Lvxferre [he/him]

Nah, that’s the cartoonist, it’s TheJaredComix for a reason :-)

B[r]azilian here. We do use “ué”.

I am aware “ué” is also commonly used here, as the “also” in my comment shows. And my point still stands, this stuff is likely from Angola, given the genus in question is African:

Ficou claro agora?

James, listen to him!

Nah, likely Angolan. Angolan Portuguese speakers sometimes also use “ué”, and the genus in question is African.

Okay. I could spend hours and hours criticising GNOME for a lot of things, but this is not one of them. It is not removing functionality, as the article implies; as others here highlighted, it’s simply changing a default. That’s completely fine.

To add to that: that gender you’re talking about is actually two distinct concepts, one social and another grammatical/linguistic. The later is more like a traditional way to refer to noun classes, when they also split humans based on social gender.

Sadly my go-to example for that doesn’t work in English, because of the lack of grammatical gender.

If she is/was alive, what if she was the one vibe coding the AI? Then you’d get Ai Ai AI AI Ai Ai.

…this is quickly becoming buffalo⁸ tiers of silly.

You’re hired!

You know what, I got a brilliant idea:

See, the chimp in my avatar is called Ai Ai. Was? I don’t know if she’s still alive; last news I could find about her are from 2005, when she stopped smoking. Anyway, what if I had artificial intelligence to create a bunch of her pictures, and sold them as NFT? The “AI Ai Ai collection”, or Ai³ for short. I wouldn’t do this to scam a bunch of suckers, noooooo; I’d do it because you can get rich, if you “invest” into my collection: buy an Ai³ NFT now, for just 100 euros. Then resell it for a thousand euros, for mad profitz!!!

[…I’m obviously joking. C’mon, this summer is easily getting past 30°C, in a city where it used to snow once in a blue moon. I definitively don’t want to feed the global warming further with dumb crap like this.]

The nomenclature is really messy across countries and even sub-country entities. The Portuguese language Wikipedia even highlights the mess:

Nomenclature diversity across countries. // Some surveys estimate protected areas in different countries and regions are called by at least a hundred names, and not uncommonly countries have their own categories of protected spaces, roughly similar to the protected space concept defined by the IUCN.

From that I guess the restrictions associated with those spaces also change, and in some you aren’t supposed to remove local fauna and/or flora, creating situations like in the meme (removing invasive species is against the letter of the rule, but within the spirit).

I just tested it in Wayland and couldn’t get it to work there.

But in X it works fine for almost every application. Exceptions are usually the same ones who throw hissy fits against dead keys, like games. For those, I typically type the text in a notepad, copy it, and paste it there.

I learnt about .XCompose in my last uni times; it made typing transcriptions in the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) actually bearable. Every other strategy was a mess: copying and pasting was too laborious, and it was too easy to forget something if I used find-and-replace.

# random misc
<dead_acute> <%> : "‰"
<dead_acute> <minus> : "⇌"
<dead_acute> <apostrophe> : "`"
<dead_acute> <h> : "⟨"
<dead_acute> <j> : "⟩"
<dead_grave> <h> : "͡"
<dead_grave> <j> : "͜"

# typing Polish in an ABNT2 keyboard
<dead_grave> <C> : "Ć"
<dead_grave> <c> : "ć"
<dead_acute> <D> : "Ą"
<dead_acute> <d> : "ą"
<dead_acute> <F> : "Ę"
<dead_acute> <f> : "ę"
<dead_acute> <X> : "Ż"
<dead_acute> <x> : "ż"

# Subscript numbers
<dead_acute> <0> : "₀"
<dead_acute> <1> : "₁"
<dead_acute> <2> : "₂"
<dead_acute> <3> : "₃"
<dead_acute> <4> : "₄"
<dead_acute> <5> : "₅"
<dead_acute> <6> : "₆"
<dead_acute> <7> : "₇"
<dead_acute> <8> : "₈"
<dead_acute> <9> : "₉"

