CombatWombat
@CombatWombat@feddit.online
- Comment on I Can't Stop Thinking About Majora's Mask 1 day ago:
If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t read the linked article and just comes to the comments: stop. no. go back. click through. It’s really important you read what she wrote.
- Comment on About half of lemmy today 6 days ago:
Nah, inter-instance drama about who defederated from whom and who blocked what and which instance is hosting which problematic account is pretty common. If you can be sanguine about it, it’s pretty fun.
- Comment on Is it wrong to be against my own country any more? Kind of feel like I am the only one who wants to start a revolution to stop our DIC (douch in charge)? 6 days ago:
Be careful with this one, Don. There are things you say in public, and there are things you say in private.
- Comment on What happened to "Sanctuary Cities" where they bussed so called "immigrants" there? Was there a long term effect or anything? Or did cities may had a hiccup or two and that's about it? 1 week ago:
My city’s still a sanctuary city. Mostly, the effects seem to be that people really want to live here a lot, and then lots of people move here.
- Comment on Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup? 1 week ago:
Lots of countries have multiple nations that participate in international soccer. For instance, the US fields the USMNT, but also American Samoa. It is nations, rather than states, that are represented at the World Cup.
- Comment on What happened to nuance? 2 weeks ago:
Social media posts are directional. People come on and decide they want to pull the discourse toward their desired outcomes, and that’s best accomplished when you’re posting slightly off-topic – centering your views for an audience that is likely to be amenable. That, of course, drives off all the people who actually want to discuss the topic at hand, and here we are.
- Comment on what's the deal with Data centers and why do we all of a sudden need massive ones built all over everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of folks talking the LLM side, but it’s also worth mentioning that these are real estate deals, and that real estate gives banks and corporations the power to conjure money. The money loaned in a mortgage by and large doesn’t exist before the mortgage is written, so by trading assumed future revenues for real estate deals today, corporations can pull forward profits from the future to the present. There are particular kinds of deals and speculation taking place that real estate allows you that software does not, and the data center buildout looks kind of like the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis strictly from the real estate side, independent of what gets put in the data center.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, this is a very interesting line of inquiry! Is there any evidence of differences in the working memory of language speakers where there is more tolerance on the amount of words between separable verbs, like the 50 word intervals in German mentioned elsewhere? Your longer examples are starting to get very Silas Mariner energy.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re sensitive about how people judge you based on your accent and regional dialect, I feel that advocating that we treat people who speak nonstandard forms of english or in regional dialects, even on fedi, is a more productive way to get the treatment from others you want.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
I find this view surprising from an American. I find the use of the education system to enforce a “standard” dialect of English rather than studying and celebrating regional dialect at odds with both the project of America and our national character.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
I think what you’re telling me is you’re a native German speaker, and if so I might say you’re on rather tenuous ground telling a native english speaker what sounds weird and dumb in their native language.
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re overstating your position here. Many phrasal verbs are most natural when the verb and preposition are separated, and you would not think they were an idiot for separating them:
- I’m going to call my best friend Lenora up
- thank you for cheering my depressed capybara Luis up
- I think we need to cut the gnarly old oak tree down
Maybe it’s not as dramatic as German, but it’s still a correct example and something a native speaker would produce.
- Comment on Was there ever a candidate for President of the US, who actually stepped outside the lobbyist crap and gave real and honest answers that were not rehearsed? 2 weeks ago:
I’d volunteer Vermin Supreme as an example of a candidate in the most recent US election that didn’t give rehearsed answers.
- Comment on Is there really no poll function on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried making a poll on mastodon and at mentioning the lemmy community? Mastodon supports polls, and you can post to a lemmy community by at mentioning it from any fediverse service, but I have no idea what lemmy (or piefed) would do with the poll.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 3 weeks ago:
The last time there was a serious strike in Seattle, we formed a General Strike Committee, which organized everything. They scheduled trash collection, organized laundry service, delivered food, and took over the hospitals so that healthcare continued. It’s trendy in today’s politics to act like striking is so easy – you just stay home from work! just go to the store the day before! – but to strike fear into the heart of the capitalist, you must provide a credible threat that you can keep on striking indefinitely, and that requires a lot of work and a lot of organization. Who has time for that when they’re working 3 jobs just to make rent?
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 3 weeks ago:
Search on the internet has been completely broken by search providers and it’s getting worse all the time. I’m old enough to have opinions on Alta Vista vs Lycos, so I get that I might still have some tricks up my sleeve the kids these days are unaware of. I am bothered, but by what Google and Microsoft are doing, not by Gen Z kids who can’t figure out how to circumvent their enshittification.
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- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 3 weeks ago:
In the biblical story, Lot believes the best way to get the residents of the city not to rape the two angels who came to visit him is to offer his virgin daughters instead, which doesn’t really portray them in a particularly positive light (and doesn’t really reflect well on Lot, either).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t have high expectations for upper class career dot com, but saying journalism jobs at WaPo have long been considered “stable” requires you to have ignored 100% of news about journalism jobs for the past thirty years.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
Realistically, with half-finished games on launch and mandatory day one patches, this won’t be a meaningful shift in how much you actually “own” your games, but dropping this 2 days after they deleted 550 movies that folks had bought and paid for and ostensibly “owned” from the ecosystem is a real bad look.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Okay, but the kind of “extremely difficult thing” you could do to remove invasive bamboo is to pave over the affected area and build a data center.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, this happens pretty trivially with noun phrases in Spanish and English because Spanish is postpositive and English is prepositive.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have a concrete answer to your question, but it does sound an awful lot like you’re getting xckd 2501’d:
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 1 month ago:
Gray is the correct spelling 🦅🇺🇸🎆🎸🤼♂️🍖
- Comment on How can maladaptive daydreamers possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 month ago:
This is a hell of a called shot on an account with one post and one comment and if you drain it I will be in awe.
- Comment on In the world of sports, politics, conversations, and argument, and much more. Which is the better stance to have? Offensive or Defensive? What is the overall no matter what it is O or D? 1 month ago:
If you have all defense and no offense, the best you can hope for is a 0-0 draw, which’ll never get you into the playoffs. If you play all offense, you can maintain possession and see out a narrow win, or just go whole hog and try to win 7-6. Please, Adrian, we desperately need someone who can score goals for the Reign, just playing anti-soccer nonstop is destroying me.
- Comment on Love/hate relationship with Bethesda Game Studio 1 month ago:
I bought Starfield when it hit PS5. I thought for sure the in the 2+ years since release they’d have time to work out the kinks from launch, like No Man’s Sky did. I’ve played maybe four hours, but driving the moon buggy causes the game to crash every time, and there hasn’t been a fix in months. I think it’s over for Bethesda and me, for good this time.
- Submitted 1 month ago to support@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on My hand..... but but where's my hand? Hmm 1 month ago:
Certainly the most mildly irritating thing about this picture is that you’ve posted it to 10 separate communities (so far)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I do recognize your handle, I’ll give you that much.
