Nemo
@Nemo@slrpnk.net
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too.
Other versions of me:
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@Nemo@midwest.social
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reddit.com/user/nemo_sum
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metafilter.com/user/324647
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 13 hours ago:
it’s
right next to theShift keyit’s next to the right Shift key
FTFY
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 17 hours ago:
There’s a button on the keyboard to tell you which one. It’s right next to the Shift key.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 4 days ago:
One hand vertically in from of sternum, wry expression.
- Comment on Amiga's indie Roguecraft just got a Game Boy Color port in 2D 5 days ago:
ah, my bad, that’s GBA
- Comment on Amiga's indie Roguecraft just got a Game Boy Color port in 2D 5 days ago:
POWDER
- Comment on Amiga's indie Roguecraft just got a Game Boy Color port in 2D 5 days ago:
I’ll confess, I bought this immediately after seeing this post. Plays alright, a little basic, very simple and easy compared to a more mainline roguelikes. Or maybe “shallow” is a better term, not a lot of strategic depth going on. I feel like I’m missing something.
And as noted elsewhere, there’s no in-game mechanism to save during a run.
- Comment on What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks? 1 week ago:
A watch stuck at 2:30.
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 1 week ago:
I grew up where Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota cone together.
The thing is, they’re not really offering to do your errand for you. They’re noting that they could and asking if you want them to. And if you genuinely need it, you can then ask them to, but, and this is crucial, there’s a cost. They’ll be doing you a favor, and you will need to act like it, ideally by both apologizing for the trouble and repaying the favor at a later date.
It comes back to the idea of not asking people to do something unless you’re reasonably sure they’ll say yes. You can do this either by making gambits like the ones above to try to assess their preferences (polite) or by applying pressure (pushy). Because the only thing more rude than saying no to a request is putting someone else in a position where they have to say no to yours.
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 1 week ago:
I went over a decade where my only haircuts were handing a pair of scissors to a drunk girl at a party and pointing to a spot on my ponytail.
Worked great.
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 1 week ago:
They’re right about the “I’m grabbing a ___, do you want one?” though.
Contrast with “I suppose I could grab a ___ for you next time I go to town” to which the correct response is “Oh, no, I wouldn’t want to put you to the trouble, I’m going into town soon myself anyway” because they’re not actually offering to do it, just trying to feel out how important it is to you.
- Comment on Ghost Trick 1 week ago:
I just got it over Christmas because my son lived the demo. Fun so far!
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 1 week ago:
The US has more than one culture, at least in terms of communication style. California is fairly low-context, and big cities in general tend to favor lower contexts, but more rural areas and smaller cities in the Midwest and South tend to have higher-context communication. I can’t compare it to Paris or Tokyo, of course.
It’s certainly been a problem for me, as a Midwesternern, when coastal colleagues and acquaintances don’t know what the hell I’m saying because they don’t bother to think about why I’m saying it, and where I think they’re shockingly rude by saying things bluntly like I’m an idiot child who can’t form any sort of theory of mind.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
I don’t believe you.
You didn’t hate that at all.
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 1 week ago:
Vrrrrrschrrrrr
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 1 week ago:
I’d be scared and panicked, no time for anger.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
You’d show up at their house earlier that day to say, I’m going to be at X place at Y time, I hope you can join me?
- Comment on Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ? 1 week ago:
Long story short, it’s because the ancient Sumerians were the kind of people who could count to twelve on their fingers.
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 1 week ago:
👋✌️
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
I do say FBI, though: pronounced like “Phoebe”
But nobody likes it when I do.
- Comment on How to stay sane in a hostile environment that you can't get out of? 1 week ago:
I don’t think staying sane is the correct response in that situation.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
It’s not like we’re all doing that. Or even most of us.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
I vote plenty. What I don’t do is vote for the lesser evil. An empty ballot is better than one that makes things worse.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Fundraise and campaign for better candidates.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, people that expect better. We’re the problem. You caught us. Good job.
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 2 weeks ago:
It would also mean more bikes on the road, and drivers don’t like sharing the road with anything.
- Comment on How does one fight the atomization of society, as Marx foretold years ago? 2 weeks ago:
Some yes, others no. But I’m not writing about alternate history, I’m saying things that we can do to fix where we’re at now.
- Comment on How does one fight the atomization of society, as Marx foretold years ago? 2 weeks ago:
By fighting the suburbs and car dependency.
By getting involved in and promoting mutual aid networks and the gift economy.
By normalizing multigenerational households, communes, and public events that involve people dining together.
By regulating technology and social media to disincentivize dark patterns.
With pronatalist policies like free preschool, subsidies for first-time homebuyers, strong family leave practices, and abolishing DST.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 weeks ago:
Get permission, I guess.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 weeks ago:
It’s often translated “charity” in English but that’s not going the concept justice. It’s a generalized love for all the world, dealing with others without judgement, helping where you can but without the deep emotional connection of other kinds of love.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 weeks ago:
Thirded, I’d like to change my answer to be more like this answer, please.