Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What distinction are you making, here? Everybody seems, to me, to be a black box that only relates to others through their inputs and outputs. How else can I like someone, if not by what they put into the world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Engrish-like community in here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a typo, or you’re looking for a community based on casual racism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth will only be around for another five billion years or do, so no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building A Multi-Platform Feed Reader App - is it Worthwhile?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, I’ve been music for a while about an app that had all my fediverse accounts in one place, a long with my email and possibly reddit (but, uh, without ads). I never check my email unless I’m expecting something and I think a big part of why is because it’s a separate flow from checking my other text-based social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with Tilley that many of Chambers’s complaints seem Mastodon-specific, or at least not applicable to the threadiverse.

  The only really big disagreement in philosophy I have is the complaint about direct messages not being private messages. We’ve all seen the way that private messages have been used to harass users on reddit. That direct messages don’t include an expectation of privacy on lemmy is, to me, a strength rather than a weakness; something that advantages the recipient over the sender, which is the balance of power we want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s the one being unreasonable.

  He’s recently made one big change that he likes and is interested in trying other big changes. See if you can direct him to try something a little saner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe try again without the misogyny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with the obsession with gender neutral language on relationship topics ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are times when it’s relevant and times when it’s not, and the latter is a lot more prevalent.

  But on reddit, the real reason is because about three years ago reddit admit let mod teams know that misgendering anyone was a violation of site-wide rule one, and if we mods didn’t crack down on it, the admin would crack down on US.

  Insisting on gender-neutral language is a way to keep clear of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is flirting redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I only did what was necessary, my life would be pretty miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is flirting redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you should just treat the person you’re interested in like you would any other person.

  But flirting is how I treat every other person!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antiwar Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! I threw a few favorites up there, I’ll add the lyrics once I get to my desktop after work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re an existential threat. You may think it’s unlikely that they come to power. But an unlikely event with terrible consequences is still worth trying to prevent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does HTML actually run on a computer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HTML doesn’t “run”. It’s not a scripting language, it’s a markup language. All it does is mark sections of the document for the browser to display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to not use a case, because I had a ruggedized hiking phone that didn’t need one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to think the the obligation to action falls more heavily on the privileged. Those who aren’t marginalized have a duty to use their position to correct the injustices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The price of meat is currently artificially lowered by several factors, including government subsidies and lax regulations. Correcting that would be good for everyone, even if it made meat a “sometimes” food for everyone but the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wrong domain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Dead” is an adjective, modifying the antecedent of “he”, not an adverb modifying “is”.

  Contrast “he is well”, where “well” modifies “is” as an adverb vs. “he is good” where “good” is an adjective modifying “he”. There’s no grammatic signifier which is which beyond the modifying word itself, so you need to see whether it’s in adverb form or adjective form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “he died” describes an action

  “he was dead” describes a condition / state / quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “urban” means city, not town

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They add up (in the sense of getting louder) if they’re harmonized or party harmonized. They cancel out if they’re opposing or partly opposing. They become more continuous but not louder if they’re out-of-synch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids see you reading an e-book, they don’t know what you’re doing, they just see you staring at s phone.

  Kids see you reading a physical book, they see you’re reading, and what you’re reading. It helps foster a love of reading in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like most things by Philip K. Dick, the man who has more movies based on his writing than any other author?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  zero or more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alternative spelling of the alphabet that makes more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  split all vowels into the two-four sounds they actually make

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alternative spelling of the alphabet that makes more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  aay ebe eke ede eay efe ege ehe iay eje eek ele eme ene oay epe eque ere ese ete uay eve ewe ekse yay eze

  but if we’re making changes, we should really get rid of C, Y, X, and W; bring back thorn; turn all soft Gs into Js… the list goes on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for me. The written word is much more vivid and conveys information much more efficiently than video. Other people process things differently, I know, but that’s how it is for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This may shock you, but there’s a lot of us. It’s not the same people doing both.

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

  My whole life, yeah.