the same reason.

However, later on that /hw/ sequence of phonemes started merging into a single sound, [ʍ]: like [w] you round your lips to pronounce it, but like [h] you don’t vibrate your vocal folds. And if that [ʍ] happened before a rounded vowel - like [o:] or similar - it was reanalysed as a plain /h/. So for words like “who”, it’s like the “w” was dropped, just like in “two”, but in a really roundabout way.

And, before non-rounded vowels, that [ʍ] still survives in plenty dialects; for example, “when” as either [ʍɛn] or [wɛn]. This change is recent enough that you still have some speakers in NZ and USA who use [ʍ].

Yup, it is that messy.

On a lighter side, although cups/Tbsp/tsp are still in use, they got padronised to 240/15/5ml.

A few less-obvious associations, just for fun:

• Just like “the house” /s/ is “to house” /z/, “the glass” /s/ is “to glaze” /z/
• Tiw’s Day, Wotan’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frigg’s Day. Note: Tiw, Wotan and Frigg are the native names for Norse Tyr, Odin and Freyja.
• “Flee”, “fly”, “flow” are all related.
• The “mus” in “muscle” is a borrowed cognate to native “mouse”.

I wonder if perhaps an older dialect used to pronounce the W.

That’s correct, and it isn’t even that old - based on the [o:]→[u:] change it should be from 1500 or so. And the modern Scots cognate ⟨twa⟩ /twɑ:/~/twɔ:/ still has it.

Brazil got a weird twist on that: metric everywhere, except for most kitchen ingredients. Including stuff like “a can of milk” (milk is not sold in cans here), “a requeijão glass of [ingredient]”, so goes on.

This is not unpopular. At least acc. to my experience.

The ⟨W⟩ is silent now, but it wasn’t until 1500 or so. Back then the word was pronounced /two:/; it would almost rhyme with contemporary “toe”. But then that /o:/ became /u:/ (the modern pronunciation), due to the Great Vowel Shift, and since /w/ and /u/ are really similar they fused together.

@[email protected] mentioned that in a few associated words that ⟨W⟩ letter still represents an actual /w/ phoneme, note how the following vowel is different - that blocked the “fusion”.

They evolved. Just like they would inside your body.

…in Brazil those are sold in skewers, people call them kafta. And yes, if you don’t take care while shaping them, they’ll look, well… not really appetising.