The American spelling “matte” probably comes from the spelling “mate” derived from French “mate”, and doubling the “t” to differentiate it from “mate”. The British spelling “matt” was probably primarily influenced by the German word “Matt” considering the UK tended to have more German influence.

Alternatively, either (or both) may be an etymological spelling from Latin “mattus” (which means “drunk” but likely became a word for “pale” in French).

While I am a linguist, I only deduced this from a bit of Googling and a lot of speculating, so don’t take my word for it…

Idk man conservatives in recent history have a pretty consistent track record of assassinations and assassination attemps on liberal and leftist politicians in the US based on their politics. Tommy Burks was outright killed by his Republican opponent less than a month before the election (Burks was one of the most conservative Democrats at the time, but he was certainly killed by a lot more conservative Republican), Clementa Pinckney (targetted in a white supremacist shooting at a primarily black church that he was the pastor of), Gabby Giffords (shot in the head by an anti-government right-wing conspiracy theory consumer).

When Republican politicians are killed now, it’s pretty much only by personal enemies/drama that is unrelated to liberal or leftist politics, or by schizophrenic/criminally insane people who also weren’t doing it over politics. Like Linda Collins (her friend killed her after being confronted for stealing money), Mike McLelland (he was killed by a former lawyer who’s theft case he prosecuted). Hell, even Ronald Reagan was shot over an actress, not over the guy’s personal political views. Ironically, Republican John Roll was killed by the right-wing terrorist targetting Gabby Giffords, he was caught in the cross-fire. I don’t think there’s even an in-office conservative Republican politician that was assassinated by a Democratic rival this century, or even a single instance of a conservative Republican being assassinated by a liberal over politics recently.

I want you to think of how frequently you hear of terrorist attacks which were committed in the name of white supremacy, christian nationalism, dicrimination against LGBT, or some other far-right bullshit, and then think of how frequently you hear of terrorist attacks committed in the name of progressive beliefs like, oh idk universal healthcare and better public transport. it’s gotta be at least like a 20 to 1 ratio, and that’s me being conservative with the amount of conservative attacks.

In Hungarian it comes from literally combining “ott” (there) + “honn”/“ház” (house/home). “itthon” is the same way except with “itt” (here).

For direct downloads? No. For torrenting? YES, and make damn sure that you’re doing it correctly.

To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

I think the most obvious album to point out which is about many things (including the abuse of the music industry) is To Pimp a Butterfly. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it here yet. Even the title is very on-the-nose – the “pimp” in reference is both the music industry and (more frequently) the US government/social structures, and the “butterfly” is a fledgling Kendrick/black rappers/black Americans in general (context depending on the exact song). It’s meant to be listened in exact order. Many people say it’s overrated but I really disagree. It’s an amazing narrative and powerful symbolism with good music.

I can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium

HDDs are your best option for long-term storage. Every storage mechanism fails eventually but HDDs are convenient, last long, and have excellent data recovery.

I would like you to explain how “dumbass pirvileged rich person breaks rules/law despite obvious warnings that they clearly understood and fucking dies because of it” is eugenics

we have a word for this, it’s called “smartass”

this is hilarious

I also assume it counts bots too (which over 80% of Twitter users are)

it was nice while it lasted, which was until loud conservatives and ““libertarians”” started flooding in a few months later

i was even fine with the tankies, but the alt-right kit 'n caboodle is just too much

Yeah this isn’t Reddit but more than 80% (>4/5) of Twitter is bots. It’s to the point where you can find any blue checkmark account, reply to them with a prompt, and more likely than not they’ll have a wacky and clearly autogenerated response. Sometimes they just reply things like “sorry, I can’t generate content that depicts violence” to random posts too.

Dead internet theory is almost a reality and I hate it. It’s already happened to Google search results / blogs.

i don’t because i don’t meet the diagnostic criteria for ASPD

65 y/o is gen x no? boomers would be from the end of ww2 to the civil rights act wouldn’t they… oh i guess that’s like 60 to 80

all this time i thought my parents were gen x… but they’re actually boomers!

::: spoiler i was expecting actual cats spoiler :::

Common standards for language formally used in a specific field/profession/discipline aren’t “wordplay” lol

i put in all the brainpower i can muster and think for about 2 hours before just choosing a random roman god/dess or something stupid that i think sounds cool or has to do with something i like, because i can’t think of anything original. like if i had to make one right now it’d probably be uhhh superfluidhydrabreath

if i were queer enough i’d probably change that to supergenderfluid, but i’m not

games like stellaris are the most challenging to me solely because they require you to make up a lot of names, and i don’t wanna use the auto generated names because that’s stupid and for cowards. often times i spend more time making up names or designing my characters than i do playing the game the day i start

exactly

economics is a dumb field, we should get rid of it (and the economy)