JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on We dont talk about what happened to Alex Pretti enough. 1 day ago:
Don’t take it as a personal attack maybe?
- Comment on An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Before 10 or 15 years ago you weren’t allowed music with voices, and most people used classical.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 6 days ago:
I mean, I think they’re saying we should be eating baby animals, right? Because they’re dumber than babies, so therefore completely edible!
- Comment on Where do I find cool stickers? 1 week ago:
Skate shops. Skateboard companies make a lot of cool stickers.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was just more commenting on their use of the “hill to die on” thing than the quality or value of their argument. Like there wasn’t anything I was doing to indicate it was a hill I was willing to die on, certainly not any more than they were.
That said, it wasn’t just downvoting, several other people also jumped in to argue with them, and honestly they just seemed to be acting antagonistic for no reason.
And while downvotes aren’t always an indicator of a weak argument, they certainly can be.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 1 week ago:
So weird, someone just told me I was willing to die on a hill for my opinion when they were getting downvoted to oblivion for their opinion, and holding to it.
I.e., figuratively, they were on their hill taking shots from all sides, unwilling to yield, and yelling down to me - with my similarly opinioned compatriots - that I was willing to die on my hill. It was so bizarre and I was thinking about how they didn’t understand the meaning of the phrase, and then I came across this post.
This may not be the case here, but idioms like this can sound particularly weird when they’re in a language that isn’t your first language. This one doesn’t sound weird to me exceot when used in the wrong way lol.
So just to be clear, the phrase isn’t just about having differing opinions, nor actually putting your life on the line. It is about steadfastly holding to an unpopular (currently, or in the immediate context) opinion in the face of adversity. The more unpopular it is, the bigger the hill it seems to be, with fewer people defending it. In the military context the idiom derives from, hills were strategic goals and holding hills gave advantages. The harder a hill was to defend and hold, the more willing you need to be to die to defend it (literally). In the idiomatic sense, “dying” might be more like getting yelled at from all sides - or downvoted in a huge way…
You said you have a few opinions you would be willing to die for. That’s probably a bit more extreme than this phrase is intended for.
- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’m not write sure why this whole conversation is even happening…
- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
inane [ɪˈneɪn]
adjective
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lacking sense or meaning; silly:
“don’t badger people with inane questions”
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- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
Also, the original article had a perfectly fine title. It’s pretty standard when posting to keep the title of the original article you’re linking to instead of editorializing it, unless you’re specifically going to fix something and note that.
Here, let me help you: copy, paste.
- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
Your comment was inane, which is why I gave the “no, you”.
- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
It’s missing key information, and without that information the title doesn’t make sense, and kind of isn’t as interesting. Now read your comment as if I wrote it back to you.
- Comment on Hydrofoil ferry sets 160-nautical-mile record in longest sea voyage 2 weeks ago:
Why did you change the title?
Article title is: Electric hydrofoil ferry completes record 160-mile voyage using standard fast chargers
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 2 weeks ago:
We have a tool library in Vancouver. I don’t think it’s unique?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In my opinion, no, don’t do it. It doesn’t add anything. But I’m old and crotchety.
- Comment on What if brains are eggs? 3 weeks ago:
What if you’re on a motor bike?
- Comment on A Perfect Battery Doesn’t Exist… Or Does It? 3 weeks ago:
I’m holding out hope for that solid state one announced at CES. It could be a game changer if real.
Big if, but still…
- Comment on Without vowels there'd be no singing 4 weeks ago:
The OG skibidi toilet
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 5 weeks ago:
Agreed about the drain. We have the same problem in Canada and I think it’s because the insurance companies, restoration companies, and builders are conspiring here to keep it that way.
But I would prefer that the shower was self contained and had its own drain. The wet baths I constantly deal with when I travel are one of my pet peaves.
- Comment on Are they for real? 1 month ago:
Me too
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 1 month ago:
That’s Amore - Dean Martin 1953
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 month ago:
They didn’t say vegetative. They said “pretty much a vegetable” fun is a more colloquial term.
From paulriddfoundation.org/lessons/iq-table/#%3A~%3At….
People with a severe learning disability or profound and multiple learning disability (PMLD) will need more care and support with areas such as mobility, care and communication.
And from Wikipedia:
People with Severe ID (IQ 20–34), accounting for 3.5% of persons with ID, or Profound ID (IQ 19 or below), accounting for 1.5% of people with ID, need more intensive support and supervision for their entire lives. They may learn some [activities of daily living], but an intellectual disability is considered severe or profound when individuals are unable to independently care for themselves without ongoing significant assistance from a caregiver throughout adulthood.
I think that could qualify as “pretty much a vegetable”, if a bit crass.
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 month ago:
IQ tests don’t define IQ, they’re a tool to measure IQ. Standard tests have a “floor” (say 70 or 50) below which they don’t give an accurate number, just a general “below the floor” indication. Similarly, they would have a ceiling.
A professionally administered test can maybe identify a more specific IQ at low levels, and would be used for someone who maybe can’t function at the level of taking a standard test.
- Comment on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering 1 month ago:
That sucks. From the article it looks like they are at least writing the firmware, but it’s hard to tell.
I’m curious because I just ordered a couple of C210s to tinker with.
- Comment on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering 1 month ago:
Is that true for TP-link? I always thought they were an OEM.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 month ago:
Regulators were less friendly back then
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 month ago:
They can do a lot of that now with Recall even if you use Chrome.
They also want you to use their browser because they want to direct you to bing/copilot and get ad revenue from all of your clicks.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 month ago:
They wanted to do that with internet explorer but regulators weren’t monopoly-friendly back then.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 2 months ago:
Learn Mandarin, Spanish, and maybe Hindi, if you’re planning for the future.
- Comment on I hope Lemmy gets big enough to make the mainstream news... 2 months ago:
Is this some Lemmy drama shit I don’t know about?
