CombatWombat

@CombatWombat@feddit.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I mean, we cut a quarter million jobs from the federal government for bureaucrats who ensured our food was safe, so it’s not particularly surprising to me to hear there’s more unsafe food available for purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grow your own⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never bought a tomato in a grocery store half as flavorful as the Cherokee purples I grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't Luigi ManGioni go to trial? Why not get a better deal knowing the prosecution would have to pony up some serious plea bargain?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Manifestly, the prosecution did not have to offer a better plea bargain, as Mangione pled guilty without being offered any plea deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there is not a community for new mods to get in discussions with seasoned mods that is not adversarial? That way the newbs can learn from old guard and old guard learn from the new?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t what !moderators@lemmy.world is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling sad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh honey, you’re gonna have so much more fun and be so much happier as an adult than you were as a child. Don’t worry about mourning your lost teenage years, your 20s and 30s were always going to be much better for you. Go out and be gay and atheist and pursue whatever makes you feel alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time I take my kid to a playground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting trees set back from the sideline would also improve the experience for the soccer players and their families, since they’d have shade to rest in while watching or at the half. Seems a bit “cutting off their nose to spite their face.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crazy cheeks on that guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Кошки все-таки «ня» мяукают

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This response was always a bit flimsy on social media where the goal is to be social, but it lost all its venom when every search engine was intentionally gutted to drive traffic to llm-based products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because I didn’t know mbin has had that feature for ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me more about how one procures a universal barrel key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use the pwa. The interface for following users is still pretty clunky — you have to browse the instance on the instances page, and you only see accounts who have interacted with your instance previously. I went to pixelfed.social and gram.social and followed just some random accounts and it has turned out way better than I expected. My favorite is an account that posts photos from a gameboy camera, @harryfk@pixelfed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender neutral guide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most boring d&d party. How about:

  • firefighter
  • policerogue
  • mailcleric
  • fisherranger
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like @vicfroh@mastodon.social , @i0null@infosec.exchange , and @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (this is technically a bluesky account via a bridge to give credit where credit is due)

  I would also recommend @nonfedimemes@wetdry.world but I think they might have stopped posting? idk maybe follow anyway in case they come back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being able to follow individual users, in addition to communities, is enough to tip the scales for me in favor of piefed. There’s a lot of content on the fediverse that is inaccessible from the threadiverse, and getting pixelfed photographers and mastodon meme accounts in my feed has been a huge improvement for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that makes more sense, although an ecl qualifier is still pretty tame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is particularly baffling because European soccer isn’t in season. They did this for a friendly? I mean a coupla-few stickers maybe, but what kind of celebrating or bad blood are you having after a friendly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Can't Stop Thinking About Majora's Mask⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.