TabbsTheBat (they/them)

Depends on how engaging the chain is I suppose :3 sometimes I read the first one, and I can already tell it’s bullshit all the way down, sometimes there’s decent content to be seen

Oh hey lithuanian appears for like half a second :3… I can’t say I heard anyone here call a cat by going kat-kat-kat lol. Usually I see kit-kit-kit-kit, or a clicking sound like ts-ts-ts-ts

Horses sweat :3 they get foamy from it ^^

Here in lithuania, the average pay is around 1400€ after taxes I think, the minimum works out at 840€. 2000 would be a sizeable sum, more than enough to live comfortably

Because registering to vote is not a thing here. Unless you mean register a party as in starting one? In which case a soc-dem party already exists in my country and it is hot garbage :p

Rasa :3 they also make syrups, and water, and fruit water (which I think is what la croix is) and other stuff ^^

It’s not something I’ve seen around where I live, but in some parts of europe you can also get something called orangina, which has more orange juice than fanta, and also orange pulp I think :3

Honestly it’s even interesting for me to think of the sodas here as more subdued cause to me they’re all quite sweet and strong tasting lol :3 I have heard that from people who have sampled both though.

Also on the note of antifreeze… it made me think of american fanta, which is an orange see-through liquid, and apparently doesn’t even really taste of oranges (?), meanwhile here in europe it’s a more opaque orangy yellow and is made with orange juice :3. I think it’s probably the easiest to see difference between all the sodas we have in both countries

I’ve not had the american mountain dew, but I heard it’s pretty different from the european one :3 the one here just tastes like citrusy soda… a bit like orange and lemon mix, if I had to place it I guess

Funny thing is we have a local soda here with the name that would translate as “dew” :3. I do prefer that one; especially the lime & cactus flavour

I saw this asked on reddit at one point and I don’t remember the exact number, but I think it was a couple of dozen times above what would kill a human

There’s apt-cache search, but I just prefer doing it with the package manager tbh :p

The only time I use the software center is if im looking for software to do a job without already knowing the name of the program that would

As a non-binary person I do appreciate the ability to have non-gendered words in english :3 my native language has everything as male or female which is… Ugh

Also funny thing about the spelling reform - we had one here in like… the 19th century, though it was not because our spelling had gotten vastly inconsistent or anything, the main thing that was changed was that a lot of sounds written with polish inspired digraphs (sz, cz etc.) were replaced by czech inspired š, č, ž etc… and also the letter ł which was also a polish influence was removed… which is fair, we didn’t really have a use for it. We also still have the digraph ch :3

Either way, we used to often have things like old 18th or 17th century papers in our textbooks to read, and they were still perfectly readable with the old spelling if you knew those few changes, so it wasn’t a major change, though I do think it was a good one

Neither word is of french origin, im pretty sure :3

Anywho, yeah I know a large part of why english spelling is the way that it is is because of things like the great vowel shift, which came after the spelling standardizations, as well as the mix of germanic, latin, and french (norman) influences all coming with their own spelling rules (as well as one off words borrowing spellings from other languages like spanish), but as someone coming from a language with pretty consistent spelling where loan words are adapted phonetically, the whole mess of having to know the origin of the word to even begin to vaguely grasp at the spelling was an adjustment lol.

I mean, the weirdest spelling related quirk in my native language is that we have letters referred to as “nasal letters” which are not in any way pronounced nasally hah :3 compared to english, it’s a walk in the park

I spell lose as lose :3

When I was learning english I used to confuse the spelling though, cause the word lose to me sounds like the same sound as the double o in other words :3. Though once I got used to the weird english spelling rules I fixed that problem. Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…

I can’t say there are any machine noises I enjoy. If there was a way to have everything be silent I think that’d be great :3

You know, a funny thing with the rolled R is that as a young kid I couldn’t do it, so in 0th grade I basically had to take additional special classes to practice it, but then a couple of years later when we started 2nd grade and thus started english, I had trouble unlearning to roll my R’s as it was so ingrained in my brain by then lol :3. So I basically flipped my problem around

I used to find words that had the letter R followed by an L difficult. Like girl, world, etc. They’re still a bit tongue twisty tbh

We? Can’t relate :3

I used to always make minecraft skins based on how I looked :3 there’s a few of them that even had my school uniform lol

My current one is a modified version of a skin I found, but I still picked it based on various characteristics of myself