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 No.1440[Reply]

Welcome to Winter... wait wrong hemisphere

I guess it's Sunter this year

This year, Sunter ends on Monday, March 20th!
Sister board: >>>/xmas/
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 No.1470

the voices have strong opinions on timezones

 No.2360

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/win/ is over! See you next year.

 No.2362

>>2360
thanks

 No.2399

>>2360
Hi becky

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/win/ is closing very soon to make way for /spg/!




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 No.2883[Reply]

cats in a hyperbolic geometry universe eating kibbles from an equidistant valley

 No.2884

hehe cat hoovering up kibble

 No.2915

i miss my dog

 No.2916

>>2915
aww.
yeah, I've lost a few pets over the years...

 No.2917

>>2916
sorry




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 No.2864[Reply]

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/wendy-s-expects-test-dynamic-pricing-and-daypart-offers-2025

What do you think about the new idea in fast food for "surge pricing" or "dynamic pricing" on food? For an industry primarily built on the model of serving cheap slop it feels fairly antithetical towards the customer's interest to implement such a system when people are already complaining about the price of food. There's no esteemed reputation for these places that would make someone choose them over any other available restaurant in the vicinity if they're not vastly cheaper so I have no idea what these people are thinking even suggesting this.
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 No.2875

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Sounds pretty bad, but I don't really eat fast food so it doesn't concern me

>>2866
I think it basically means that they're gonna use AI to find out how much customers are willing to pay for burgers

 No.2876

>>2874
That doesn't really sound unique? How is that any different from breakfast menus -> daytime menus, or seasonal items? Or do you literally mean food that has been sitting around for days and is about to expire...

 No.2877

>>2876
Yes, and it is random in what you receive

 No.2881

Aren't electric utilities planning to make power prices dynamic on minute by minute calculations, too?
It would make sense to demand different prices for products if their fresh production costs vary across the day, too.

Actually, the entire article is almost bit scary in how vague it is. I mean, yeah, you can guess that "enabling the crew to focus on what matters" is a euphemism for firing half of them, but overall it says very little.

 No.2882

I just got an icee from mcD's and both the girls at the drive through had McDonald themed shirts with katakana on them. One was a sweater I couoldnt' make out that looked like some metal band logo and the other just said McDonald's in english and in japanese.




 No.1602[Reply]

What's your language's orthography like?
Everyone knows English and French are legendarily bad while runes are a beautiful kind of horror, but there's a lot of other systems out there with their own peculiarities.
Spics are always ready to bring up Spanish, but it's actually not that good for anything outside of northern Spain. A lot of consonants got simplified, and now it can be hard to tell whether you should write something with C, S, or Z. Same with H being mute.
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 No.2871

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Before /win/ closes down again, I also want to share an even less intuitive feature of English: homographs that are pronounced differently based on word class.


For example, verbs in English regularly take the -ed ending for their past tense and participle conjugations, but there are also several words where an identical ending was historically used to create adjectives. For whatever reason the latter remain fully enunciated while the former has been simplified, and due to even more historical happenstance there now exist several words that are written the same but pronounced differently depending on what role it is fulfilling:
Cursed = cursid, or curs't
Blessed = blessid, or bless't
Other pairs are learned, crooked, but it seems winged, supposed, and peaked have been neutralized. Something weird's going on with alleged, it seems that one's actually a new development by analogy. Then there's the similar naked, ragged, rugged, wicked, jagged, legged which I'm not confident in grouping here, and the cases of beloved and sacred where the original verb is obsolete and only the adjective remains. This still overlaps with common participles being used as adjectives, like bored from bore, which has a regular pronunciation.

Then there's <-ate>, which can be either /eɪt/ or /ət/. The verbs it's present in always have a long vowel, while with adjectives and nouns it's a tossup, no way to tell as far as I know. Richard Eaton, some 80 years old historian I just learned of, says Persianate with a schwa, while Latinate I've seen listed mainly with FACE even though you'd expect them to sound the same given how similar they are. (A younger speaker does use FACE for both.) It's possible /eɪt/ is becoming more common over time and as the spelling that makes sense, and which regularly applies to all chemicals bearing it.
Here some pairs you can find are graduate, incarnate, duplicate, correlate, (in)discriminate, elaborate, laminate, deliberate, federate, initiate, intermediate, moderate, and syndicate. Apostate appears to be pronounced both ways, maybe, but I don't know if that's tied to word class. I'm sure there are more though.

