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wtf do you mean ‘but remember’. i hate this stupid setup. that has nothing to do with anything

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I think it does. World is a hell scape but at least there is this charming bit of logic to hold on to. Helped me get through the day.

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I agree with you. It’s important to find anything that can help you retain some sanity. I love animals, cute things, language, culture, and China. This is very endearing to me. This stops me from immediately walking into traffic.

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Until I scrolled down and saw it wasn’t even true. This truly is a hellscape. A Traffic walk sounds like a good idea.

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25 points

Enjoy some AI generated business goose

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I very much enjoyed this!

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Alas, it does not.

企鵝 is penguin. By itself, 企 means to stand on tiptoes, or to expect something. It’s also the first character in 企業, business. Sometimes business is abbreviated as just 企.

But “commitment” in English doesn’t literally mean ‘commercial glove noun’ just because ‘com’ can be short for commercial, and mit means glove.

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Well at least the world is still a vast hellscape. Unless you got a good point to make against that too.

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In spite of all of our problems, this is the first time in the history of modern civilization when we have gone 70 years without a major war between world powers. Every year, fewer people lack running water and electricity around the world. While climate change is a problem, emissions are projected to peak in the next few years and decline thereafter. Inflation is going back down, unemployment is still low in most places, and fears of a recession have cooled off.

It ain’t heaven, but it’s better than it could be, and many things are trending in a positive manner.

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I believed that we went from Napoleon to WW1 without a major conflict but holy crap I guess not

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I, too, am tired of the constant pessimism. Almost everything is improving all the time.

On Lemmy it seems the biggest crisis is Google trying to make money off user data (as they always have been). Some people legitimately need to go outside and stop measuring world health by what mass media is currently telling them.

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Nope, vast hellscape.

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Great analogy. I’ll admit I thought you had a stroke mid-sentence.

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Ahem. I’m still on my tiptoes, awaiting the meaning of the second character in “business.”

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Ugh… it’s business. Chinese does that sometimes. 業 means line of business, trade or occupation.

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And I’m still waiting on the second character of penguin. I’m guessing that’s Chinese doing its thing again?

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Goose is literally just “I” and “Bird”

Bussiness iBird

Sounds like a new apple drone that spys on you

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That’s not how this works. 我 in 鹅 is a phonetic particle, implying yi, (y)e or wo pronunciation (like in 義/义, 俄 and 哦 respectively). 鸟 is a semantic particle, indicating a bird, like in 鳳/凤, 鷹/鹰 or 鴨/鸭

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Now I’m picturing penguins having nonstop business meetings about fish and vendor relations in Antarctica.

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“Hello sir can I interest you in some flounder?”

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