solarvector
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- Comment on 🤏🤏🤏 12 hours ago:
Anna’s Archive
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 days ago:
Competition for Veridian Dynamics
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
Thanks!
I’m definitely arguing against standard rules then 🙄
However, I’d say generally people write “Good morning John, please do this boring thing from last week”, instead of “Good morning, John, please do this thing”.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
Honestly I’m not sure if I’m critiquing widely accepted English grammar because it seems kinda like the serial comma (some use, some don’t), but I don’t know the name for it.
The NY Times piece on commas doesn’t cite any sources and gives examples with and without based on Byzantine rules I highly doubt anyone follows, and the OWL doesn’t seem to cover this specifically.
So… any idea what this particular type of comma is called that I’m wrong about but would like to persuade others that I should be right?
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
That comma is unnecessary and introduces ambiguity to the sentence, which is the opposite of what commas are supposed to do.
For example, who is the dumbass?:
Have a good weekend dumbass!
Have a good week, dumbass!
Have a good week, Dumbass!
Who is Carol?!? The addressed, or the addressee? (I’m not actually an English expert so may be wildly incorrect)
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 3 weeks ago:
If your unit of measurement is 1 Asia coastline, all others would be some changing fraction thereof. Mathematical equation paradox maybe but hardly over that disproves the answer.
- Comment on last chance to look at me hector 2 months ago:
Assuming this is a good faith comment;
In a .ml thread, try criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin’s role in oligarchy, or Russian state handling of gender.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 2 months ago:
Opening match you know you get to watch your own team play.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 2 months ago:
Some great clinical advice here. As others have mentioned, staying calm is important as part of the process. A few things might help with that:
Focus on the problem and symptoms, not what might be. E.g., not “oh god are they dying???”, but instead their chest hurts when they breathe in, they sound a little out of breath, they do/don’t have a fever. Then work the problem in front of you. Practice bringing your mind back to what is observable.
Part of you, maybe unconsciously, may think that they’ll be safer if you’re worried about them. That if your brain is constantly on alert, gaming out problems, or otherwise figuring out what might happen that your family and friends will be safer. This is anxiety speaking, not love or reason. You do not need to be in a state of worry to love someone, or to take care of them. Working towards an understanding of that can help with your default state and help keep yourself and them more safe on a crisis.
- Comment on Where have you been? 3 months ago:
Don’t know how to just share an image, or they’re using a shitty app that limits that ability.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 3 months ago:
I just found my solution to bringing water to a concert without using a shitty plastic bottle.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 3 months ago:
Alright, that’s fair.
For me I think it’s more that nothing about the official story makes sense. It seems much more likely he was being a shithead and got punched while shopping. What he was shopping for should be largely irrelevant.
It’s similar to other conservative hypocrisies.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 3 months ago:
Eh, he victimized millions of people already, lied repeatedly about his story, the cops lied to support him. He isn’t the victim, he’s the asshole.
- Comment on Especially the Ø... 4 months ago:
Shortcut for writing System of a Down lyrics
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 5 months ago:
This was the context I never knew I needed, thank you.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 5 months ago:
Funny meme but also inflation is bad
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 5 months ago:
I feel like I just need to watch someone use it… and then will still wonder what the point is and why an interior platform has so much more traffic.
- Comment on Protip: 5 months ago:
I’d say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.
Also, parasites 😬
- Comment on FROM DOWNTOWNNNNN! 🎃 5 months ago:
You better be built bigger than LeBron if you can shoot a pumpkin from downtown
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 6 months ago:
None of them are geniuses, it’s just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 6 months ago:
Depending on the company this is exactly the argument I’m favor of lying about a degree: the hiring manager doesn’t care, and HR is checking a box.
Whether or not it’s a “good” idea in terms of efficacy is probably based on too many unknowns. It’s all a crapshoot anyway in terms of the random shit that a resume can be filtered for.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 6 months ago:
Then tell them a holy parable about finding cheese.
- Comment on i broke 6 months ago:
I think the point of therapy is to help you effect changes in your behavior (mental and physical). Sounds like you were able to make some changes that help.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 7 months ago:
Were the replies on Reddit from AI bots?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 8 months ago:
Privacy, UI/UX, admin controls, ads, pop ups or notifications, nagging about online services, AI, forced account creation, not working with older hardware.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 8 months ago:
Might be worth testing Linux with a separate drive. I know people still have trouble with Nvidia, but there are a lot of people (myself included) that just had to install the drivers and have had zero issues thereafter. Mine is a slightly older gaming laptop.
I have a desktop with an AMD card that I tried to put Linux on and couldn’t get the drivers to work. I’m going to try again in the summer and hope they’ve caught up.
- Comment on Short attention span 8 months ago:
In similar vein to what others have posted:
I think you’re describing a combination of stress and preoccupation. I suggest looking into mindfulness as a way to start helping with both.
If it’s more than that and you have healthcare, both a Dr visit and psychiatry visit to discuss with a professional could be helpful.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 8 months ago:
Whoa there. This was a hard one not to down vote, well done.
- Comment on This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them 9 months ago:
- not what the courts will do
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 9 months ago:
My favorite apple auto correct: changing the word before the one you just finished. You mentally verify that it’s correct, type the next word, auto correct fucks up the next word and then retroactively fucks up the word you already moved on from. Absolutely brilliant interface.