I am going through her catalogue. Whatever is available at our library. So far I liked them all. Least of all Lavinia, that started off quite weak but also got better, but out of all the strong books it was the one at the bottom so far.
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Just read one of Ursula Le Guin’s books where humans sent off some unwanted people, no scientists, to another planet and they brought up how hundreds of years into living there, they still give arbitrary names to things. E.g. naming an animal Heron because it kind of resembles one, but this is an alien world, so it is really not.
Anyways, at one point one of the characters asks why people still use the name Victoria for the planet, as this was named by Earth people. And then suggested to just call the planet Mud, since they got so much of it. Was half a joke but later in the book some people do use Mud as a name for it.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto The Onion and other satire w/ layers@sh.itjust.works•Companies struggling to find return-to-office perks that top masturbating at home7·4 hours agoOf course not, this is satire after all.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Does anyone else have issues with private browsing in the newest (141.0.0) Fennec release?2·10 hours agoThe open links in private tab works fine still. However what OP means, and I can confirm that, you were able to setup Fennec to always start in private mode when you open it, without making a specific shortcut for it.
I just checked in Ironfox and there it still works like that. I could however not find a specific setting that does this.
So this makes me think, OP, what you and I were using was maybe never intended to work as expected but potentially a bug that got fixed. You can still open links automatically in private mode and you can add the extra shortcut for when you manually start the browser.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto News@lemmy.world•GOP Accused of Photoshopping JD Vance’s Birthday Picture431·4 hours agoLooks like they tried going for the Giga-Chad look?
Quite the difference to how he really looks!
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Buy European@feddit.uk•The Coca-Cola boycott may have caused this adEnglish8·10 hours agoI was kind of expecting that question, there is actually an official listing of the most popular German names for babies every year. Goes back a few decades: https://gfds.de/vornamen/beliebteste-vornamen/#topten
Daniel is among the top ten in almost every year up to 2000. After that it is other names taking over but I didn’t check where Daniel lands, might have been top 20 or top 50 still.
Seeing as the guy in the ad is not likely under 20, Daniel isn’t a weird choice of a name. Certainly better than Klaus or Reinhardt.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Buy European@feddit.uk•The Coca-Cola boycott may have caused this adEnglish271·19 hours agoYou think that Daniel is “not the most German name” but suggest Klaus or Reinhardt is more representative? What else, should he wear Lederhosen?
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto News@lemmy.world•Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock4·1 day agoCan you just sell right now in the least? Like if you were quick enough, would it be possible? I guess not.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto News@lemmy.world•Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels24·2 days agoWhere the fuck have all these terrible people in the video comments been hiding the past decades? Like, did all of them have these opinions but they never voiced them. How does it happen that they start commenting such bullshit?
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto AskUSA@discuss.online•What's stopping leftist from SERIOUSLY creating their own Party?English43·2 days agoThat’s not really a fitting xkcd comic. I mean, I am sure there should be one, but one about hardware standards competing is not at all the same as adding a third political party.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Finally an explanation that makes sense243·3 days agoOK, boomer.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto news@endlesstalk.org•Reddit shares jump as much as 20% on second-quarter sales and guidance beatEnglish8·3 days agoDisgusting
It’s probably what this dude is talking about. Somehow doing that at 4 am because they still need to do some things manual.
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto News@lemmy.world•‘Sleepy’ Trump Struggles to Stay Awake as Dr. Oz Rambles16·4 days agoSleepy Doe
ook@discuss.tchncs.deto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.31·5 days agoIt’s because being an astronaut is an actual job you commit to or you won’t get to do your job. Guitarist can mean anything from picking up the guitar once a month to being lead guitarist in the best band of the world.
One is a job description, the other one can be just a hobby or a full blown job.
Careful, if you go there you might run into Zensursula.