# Change vowel height a bit, consonant fortition, tap
<Multi_key> <a> <1> : "ɐ"
<Multi_key> <e> <1> : "ɛ"
<Multi_key> <h> <1> : "ʔ"
<Multi_key> <i> <1> : "ɪ"
<Multi_key> <j> <1> : "ɟ"
<Multi_key> <l> <1> : "ɬ"
<Multi_key> <o> <1> : "ɔ"
<Multi_key> <r> <1> : "ɾ"
<Multi_key> <u> <1> : "ʊ"
<Multi_key> <y> <1> : "ʏ"

# Change vowel height by a lot, lenition
<Multi_key> <a> <2> : "ə"
<Multi_key> <b> <2> : "β"
<Multi_key> <g> <2> : "ɣ"
<Multi_key> <o> <2> : "ɒ"
<Multi_key> <p> <2> : "ɸ"
<Multi_key> <q> <2> : "χ"
<Multi_key> <r> <2> : "ɹ"
<Multi_key> <t> <2> : "θ"
<Multi_key> <v> <2> : "ʋ"

# Vowel fronting, consonant palatalisation
<Multi_key> <u> <3> : "ʉ"
<Multi_key> <l> <3> : "ʎ"
<Multi_key> <d> <3> : "ɟ"
<Multi_key> <n> <3> : "ɲ"
<Multi_key> <s> <3> : "ʃ"
<Multi_key> <z> <3> : "ʒ"

# Vowel backing, consonant retroflexion
<Multi_key> <a> <4> : "ɑ"
<Multi_key> <e> <4> : "ɜ"
<Multi_key> <i> <4> : "ɨ"
<Multi_key> <r> <4> : "ɻ"
<Multi_key> <t> <4> : "ʈ"
<Multi_key> <d> <4> : "ɖ"
<Multi_key> <s> <4> : "ʂ"
<Multi_key> <l> <4> : "ɭ"
<Multi_key> <n> <4> : "ɳ"
<Multi_key> <z> <4> : "ʐ"

# Rounding/unrounding vowels
<Multi_key> <o> <5> : "ɤ"
<Multi_key> <u> <5> : "ɯ"
<Multi_key> <w> <5> : "ɰ"
<Multi_key> <j> <5> : "ɥ"

# Diacritics, tone
<Multi_key> <a> <6> : "́"
<Multi_key> <b> <6> : "ʱ"
<Multi_key> <c> <6> : "̩"
<Multi_key> <d> <6> : "̣"
<Multi_key> <e> <6> : "ᵊ"
<Multi_key> <g> <6> : "ˠ"
<Multi_key> <h> <6> : "ʰ"
<Multi_key> <j> <6> : "ʲ"
<Multi_key> <n> <6> : "ⁿ"
<Multi_key> <q> <6> : "ˤ"
<Multi_key> <r> <6> : "˞"
<Multi_key> <o> <6> : "̥"
<Multi_key> <s> <6> : "̯"
<Multi_key> <t> <6> : "̃"
<Multi_key> <v> <6> : "̆"
<Multi_key> <w> <6> : "ʷ"
<Multi_key> <1> <6> : "˩"
<Multi_key> <2> <6> : "˨"
<Multi_key> <3> <6> : "˧"
<Multi_key> <4> <6> : "˦"
<Multi_key> <5> <6> : "˥"

# Linguistics misc
<Multi_key> <a> <7> : "ʕ"
<Multi_key> <e> <7> : "€"
<Multi_key> <w> <7> : "ʍ"
<Multi_key> <n> <7> : "ɴ"
<Multi_key> <l> <7> : "ɫ"
<Multi_key> <h> <7> : "ɦ"
<Multi_key> <g> <7> : "ɢ"
<Multi_key> <j> <7> : "ʝ"
<Multi_key> <q> <7> : "ʁ"
<Multi_key> <r> <7> : "ʀ"
<Multi_key> <v> <7> : "ʌ"

A few tips I can give people who want to use .XCompose:

• If you often need a character, keep the keystrokes sequence associated with it short.
• Try to be consistent-ish and organised, it’ll help you to remember the sequences.
• Even then, perfect is enemy of good. Don’t go too hard; note for example I didn’t add letters like ⟨æ⟩, ⟨ŋ⟩ or ⟨ð⟩ to the file, all of those are easier to type with AltGr.
• Don’t feel afraid to rework sequences that you find awkward; eventually your muscle memory will catch up.

