It’s so good, isn’t it?

Yorkshire. Jodie Whitaker’s accent. Fucking love it so much. The way she says radio in the Tesla episode? OMG. I love everything about it.

Also genuinely love Indian accents, and several southern US accents, but not all of them. Not a big fan of Appalachian or west Virginian accents, Kentucky can okay depending on the region, and coastal Virginia is pretty good. Western Virginia (not west Virginia, but the mountainous western portion of Virginia) can be grating to me.

Charleston accents are chef’s kiss, and the accent I was born into until I forced myself into a general American accent as a kid

The whole idea behind it was radical unity, internationalism, and bringing disparate people together on equal footing. Instead of me speaking a language I’ve known since birth, and you speaking a language you are just capable of understanding, and both of us trying to plead our case to the government, the idea is that we would all have an auxiliary language to compliment (not replace) our mother tongues, and we would both be capable of making yourself understood equally.

Those ideals don’t really jive with hard nationalism and pseudoscientific ideas around superior races

Congratulations, you managed to get offended by a historical tidbit about a constructed language!

Oh, and pissing off fascists is always good. Period. Full stop. If you don’t think that’s true, perhaps it’s time for some introspection!

There’s a daughter language called Ido that’s done away with gender, iirc. And I believe there’s some gender neutral ways to get around it in the community, but it’s been a long time since I’ve attempted to do anything with it

Esperanto! Yes, there are better conlangs, yes, it’s eurocentric, and yes, there are ways to improve it or even come up with something better. But it has a cool history, it’s tied to socialist movements and anarchist movements, it is fairly easy to learn (especially for speakers of European languages), it’s grammar is super simple, it uses a system of root words and affixes that make me think of Legos, and it has real, native speakers already, meaning it is a living language that has changed over time, and is fully capable of being used exclusively to communicate efficiently.

Plus, the fascists fucking hate it

I could see this becoming an idiom that means something like “I have too many good things in a bad place”

Like, if you have so much food in the fridge that you can’t eat it before it goes bad. Or you have so many fun projects to get to this weekend that you know you’ll never have the time to finish them all.

What’s the literal translation there?

I’ll post this as a thread if it’s beyond your scope to answer, but you seem like a smart person who might know a thing I have absently wondered about many times.

Balloons eventually fall back to the ground after the helium escapes. But let’s say you made a theoretical balloon that couldn’t allow the helium to escape, it’s perfectly sealed. Now, let’s say that the material it is made of is also as light as a regular balloon, but our near-magical material is also capable of withstanding extreme cold (like, outer space cold). Would it just float into space? I know that when we shoot rockets up there’s a lot of heat from the friction, but if something is moving slowly, that wouldn’t happen, I don’t think? But can a slow moving thing escape earth?

Tell me, oh great and wise Heliumancer, tell me the secrets of the light-gas!

Kung Pow Enter the Fist

I’m such a dumbass, I didn’t even think of that. I’ve seen it. One of my favorites

Oh, duh! I’m such a dumbass lol

I got that part. The part that was confusing me was Aang’s “hero” font being a different color than the other two. I think I’m reading too much into it, maybe

The one’s labeled tibetan and romani, what are those? I’m familiar with the rest

I’m sure I’m missing something super obvious, but can you explain the image?

I’d specifically think of myself as an anarchafeminist, so yes, I’d say I’m a feminist. Fuck bullshit gender division, and fuck anybody who thinks someone is less capable because of their genitals or the clothes they wear (or if those things “match” or not)

Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like “whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽” Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute

US south. Weed eater or weed whacker, but the second is much less common. It’s also the name of the thing you’re doing. You use the weed eater to go out weed eat the yard

Ooh, I’ll try that one. Tbh, nuke isn’t said for the funny. It’s just what it was called when I was a kid. I never really considered it as a term until I was well into adulthood lol

Generally “nuke it” but occasionally zap make an appearance, microwave as a verb, and sometimes me-crow-wa-vay if I’m feeling extra