Catalan has sheep to mean slut. Woodworm for somebody that pesters or annoys insistently. Ferret for a sly person. A rat, contrary to other languages where it’s a traitor, is more used for stingy people.
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guillem@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation51·30 days agoI love this, thank you.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Programming@programming.dev•Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation5·30 days agoThere are also lists for time and date and for phone numbers. It’s an article format that I love because it gives you a lot of insight into a topic even if it’s not your field of knowledge.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you know any android apps to create data tables/sheets?4·1 month agoIf you use NextCloud, there is a Tables app with an android counterpart.Not local.
guillem@aussie.zoneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Someday, I plan to go to Europe, specifically Portugal & Spain. What’s the best region to go to so I can learn a language similar but not the same and expose myself to different cultures?3·1 month agoIn the Jálama Valley they speak Fala: Romance, similar to Portuguese, and way less spoken.
guillem@aussie.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•Spanish Government to Impose 100% Tax on Non-EU Home BuyersEnglish11·1 month agoUnless I’m missing something, all (regularised) immigrants in Spain are EU residents.
ETA: but yeah, taxing empty homes would be better but the people who have more of those probably also have friends in the government.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?2·1 month agoProbably depends on the desktop environment, on Sway by default I need to use the compose key.
guillem@aussie.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•people keep talking about how "em dashes" are evidence of ai. i use them all the time. am i a computer now?9·1 month agoI use them too and I hate seeing them substituted by hyphens. High five.
Digger (1980’s). It used the Popcorn song and nothing beats the Popcorn song.
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Singer Chris Brown charged in UK for alleged attack at London club in 2023 | CNN1·2 months agoThose pesky bastards.
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Singer Chris Brown charged in UK for alleged attack at London club in 2023 | CNN273·2 months agoThat’s a bit like dismissing humanitarianism because there are humans that do bad things.
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Singer Chris Brown charged in UK for alleged attack at London club in 2023 | CNN11·2 months agodeleted by creator
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it8·2 months agoWith the art excuse we are at the point that saying “heil Hitler” is not okay but singing it is okay.
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Gen Z increasingly listens to peers over doctors for health advice15·2 months agoIt’s across 16 countries so I’d think many (or most?) of the participants are covered by their respective public health systems. And it’s not that they say they are looking for advice somewhere else but disregarding the medical advice.
guillem@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•More rich Americans are opening Swiss bank accounts fearing U.S. risks8·3 months agoIIRC you can open an account in the Post with CHF 1. You don’t need to be a resident but at least in the process of becoming one.
guillem@aussie.zoneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?22·3 months agodeleted by creator
guillem@aussie.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What happened to make you finally accept that it's not worth it to be an altruistic person?7·3 months agodeleted by creator
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guillem@aussie.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with USEnglish1·4 months agodeleted by creator
It’s a fact: “nothing” is written in stone.