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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That's essentially it. It's a general rule that adjectives ending in -c turn into either -che or -cque.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada they're currently bulldozing a school because a school shooting happened there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A number of reasons:

  • For a number of people, they just could not fathom buying sex. Part of that is some kind of pseudoreligious idea, part of that is also that they just don't understand why you would want casual sex. These people often don't understand why in the hell you would want to be a prostitute or a John, and don't see why it shouldn't be illegal.

  • Another number of people see it as "losing". As in, you would only ever want to buy sex if you've failed to get it some other way. Essentially, if you want to buy sex, something is wrong with you. So they look down on those who buy sex (even though they're sometimes secretly those who also buy sex themselves - sort of like the anti-gay republicans who get caught... well, you know).

  • There's also the view that no woman in her right mind would ever want to sell sex, framing selling sex as abuse. Never mind that that's not necessarily the case and that selling sex is not just something women do, but if you see it like that, it makes sense to outlaw it, since you're trying to remove a source of harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Fucking. Way.

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  > on 4chan

  > not doing anything absurdly creepy, racist or disgusting

  > I'm seriously the most pathetic person on this board.

  This person is one of the least pathetic people on that board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhh Microsoft? The Analyst icon in Teams is looking a bit sus...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And don't pull them out as if you were trying to start a lawnmower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's in German: "Ei" (pronounced "I") means egg.

  The one was called "Ei Love you", the other "Ei Love you more" (apparently even my autocorrect didn't want me to write it). No, I'm not telling the person behind the counter something that could be misunderstood as I love them, not happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you safely and privately child-proof a PC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it makes it that much more enticing to find the forbidden thing. I had open internet access and I definitely wasn't looking for gore or anything like that. But at school, where the wifi was locked down, that gave me every reason to fuck around with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my books, without the second half of the word it's a verb, and not an adjective or noun. But maybe I'm just getting old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people don't mind cringeworthy things. For me, saying something that cringeworthy can hurt inside. Also, I just really don't like being coerced to say something in a certain way just to match some marketing shtick. The question shouldn't be "why don't you want to do it", but "why do you feel the need to compel me to use a term you made up".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits IHOP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a bakery close to where I live that I used to get stuff from regularly. One of the things I liked had a really cringeworthy pun as a name, though, so I just said something along the lines of "the one with ham and eggs". I regularly got asked "so one [cringeworthy pun]?" At some point I said, "yes, the one with the cringeworthy name". The employee (who seemed to be a more senior employee) said I should use the product names because it would apparently confuse the apprentices otherwise. When I said that it's just too cringeworthy she started saying things like "no one else will notice that it's cringeworthy" and going in the direction of "come on, you can do it". Well, I don't go there anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah right, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all seriousness, who was this really? Wasn't she some computer science pioneer or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlaufer

  For every new bit of technology, there's someone who finds a way to do stuff that the technology would never catch because the inventors of the technology never thought of the idea in the first point. Case in point, Elizabeth Wettlaufer is one of Canada's most prolific serial killers. They in all likelihood wouldn't have caught her if she herself hadn't confessed at some point. She was a nurse in a nursing home who regularly killed her patients by overdosing them on insulin. Because of the nature of her patients, those deaths never aroused enough suspicion to be investigated by police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every heartwarming human interest story in America...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit had an orphan crushing machine subreddit... Maybe something to revive here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo dawg, I heard you like to hover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Air Canada 307 requesting clearance to land

  You have clearance to land ON YOUR MOM lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Felt cute?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I KNEW it! Girls do shit rainbows and rose petals!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I'm just too much of an optimist. My bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus fuck now I'm being downvoted as well... Is this what they call a Reddit moment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol the /s was pretty glaringly obvious to me, but anyway...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for mbin. The dev(s?) doesn't seem to be as problematic as the Lemmy dev and it federates with a whole range of fediverse systems. The only real complaints I had with it turned out to be me misunderstanding how it works (for instance not noticing that some of the stuff on my feed is Peertube since it's just really well integrated), so now that I understand that, I'm extremely happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, got it! I tried going on a microblog post and opening the original URL, and sure enough, I landed on a Mastodon instance. Makes sense, I was sort of surprised at the amount of microblog content on kbin.earth, that explains that.

  Awesome - thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked the global microblogs page, but I'm mostly seeing things posted to random@kbin.earth, with a couple of things posted to some Lemmy instances, but nothing posted to mastodon. Maybe I'm understanding the whole concept wrong? (Or I'm blind?)

  But I did look at the Linux Experiment channel - and realized that I have seen their videos in my feed - awesome! And there, it makes sense that not as many of those pop up, since there are way less videos being created than posts made. But I now know that that works - cool! (And now I'm distracted by another of his videos...)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, odd. So I guess something is off on my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't quite understand. That would be in a separate feed then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to change prescriptions again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be Rémi Gaillard. He always had the "c'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe quoi" quote on his videos (essentially: it's in doing whatever that you can become whatever)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know about the sorting, that explains why I barely see microblogs. The mixed feed is what I'm generally using, but I only ever see microblogs from kbin.earth and not anywhere else. I've checked to make sure it's set to all instances, as well as all magazines as mbin calls it, but still, only kbin.earth. Even if I just show microblogs. And I don't ever see anything from peertube. So I guess mbin does it, I must be doing something wrong somewhere...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, accessing content is directly what I'm looking for. I would specifically like to avoid having multiple accounts if possible. I'll have to check it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting discussion, I'll have to check it out, thanks!