Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: the "italic" and "bold" markup isn't actually italic and bold, it's emphasis and strong emphasis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They have different meanings, but you’re correct that <b> and <i> are fully deprecated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: the "italic" and "bold" markup isn't actually italic and bold, it's emphasis and strong emphasis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If it gets rendered into HTML as /<em> and /<strong>, that’s the fault of the markup implementation, not the users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t bother with the pretext. They disappeared gays, Blacks, and political dissidents as well as Jews. No outgroup was safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a conductor’s baton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reddit is the 1984 version of a social platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Get me one while you’re out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today, mostly play: Boards of Canada, soffmi muhod, or autechre?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  She wants advice as to which of these music options should be the soundtrack for her day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evangelicals in the US vs Protestants ib Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a bunch of what are called “mainline” Protestant denominations in the US, which typically includes Lutherans, Methodists, Church of Christ, and by tradition Episcopalians (among others). These churches are part of a larger denominational heirarchy that provides them support but also sets bounds on their doctrine or behavior.

  Evangelical churches are typically one-offs with no greater body of faith to report to, reducing accountability and oversight, and often no overhead organization providing funding, meaning they need to constantly raise money to be financially solvent. They also typically have a greater emphasis on evangelism, because they need to constantly recruit to maintain numbers, hence the name.

  Mainline churches display a gradient of attitudes on social issues, from very progressive (United Church of Christ) to the very conservative (one of the Lutheran synods) but typically a church professing that denomination will fall into the same stripe as other churches in the denomination.

  Evangelical churches are all over the place, though typically radical in some way. Most are very strict on sexual purity, but other than that it’s hard to predict. Some have women in leadership roles, some only allow men to preach. Some reinforce class heirarchies and some sel to abolish them. Some prioritize good stewardship if the earth and her creatures, some advocate dominion over it. Without a greater structure, it often comes down to the priorities of the founding members of that specific congregation.

  Now to compare with the Roman Catholic church in the US. The RCC seems to vary somewhat from archdiocese to archdiocese with some leaning more progressive than others. When they do lean more progressive, it tends to be in areas like economic justice, ecological protection, and defense of immigrants (who make up a lot of the RCC in the US these days). They are still very backwards on anything related to sexism, misogyny, and reproductive health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ronan Farrow is the biological offspring of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not always! Half those relationships were shorter than eighteen months themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been single for more than eighteen months at a stretch in my entire adult life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really no stupid questions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are gross ones, those get downvoted too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no, because it fruits at that time of year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never do that. I’d just play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re usually paid by the word. They don’t get residuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s “dikes” in this case, and yes, you could use the stone for dikes or levees, but since most of it would be sedimentary rock I’m not sure how well it would work for the purpose: most sedimentary rocks are rather porous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The energy required to lift that amount of rock from the seabed to above the surface would be impractical. But good news! It doesn’t need to be from the bottom of the sea, just a part below the desired waterline. So we can dig these big holes you want right off the coastline and then, as a bonus, use the materials as landfill to raise or extend the current coastline. Still wildly impractical, but much less so than digging at the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I brush after eating, never before.

  My face isn’t dirty after sleeping.

  The appeal is that someone else is taking care of you, to the degree of getting up hours earlier to cook for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  aren’t there like five of those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a competition. Get rid of that mindset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They believe that because that’s how it used to work (and still does in some industries). That’s their lived experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, the graphics can be ASCII if the gameplay and story are good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  KotoR. It doesn’t matter how great the story or characters are if I have to grind terrible gameplay to get to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's never enough memes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s never enough memes.

  strong disagree

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  slrpnk.net - Hippies who like cyberpunk

  Completely wrong. Anarchists who hate cyberpunk and want the opposite. Ecologically-minded communitarians. Idealists and hard-nosed pragmatists both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just an uptick in complaints about it.

  Makes me pretty proud if my subscription list, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I already think twice before downvoting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Third option: dressing for the weather.

  Myself, it’s “others”. I have a public-facing job, and the better I look the more I sell and the more I earn. At home I’m generally as close to naked as is practical, and as close fo all-black as laundry allows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because they’re PROFA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do we do when all the crts are gone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  automation is only profitable is you’re making absolute gads of exactly the same thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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