The most interesting one are those that are actually derived from each other. English has a method to derive nounds and adjectives from verbs, which consist of moving stress towards the start of the word. Take this set of original verbs: disCOUNT, inSULT, and imPORT, whose stress-derived nouns aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.2872

>>2871
>This may all stem from French bullshit
That's what I always thought at least.

 No.2878

>>2872
I mean, yeah, when in doubt blame the French. It's a pretty reliable strategy.

 No.2879

How do Koreans deal with all the homophones they inherited from China anyways?

 No.2880

>>2879
In regular spoken language, I don't think it's much of a problem. As far as I know, the reason why Chinese went from this mythical state where so many words were monosyllabic to the current situation of most being dysyllabic compounds is because simplification made so many morphemes sound like each other, and the Chinese have to put up with it same as those who imported their vocabulary. Take the jouyou kanji: it includes like fifty characters with the reading shô, and you regularly encounter words like 少女, 勝負, 将来, 賞金, 正直, 証明, 症状, 昭和, 紹介, 召喚, 省略, 障害, every one of them starts with exactly the same しょう sound, but every time is stands for a different morpheme, each one means something different. What makes them distinguishable is that people learn them as full words, spoken shôjo is as distinct from shônen as it is from shôji, and that's why people recommend that you learn words rather than memorizing individual characters. Although the vast majority of characters are homophonous with each other, the same is not true for full compounds in daily use.

What Koreans use when it comes to technical written vocabulary is hanja (same word as kanji and hanxi, 漢字), they revert to using runes. The relationship that Chinese characters have with spoken language is a particularly strange one, and simply continuing to employ them when truly needed is the method that stuck.




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 No.2841[Reply]

AAAAH SURPRISE BOX!!!

 No.2844

dark niggas

 No.2845

Patchy...

 No.2848

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patchy surprise!

 No.2850

>>2848
the consequences of surprise boxing




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 No.2704[Reply]

do you play video games? i play video games sometimes. what video games do you play?
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 No.2824

>>2812
Yume Nikki isn't Japanese.

 No.2825

>>2824
it's not? how so?

 No.2826

>>2825
Oh, I just checked and actually it is. Hmm. I could swear that it wasn't... Just ignore what I said.

 No.2827

westerners don't use rpgmaker

 No.2828

>>2827
I browse F95 zone enough to know that's not true...




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 No.2788[Reply]

I don't know about Kissu, but I've always heard that the reason for philips head screws is that they're made not to strip, and were a replacement for flat head screws. I have literally never come across a stripped flat head screw, meanwhile I find stripped flat head screws all the time.

What's up with that.
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 No.2795

>>2794
The head. I've never experienced the threads being stripped. That sounds like something you could only do with a drill, or from having cross-threaded plastic or wood thread grooves.

 No.2798

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>>2794
Head, yeah. My experience is mostly on the smaller ones used on consoles and other electronics. Maybe it's different on the bigger ones on furniture and stuff. I hate small screws so much. And then there's companies that Nintendo that make their own shapes to discourage repair or piracy so you have to buy a separate screw for those. I guess there's a difference between building for or against the customer's benefit.

 No.2799

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>>2798
>that Nintendo
LIKE Nintendo

 No.2800

robertson screws are the best because they're canadain

 No.2912

>>2788
Power tools is why. You need to have it centered with a little bit of give to odd angles and philips lets you do that just fine. If you try screwing in a flat head with a power tool then you'll strip it if you're not perfectly dead on and center. Philips also just freely stick to the end of the drivers a lot better when you're lining it up. The reason philips gets stripped a lot is poor technique. If a screw is in tight and you aren't putting a lot of pressure on it then the driver will climb out, and as it's a harder steel than the screw head, it starts stripping it.




 No.2725[Reply]

In this thread you must post, discuss or link ducks
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 No.2738

I like ducks

 No.2739

i like cute quackers

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>>2725
I remember watching a racist version of the Duck Song back in the day before I comprehended what racism was, it might still be on newgrounds but I can't find it.

