AKAS (All K’s Are Silent)

I could ask my parents but I’m afraid it was a German collection of short stories

Why are you asking?

I found the cursed ones

Interesting. Good for you you skipped the toxic stuff

No way!

So I assume you went from Twitter to mastodon?

“I said we meat at night, not as knight”

Oh, I remember that effect when a tetris game I programmed made some sounds I didn’t program into it. I assumed it had to do with poorly shielded cables

No, the bullet will stop them

If 275 is half of 550, then what is half of 275?

Checkmate atheist

When people don’t learn roman numerals at school anymore…

It’s 10, plain and simple

Because the more you look for reasons, the realize there is none and that’s depressing

Because people who always ask “why” don’t achieve anything. Did you get nothing out of the story above?

As a kid, I had a book about a kid always asking “why?” and at some point, aliens came to conquer the earth. While everybody was freaked out, the kid just continued asking “why?”. “To exploit earth’s resources” “to conquer other words” “to exploit their resources too” “to conquer other galaxies” “to further our rule” “to conquer… well I see now that it’s all meaningless and we go home now.”

This is a story every child should read and don’t ask me why, it just is.

It wouldn’t even surprise me if China was sponsoring something and still banning it out of habit.

China

While having two words for blue because “they look different”

People seem to believe this so let me clarify:

Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean “fruit” in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیب‌زمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc.

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In fact, apple was a catch all term for fruits in many languages from time to time, hence pineapple (originally meaning pinecone, later used for the exotic fruit because of similarity) or German Apfelsine (orange, literally apple from China), …