procrastitron

@procrastitron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume the highlighted region is meant to call out the fact that they’re claiming a metaphorical expression isn’t being used metaphorically.

  Yes, that’s incredibly stupid, and yes the entire letter is pro-hate propaganda.

  However, I think it’s important to also call out something else about the phrase “wiped of the map”…

  It’s an English language idiomatic expression.

  Idiomatic expressions are language specific.

  When you see a quote attributed to someone speaking Farsi, and it includes English idiomatic expressions, you can be fairly certain the translation is complete bullshit, and whoever created the translation is trying to manipulate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the format used in large parts of Asia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Margot Robbie Baffled Over ‘Babylon’ Flop and ‘Still Can’t Figure Out Why People Hated It’: ‘I Wonder If in 20 Years People’ Will Be Shocked It Bombed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally the first I’ve ever heard of it.

  I doubt I’m the only one and I’m sure that at least contributed to the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covfefe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use one hand to scoop and use the fingers on your other hand to count to ten. Then you don’t have to remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inaccuracies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try bending at the first finger joints instead of at the knuckles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inaccuracies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t bother to fold my fingers all the way when I do it. All you need is a binary on/off, so just bending any discernible amount is sufficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they wouldn’t.

  They would exist outside of our universe (since they created the universe), so the rules of physics in our universe don’t apply to them.

  Even if the reality they existed in had something equivalent to atoms, it would be inaccurate to call those “atoms” since they are in different realities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This person's rejection reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Age is only a protected class if you are 40 or older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Invincible Season 2 coming Nov 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The production cycle for animation is ridiculously long and writing is at the very beginning of it. It’s possible that all the writing was done long before the strike started.