SorryQuick
@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 hours ago:
I used to hate it too but once you realize how clueless most devs are it becomes more and more understandable.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
You think? Because the vast majority of innovation (beyond the first few) was done by men who either had money (or priviliege, which in that time was the same thing) or men who were paid (or rewarded in some way) by those who did, resulting in the same thing. People who had no money/privilege and were not paid/sponsored did not have time to innovate, they had to spend their day trying to survive.
If you were “paid” by your king/warlord or whoever, you think they allowed you to just go do the same for their enemy right after?
Besides, I think we can all agree that innovation has been incredibly fast since capitalism came along, though whether it’s a cause or correlation is debatable. If your argument is that they came up with fire without copyright, then I’m afraid it’s not a very good one.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
This could work, but would require a big societal change that goes beyond the level of “copyright bad” going on in this thread.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Yes, this is exactly what happens. Lone humans just can’t do much on their own, you need money to fund you, and money doesn’t fund anything that isn’t going to make them more money.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
You’re not stealing knowledge, you’re stealing someone else’s time, effort and money. There’s a reason there’s IP laws everywhere.
What then do you suggest as the alternative? Or is your suggestion just to stop innovation?
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
But then if you can’t copyright it companies wouldn’t invest money in it since it wouldn’t be profitable. That’s kinda the whole point of copyright, so that there’s an incentive for innovation. Why invest in R&D when you can just let your competitor do it and immediately steal it from then?
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 weeks ago:
That makes him immoral, not stupid. I swear people on here will call anyone they don’t like stupid.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 3 weeks ago:
He’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 1 month ago:
Making cheap RAM is possible, it was done before. Now there’s huge demand. Surely some companies will come in and fill that demand. That’s the whole point of capitalism.
- Comment on Uno reverse😭 1 month ago:
I’m not defending the guy, but why call him fatphobic and racist, which isn’t relevant here, instead of, you know, saying he’s mean, an asshole, prick, etc…?
Truth be told, if you asked most people to recreate this meme but for them, they would also appear racist and fatphobic to you.
- Comment on Uno reverse😭 1 month ago:
Imagine calling someone racist and fatphobic because of their romantic preferences.
Am I man-phobic because I’m not attracted to men?
- Comment on Who also enjoys this? 3 months ago:
Even more with C bools: false(0) true(1) slightly more true(2) even more true(3) dangerously true(-1).
I’m sure they could make a decent enough bool to read.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 3 months ago:
Alternatively, start eating properly and solve the problem at its root.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 3 months ago:
Hardly any maple syrup outside of quebec. One of the few things that keep me here.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This is why I’m happy to be a dude. Pregnancy and periods are not something I ever want to deal with.
- Comment on Student Parking 5 months ago:
But it’s good.
If parking is free, you’d still be paying for it indirectly through your tuition. By charging for it, only those who actually need it pay for it.
Imagine you don’t have/use a car but still indirectly pay for other people’s parking spots because they can’t be bothered to walk.
- Comment on It's easy 5 months ago:
Honestly you don’t need your family to be rich. A family well-off enough to give you:
- Good financial education
- Doesn’t kick you out at 18 or require rent
- Pays your tuition (maybe not in the US)
- Supporting in your endeavors
- Family loans (not having to pay interest is massive)
Makes a HUGE difference.
- Comment on My friends are by my side 5 months ago:
Buying supplements for this harmless a phenomenon is kinda crazy.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 6 months ago:
The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.
- Comment on Pika Pika 7 months ago:
“pika” on its own is a sudden flash of light. This onomatopeia is very old (edo era old). What kind of light flashes do you think you’d find 400 years ago? There was pretty much just lightning. Not to be confused with the repeated “pika pika” which like the other commenter said indicates more of a glimmer or shiny and is way more common today.
- Comment on Pika Pika 7 months ago:
That’s… what I said?
- Comment on Pika Pika 7 months ago:
Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.
- Comment on why 7 months ago:
There’s a pattern to it. I don’t know what it is, and I’m not sure anyone knows consciously. But for example, when creating new words (eg. fantasy/sci-fi context) there usually isn’t any confusion as to what that word’s gender will be, it just sounds bad with the wrong pronoun. There are a few exceptions of course, same as “autobus” and “avion” which technically have a gender assigned but people toss a coin every time.
- Comment on why 7 months ago:
Une lave-vaisselle totally does not work.
- Comment on When you ask a question online and a person answer you instead of telling you to Fuck yourself or Google it 7 months ago:
DDG also censors results indirectly since they use bing, which microsoft controls.
- Comment on It's important! 7 months ago:
It will always feel so weird to me watching a movie in French french, the villain trying to sound badass or evil but then says something in the parisian accent. It fails everytime, it basically sounds funny. Hell even their insults sound funny for some reason, not in their choice of words but in the delivery.
- Comment on It's important! 7 months ago:
Well if you go back 500 years, every little corner of france has their own version of french, with Paris speaking roughly what they speak today. Canadians descend from other regions, mostly the north and west and inherited their way of speaking. So I call it “actual french” but really I just mean the french that was most common at the time, since this was the most populated region of france with a lot less people living in Paris.
This can be traced to a variety of sounds that we have in canadian french that are present throughout France as accents but not in the modern “standard french”. Such as the “eu” in “beurre”.
I don’t really have a source for this, this is what they teach us in school.
- Comment on It's important! 7 months ago:
There are plenty of dialects in france similar to or worse than Quebecois. Maybe I’m biased, but to me parisian french is the one that sounds bad. In the end it was the accent of the nobility, hence why it sounds so pompous, while Quebecois was the accent of the commoners.
- Comment on It's important! 7 months ago:
Vous parlez mal". i.e. You speak badly. I’ll never forget the horror in her eye
It’s funny that she would think that our french is worse than theirs, when canadian french is closer to actual french than parisian french.
- Comment on He's on a mission 7 months ago:
For some reason Newfoundlanders have been the butt of every joke for a long time and I still have no idea why.