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- Comment on French culture 4 hours ago:
In the end, it’s all subjective but – if you’ll hear me out –
thoghdoesn’t alter the current spelling very much while maintaining a linguistic heritage (as the “thogh” spelling was also likewise used, during Middle English); also, the number of words ending in just the “o” vowel is less common, I feel, and will probably look doubly foreign to a native English speaker due to the consonant digraph (though, again, subjective; maybe not).However, – additionally – saving “oght” for “thought” is giving that letter combination a sound already covered in English by another letter combination: “aught” (e.g. caught, fraught, taught, …thaught…?).
Finally, a single “f” for “tough” could work (certainly, there are examples) but we miss out on employing the Germanic linguistic tendency to indicate a short vowel sound with a double consonant, inherited by words such as “ball”, “fall”, “doll”, “call”, or “puff” (of course, there’s plenty of exceptions (“get”, “bet”, “mat”, etc.) but, so long as we’re making changes, firming up an existing rule (and avoiding the brief uncertainty of whether or not the reader is dealing with a prefix) would, arguably, be useful).
- Comment on French culture 1 day ago:
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 week ago:
Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made."
is generally interpreted to mean that Jesus was there from the beginning. Or, to quote the Nicene Creed,
begotten and not made, consubstantial with the Father
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
I Remember Everything (in My Ass)
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, Mario!
But our princess is in another cavity!
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Not unintentionally correct…because that was my very intentional point.
In spite of car manufacturers claiming seatbelts and air bags were unnecessary, the sheer number of resulting deaths caused us to actually do something about it. I don’t look at the lack of driver’s licenses as anything approaching a rosy past. I will never be sympathetic to the argument that a lack of common sense safety regulations which saves lives somehow grants us more freedom (other than to abdicate all of your freedoms instantaneously via early death, which overwhelmingly impacts the poor and marginalized); sorry.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Like all the car crashes that now require us to get a driver’s license…; can’t mow down the government if you’re trained on the rules of the road!
People can’t just use tools that impact the lives of others outside themselves in peace; smdh…
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny because, while not a 1-for-1 cultural fit, Mastodon’s site structure has felt much closer to Tumblr’s. I feel like the reason Twitter people keep saying Mastodon’s insufficient (while, eventually, flocking to BlueSky) is that BlueSky offers a more similar UX, in terms of shunting you along algorithmically. I don’t think there’s any issue with Mastodon’s UI (other than maybe PixelFed, I think it’s the closest Fediverse project to other mainstream social media UI) but I suspect the UX isn’t quite right for people expecting Twitter.
However, I, as a Tumblr transplant, felt right at home.
- Comment on Genius 4 weeks ago:
I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn’t as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).
…
Anyway, color me surprised~
- Comment on Genius 4 weeks ago:
Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Dual-booting was how I first got into Linux; it truly leaves open the ability to keep everything you’re worried about not having.
What’s the VPN?
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 5 weeks ago:
If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: ftc.gov/…/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-m… (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).
The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.
But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 month ago:
Void, that was a great show
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hey, bud; maybe let’s not bring whorephobic and misogynistic euphemisms into this.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
Was there…something particularly offensive I committed by giving someone info. about software such that this necessitated a downvote?
- Comment on Found these in a cabinet at work. Boss told me to make them disappear. 2 months ago:
It varied, really. A lot of our Disney films were in the plastic cases (probably other ones, as well; just don’t remember anymore, at this point) and others had the cardboard sleeves.
I don’t remember it leaning one way or the other, particularly.
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 2 months ago:
You’d doubt the Fediverse Chick‽
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
Yeah…; heh, discovered some things this afternoon. Neither browser was able to load Google without crashing the tab (which, I dunno, could – maybe – motivate me to kick the habit?).
Luakit, on my distro, is v2.3.3 and I tried building to v2.4.0 but the built executive kept saying 2.3.3 for its version. I suspect this is probably more my fault, though.
Why haven’t I tried Qute?
I dunno! Heh, I feel like it’s relatively popular but I’ve also been snooping around the minimal browser space since Uzbl so maybe my perception’s off.
The biggest reason you may not have is it is based on Chromium. At the time I discovered it, the dev.'s reason was due to security issues in WebKit, at the time, but that was also 5–9 years ago so that may not be a concern, anymore.
It’s also built with QT; I generally use GTK so it’s my one gripe but I know it doesn’t bother everyone.
And it’s built on Python (I know that bothers some); but those are the only things I can think of.
It uses the same default layout that Uzbl inspired in vimprobable, dwb, jumanji, vimb, and Luakit so that’ll probably be familiar. Vim bindings out of the box (which I feel like Uzbl also inspired in all the aforementioned browsers).
I feel like it’s the most stable of the bunch, for the most part (which is probably why I keep going back to it). It can be resource heavy but the customizability and fairly stable performance is generally pretty good.
And it got support for uBlock Origin (I’m sure there’s a generic name but I’m afraid I don’t know it) style adblock lists recently with the help of Python’s
adblocklibrary (I hadn’t realized Luakit and Nyxt had support for that until now and it was always by major con, with Qutebrowser).Right now, there’s a Wayland display issue in suffering with but that’s QT’s fault and isn’t present on v6.8 (but my distro’s still at 6.7.2…); so that might not even be an issue, for you.
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
I forget why I stopped using Luakit for Qutebrowser…
Maybe I should give it a go, again; or Nyxt. I’m probably more along as a programmer for its setup to be more intuitive.
- Comment on Meow 2 months ago:
O. K. but did anyone take care-of/in the kitten, after?
- Comment on Mmm kale 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 2 months ago:
The number of times I’ve watched Twins and that…didn’t, at all, stick out to me…
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 3 months ago:
Pair it with Ferngully for a 90s-environmentalism double-feature.
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 3 months ago:
Is The Brave Little Toaster that unknown? I know it’s no Disney film or Anastasia but I thought it was more beloved (and known) than all the others listed here.
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 3 months ago:
If I remember correctly, I think the reason is that it wasn’t originally meant to be a children’s movie but for adults.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 months ago:
I mean, you always see this around new technology/fads, all the time. When it’s new or ongoing, there’s either an excitement at the novelty or being in the minority of people doing it; people see the chance to do some of the things that fix limitations of the current process and there’s always those willing to try that out.
For a day that’s already compounded with expectation and often hyped as a sort of zenith in one’s life, it’s easy to see being able to customize things exactly to the way you’re having them play out in your head as really alluring.
And, once the hype dies down or we get used to the novel aspects, all the things you mentioned with get greater focus in the general attention, again, and people will likely value those things more (because, ultimately, you’re not wrong).
But I do feel like this is a pretty consistent phenomenon with almost any trend and you always see an uptick of adopters because the ability to solve some pain points is novel.
- Comment on Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬 3 months ago:
They really love using
Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me
in the context of abortion.
