rubberpoliceman

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by rubberpoliceman 1mo ago
> Brzęczyszczykiewicz MAUL HALTEN!
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by rubberpoliceman 2mo ago
> hear 50hz 100Hz, actually…
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by rubberpoliceman 2mo ago
Animate gender didn’t split into masculine and feminine — inanimate collective plural was repurposed as feminine.
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by rubberpoliceman 9mo ago
Excellent. Now do “bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”.
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by rubberpoliceman 9mo ago
This isn’t hard to understand. “Burgher” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” as in “bürgerlicher Mittagstisch”, “Der Bürger duldet nichts Unverständliches im Haus”. “Citizen” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger”
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by rubberpoliceman 9mo ago
> In German it really just means "Citizen". It most definitely does not — it’s both “citoyen” and “bourgeois”.
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by rubberpoliceman 2y ago
They are not. In their defense, these people are imbeciles.
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by rubberpoliceman 2y ago
I think you’ll find we’re pedants.
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by rubberpoliceman 2y ago
> and mild inflammation may occur without noticable swelling. Calor, dolor, rubor, tumor
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by rubberpoliceman 2y ago
Golf.
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by rubberpoliceman 3y ago
Also, http://www.numdam.org/item/SPHM_1979___2_A1_0.pdf
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by rubberpoliceman 3y ago
This is not even approximately true. j is not “defined in terms of E”. It occurs as a source term in one of the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations, and consistency with the other inhomogeneous one (div D=rho) requires that div j = dot rho, whi
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by rubberpoliceman 3y ago
Resistivity is measured in ohms * meter, so this may be a unit conversion issue…
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by rubberpoliceman 3y ago
> Sure there was the odd professor that would call a stack a "Stapel" “Kellerspeicher”, certainly
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by rubberpoliceman 4y ago
I don‘t think that‘s unintuitive. What goes into a source-free volume element has to go out of that volume element (radiation or field).
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by rubberpoliceman 4y ago
> You also have the joy of "the hole for a 17/64ths Whitworth tap is 47.2 thou" or whatever other imperial nonsense machinists have to deal with. It’s worse. The drill size for a 7/16” coarse tap is ‘U’.
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by rubberpoliceman 4y ago
> 21. A widower was showing some friendly guests around his garden. "Look", he said, "There is the tree where my three unhappy wives hanged themselves". One of the attendees, who was a husband, asked for a cutting fro
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by rubberpoliceman 7y ago
While I do hold opinions about criminal justice, you can't possibly know what they are. I was pointing out that introducing "free will" into the debate only introduces a layer of indirection. A perpetrator felt as if he want
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by rubberpoliceman 7y ago
Even if free will is an illusion (and I'm not sure how to assign meaning to this statement), how does that change anything? If a murderer had no choice but to murder, then the prosecutor had no choice but to prosecute, the jury had to
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by rubberpoliceman 7y ago
On their way to the store, most bulk products have been expectorated on by a number of sweaty men in dirty boots. It's not obvious to me how packaging would lower that number.
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by rubberpoliceman 8y ago
I know of Goldschmied, Silberschmied, Kupferschmied, Feinschmied, Grobschmied, Messerschmied, and Stahlschmied ({gold, silver, copper, fine, coarse, blade, steel} smith), all of which are either current trades or preserved as last names.
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by rubberpoliceman 8y ago
> Having to think ahead to "okay what's the gender of the noun I'm gonna use three words from now. Now, that's interesting. I'm a native speaker of German, and just the other day I realized that one of the mistak
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by rubberpoliceman 8y ago
German is not an agglutinative language.