davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's so fucking awesome 4 days ago:
it’s so fucking awesome
That’s three words.
- Comment on Nigerian Village Bombed by Trump Has 'No Known History' of Anti-Christian Terrorism, Locals Say 4 days ago:
What? People are still looking for a reason for this happening other than to distract the media from how much trump is in the Epstein files despite being redacted from it in such vast quantities?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
What happened?
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 6 days ago:
Exactly. I wouldn’t touch a chromebook with a barge pole. Who wants Google to watch absolutely everything you do?
- Comment on What Are You 1 week ago:
(I’m not a YouTube person.) Thanks for explaining.
- Comment on What Are You 1 week ago:
Does table mean breadwinner or something?
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In confused by you saying that french verb conjugation is all three of: mostly incomplete, powerful and hard to learn. Did you mean inconsistent rather than incomplete?
Would German make a better lingua franca?
I’m told sanskrit is pretty logical.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Lol no, they did not!
NERDS WORK VERY HARD INDEED AND FIX BUGS IN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SYSTEMS doesn’t sell papers.
For that matter, neither does TEENAGERS WORK NIGHT AND DAY IN UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION AND BREAK PREVIOUS SUCCESS RECORDS AGAIN BECAUSE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE GRADED AS FAILING UNLESS RESULTS RISE CONTINUOUSLY. Can you tell I have friends in the teaching profession?!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The invention of the printing press and of the dictionary at a time of great language change has been problematic for English spelling.
Why do you feel English is better than French? I think English has most of the problems of French and then a whole bunch of its own, but I’m interested in your perspective.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah excellent, thank you.
I think the numbers speaking Irish Gaelic are incredibly small, whereas Welsh is still a commonly spoken first language away from south Wales.
I looked up the welsh for toes and found toesau which is a Welsh pluralised borrow from English, but also bysedd traed, which is indeed fingers of the foot, so I think Wales should be added to the stripey red and green part of the map as per other comments.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about it, but I suspect this is just a map of the 'Germanic" language family.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think you’re allowing this to make you angrier than you should.
You clearly speak English, which I think of as the mongrel child of two or three Germanic languages and a Romance one, and not in a good way, so I also think it’s the most fucked up and inconsistent one of the lot. The only thing it’s got going for it as a language is genderless nouns.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
This is a fair point. I’m a programmer and this kind of banter is not super common in my workplace. We are all a little bit odd in our own ways.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
I remember it well.
The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmes encoded a date as two digits and everyone was going to accidentally become of negatively age and all timers would break.
COBOL programmers: there’s a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above Abby other issue to resolve it
Managers and newspapers: ARMAGEDDON!
COBOL programmers: we’ve got this.
Newspapers: nobody is doing anything about it! Armageddon!
COBOL programmers: It’s a lot of work but we’re cracking on, we’ve been working at it a while and it’s going to be tight and we’re going to need to put in some overtime, but really, we’ve got this.
Newspapers: OH FUCK LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CRASHMillienium dawns. Some slight issues remain. Most important systems already patched and fine. Society does not crash.
Newspapers: There was no millennium bug after all!
COBOL programmers: no, there was, but we fixed it like we said we needed to and then we did. Boy, that was hard work.
Newspapers: It was ALL A HOAX.
COBOL programmers: no, it was a problem and we fixed it.
Newpapers: CELEBRITY WOMAN WEARS DRESS.
COBOL programmers: we just see the world differently, I guess. Can I retire early with all this emergency business critical overtime money? - Comment on There are no odd numbers divisible by 2 1 week ago:
I want to argue with this but find music short of a rational basis to do so. Does this mean I have become alt right?
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Thank you. I didn’t know what 23 was about
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Nope. Source: am gen X.
- Comment on There are no odd numbers divisible by 2 1 week ago:
Correction, it’s either odd or it’s divisible by two.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 weeks ago:
No more impoverishment by rents.
You’ve put your finger on it there.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 3 weeks ago:
The weird thing is that these people don’t think they’re rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
This is an alt, they said elsewhere.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
More like flat earthers demanding proof that the world is round. Who disbelieves that .ml mods ban a lot of people for critisizing former communist countries?
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
On the stage of geopolitics, the current US government acts in favor of Russia.
True, yes.
But I don’t think it’s reciprocated!
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
I know I shouldn’t bite, and it’ll all end in tears, but this bait is too tempting!
if you don’t listen to the actual reasons people believe things and just assume it’s because Russia used to be socialist
What, specifically is good about specifically Russia as it is nowadays, from a leftist perspective, that isn’t because it used to be socialist?!
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
The hesitation was slight and my comment was mainly for fun.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, hi, it’s Mr Asymmetric Demands for Proof again!
How about for a change, you go and dig about in the modlog instead of demanding everyone else does?
Provide a witness statement that you searched the modlog for this user and found nothing, and you’ll lend your viewpoint a shred of credibility. But without that, all we have to go on is your weird demands for proof that behaviour we all know the .ml mods are renowned for actually happened again for the 1758th time.
If someone says something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.
I say that you argued with me for hours and hours yesterday after I said that you were as unnecessarily argumentative and bad at backing down as the person you were calling toxic. I recall finding it amusingly ironic. I remember you being particularly upset when I pointed out that calling me names wasn’t really proving me wrong. That’s when you started swearing at me in DMs and calling me things you weren’t prepared to call me in public.
I refuse to supply a link. Am I lying?
TL;DR Demanding proof that something that happens a lot happened again is reality denial masquerading as rationality.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 3 weeks ago:
You seem to think that having Trump on your side makes you pro America, but I strongly disagree.
Putin didn’t campaign for his pet Trump to be president in offer to strengthen and enrich the USA!
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
Nice try, FBI.