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/155000

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 No.2769[Reply]

How do you like your bananas? I like them to be a bit brown, but they're only in that state for about 2 days and it's such a waste because I don't want to eat 6-7 bananas in that time. Where is science when you need it?
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 No.2779

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>>2774
Becoming one with the banana.

 No.2780

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>>2777
Do they sell them separately where you are? For me it's just bunches, so I would need to buy like 30 bananas to do what you're describing.

>>2778
This is true for here, too. I think people buy the ones that are mostly yellow, I certainly do, so what remains is mostly green.

 No.2781

>>2780
they sell them by weight and the bananas come in small groups like 1--5 not massive bunches of 10 or more bananas. because they're sold by weight it's ok to just break off however many bananas you want anyway
this is in australia

 No.2785

>>2769
yellow with some green to it
brown is bad, green is okay but the peel is sticky and hard to get off, yellow is good too

 No.2786

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tired of eating the same damn 'nanner all the time




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 No.412[Reply][Last50 Posts]

A thread for interesting or cool news, especially if it's full of /win/
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 No.2734

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>>2733
It's called Ryugu and they brought a sample home???

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 No.2762

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>>2761
I do wonder how people are going to get around this stuff in the future as the technology improves. There needs to be a modern equivalent of holding up a newspaper with the day's news on it. Maybe a whole bunch of moving things that would be difficult for AI to replicate? Maybe just holding your hands to the camera?

 No.2923

Moved to >>>/qa/127237.




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 No.2753[Reply]

If I'm active on the workplace Slack at 7 in the morning then I'm allowed to goof off in the afternoon and check out early.
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 No.2756

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>>2755
Nonsense, there's always more work to be done.

 No.2757

>>2755
You don't get paid to accomplish a task, you get paid to sit at your desk for a period of time. Whether or not you did work is irrelevant. If you arrive late or go home early, you're cheating the company and should be fired.

 No.2758

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>>2757
But what if I'm always home.

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Workplace? Company? Never heard of it.

 No.2760

>>2759
is alice taking over patchy's role as main neet?




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 No.2747[Reply]

/win/ter is big ass season.

 No.2748

hell yeah Yukari! She was my favorite. Great character development really changes your opinion of her as you go through the story.

 No.2749

She's weird

 No.2750

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>big ass season

 No.2751

>>2750
So much emotion and conviction in that face!

 No.2752

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>>2750
¥Yeah desu!
An asswoman, I see.




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 No.2693[Reply]

I bought some anime clothing today! They are sweaters, it's winter related! I will stay warm!

 No.2694

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I have some unofficial non-licensed anime t-shirts. This one is probably my favorite. I love how colorful it is.

 No.2695

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Cool! I don't have anything like that, but sweaters are nice! Well, for two months of the year when you're outside!

 No.2696

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I couldn't wear anything like that unless it was very subtle.

 No.2837

got my lucky milky holmes t-shirt




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 No.2502[Reply]

Well... Japan has had another earthquake. Tsunami warnings and... I hope this isn't a repeat of 2011.
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 No.2523

>>2512
These events are still rare and the damage they have on more primitive societies and people would have been much reduced. An earth quake won't cause much damage if you live in a hide tent. After that people adapt to it and accept it.

But really, fires were a much larger issue historically in Japan(and most places really) than earthquakes and Tsunamis were.

 No.2524

>>2512
>>2513
Its not like in ancient times people on island nations can just leave easily like they do now

 No.2686

So I guess it wasn't a big deal?

 No.2687

>>2686
Pretty much, yeah

 No.2689

>>2512
There are no places without natural disasters. Earth is everywhere and she can kill you at any time without warning.




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 No.2604[Reply]

I've been thinking that it would be nice to have an additional spot to sit that's not my desk chair or my bed, but furniture is awfully expensive... Maybe I should trying going to some thrift stores or maybe a consignment store and see if they have anything reasonably priced.

Do any Kissu frens have experience with this kind of thing? Furnishing a room on a budget.
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 No.2681

you could probably make a diy one of those for way cheaper

 No.2682

>>2681
Only if I have time I want to spend on leisure to make it

 No.2683

I don't like the size but 300$ for something close to ideal is not bad. At 200$ I think you'd get a nice C shaped desk. Then CCA it at 20% per year off of your small business taxes... pays for itself

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 No.2685

small penis taxes




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