Cuberoot

@Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some do, and inter-library loans are a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So don’t poop in the kitchen sink. Got it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are, and my state would have banned those too it they’d heard about them when they were banning RCV. They weren’t making principled objections like monotonicity failures. They likely noticed that most of RCV’s loudest advocates were from the wrong party (and some of the were the wrong color too!), and figured that was a good enough reason to shut it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have understood Michaelmas as the feast day of Saint Michael. My studies of hagiography are too limited to say which day that is or why he got sainted. Nor did I know that British people used (maybe still use) that term to refer to an entire season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably spoofed, but that doesn’t necessarily make it meaningless. If you convert numbers to letters per the telephone code, and treat 1 as a space or similar punctuation. It might resolve to KISH NORM. Is that phrase meaningful to you? Do you know anyone who would spoof a callerid to send you that message?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to see someone caring about BiLions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CaSH MoNeY (or BiTcOINS)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Occasionally, maybe once per paragraph, misspell a word intensionally. Your family, knowing how carefully you used to profread your own writing, will notice this as abnormal behavior. Either you captors have already damaged your menial health or you are trying to conceal a message. Gards reading you letters before posting them may be more used to bad writing among their detaines and not suspect anything deeper. Your family might reply using the same code, both acknowledging receipt of your coded message, and perhaps including a key for a more secure one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can get away with just about anything, so long as it doesn’t piss off anyone with a bigger navy than you own.