MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 18 hours ago:
lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.
It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.
Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.
I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more
- Comment on cant take it anymore 1 week ago:
Some. Many, if not most, are just flawed human beings.
I don’t enjoy this “everyone sucks” mentality you see online a lot.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Is the Sabbath Sunday? I thought it was Saturday. But regardless, some countries start the week on Sunday.
It’s cursed as heck when we call Saturday and Sunday the weekend.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
2015 can be written as Y-2.015E3S4
When would this ever be required, wtf hahaha
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I routinely do this in emails and documents. No one has ever questioned me on it because they’re used to it from folder/file names.
Please do join me in slowly changing the world over to year, month, day order.
(Though I prefer the non-standard dots instead of hyphens, as they are non-line-breaking, and allows for hyphens to be used as separators for other parts in a file along with underscores)
YYYY.MM.DD is my fave
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
This was excellent. Disappointed the YT algorithm doesn’t agree
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
I assumed it was a second bag.
I miss the days of a skillful photo edit
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 month ago:
This comment is way too far down.
- Comment on Woops 1 month ago:
Back in my day, whoops had an h, which was the style at the time.
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
“Magic system” is a bit of an oxymoron
This is just the currently accepted terminology in world building: rebeccashedd.com/…/the-worldbuilders-toolkit-buil…
I’m just extending this to sci-fi also, as have many others, because they’re basically the same thing, only that the sci-fi magic systems are vaugely based on real-life science (but vary wildly how closely).
Think Stargate with their loosey-goosey ancients and accession, vs the much more grounded The Expanse.
I’m just not a fan of magic systems without any rules at all.
Hence why I find supernatural stories less interesting, which streaming services, book shops, and movie theatres, frustratingly categorise under fantasy. They are very different from sci-fi and fantasy, in my opinion.
If your magic is purely “mysterious”, that’s boring, and lazy story-telling (In my opinion).
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
Just joking around, but yeah, I personally enjoy what I call “supernatural” stories less than sci-fi and fantasy with proper world-building
- Comment on They can't keep getting away with this 1 month ago:
Wait until you hear about How Vodka Ruined Russia
Tankies ought to be frothing at the mouth about alcoholism, since apparently they love Stalin. And Stalin brought back alcoholism to Russia (Not a socialist at all, in my opinion)
(Disclaimer, I’m in general much further left than the YouTube channel Kraut, but he makes some quite well put-together videos)
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
Soft magic systems aren’t any fun. Change my mind.
Christianity, stranger things and paranormal activity are equally as uninteresting to me because it’s “because I said so”. Boooooooo, come up with some rules for your world.
Can we make a new category of fiction called “supernatural” SEPARATE from sci-fi and fantasy? Thanks, that would be nice.
- Comment on On dasher! 2 months ago:
Dashing through the bush in a rusty Holden ute. Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot. Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs, It’s summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs. Oh
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Christmas in Australia on a scorching summer’s day, Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut. Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute.
- Comment on Anon thinks everyone should grow up 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, my parents never used physical punishment, so this hasn’t stirred me to action. So, take that!
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
Out of curiousity, which one is this?
And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?
- Comment on idk 2 months ago:
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
Applying selection bias to the reply
Insert inception bwwwwaoww
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is the first useful example of fahrenheit I’ve ever heard.
Doesn’t really beat 0°C being freezing (great for weather), in my opinion, but still nice!
Thanks
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Does this mean the big bang happened in -273.15 BC?
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
I dunno, seems pretty rock solid that the majority of people aren’t praying to the Christian god, seeing as nowhere even close to a majority of people on earth are Christian.
There are all sorts of religions out there, and many who don’t believe in religion at all.
I do agree that all humans are prone to bias, that’s why it’s so important to be aware of it in order to mitigate it.
The OOP making some stupid religious claims, definitely is not aware.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
It’s because they missed the point of my comment. That it’s selection bias to claim that everyone is praying to the Christian god, when statistically, that can’t be true, even if they are praying.
The selection bias had nothing to do with selecting the planes that crashed, but selecting planes that crashed in the US, which is a much more Christian country than many other places.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
This mfer has never heard of selection bias.
What are the bets they’re in the US, and hearing about crashes mostly in the US?
Christianity may be the largest religion in the world, but it’s a plurality, not a majority.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 months ago:
This seems on brand haha
- Comment on Amazing 2 months ago:
12/25/25
I have been TRIGGERED.
We don’t use that kind of filthy language in this house.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 months ago:
This is fairly common in various industrial sites when it’s big enough.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 months ago:
While there are many such people, there are also many workers who are just as exploited by capitalism as you, and are just getting by, or work for a company that does work for oil companies from time to time and you don’t get to choose what projects you’re on.
As with most things, it’s capitalism that needs to end in order to have much chance of mitigating climate catastrophe.
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 months ago:
A friend of a friend worked at a plant where someone got fired for riding around on the provided bicycles with no hands and crashed.
Shit like this would also most certainly get you fired at any plant.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 months ago:
As a vegetarian who mostly eats vegan, why is it that I find PETA so annoying?
Without looking into it further, I’m gonna guess the same reason I find a lot of people I agree with on a number of issues so insufferable: holier-than-thou, self-congratulatory, moral crusading.
Just existing and being willing to answer people’s questions genuinely is way more effective. I literally never bring it up, people only find out by happenstance and often ask about it themselves. If they don’t, it’s not that interesting (in my opinion).
Anecdotally, anyway.
