One thing I could think of from Filipino culture is the manananggal (rough translation: one who removes). It’s a sort of humanlike being, but with wings and a very long tongue. At night, its body from the waist up would fly away and leave its lower half behind, then it would hunt for food. It would go on top of pregnant womens’ rooftops and using its long tongue it would feed on the fetus. Once the manananggal gets back to its lower half, the fetus would be gone forever.

In order to get the fetus back, you can prevent the manananggal from returning to its lower half by putting something on the lower half, if you find it (not sure if it was salt or garlic or something else).

One interesting thing that I’m not sure is quite related, but if you have a miscarriage, people say that ‘nakunan ka’ (rough translation: you were taken from / x was taken from you). Could be left over from the idea that the manananggal takes fetuses?

I remember finding a website once where you can create your own universe by clicking, dragging, etc and at some point it dies. I found it through Bored button. Hope to find it again.

Hmm seems like most people didn’t get it.

IMO if you think it’s immoral, don’t do it. You’d be totally in the right to not bribe them.

If you do wish to bribe… then idk… but I feel like bribing could potentially cause some legal trouble.

ooh we should do that, but o ly for people who still use reddit. No use rejoining

headphones all the time

I don’t want everyone in the room to know what I’m listening to. But if I need to sing because THIS SONG HITS then I get it off the headphones and to speakers or just my phone audio output.

…Is Taylor Swift a genre?

But seriously, my music taste is pretty much her. Otherwise I like alt rock, rock (not too heavy though), ballads, pop that has good lyrics and a decent hook, and any song I hear that has guitars I like 25% more than those that don’t.

Ammonia. It doesn’t technically smell bad, but it stings and does horrible stuff to you. Had the misfortune to use a lot in Chemistry and ended up puking from poisoning.

That and diarrhea and diarrhea farts.

I just realized that this post was 16 days ago…

I frequently see Stux on mastodon, and I think they’re a good person so I decided to choose one of their instances when choosing a Lemmy server.

I… exist

Whelp I think I just started waxing poetic

this is me

I’m interested in both! I program in Python, and I’m trying to get more into linguistics.

Computer languages are just so straight to the point. If something goes wrong, it’s your fault for not specifying. It’s beautiful that way. I also love the problem-solving involved.

Human language is the complete opposite and I love it for that too. It’s full of ambiguity, and so many words seem related to each other - but with their own little nuances. If you say a certain word, it may have synonyms but most synonyms can’t give that exact meaning that a certain word gives. There are also soo many undertones you can say with a certain word. Once, my friend accidentally said ‘denigration’ instead of ‘desegregation’ (in context to black people and white people) which I found really interesting considering ‘denigration’ was derived from the Latin word for ‘black’ (the n-word) and meant ‘to get rid of the bad things’, therefore associating black with bad.

Do they seem related? I dunno. I just love patterns and I love how languages convey meaning, whether computer or human.

Because apparently Lemmy was blowing up. I really support FOSS, but the only reason I don’t migrate right away is the lack of activity. And then Reddit just became unbearable all of a sudden, then there’s the surge of new Lemmy users. I’m finally happy to join.-