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- Comment on Report: Literacy Rates in the United States Have Declined Significantly in the Last 30 Years 1 week ago:
As I recall, over half of all American children live in homes with a household income below living wage.
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 1 week ago:
The disruptive value is in making people believe that and account could be a Russian/Chinese/Democrat/Republican/Whatever bot and therefore sow confusion and paranoia. The account is doing exactly what it is intended to do
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Steve Mnuchin.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 2 months ago:
You just answered your own question lol
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 2 months ago:
I think they were just angry because the Rivian isn’t designed for Supercharging and so was parked sideways across two parking spots.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 2 months ago:
I like the Bose open ear buds, which is similar insofar as you can still hear everything around you, but it’s not bone conduction. They basically cling to your ear and are just a small driver near your ear canal.
I like the sound and fit better than any bone conduction headphones I’ve tried, but I don’t use these styles for swimming, which is the main advantage of bone conduction. For running, cycling, and just generally walking around in the world the Bose work great. For sitting and sound isolation, I use corded cans.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I would rather attack you and make you cry because I have nothing else going on in my life and this is the one place I feel like I matter.
Cry for me please. Please?
- Comment on Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days 2 months ago:
Am I misunderstanding, is this not that? My understanding is the this will allow you to find devices other than your phone–tablets, earbuds, etc–by triangulating the location using not just your own phone but all Android phones local enough to detect the device being sought.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 3 months ago:
I meant about your preferences.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 3 months ago:
Who cares?
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
Interestingly, “ʌ” is not used in many American linguistics sources, from Merriam Webster to Google Translate. In American English and many dialects of British English (and many others), there is little to no difference between ‘ʌ’ and ‘ə.’ It’s called the comma-strut split (referenced in the xkcd explainer), and occurs in a minority of English dialects apparently. I didn’t realize Australian English was one of them! Interesting.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
I was putting the question mark because Tom Hanks affects a Mississippi accent, which would not pronounce all of these words with a schwa.
“Ermahgerd” uses two vowel sounds, the repeated sound at the beginning and end is more akin to a Ɵ than ə (schwa).
Given all three of these items–XKCD, Forrest Gump, and the meme–are from the United States, it makes sense to think of them in that context. I realize that you’re Australian, and that accent perhaps doesn’t pronounce these words with a schwa, but it’s important to remember that the entire population of Australia is roughly equivalent to the metro area of New York City.
As of 2022, there were roughly 400 million native English speakers in the world, of which roughly 306 million are in the United States, so I’m not sure about your “most English accents” comment either.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
Yeah that blew my mind about Spanish. I was like, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THESE VOWELS ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME SOUND??? YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO THAT!??”
Then I started trying to learn to conjugate verbs and I was like ohhhhh, ok, so fuck me.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
Non-native to where? These aren’t all schwa in all English-speaking nations. They’re not even all schwa in all US dialects.
Language is crazy.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
Oh you’re Australian. Yeah, most dialects in the US say “what” and “up” with a schwa.
Wut up. The ‘u’ vowel sound in “up” is the same one in “what” in most American dialects.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Not hiding it 3 months ago:
You first.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
Uh oh, you’re becoming the generation affixed to social media platforms.
Oh, you’ll try to hang on, I’m sure you’ve got a BlueSky and ZingZang account, probably dabble in Xruddle to stay “cool,” but you’re whining about dated platforms that most people younger than you are already moving beyond.
Fight. Fight against the dying of the light!
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 3 months ago:
I don’t want a cybertruck and I think Elon is an ass, but it would pretty cool if you had a tent like this that didn’t suck on a truck that wasn’t stupid and you could hook the tent up to the climate control and have it vented through the tent. Like, winter camping, toasty warm, summer camping, nice and cool. That would be pretty baller. Is that a thing already?
- Comment on I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster? 3 months ago:
No, they were pointing out that, even though English doesn’t use a separate symbol to each phonemic vowel sound, there are 20 distinct vowel phonemes. If we have each its own letter, there would be 20 vowels in English.
- Comment on Doing the important work 4 months ago:
God damned gen z ruining another industry.
- Comment on Doing the important work 4 months ago:
Kids in college found a novel problem and then developed a novel solution for fun.
What did you do in college?
- Comment on X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad 5 months ago:
… that doesn’t answer the question they asked.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 5 months ago:
I would tell this asshole to shut his stupid mouth, but my teeth froze together. I’ve got one finger left still working. Help me…
And also, it’s usually way colder than this here, and while it’s frigid, I’m fine. Happy even.
- Comment on IT support work be like 5 months ago:
Agreed. I recognize it is the Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and The Woz. But the technology is so far beyond ever they created, even though we use what they created every day.
- Comment on IT support work be like 5 months ago:
My experiences with IT across multiple organizations is that they’re understaffed and not hiring particularly competent people.
The competent people they do have are generally egomaniacs because they’re the only person or persons in a department full of idiots, and they deal with idiots all day, so they assume everyone is an idiot.
Additionally, IT is SUPER territorial. Like, noticeably so. They have 1-2 people that know what they’re doing, but their whole staff acts like they’re as smart as their smartest person, which they are, unassailably, not.
Across three different organizations, I’ve had five members of IT fired for their arrogance. If you’re interested in doing this, simply hire an attorney, bring the smart person into the room with the arrogant idiot, and make it clear that someone in that room is going to not work for the organization two weeks from now, and then explain the situation.
If you feel attacked by this, you’re one of the idiot IT.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
I watched it again at 1x, and I feel more convinced. The amount of inflationary pressure average people buying homes is going to cause pales in comparison to the amount caused by the very wealthy using them as investment instruments.
That being said, I’m not sure housing is always going to be the asset of choice for the very wealthy, but, I suppose, it’ll always be one of them unless the bottom falls out. Which seems inevitable. Nevertheless, the main idea–tax the rich at way higher rates–is true and always has been true. The real question has always been HOW to get that done.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
I watched it, admittedly at 2x speed, and I’m really not sure I agree. It seems a but of a self-fulfilling prophecy that more people trying to buy homes, thereby creating more demand in the housing market, is going up increase the cost of houses, i.e., “getting in while you can” is only likely to increase the difficulties of being able to afford a home, but, I’m not an economist, so I really don’t know. Regardless, interesting video.
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 5 months ago:
Eh, just sell one of your vacation homes (not the cabin obviously) and buy a quick house just to see if it works. Better than not knowing!
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 months ago:
Do everything you can to buy a house? Don’t you suspect the housing market is going to take a dramatic fall within the next few years? That seems like asking people to catch a falling knife.
Tax the wealthy more for sure, but I guess I would suggest keeping powder dry and punching in at some point during the housing market deflation. Else you risk watching your equity dissolve and be worse off for the effort.