I fulfilled the first two by using sequences ending in numbers, but note that isn’t the only way to do things. As long as it makes sense for you, it should be fine.

What makes me lose my sleep:

Trees are extremely iconic and we see a lot of similarities between them, but they’re mostly due to convergent evolution. Plants have been growing that stalk independently over and over and over. Crustaceans become crab-like, mammals become ant eaters, and plants become trees. *carcinisation intensifies*

Done!

twaróg

That’s actually a great idea — gotta try it next time. (I’m almost sure the locally sold keschmier is the same as twaróg, but worst hypothesis homemade requeijão does the trick.)

Ah, I stole the pic from some random site. They do it this way because it’s more presentable. But it’s better to spread the “sauce” across the pasta, mix it a bit, and then add the strawberry pieces. (Or add the strawberry pieces and then mix it, your choice.)

Truskawki z makaronem.

• 150g pasta. Preferably something that sticks to the sauce better, like fusilli or farfalle. Spaghetti is a bad idea.
• 500g strawberries
• 4Tbsp of sugar
• a drop of vanilla extract
• 200g sour cream. Yoghurt if you want something healthier.

1. Boil the pasta as usual, except you’re only adding 1/2 of the salt you’d otherwise use to the water. (You want some salt for the contrast, but not enough to turn this into a savoury dish.)
2. Clean and chop the strawberries into eights. Then reserve, like, 1/3 of them aside. Mash the rest with the sugar and vanilla extract, add the sour cream, mix everything well.
3. Add pasta to plate. Then strawberry mix over pasta. Then the reserved strawberries over everything.
4. [Optional] Chill it before serving.

This should be enough for 2 people. It tastes surprisingly nice.

And upon sharing this recipe, I can hear my ancestors… some rolling in their graves and saying “che schifo”, some giving me a thumbs up, and some asking if I could add yucca meal to the dish (no).

Now picture a gangster rapper dressed as Santa Klaus, with an eyepatch on one eye and a bottle of rum, saying “yo ho ho ho”.

I know some folks down north who eat pan-fried ant butts. The ants in question are typically flying adults of the genus Atta (leafcutters), so specially large.

That hints to me that one of the main reasons people prefer sea bugs over land bugs is size and texture. Like, you can extract the meat from a crab leg just fine, but you can’t do it with most insects, you’ll be biting through the chitin, you know?

The origin of the name is even sillier.

In 1849, a pharmacist called Garot discovered a new sugar, that gives rhubarb stalks that red colour. They proposed the name “erythrose”, because “ἐρῠθραίνω” erythraínō means “to redden” in Greek, and you got to have that -ose for sugars. Fine name, right?

Later on, it was discovered erythrose was two substances: one a mirrored version of the other. So they got named D-erythrose and L-erythrose.

But then half a century later, a chemist called Otto Ruff discovered another compound. Same atoms as both D- and L-erythrose. Same chemical bonds: C goes to O that goes to H etc. But it was neither identical to the erythroses, nor a mirrored version of them.

So Ruff picked the prefix erythr-, clipped the -ry-, and jumbled the leftover letters — because the new compound was like a jumbled erythrose. Then he added the suffix -ose, and you got “threose”. And guess what, later on it was discovered threose was two compounds.

For reference, here’s the chemical structure of all four molecules. The bonds looking like thick triangles have atoms closer to the viewer than the rest of the molecule, and the dashed bonds are for atoms further behind.