Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Said “fuck it”, pulled everything out of the kitchen, scrubbed, repainted. Next time I get an afternoon free I’ll put the trim back up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My whole life, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be more likely to blame the lead exposure on the deregulation that red areas tend to favor, but I know the truth is more insidious: both are correlated to poverty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve dealt with so many bad actors in the past

  This is for sure part of it. Remember that most of us fled here from reddit, and many made a clean break. For me, that includes avoiding political discussion communities. I actively moderated two conservative political communities for years (r/AskConservatives and r/Tuesday) and also r/As an American, where political discussions often came up. I’m just exhausted by it. I’ve seen every bad argument under the sun from and towards every major political position.

  When I spooled down reddit, resigned my modship in r/AskConservatives, and came to lemmy, I resolved to a) never mod a discussion community again and 2] never sub a political discussion community. And my life became so much better! I still engage with politics IRL, with real people in my community, but have zero interest in seeking out the same here.

  So yes, if you want to discuss certain topics here you’ve got an uphill slog. And if you don’t want to be treated like a bad-faith actor you’ve got to put in the work to build a reputation as a good-faith one. There’s no shortcut for that; users recognize each other here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s a local community / cultural center, they probably offer classes or even immersion. My local mutual aid society has Spanish-immersion craft night once a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like labels just aren’t that useful to you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It still needs to be staffed and maintained after being built. It’s not a one-time cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Electoral College yes, in favor

  Senators appointed by legislature no, not in favor

  Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favor of Electoral College reform. I think in particular unbinding electors is necessary, as is doing away with the “winner-take-all” distribution of electors. And while uncapping the House isn’t EC reform per se, doing so would make a drastic improvement to how representative the EC would be. These three things would fix most of the problems with the EC, ranked-choice voting or similar would take care of the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the instance that hosts the “not voting” community? I think I’ll be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would want “real democracy”? Have you met people? They’re terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of a constitutional monarchy is to transition away from an absolute monarchy towards a republic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I only see politics on the few explicitly political and news munis I’ve subbed.

  Are you browsing by ‘all’? If so, switch to ‘subscribed’ and it’ll prolly fix 95% of it for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Renewable power is increasing, yes, but power demand is also increasing. Most of the power to run those electric engines is still being generated by coal. Solar panels are actually kinda energy-intensive to produce, too, and most of that energy is also coming from coal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do children address a non-binary parent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Honored Ancestor” and “Blessed Forebear” are always appropriate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "Not to mention" and "Not to leave out" the same thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention is an addition to a list that’s so obvious it’s an afterthought. I’ve never heard the other expression used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They did it to Joe Hill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s the inmates OP is worried about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fire Emblem on a TI-84⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, thanks, the video made it look very pokémish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fire Emblem on a TI-84⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know a lot about Fire Emblem, but… is it just human pokémon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My bias might be at play. Oblivion broke a lot of what was good about Morrowind but also made some improvements. Skyrim improved on what was better and fixed most of what was broken (spellcrafting being a notable exception). Oblivion does have some great storylines, sure, but even there it’s no better than Skyrim and often worse.

  I get that for those whose first TES game was Oblivion it was amazing. But for those of us who’d played Daggerfall and Morrowind it was a let-down, a big dip between Morrowind and Skyrim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be worse than Skyrim in every way except maybe graphics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it’s lawful surveillance.

  Lawful, but still hostile to their customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Original DLC is included in the base remaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the problem is that discussion of this issue in particular was very often not civil and created a hostile environment for users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That matches my experience with reddit admin. One of my subs had to implement exactly the same rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know any software development philosophy books?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting Real and The Cathedral and the Bazaar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too fucking many, extending the worst of the pandemic by months and months and causing thousands upon thousands of unnecessary deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t do “better”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s already how math is taught. Examples, word problems, discussion of applications. It helps students grasp the concepts to know their purpose and use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PC is what people call basic politeness when they don’t wanna do it.

  Respecting basic human dignity for outgroups is a core part of being woke, for sure.