Roundcat

@Roundcat@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And people will still insist on remaining there. I’m convinced Musk could shut down the site tomorrow, and people would continuously refresh until it somehow reappears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has an extremism problem. Partly because of the lack of moderation tools (which is why a lot of mods supposedly left reddit in the first place) and partly because of the lack of moderation, or straight up complacency of some mods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does every fad tech come with a huge environmental cost?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who reads Japanese, reading all kana can be slow because you are reading one syllable at a time. It makes going back to old video games and reading children’s media tedious.

  Once you know enough kanji though, you can read incredibly fast. Depending on the material, I can speedread faster in Japanese than I can in English.

  This is because kanji is meant to be recognized at a glance rather than read in your head. The kana in Japanese sentence is supposed to provide grammatical context. So in stead of reading “Inu ga ie ni nemashita” in my head, I’m seeing “Dog, in house, slept” from a glance.

  So the downside to this system is that you’re spending most of your education learning every character you’ll need, but the upside is it can make reading very efficient once you have got it down. I think it’s part of the reason Japan still has a pretty robust book culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s where we get TV “southern” comes from…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does this seem to only be about Instagram?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Winnie the Pooh! With my bare hands slathered in honey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t read, sorry. Reddit brain made my brain work not so good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with some of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, me and my siblings: “It’s raining sunshine!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'King Of The Hill' Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying the government is somehow involved here…but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder what it means⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (on our way to area 51)

  What do we want? A man worth fighting for🎵