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- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 19 hours ago:
Not an April Fools joke, this was reported in media I read too in the last few days, ie not on April 1, eg nau.ch/…/billig-airline-soll-bald-stehplatze-anbi…
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- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 3 days ago:
My first language is German and this was one of the first lessons we ever got in English: how to form questions and that you need to use the verb “do” to do that.
And then we later had to learn the exceptions like “be” and “can” because “do you be stupid?” and “do you can swim?” are definitely not valid English.
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 3 days ago:
The technical term you’re looking for is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support
English is somewhat weird in how to form questions and negations, most other languages don’t do this kind of thing.
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 3 days ago:
not as a full sentence, certainly as a subclause: “can you tell me what it means?”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I agree with you substantially.
But just very recently there was a story in Germany where a male elementary school teacher revealed that he was gay. Many of his students were Muslims who were taught to hate gay people and now refused to respect him in various ways (including refusing to go to his classes).
Who is the “oppressed group” here?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It can be argued that it’s racist because “civilized” means “western” or “western-influenced”, i.e. contrasts countries in Europe + North America + Australia + maybe some of Eastern Asia with countries in Africa or Southern Asia.
You are very close to figuring out some of the problems with “social justice” ideology.
Standing up for all “oppressed groups” is contradictory. For example, in western countries, LGBT people are an oppressed group, and so are Muslims, yet when the latter are in power, they treat the former very badly, so which side do you stand up for? Or try these: usnews.com/…/blacks-are-more-socially-conservativ… news.gallup.com/…/blacks-conservative-republicans…
It also doesn’t help in conflicts such as Israel/Palestine (are Palestinians oppressed by Israel, so we stand up for them? are Israelis oppressed by the Muslim world, so we stand up for Israel?) or trans activists vs. trans-exclusionary feminists (are trans people an oppressed group whose rights we support? are women an oppressed group whose identity is being appropriated by trans women?). You can see it’s possible to argue nearly everything from the premise that we stand up for “oppressed groups”.
So I suggest people stop thinking in these terms at all and instead pick some other way of thinking, such as supporting a society in which anyone is allowed to live their life as long as they aren’t harming anyone else. Not saying this helps in the specific (somewhat silly) argument you are quoting.
- Comment on How can open source projects get acquired by third parties? 4 days ago:
What you describe isn’t software getting acquired, it’s a website getting acquired.
- Comment on A community for sharing experiences of “switching” 5 days ago:
there is also !demicrosoft@programming.dev
- Comment on Games have to cost $80! Meanwhile focus £35 oh sure have the DLC for £1 you have the other game 5 days ago:
at least actually post it to !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz if you leave a comment like that…
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 5 days ago:
Doesn’t PeerTube already do this? Maybe I am mistaken.
In any case there’s nothing inherently preventing this, just because a platform gets some of its data from other servers instead of its own users, it doesn’t mean it can’t use that data to run a recommendation algorithm.
I don’t want it though. I prefer choosing for myself what sources I want to get information from instead of getting any of it recommended by the platform operator.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Are you sure you will be allowed to drive a manual car in Romania with your American license if you didn’t take the test with a manual car? I live in a different European country and here if you take the test with an automatic car, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. You should research this.
It’s definitely different from an automatic car and requires more concentration. Once you get used to it, it’s not difficult. I was older than you are now when I learned to drive at all (which I did on a manual car) and managed it anyway.
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- Comment on If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged? 2 weeks ago:
Legal questions can’t be meaningfully answered without a location. But there are many places where there are laws against that and this can be a crime.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 2 weeks ago:
I suspect you already know about Meads v Meads. Paragraph 73 of that provides some clues:
All this is a consequence of the fact gurus proclaim they know secret principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on the state, courts, and individuals.
Many people like the thought that they know something no one else knows or that at least most people don’t know. Including things about the law.
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 2 weeks ago:
How old is “old” for this purpose?
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 2 weeks ago:
The dataset might contain only (or be filtered for) confirmed email addresses, ie. where someone actually clicked the confirmation link. That would make this very unlikely.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 weeks ago:
Movements to abolish or reduce the scope of copyright existed long before the current “AI” hype. Keywords around it are: free culture, the Pirate Bay, “copying is not theft”, etc.
I’ve long been sympathetic to such and I don’t think “AI” changes anything about that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The existence of cash is probably the least of one’s problems in that scenario. How is food going to be delivered to stores without working gas pumps? How will stores open their electronic doors or process payments without a cash register?
If this is something you are worried about, store enough non-perishable (eg canned) food in your home so you don’t starve in that scenario.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 3 weeks ago:
Probably true. slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce… was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women’s spaces) so it doesn’t get my emotions up much to read any side’s arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 3 weeks ago:
When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.
Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?
- Comment on Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act 3 weeks ago:
The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 3 weeks ago:
Why do you think Donald Trump has any clue about anything he is doing? Has he not repeatedly demonstrated the opposite?
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- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 3 weeks ago:
By participating on it, mainly. The more people notice that using Lemmy is a way to kill boredom and stay informed about things they are interested in, the more people will look here instead of (or in addition to) reddit or Facebook or other places.
- Comment on How do I decrease acne after shaving my face? 3 weeks ago:
Get medication against acne from a doctor. That was the only thing that finally helped me get rid of it.