Come to think of it, I just used the first version that came to mind.
After some more research from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
Wotan - High German
Odin - Norse
WĹŤden - Old English.
WĹŤden would be the correct origin for Wednesday, which is the source of the W and D.
Not sure how the “ō” got changed to an “e” though.
Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.
Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.
This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”
契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”
It’s true that crypto is commonly used in online drug transactions, but there are other justifiable uses, such as moving money out of countries with repressive regimes like China and Russia.
Also paying for certain genres of porn that major credit card banks like Visa and MasterCard have somewhat arbitrarily designated as unacceptable, such as certain types of BDSM e.g. consensual nonconsensual, anything that shows blood, kinky hypnosis and mind control, vampires, etc.
Of course obvious child porn and bestiality should be banned period, so some regulation is needed. But I’m not sure that the government delegating responsibility for regulation to the credit card banks is the best way to do it. The rules and enforcement are completely arbitrary and cannot be appealed.
Pathos Nethack - An elegant adaptation of the classic Nethack procedurally generated dungeon crawler for mobile devices.
It actually solves a lot of frustrating problems with Nethack.
Much better on mobile than the official Nethack port.
If you read up on how our brains age, it’s basically pruning neuron branches. While this is a good thing up to a point, the pruning process continues well past our brains’ peak performance because evolution is done with you at that point, I.e. you had your kids by then.
!anime@lemmy.ml is pretty good.
We badly need more active mods, and an episode discussion posting bot, but I think the volume of discussion there is promising, if not pretty good.
It got nuked on reddit, perhaps with good reason, but I do miss watchpeopledie
And the nsfw stuff, even on lemmynsfw.com , is decent, but hasn’t quite reached critical mass yet.
Depends.
Lemmy and reddit are definitely more media friendly.
I think reddit managed to capture a certain generation of users for a lot of topics, and I think its recommendation algorithm helps keep the user experience more interesting by throwing exposing the user to new groups they may be interested in. Very similar to how YouTube works.
But like other social media, the reddit algorithm also creates a very silo-ed, radicalized user base.
Forum users tend to be older, and I have seen a few specialty forums die off due to attrition and a lack of new users.
I think one huge benefit of forums is the good ones are tightly moderated, so bots and trolls are quickly dealt with.
Forums whose topics where age is a lesser factor, or where non-commercialization benefits their userbase, are lasting longer, but generally they’re getting picked off.
I think Discord is more like a media-friendly IRC, which was never my bag so I’ll let others opine on it.