A province in the Netherlands. Lots of sea there; translates “sea land”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

Zealandia is not old Zealand… The name comes from a province in the Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland

Sally forth!

Ah really?! I can smell it from here!

What class were you teaching that in? Drugs Ed? Astrology? Economics?

I’m pretty sure that one’s been solidly proven in a long series of double blind tests, over a large, international, sample.

The problem is the result was also in company interest so many people think, without reading the papers themselves, that the money swayed the research and it can’t be trusted - despite multiple peer review and publication in most respected journals.

The real problem is the illegal ferret cribbage rings, whose benefactors seed 4chan and other sites rumours of the illegitimacy of the ferret cribbage research.

But you shouldn’t trust me, a stranger on the internet, on these matters. Who knows - I could be a shill for Big Weasel!

It’s not about money - I get them free from the local weekly charity giveaways - it’s about the environment. Did you know that PlayStations contain more plastic than half a toothbrush? And manufacturing ten of them uses more energy than five perforated toilet rolls?

Every time you throw away a PS5, another penguin dies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=63NNuG-6-hQ

(My internet is rubbish right now so I hope this is the right one!)

If you’re ‘triggered’ by being called a fatty, stop being fat.

Now that’s a bad take.

We shouldn’t mock people for things they struggle with, even if we think they could just stop.

Nigger is a diminutive (or at least derivative) of negro, is it not?

I still have trouble referring to a person as ‘black’. It feels like a slur, or at least an inappropriate racial caricature (they’re not really black!) and it still surprises me that it’s become the acceptable and inoffensive term.

The n word almost seemed more mild, being about the same thing (an inappropriate way to describe race from skin colour), but linguistically removed (I’m not a native Latin speaker*) so I can feel it’s just a word, no need to be intrinsically good or bad.

• Or Spanish, whatever

But neither is your skin colour expressed in Latin. It becomes a slur based on how and when it’s used.

I agree with feeling ‘obese’ is a neutral, objective term for the physical/medical fact. But then, coming from a non-Anerican context, I used to have no sense of the N word being so offensive, any more than any other random insulting (or even affectionate!) term.

In the wrong context, ‘obese’ can certainly be hurtful and inappropriate. I can imagine, for some people, it’s a trigger word of years of pain and mockery.

Good to know. I’ll put it in for a few minutes once it’s out the dishwasher. The dishwasher never quite fully dries my PS5, I usually have to put it in the tumble dryer afterwards with the silverware.

Is it safe to dry it out in the microwave?

Even better! More reason not to throw it away in this environmentally conscious age.

LPT: instead of throwing your playstation away after each game, try turning it off and on again to choose a new game.

Hollywood? Are you reading this?

Yeah but his brains are known to not always coordinate well, even to the point of attacking each other.