Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

@SteelFolk the origin of "mind" as a verb is interesting: etymonline.com/search?q=to%20mind

@SteelFolk German: es ist mir scheißegal 😄

I need to find out when the word for "mind" (Latin: mens, Sanskrit: manas) disappeared from the French language and some other European languages.

I call the mind the last taboo of rationalist society.

@NoelJPenaflor ah, "Fotomontag" doesn't mean "photo montage" at all but we're not Monday either 🤔

@f_dion oh, I thought it was a cake!

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@Great_Albums @lowqualityfacts it's "whoever", not "whomever" because it's the nominative case (as in Latin, German, etc.) which I just learned is also named the subjective case in English. The nominative case applies to the subject but also to the complement if the complement is the same thing as the subject. For example, in "I am a Berliner", both "I" and "a Berliner" use the nominative case because they describe the same thing. However, in "I eat a Berliner", "a Berliner" is not equivalent to the subject and therefore uses another case. This is poorly explained here and there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicative_expression

oh wow, Mastodon supports approval voting! Let's see if we can make Donald Trump win.

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Tell us, who's qualified to be US president?

@todrobbins I think it's too much to explain in writing in a few paragraphs. My apologies.

@todrobbins I'd avoid a psychotherapist who self-describes as anti-<anything> 😅

@PacificNic @fergabell I haven't tried it but there's this: https://www.theglasspantry.com/candied-witches-butter
Probably works as authentic Halloween #candy.

@PacificNic @fergabell some people eat it.

@freemo they gave me 20 images in a format that required special software I forgot about and I turned them into an animation.

@iddux the French translation is almost the same as in English except for kingdom, which becomes "règne" rather than "royaume". They have the same Latin root but in modern French, the former is a duration like "reign" in English and the latter is a territory. I guess "règne (biologie)" is a late, bad translation of the Latin "regnum" which has a broader meaning.

@emc2 one thing that matters is job titles as you see them on LinkedIn. They're not meant to describe you as a person but to match a standard skillset sought after by employers.

@emc2 it doesn't matter because it's so vague.

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@hrefna @ELLIOTTCABLE also, the labeled versions of iter were designed to allow flipping the arguments depending on the situation. I don't like to use labels for such simple functions, though.
In recent years, we were blessed with the pipeline operator `|>` , which makes the original List.iter reasonable again without having to resort to labels:
lst |> List.iter (fun x ->
<a bunch of code>
)