ilinamorato

@ilinamorato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope so, but it’s such a lame one. Just incoherent. Maybe someone prompted an AI to post troll comments, and it’s just doin’ its best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m just… politely disagreeing with you.

  Honestly…this is the first time in a decade or more that I’ve actually believed anyone online who said something like that. Hey, you’re cool. I like this sort of disagreement.

  Anyway, that’s the way I see it and unless we get facts on the table from somewhere, I don’t see how we could agree in this.

  “We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No bad faith arguments, no logical fallacies…fact against fact alone.”

  “You mean…you’ll put down your anecdotal data and I’ll put down my cherry-picked personal experiences and we’ll try and convince each other of our points like civilized people?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that some people value physical media. But most don’t. Most people value convenience.

  I’m not talking about “everyone in the world,” I’m talking about “more people than ten years ago.”

  I recognize that the internet is allergic to context and nuance, but seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Walk into any music store. Or bookstore. Or a Half Price Books, which sells both. People are sick of paying for the capricious hands of streaming to tell them what they’re allowed to watch or read or listen to on any given day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to believe that this is not a really weak troll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical media is coming back because owning is better than licensing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Substack is an email newsletter platform that supports paid subscriptions. They were exposed a few years ago as allowing Nazis to host their newsletters and make money on their platform; when this became public, the people in charge at Substack said they would not stop allowing Nazis to use the platform, including to be paid for making Nazi content.

  This week, they sent out push notifications that actively recommended Nazi content to users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds awesome. Does anyone know where I could find a decomp?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so hard to tell. I’ve been online for almost 30 years and I still can’t tell most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying Trump wouldn’t try to take such a thing, but this doesn’t give him any more ability to do so than he had before. Obviously he’s willing to be a fascist, so he doesn’t need any change in an organization’s designation to do something undemocratic toward them. He has exactly as much control as he had before. This doesn’t change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, it doesn’t matter for this news. The ease of undemocratic shenanigans toward the Internet Archive has not changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump has exactly as much control over it now as he did before: none. It literally just means that all official government documents go to them for archiving. This is cool and neat and raises the profile of the Internet Archive, but other than that it doesn’t really mean anything. Trump can of course do some undemocratic shenanigans to them, but no more or less than he could before this designation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t change anything about the ownership, governance, or control of the Internet Archive. It literally just means that all official government documents go to them for archiving. This is cool and neat and raises the profile of the Internet Archive, but other than that it doesn’t really mean anything. Trump has exactly as much control over it now as he did before: none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly recommend that a whole bunch of people actually look up what the FDLP is before commenting. Trump doesn’t “have control” over the Internet Archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Federal government gets no control over the Internet Archive through this designation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They remain independent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Federal government has no direct or indirect control over the libraries in the FDLP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it doesn’t. It’s still an independent entity. The right is already slinging around enough misinformation, we don’t need to add any of our own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of theses games should i play?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bedrock Edition is fine. It’s basically at feature parity with Java now. The mod scene is almost non-existent, but for vanilla it’s fine. If that’s where your friends are playing, you’ll have a great time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having my location shared and a shared calendar has been a godsend for us. Honestly we would each probably miss like half of our appointments if my the other wasn’t able to say “hey don’t you have that thing…?” or “hey aren’t the kids supposed to be at that place in twenty minutes…?”. I can imagine location sharing makes that even easier because you’d know if it’s even possible for them to make it, or if you need to get them ready or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, with the current political situation in my country, this might be a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really not the type of person she is, or the type of relationship we have. She might well know that I’m still sharing with her, but it’s not because she’s controlling or untrusting. It would be because she had a reason to check recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my location shared with my wife because while I was working out of the house I got tired of answering the same text message (“how far from home are you so I can start dinner?”) every afternoon. She’s the only one in the world I have no secrets from, so I just never turned it off. I honestly don’t know if she still knows I’ve got it shared with her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, once again, nature refuses to be easily categorized! Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The culinary classifications have no scientific basis, but they do have an anthropological basis. They’re not completely meaningless.

  Who is “we”?

  I was basing that on a misunderstanding: I thought that the word “vegetation” being an archaic term meant that it was no longer used, but yeah, I was incorrect there. I appreciate the correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually…kind of just like this at parties. So, you be the judge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent to hear. That’s what I was hoping for!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad that this problem isn’t just limited to English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

  A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex… that you could just eat it like an apple.

  I am sad to say that, although I’ve heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.

  Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…

  Corn.

  As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that’s the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that’s another part of this terminology dumpster fire…the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it…doesn’t really.

  So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.

  Great point. “Tomato smoothie” is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn…

  Fruigetable.

  Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dang, I hadn’t even considered that! I wonder if that’s the same across all fruits we tend to eat raw.