• palordrolap@fedia.io
    5·
    3 months ago

    The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You’ll recognise the first one from “veni vidi vici” and the second from “invincible”. Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)

    It might also be the root of the word “now” in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it’s not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in “recent”, which would be pre-PIE if true.

    Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.

  • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    The Donner Party.

    It’s inexplicably like my “Roman Empire” for dudes. I think about that tragedy near weekly.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      The conditions that created it (well, the weather) can be recreated in the Oregon Trail 2 video game!

      Although it’s difficult. You have to really screw around to be as slow, otherwise you reach the pass before the storm hits.

      • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Ooohhh never played 2, but I do get nostalgic for the OG every now and then! I’ll have to get this ASAP for cozy winter gaming!

        Its SO crazy how much went wrong with that pioneer train. Murders and deaths even before they hit Hastings Cutoff.

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          By 2 I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_II this by the way! Not the newest one which I don’t think had two on it, but I gotta make sure.

          On the easiest difficulty where you don’t uhhh pilot the train, you don’t even take the wrong cutoffs so you generally go so fast you hit the pass early.

          I only managed the conditions twice or so of trying to do so! By having a drowning early lmfao. Then there was some heat stroke and some rattlesnake bites.

    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
      3·
      3 months ago

      That is so fascinating. I believe one of the survivors later wrote a book about it, it’s public domain and can be downloaded from digital libraries. I never finished it, but read a good chunk up to the part where they had to eat their dead trek members and leather shoe straps. It’s ironic that they were initially trying to take a short cut and save time, but unfortunate circumstances stacked up, cost them lots of time and ended in disaster.

      • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I’ll have to read it! We just moved to NorCal and joined our local library, so I’m sure I can find it there! If not, the Libby app!

        My husband and I did the drive to Reno over Halloween weekend, and we went over Donner Pass.

        Lemme tell you if you’ve never been, that section of the US is breathtakingly beautiful, but I could ALSO see how it is devastatingly, oppressively terrifying. And that was even with clear roads and little mountain towns sprinkled around. I got chills thinking about if there was nothing except chest deep snow, dying fires, and blankets to keep warm.

  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    Mug Root Beer. I was trying to find out if the “Mugrootbeeroffcial” socials was actually them. Their youtube videos are nuts.

  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    Electron flow. My son had a test on electricity, and the dumbasses said that current flows from positive to negative. Which is dumb ass horse shit. Everyone knows that electron flow is negative to positive.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    A friend of mine posted a picture of a Halloween decoration of a skeleton man with a skeleton dog jumping up on him. It reminded me of a photo I’ve seen of the same but with real skeletons and it brought me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz

    Didn’t realize he was a local Washingtonian who studied Bigfoot.