MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 4 days ago:
I took it as more of a PSA
- Comment on faen 4 days ago:
As a native English/German speaker, this sign just makes so much sense. Very onomatopoeic. I love it
Driving Bump just doesn’t hit as hard (what I assume the literal translation is, roughly)
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 4 days ago:
A better suggestion for Chinese is Pleco, but you have to download an app for that (if one is learning Chinese, one would already have this)
I’m keen to find something else for universal unicode character recognition, but haven’t extensively searched.
If you have any suggestions, feel free
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 1 week ago:
Your country had better have a state owned grid, with a state run retailer, else this is still the same sort of shit, just without hidden fees.
Sincerely, an annoyed Victorian/Australian that wishes their electricity was just managed by the state.
There may be no hidden fees where I’m from, but when there’s a private company with a monopoly, what’s the difference?
Capitalism/privatisation is such a scam
:(
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 week ago:
I feel like the original commenter didn’t really provide what I think you’re looking for.
The service you’re likely looking for is something like this: shapecatcher.com
If you’re a learner of Chinese (or Japanese, I think? I assume they use this character also) then this character is very basic so would quickly come to mind (大 dà: “big”).
- 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. 1 week ago:
🇦🇺 heh, amateurs… But seriously this is ridiculous, and straight up anti-democtatic. Single member first past the post is the worst voting system out there.
Inb4 they make mulit-member electorates winner-take-all (all seats to the party who got the plurality of votes).
This is THE fight USA. In my opinion, your ridiculous voting systems is probably why it’s so easy to suppress you.
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 weeks ago:
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
If they keep not complying, which is my understanding of what apple has been doing, they should absolutely be bankrupted. Or something drastic.
A warning, which will make other companies self-Police, bringing down the cost of enforcement.
Countries are so permissive of corporate bad behaviour it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Love me a Legume Garlic BLT 5 weeks ago:
Maybe you should try 7 hours straight + 1 hour gay. Everyone has their own ~c~h~r~omo type
- Comment on Praise jeebus 5 weeks ago:
Then it’ll just be so in my heart
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 month ago:
This feels like a Lemmy OC, is it?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 month ago:
I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a things in many languages.
Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 month ago:
I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.
So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 month ago:
Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t call English simple haha
To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying
I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
Just my two cents, not having a go at you:
This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.
Stupid english with its stupid verbs.
We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.
Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?
I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!
I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha
- Comment on Release the kraken 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, it’s usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.
If it’s funny, it’s funny
- Comment on Clean butt 1 month ago:
Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.
Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 months ago:
In true modern Microsoft fashion. Remove features, lock forum posts of people asking for them back. Provide no reason. Profit because apparently this shit is crack to companies.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)
- Comment on Australia’s science agency sent questions from Trump administration asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology 2 months ago:
As much as the loss of revenue would be missed (that’s what this is, it’s not “funding” it’s a commercial relationship), the US government can get fucked.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it’s barely an effort to moderate.
Just start the communities you want to see :)
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
Would he not have already sold most when they went public?
