[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I was greatly surprised when I learned that the country is named after the tree and not the other way around

[-] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

"Scotland" is very literal. It's the land of the Scots

In Scottish Gaelic - never the language of the whole area of the modern day country and a very small minority nowadays, but nonetheless a language that is uniquely Scottish and very influential on our history - it's Alba. This one is kind of interesting, because it originally meant the entire island of Great Britain. "Scotland" in Scottish Gaelic therefore sort of means "Scotland, England, and Wales"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I have a personal suspicion - while recognising that I am by no means an expert on the topic and have no real evidence - that that origin story is a reflection of the Proto-Indo-European migrations as viewed through a lens of contact with Rome. The PIE homeland was roughly modern day Ukraine. When Romans show up in Britain and talk to the locals, their empire would have been the first society to have some knowledge of that area that Britons or Gaels had met in... well, forever. If they successfully described the area of the PIE homeland, a Roman with a good knowledge of the geography of the empire and its surroundings during the period of Roman arrival in the isles would say that they were describing Scythia

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's totally fair! I am Scottish myself and don't know a lot about Canada's geography beyond "big", "often cold", and "lots of forest", so I have no idea if those Scottish place names are concentrated in specific areas, not to mention what the chances of both versions being interesting to visit. Banff is probably the first example that comes to mind, but the Canadian one isn't in BC and the Scottish one is just a pretty little seaside town in Aberdeenshire so not exactly a destination in its own right unless you're already nearby

Though, every time I go to the Highlands I'm struck by just how very much it looks like BC....just a wee bit more wee....

You may already know this, but the Scottish highlands actually were formed when Canada and Britain collided! The wrong side of Canada, but still

Regardless, I hope you're enjoying being here

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Nutomic thinks that trans people are a bourgeois conspiracy, so I maybe wouldn't let them off the hook that easily

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Seeing as Scotland and Canada share a lot of place names, what's your favourite place that you've been to both the Scottish and Canadian versions of? (Nova Scotia does not count)

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

He addresses that directly. He says that there's absolutely no point in telling competitors to take fewer risks if risky behaviour is faster, so you need to regulate for safety

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

God that scene burns itself into your brain

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Probably. The lettering is also not consistent and the shadows are going in the wrong direction

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

This is libel rather than slander, since it is written and not verbal. But even then, it's not libel either. To be libel (or slander) against a public figure, it has to be factually untrue and Patterson would have to either know that it was untrue or act with disregard for the truth. He's allowed to state his opinion - which he clearly stated as his opinion - that Mamdani isn't a good fit for the position. We can think that Patterson is wrong about that, but he's only wrong (and, in my opinion, strategically foolish), not libellous

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

The American one seems to match this, which has "National Climatic Data Center's U.S. Stations 1961-1990 Monthly Normals for the Atypical Climate Elements" as its source.

The European one seems to be from this Wikimedia Commons user, but they never specified their source beyond "according to national data"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Strictly speaking, and to take a joke way too seriously, the shitty copper actually wasn't even from Mesopotamia. Ea-Nasir was part of a guild that imported stuff from Dilmun, which was centred on modern day Bahrain. Ea-Nasir was basically running bronze age Temu

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%27s/_Hill/_Cheese-Rolling/_and/_Wake

The prize for winning is the cheese that they're all chasing. She's just that committed to hurling herself down a hill for the pure love of the game, apparently

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Extra mature cheddar, pink lady apple, rocket, and homemade onion chutney on some also homemade bread. Insides of the bread toasted just a little to give it a bit more structure.

This is a direct response to the awful thing posted in !memes yesterday

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And a "satellite" view of the same https://i.imgur.com/YyF3JPJ.jpeg

This was made with a combination of Inkscape, Gimp, and a janky but delightful erosion-simulation tool called Wilbur http://www.fracterra.com/wilbur.html

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