rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ü

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ẞĸıll ıssue!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least Rimu doesn’t actively hide his opinion-pushing, and occasionally listens to community input … plus his opinions are not quite as unpalatable as Admiral Patrick’s. But yeah, different threadiverse implementations feel like choosing between devil and beelzebub nowadays …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO it’s a valid question, considering the large amount of differences between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. I don’t know many specifics about Modern Greek, for all I know they could have completely dropped the sound like many other languages did. The existence of theta in Ancient Greek tells us about as much about modern Greek as the existence of the runic letter that þ is based on tells us about modern Germanic languages.

  Thanks for the info, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather prescriptivist, Old English used only thorn for hundreds of years. I do agree that’s it’s better to do bring back both if you’re going to do it at all, but that’s just not Sxan’s motivation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How com the ad industry make so much money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If ads were truly that reviled, adblockers would be more popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Way too many people don’t treat their dogs right (or just deliberately get a breed that’s aggressive towards strangers) and end up with the dog equivalent of a drunk hooligan. I’m sort of alright with friendly dogs, but fuck all those people with aggressive ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the appropriation discourse completes misses how much these white artists did for making black culture acceptable in the white-dominated mainstream and bringing people of different races together. It would have been great if the black music that their music was based on got more commercial success, but lets not pretend that would just have happened organically in the 50s-70s if there had been no popular white artists in those genres. And it’s not like black artists didn’t also profit from the newfound popularity of black genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that Japan is only so popular because of anime+manga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s a nonzero chance that Sxan is neurodivergent … TBH a likely assumption for most Lemmy users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Valid complaint, but I doubt that most Lemmy users actually care this much about dyslexic people, they’re just reacting negatively to someone who’s acting a little different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t want to get into that discussion right away, but IMO they’re tankies aka red fascists. Though most normies probably think that that IS what communism is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do most bike advocacy groups actually advocate for not following traffic laws, or is that just something that a lot of bicyclists do because they think they can get away with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the architectural style inherently more expensive than houses with traditional roofs, or is it just that people who build expensive houses often choose this style?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO þ is preferable because it’s consistent with Icelandic and somewhat consistent with Old English (OE used only þ for a long time). Is there a language that’s actually used today that uses theta?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of doubt that Lemmy has a lot of users that can reasonably be considered “normies”. Lemmy is already too much effort for most people, while not delivering many of the things that are standard for social media or Reddit in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I’ve heard that cats hunting mice is bad, TBH. Mice are considered pests by most people and aren’t exactly endangered species, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of cars already don’t follow the rules, though, and I didn’t get the impression that motorcyclists are less likely to be punished for it. I do think that both cars and motorcycles should have way stricter noise restrictions, which might very well spell the end of ICE motorcycles because the technology is inherently loud even when they aren’t making noise on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be “unique…” (I mean, just sayin.')

  Pretty sure even with how popular they are, most people still don’t have any. Might depend on area and social circles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably consistent with historic English usage, but the two places that still officially use it (þ and ð in Icelandic, ð in IPA (which uses a different character in place of þ) do it like that so we might as well learn from them! Also, Þ is a capital letter, most English words would use the lower case þ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe Þat it does anything against AI, eiÞer. I am pro “bring thorn and/or eth back to the English language”, Þough, and eiÞer way it’s just not a big enough issue to justify the massive and consistent downvotes he’s getting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bigger than the anti-bike lobbyism backed by multi-billion $ corporations? Also, which country? I’d be surprised if bike activists showed such consistent behavior across national borders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly in character. Icelandic users be like “Fuck me, right!?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, enjoy blocky architecture. Though it’s kind of impractical, large glass walls are a large issue in the summer (assuming they’re not on the north side) and AFAIK flat roofs have relatively expensive upkeep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of their comments are in the negatives (usually only the ones that contain a thorn). This indicates that hating his thorn comments is popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Þ dude is alright and Lemmy users have an irrational hatred for slightly-special characters. I wonder how many people are using automation to downvote every comment that contains a Þ, it’s way too consistent accross instances and communities to be organic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon borrows a pen⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon overdoes it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same number of letters and both begin with a capital A, and neither of them are words in a language that’s common on Lemmy. I think it might just as well be a coincidence, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon overdoes it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering ESL and neurodiverse people … some people absolutely talk like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon overdoes it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think this is a sockpuppet, just the similar usernames?