[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

'Lo and behold'

(Terribly sorry, I can't help myself.)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Agreed. Funnily I'm from a more temperate country and she's from where I'm at now, but she's the one that is always cold and wants to keep it at ~22. I ain't gonna argue considering she pays the electricity bill, though.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Your science teacher was wrong, unfortunately. In Classical Latin, datum is pronounced as [ˈd̪ät̪ʊ̃ˑ] "dah-too(m)" and likewise data as ~~[ˈd̪äːt̪ä]~~ [ˈd̪ät̪ä] "dah-tah."

Not that Latin should really have a say in how we speak English anyhow.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Take the red pill, all linguistic categories are equally unreal.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Jailing is not the answer, no, but throwing in "[m]arijuana may not even harm fetuses" is not the kind of message we want to be sending. One of my professors is a leading expert in cannabis research in Canada, and he is currently studying the effects of cannabis on fetal development in rats. They and previous studies are finding/have found increased anxiety and decreased cognition and sociability in rat pups exposed in utero, with worse effects in females than males. Other studies have found some physical deformations I believe, but I'm not so familiar with their research. My professor is studying this specifically because of the extent of its use in pregnancy and his concern with the long-term and large-scale effects of this. Cannabis is a drug and should not be used – without exception – in pregnancy until its safety and efficacy is established. I sympathise with women in a tough situation, but it's simply not fair to the children. I just think throwing in these kinds of phrases is dismissive of rational concerns, even if the responses to these concerns are irrational.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Makes me sick, fuck that hellhole of a country.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Canada redeemed, absolutely beautiful leef lads.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Bet you can fit a hell of a lot of diplococcus in a diplodocus.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Here's an article for those out of the loop.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

According to this source via wiktionary, it's '[p]ossibly from a contraction of "grinning like a ’possum eating shit."'

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