Catalan has sheep to mean slut. Woodworm for somebody that pesters or annoys insistently. Ferret for a sly person. A rat, contrary to other languages where it’s a traitor, is more used for stingy people.
Testing the waters.
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Both. “Cabrón” is specifically billygoat. Goat is used in constructions like “como una cabra” in Spain to mean crazy.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•The communist Albanese government is introducing a new superannuation taxEnglish4·9 days ago* Yes I know, I know
I don’t! I need to know!
guillem@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation1·13 days agoYes, met too, sometimes I’m not able to work out the counterexample by myself.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation61·14 days agoI love this, thank you.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation5·14 days agoThere are also lists for time and date and for phone numbers. It’s an article format that I love because it gives you a lot of insight into a topic even if it’s not your field of knowledge.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custodyEnglish42·18 days agoBecause before editing it was drawing wrong conclusions from the data. If you torture data long enough it will confess to anything.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custodyEnglish1·18 days agoSorry but if Indigenous people are like a 3% of the total population and that table shows absolute numbers, you have the per capita calculation very wrong.
If your way of making money makes you really fear people will be mad at you, you should be asking yourself what’s wrong with your way of making money. That is, if you care. But if you don’t care don’t whine.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The longer I look the less I can tell them apart8·23 days agoThat looks like an extension of the handicap principle, which is quite blindly accepted (like the alpha males thing) but has not a lot of evidence.
There is some real signaling that looks kinda handicappy, like the ancient Chinese growing long fingernails: at first sight it was detrimental to their ability to do manual work. But it actually isn’t because they didn’t need to do manual work. That’s different in my opinion from botching one’s face, as they see the procedures as an improvement over the alternative of looking their actual age. They are fleeing from the wrinkles, and that face is a consequence, not a goal.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you know any android apps to create data tables/sheets?3·24 days agoIf you use NextCloud, there is a Tables app with an android counterpart.Not local.
guillem@aussie.zoneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Someday, I plan to go to Europe, specifically Portugal & Spain. What’s the best region to go to so I can learn a language similar but not the same and expose myself to different cultures?2·27 days agoIn the Jálama Valley they speak Fala: Romance, similar to Portuguese, and way less spoken.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?9·29 days agoI use them too and I hate seeing them substituted by hyphens. High five.
Digger (1980’s). It used the Popcorn song and nothing beats the Popcorn song.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•one of the really bad, annoying aspects of doing drugs is the lack of quality control3·29 days agoThere is, sometimes: https://energycontrol-international.org/what-is-energy-control Spain based but apparently there are other similar efforts in the EU. You can find them in some venues and events, and they’ll test whatever you are going to put into your system, no questions asked.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Linux@programming.dev•KDE dots & stripes glitch when waking from sleep3·1 month agoI had something that might or might not be similar:
Also artifacts looking like yours, and also with Wayland; but:
Only on Firefox and I’m not sure if after sleep or in my case was after using fullscreen only.
They went away after the last mesa update, is yours the last version too?
In not snake, why snake shaped?
guillem@aussie.zoneto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Map of Europe showing frequency of red hairEnglish15·2 months agoI’d say Udmurtia.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Australia@aussie.zone•'Not the laws of Australia': Sex discrimination chief reacts to UK ruling on definition of a womanEnglish4·2 months agodeleted by creator
Pècora, from mala pècora, a sheep that goes astray from the herd. And fura :)