Michigan and Ontario both have Bois Blanc Islands. Michigan’s is “Boys Blank” and Ontario’s is “Bob Low”.
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Can’t forget Noordeloos, Vriesland, Overisel, Drenthe, and Borculo. Been to Borculo a few times. Lotsa folks with Dutch/Frisian/Low German surnames in the area, including the (in)famously wealthy Van Andel and De Vos families of Grand Rapids.
Supposedly, the phrase “if you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much” used to be common here, but I’ve never heard it used unironically. Likely died off with time.
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World News@lemmy.world•US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heatEnglish
25·1 month agoAlmost certain that the person you’re replying to is saying that the article should say that it’s a war crime, not that it isn’t one because the article doesn’t say so.
Yeah, though I can see how it looks like it’s going the other way at first glance, what with the fish facing the wrong direction.
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Games@lemmy.world•Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal TrailerEnglish
5·1 month agoYou can watch the trailer on the Steam page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669870/CONTROL_Resonant/
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•It's free real estateEnglish
2·2 months agoVery late response, but I was thinking back to this and realized that, to be pedantic, yeah, female lycanthropes should actually be called wifwolves, or something to that effect; a woman becoming a werewolf would include turning into a man, if the root words are taken literally.
Kinda like how female automatons should technically be gynoids, not androids, because “andro-” means “male” in Greek, like “wer-” in English, but language doesn’t always evolve neatly like that.
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube, your feeds are broken - Open RSSEnglish
3·2 months agoNot sure if logging in would “solve” it, but I’ve been unable to watch YouTube videos while on a VPN on desktop with FreeTube and on mobile with LibreTube for a month or so now.
Also, on FreeTube the recommended videos on the sidebar usually include a ton of unrelated news channels. I’ve got so many of them blocked now but they keep showing up.
Jello salad is definitely a thing in the Midwest. Source: every Thanksgiving I had as a kid
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•A most honorable dayEnglish
11·2 months agoConsidering how much more relevant the Jedi games are, that’s probably more likely, but my first thought was “oh shit, Worf’s got Bastilla’s lightsaber”, ha. Hers was also double-bladed and yellow.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•End of Life Symbol - Irish hospitalEnglish
15·3 months agoMany if not most religions historically didn’t have a word for their particular belief system; the scholarly name for Germanic paganism is “Germanic paganism” because pre-Christian Germans didn’t have a name for their shared beliefs. Sometimes you may see neologisms or names for neopagan movements applied to the now-dead religion — I’ve seen Germanic neopaganism (aka “Heathenry”)'s less commonly-used “Asatru” used for the original religion in a game. Same with others like “Kemetism”, which refers to the neopagan movement and not the ancient Egyptian religion.
Not a historical scholar but, to my understanding, for a lot of folks “what’s your religion” would have been a nonsensical question because that’s just how the world works and you wouldn’t think of it as being a belief system separate from physically evident reality. Folks are free to correct me on that.
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World News@lemmy.world•2 studies warn 'Day After Tomorrow' ocean current is in troubleEnglish
3·3 months agoAt least northern Asia will be fine
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Games@lemmy.world•Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17English
14·3 months agoTo add on to what silverchase said, I played 2 first and got the gist of what happened. I do recommend playing Portal 1 if you can get it working, but you won’t be lost without it.
I’ve not played it but Empires of the Undergrowth is an actual ant RTS that came out 2 years ago lol
fwiw not an American thing. I’ve never seen pasta served with meat to the side like that irl.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•I blame MS CopilotEnglish
4·3 months agoI also wouldn’t know what it means, but in this case it’s a direct quote from the movie Office Space.
Was expecting a photo of Sandy the Pony, a coin-operated ride at Meijer supermarkets.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet?English
4·4 months agofwiw “takeover” is a noun; “take over” would be the verb.
“Lookout” would also be a noun, though their example of “look out” is a verb, yes.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?English
3·4 months agoNo. My high school was 6 55-minute classes with 5 minute breaks between to get to your next class, plus a 45-minute lunch. 7 classes if you elected to take another class starting at 7am instead of the usual 8am. School was just under 8 hours long with 7 classes.
Ugh. Yeah, my mom intentionally allows push notifications from Amazon, Temu, tons of fast food chains, and a bunch of other sources on her phone. It goes off like every thirty seconds.
I don’t get push notifications unless it’s a text or a 2FA email. And for that matter, I don’t understand how people get so many emails or, if they start to, why they don’t unsubscribe from or block all the spam. I get an average of maybe 3 emails a week on my personal accounts.




They said they have to buy them if they want fresh tomatoes, not just in general. ie frozen isn’t fresh