Reddit seemed much more like a Hacker News/Slashdot interface in the early days. They were different from each other in 2005 but slowly started to coalesce into some common features that the other had first. Reddit had robust comments and threading (which I personally consider to be the defining feature), while digg version 2 had categories/tags. Reddit adopted subreddits and Digg adopted comments sometime in 2006 or so.

Is the H intended to kinda look like a silhouette of a llama? Because if so, I like it.

Wait then what was My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade” all about?

We’re always picking up new slang. Some slang never really makes the jump between generations, regions, subcultures, even languages, etc. But some do.

One of the most successful slang words is “cool,” which spread from the jazz scene in the 30’s to the general American lexicon in the 50’s, and has basically become such a core part of the English language, even outside of the U.S., that those of us born after don’t even think of it as slang.

Every generation has a few of these, and they might have started in a particular video/movie/TV show/song, some other work, in a certain community among a certain generation, ethnic group (or bilingual speakers who just slowly incorporate calques or loan words from their other language), or other group, and the popularity of that particular word makes the jump to those who might not be familiar with where it comes from.

I was a kid when “my bad” showed up in the basketball world (possibly coined by Dikembe Mutumbo), got picked up by American black teens and spread to other generations and races until it eventually just became part of standard colloquial American English. 10 years after first hearing it, I heard a white boomer college professor use it non-ironically, and I realized that it was just something people of all walks of life just said. Now, 20+ years after that, it’s still going strong.

Thinking back, I think “dude” made a similar jump in the 70’s. The TV show Seinfeld popularized a bunch of phrases that entered the lexicon: “yada yada,” “regift,” maybe “shiksa.” “Clean” as an aesthetic descriptor probably became popular after Outkast’s 2000 hit “So Fresh, So Clean,” even if the song itself reflected existing cultural usage. Post 2010, I’m guessing “sus” has staying power, and definitely jumped generations, largely off of the brief “Among Us” popularity.

“Yeet” and “rizz” have stuck around a bit longer than fleeting teen slang usually does, but it remains to be seen which Gen Z teenage words actually survive regular usage into the 2040’s. I’m guessing the ones that get featured in a popular song or TV show are the ones that have the highest likelihood of long term survival.

Isn’t that just what Lemmy shitposts is?

I agree that it’s only good when the skin is crispy enough to hold up to the sauce: maintaining a crisp texture with the surface area to cling to a bunch of sauce. Not every place does it right.

But with boneless stuff, the approximation through breading just isn’t the same.

Note that I’ve also taken bones out of the real wings, and those are about 50 times more delicious than nuggets or tenders. It’s not the bones, it’s the skin.

If you want chicken with bones in it, go for something with an actual amount of meat or fun factor to it.

Your whole mistake is assuming that meat is why people eat wings.

No, to paraphrase Dennis Reynolds, there’s no denying that the skins are the most fascinating part. Bone in wings have the highest ratio of skin out of any cut, and are therefore the most delicious.

And yes, I sometimes take chicken skin off of thighs and breasts to just fry them as some kind of chicharrones.

Why the focus on white people? What are non-black, non-white people supposed to take away from this?

And if we’re just picking up language from others around us, we can acknowledge that pretty much every word, every phrase, every syntactical or grammatical construct we use, we learned by observing others. And we don’t always have the ability to specifically attribute sources for where we learned what, so trying to gatekeep who can and can’t use particular phrases or words is going to be prone to errors. And ultimately futile.

thinking they are entitled to everything

This is a FOSS-focused community. The core idea here is that publishing and sharing ideas releases it out to the world, where the creator no longer controls who may use it, or how they may use it.

That’s why your position on who can or can’t use certain types of language seems so foreign. It’s directly contradicting some of the core values that this community is organized around.

Linguists dropped the “Vernacular” because it is not a slang language

Since when does “vernacular” apply only to slang? It’s just everyday language, which can include slang but includes plenty of non-slang.

I don’t walk as much as you, but if someone was paying me 25 cents per step I’d probably respond to that incentive by walking way more than 10 miles a day.

I appreciate compliments. I have a hard time accepting overly specific compliments.

The original note that started this thread was on the overly specific side.

If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains

Whoa that slur will get you shadow banned from some social media sites

A million (bleep)ing diamonds!

From a Tumblr post that has been reposted a few times (in fact, my link is to the earliest repost I could find, as I think the original is long gone):

The sun is probably the closest thing we’ll ever have to a true Eldritch Abomination. Hear me out here-

• Older than recorded history; was here longer than any of us and will be here long after we leave. Has a finite beginning and end but is still incomprehensibly ancient
• Burns itself into your vision instantly and can blind you if you look for too long
• Further prolonged exposure can cause cancerous growths
• Non-humanoid shape floating through space; colossal flaming tentacles angrily lash out on occasion
• Sort of just appeared one day and is now surrounded by the corpses of its stillborn children
• People used to sacrifice other people to appease it
• Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes

Are you under the impression that families are going to the grocery store every day and trying to eat everything within 48 hours of picking it up from the store? No, people are buying the week’s worth of stuff and might not be getting to actually cooking it until 6 days later.

Buy a week’s worth of food, with each perishable item in quantities small enough to go into a few meals per week, out of the 21 meals you’ll be eating that week.

Fresh vegetables and fruit last a week or two. Fresh meat lasts a week. Eggs last a few weeks. Most dairy products last a week or two.

Make meals out of a combination of fresh ingredients, dry goods (pasta, rice, beans, breads), canned/preserved foods/sauces/condiments, frozen foods. With basically one perishable feature ingredient per dinner, it doesn’t take that much planning to feed yourself for maybe 10-25% as much as it costs from takeout or restaurants. Even if your food waste is double as a single person, that’s still 20-50% the cost.

The Chinese have a method for curing eggs in alkaline solution until they turn black and somewhat translucent, too.

With olives, there’s basically no way to eat them off the tree and have them taste edible. They have to be processed in some way to remove the bitter compounds, usually by brining or curing. So using an alkaline brine is one method, and not that uncommon (even for other colors of olives).

Other uses of alkaline compounds in cooking include using a lye bath for browning for baking pretzels or bagels, certain types of springiness and chewiness for noodles (for example, for fresh ramen), and processing corn into cornmeal through nixtamalization.

“I got into barefoot running but mainly for the savings”

Same with asparagus.

Yeah I wash my vegetables for grit. I don’t even care that much about bugs, but even the slightest amount of grit is terrible.