SwingingTheLamp

Gosh, so owned. So very, very owned. By such an intelligent and aesthetically pleasing being. What an honor!

Ah, so we judge actions not by their merit, but by who performs them? Or, put another way, if you wrestle a pig, you both get muddy.

What’s hilarious is that I knew that this kind of reply would be forthcoming. Thanks for not disappointing!

You know nothing about me, and very little of what I think, yet you conceptualized my motivations as attacking my enemies, and now you’re telling me what I think.

I just suggested some introspection.

Look at the other replies I’ve received, and think about how people outside of your online community might feel being on the receiving end.

Yes, the reflexive “allies and enemies” framing of the situation does reinforce the image of a harassment campaign.

Oh lordy, ever have one of those moments when you know you’re about to do something dumb, but do it anyway? Well, I would ask that you folks stop for a moment, and observe this situation from an outsider’s perspective. From where I sit, this very thread right here looks like a harassment campaign.

Without doubt, the turkey. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride: The North American bird is named after the Eurasian country because it reminded settlers from Europe of an African bird, the guinea fowl. Allegedly, they called the guinea fowl “turkey fowl” because it was first imported to Europe through Turkey.

That’d be crazy enough, if it stopped there. The French call it dinde, as in d’Inde, or Indian fowl, because it came from a land originally confused with India. The Dutch, though, call it kalkoen, which derives from “fowl of Calicut,” which is a city in India now called Kozhikode. Lots of other languages use a derivation of this word. Apparently, they got turkeys from India after Portuguese traders brought them from the Americas. I say Americas, because the Portuguese name is perú, a South American name that they used to refer to Spanish settlements in the Americas, generally. The Spanish, on the other hand, call the bird pavo, derived from the Latin word for peafowl, which actually are from India.

Germans, at least, call it Truthuhn, or Pute, onomatopoetic names based on the birds’ calls.

As the other commenter shared, in Germany they’re working on an interchangeable battery system. In the U.S., the manufacturers sell intro bundles cheaply to get us locked into their “ecosystem.” That’s the scam part. I’ve got a drill and impact driver set that i paid less for than the replacement cost of the included batteries. It’s the same scheme as inkjet printers.

Cordless power tools. Yes, they are useful in concept, but today they’re just a loss-leader to sell you overpriced batteries.

Until this moment, I kind of thought that Zendaya was a brand of yogurt.

Shit, man, there are probably even people out there who don’t even know who Norman Borlaug was, if you can believe it.