I think you’re right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the “practices or pretensions of a quack”, which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I’m not a native speaker, however… :)
That’s because it’s lifted from an actual security flyer, edited for funnies.
The original is probably this:
I hate the term “pseudo-science”. Call it what it is: quackery.
You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn’t you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we’ll soon know who’s bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn’t be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I’ll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it’s the last thing I do…
…said some detective with a hyperfixation.
Not German, but close enough - there’s usually at least one bus within walkable distance, even if it’s only like 4 times a day or something, that connects to a larger hub.
I lived in a place where I had to be by the bus stop at 7h30. If I missed that I’d have to wait for the next at 8h15, and if I missed that one, I’d better call to say I wasn’t able to go that day.
However, in smaller towns and in the countryside, with no cars, life is so different to the frenetic chaos of big cities that it’s hard to put into words.
It does work, but it’s harder to pull off because you need to give a short, relatable reason along with a negative (if not immediately obviously).
If you reply that you’re stressed but you leave it at that, the other person won’t know if they should ask you about it or not. If they do, they might be getting into a much harder, longer conversation than they were expecting to.
But if they don’t ask, then they will feel like they’re being rude, because you’re supposed to help out other people if they’re not well, so either way it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for them.
If you offer something like “stressed, finals are coming up”, then they can keep the conversation going by asking you about it, or they can just move on by wishing you luck or something to that effect and move on.
I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.
People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.
It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.
What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?
And probably made of chocolate? I can see where they might have picked that one up.
You’re not very good at this…
Maybe the French word does have that origin, and other languages adapted it “differently”?
In Italian for example, this is called cooking “al cartoccio”, where paper is “carta” and butterfly is something else entirely.
I was trying to check Larousse but it keeps blocking me so meh. Perhaps both are true, as you said.
Oh. I thought it would be more impressive, but that’s still orders of magnitude away. Thanks!
AC units have beefy capacitors, right? Do you know in what range, for comparison?
I’m curious if that origin for the word papillote is accurate, because it’s very close to “paper”.
The word describes not only the cooking method, but the “bags” themselves, which can be made out of paper.
The same word is also used for the hairstyle, as well as the pieces of paper used to create it.
The real life version works in reverse, sadly.
No, I’m in that boat too.
I’ll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what’s up.
I have no idea why, I don’t particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.
Out of the blue, my brain just starts playing
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs, “What’s going on?”
I suspect building a nuclear device is easier. You have my respect.
This isn’t hard, you’re just trying to make it to be.
Memcpy from a file to a screen buffer is as much a UI as pouring water in a pot is a soup.