PapaStevesy
@PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Professor Witten demonstrates his appreciation for Linus Torvald's counting style 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s in the wrong community imo. Not saying it’s not about science, but there’s multiple Linux meme subs this could be on where people might actually think it’s funny.
- Comment on Anon was bullied 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they’re just a sexy animal that fucks
- Comment on Weeeeazels 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wish there was more crossover between c/science_memes and c/grammar_and_composition_memes. What does that last sentence mean at all?
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
Hyphens clarify compounds
Exactly, they clarify multi-word compound adjectives from multi-word non-compound adjectives. Only multi-word compound adjectives in everyday, common use can get away with forgoing the hyphen without creating the kind of confusion exemplified perfectly by the comments above. “Child-eating” is obviously not in everyday, common usage, and thus should be hyphenated.
Reading ‘child’ as its own noun would require ‘a child’ or a different construction, which isn’t what’s written.
I’m not reading it as its own noun, I’m reading it as a noun adjunct, describing pedophiles. If the pedophiles are children, they’re child pedophiles. If those child pedophiles are eating… Sure it should have a comma, but lord knows no one on the Internet knows how to use them properly
None of this really matters because it was all based on a shitreply to a doom post, who gives a shit?
Still don’t know what gamer and yeah has to do with anything, but you do you bud 😘
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
“Child eating” is not a compound modifier, that’s what the hyphen does. Without a hyphen, the modifiers “child” and “eating” both independently describe “pedophiles”, the hyphen makes “child-eating” into the compound adjective the author was obviously intending to convey. Wikipedia uses the example “heavy-metal detector”. Without the hyphen, you have a metal detector that’s heavy. If you need a device to detect heavy-metals, your SOL.
Absolutely no clue what “gamer and yeah” means 🤷♂️
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
No I’m not, I’m interpreting it as the object of the preposition by. The lack of hyphenation means that child is either a noun which is eating pedophiles or an adjective describing pedophiles who are eating. Presumably neither is what the author intended.
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not my phrasing, take it up with the OP.
- Comment on You okay babe? 2 weeks ago:
I’d give 100% of my paycheck to a child that eats pedophiles
- Comment on fur sure 3 weeks ago:
Wow what an argument, very convincing 🙄
- Comment on fur sure 3 weeks ago:
No sear=no maillard=waaaaay less flavor. Also braising things usually aren’t fully submerged, so they can actually keep developing maillard in the oven. Wine, stock, and beer all also have and impart actual flavor, unlike plain water. Of course you can boil with those things, but then you need a lot more of them, which is more expensive/wasteful. Drastically different results using different ingredients and equipment means not really samey at all imo.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Because Tsunami Three already happened and Tsunami Five hasn’t happened yet
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
Nice, can I borrow it? Sounds like a good read
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t mean that.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
And doctors, nurses, lab technicians, etc, plus anyone who can subtract twelve.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
The ice bath will give you consistency so it’s not such a dice roll. It also helps stop the egg cooking, in case your going for a jammy or soft-boiled egg. And you can peel sooner because it’s not so hot.
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 5 weeks ago:
You ever seen an airtight toilet lid? That ain’t doing shit against aerosolized fecal particulates. Don’t worry though, no one’s gets sick just breathing the air in a bathroom, most public toilets in America don’t even have lids. If “fecal mist” was an actual health risk, the science would be well in by now, the patterns would be unavoidable and ubiquitous. Maybe if you lick the walls where the bathroom air condensates you might get sick, but most people are reasonable enough not to do that just by instinct.
- Comment on Real talk 5 weeks ago:
Nice Oxford comma!
- Comment on Real talk 5 weeks ago:
There were also infinitely fewer people concerned about humans’ ecological impact and no effective way to change that. Now we have millions and millions of people all over the world worried about it and we are all interconnected via the internet. We caused a mass extinction with a million of us in disparate tribes, just imagine what we could accomplish if all 8 billion of us actually worked together toward changing the world for the better! Unfortunately we’re still stuck in stupid tribes, and the most powerful tribe that controls every aspect of life in every other tribe is obsessed with destroying the Earth at a never-ending, ever-increasing pace. Here in America, our ruling class is literally trying to bring about the apocalypse. But naw, getting rid of them couldn’t possibly lead to any kind of benefit, we better get let them burn it all down in the name of line-go-up 🙄🙄🙄
- Comment on Real talk 5 weeks ago:
'Someone tried once and did it wrong, so it must be impossible. 🤷♂️"
- Comment on Real talk 1 month ago:
*Fewer humans, and that would actually solve most of our problems, it’s just that we need to be more specific about which humans we get rid of. Specifically billionaires/unchecked capitalists.
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 1 month ago:
Because you don’t know what a potato looks like
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 1 month ago:
Because it’s not actually a turd, fucking or otherwise, it’s a potato.
- Comment on Protest today. Message received! 1 month ago:
Actually it would be a fucking shit, hence the condom
- Comment on Do boys who had affectionate mothers growing up become more "gentle"? 1 month ago:
It’s not unknown, it’s just that it’s not one or the other. We solved nature vs nurture a long time ago, you just change the vs to and. Why would only one factor matter when both are ever-present?
- Comment on Wholesome 1 month ago:
That changed nothing except actually made the joke less funny somehow. The two superfluous panels are the right two and they didn’t change with the different context.
- Comment on Wholesome 1 month ago:
Yeah I see what you mean. Definitely not well executed, but there’s something there.
- Comment on Wholesome 1 month ago:
I was just saying how the majority of comics either fuck up the punchline or don’t even have one. At least this comic has one, but it’s in the wrong place.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 month ago:
No one is forcing you to eat sweets right before bed, and that’s not what dessert is anyway. Dessert follows the entree, it’s part of the meal. If you decide to eat dinner right before bed, that’s on you.
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 month ago:
Which is exactly why people always fall for it.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 month ago:
What any French Stewart?