netvor

@netvor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is if Bob tells me (your name) has a flying tiger, and I later find out you don’t have a flying tiger… you no longer exists?

  They did not say someone named Jesus did not exist.

  There’s a difference between believing “Joe who had a tiger and a bear and an elephant”, and assuming that there might have been 3 different Joe’s, one with a tiger, one with a bear and one with an elephant, each of them in a different period. Saying “Joe with 3 animals did not exist” does not imply that those Joe’s did not exist.

  I’m not a historian but what I’ve heard (must have been on Alex O’Connor’s podcast) is that even some of the possible historical Jesuses (or “Jesusi” :D) had things going on that were not compatible with what the biblical Jesus was all about. (Such as being cult leader proclaiming that world will end in few years.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i … i don’t know how i left you with the impression that i can’t tell poo from pee. … i must have done something horribly wrong. 🤣

  Actually I think for pretty much all mammals it’s as easy as telling liquid the difference between liquid and solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I got that message. it really shows the hypocrisy, and it makes me wanna scream.

  I wonder if a far away vision of a world where the gender just slowly disappears from the language is really the best. (When i get asked about preferred pronoun, i feel i want to answer “i don’t care and no one should, let’s collectively try to really not give a f*k”.) I feel like in the ideal world all pronouns would just be gender-neutral.

  But language vs. gender is yet another fascinating rabbit hole. My first language is Czech, where basically every word – even unanimous and abstract concepts like “book” have gender, and the grammar is such that effect of word “gender” spreads to other words as inflections and such. Eg. “ona spala” ~ “she slept” vs. “on spal” ~ “he slept” but “ona spal” is an obvious grammar mistake. I wonder if this makes it worse or actually better: while it makes it harder to have a gender-neutral language (the plural trick does not work: “ony spaly” ~ “they (females) slept”, “oni spali” ~ “they (males) slept” … siiigh…), I also feel it could make it less problematic in the sense that the concept of gender in language is not actually tied to identity of a person–it’s just a weird thing present in the language.

  Of course, none of that applies to intentional misgendering, which is just being a huge asshole, with little to no excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you see them pee

  You mean see/not see the “pebbles”?

  Or do they tend to pee differently? I know dogs typically pee by raising one leg, but sometimes they just crouch by both back legs and just release. Is this what you mean?

  I vaguely recall when I was a teen we had a dog (he/him, and a mutt) and he would usually do the “this lamp post is mine now” pee but when he really needed to go he would just crouch and leave a big puddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s probably misgendering to assume its gender at all and that the concept of gender applies to dogs

  Is that true, though? How would we know? Just by Occam’s razor, I would find it safer assume it applies to all mammals, ie. why would humans specifically be different, or if there is a spectrum across species, where/how would we draw the line?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (As a trans person, I have more to say on how easily people pronoun switch for animals but that’s a different topic for another time)

  It is different topic, although I’d love to hear more about that as well. Eg. as a cis male with no transgender friends (well, not that I know of), I find myself thinking ruminating about how impolite/distracting it is to misgender a trans person, provided one can just switch after being corrected and move on… How bad it is to make the (honest) mistake repeatedly? How is it compared to other kinds of faux-pas, like, messing up someone’s name? (Eg. repeatedly calling someone John when they are Joe, or forgetting someone’s occupation. These things do happen to my distractable mind that seems to love lossy data compression.)

  But yeah, it’s a huge, fascinating topic, but a different one from my intention in the OP. :)

• Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩ | ⁨45⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hop on a donkey, slap its ass, get lost in a forest, get eaten by a bear.

  eeeazeeeee…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc slack did it and I’m sure github issues and gitlab too. but usually you don’t have control of the order, IIRC with slack it was in the urder you added them but once more people added same reactions then it would sort them in order most to fewest.

  i was kinda thinking about one of those parts of unicode where characters can be combined … that’s common for some scripts but i vaguely recall that i saw a mention somewhere that something like that exists also for emojis (in the unicode) …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i admit I already kinda seen all of those as “evening plans”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  are these double-emojis a thing? or you mean those apps that let you add multiple reactions (sadly signal does not seem to allow that, neither telegram and those are the only 2 i really use i guess)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🙋‍♂️ too

  i mean, that’s a greeting, right? :D

  (or “i want ice-cream too, please”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean if it was something like flight reservation etc. then screenshot would be definitely in place.

  this is something we do literally 2 times a week (and plan to do so until we’re able to go to the gym :D) though, and it’s pretty low stakes.

  i’m not looking for something that just works in that kind of context. (and in general, actually it’s not like i’m on lemmy looking to resolve things with my pal :D)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i get to be confused by colors

  on second thought, i’m 45, old enough to be vaguely aware of ye olde internet culture (i was in uni back then so i saw them baby neckbeards but sadly did not have the good taste & judgment to hang out with them and decided to ruin my brain with beer and weed instead) … at this age we should start getting used to various vision issues :D 🧓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange

  my redshift kicks in at 7 pm and sometimes i don’t realize and i get to be confused by colors. (probably nothing to do with the orange thing though, although i do have experience that my brain can imagine colors)

  just sayin’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🤌well said, great post, stuff like that

  is that what the stereotypical Italian hand thing means? i thought it was something rather negative or neutral but never asked…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  by the way we are both familiar with IRC where I think +1 would just fit the bill really well

  never realized ➕ is a good replacement for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  darn i did not realize that.

  i suppose i should vertical-record: the reservation app open in my librewolf, pan (swoosh!) to my hand on the mouse, pan (swoosh!) back to the monitor detailing the newly added reservation, pan (swoosh!) to my face winking and smiling with a thumbs up.

  is that about right? i’m learning quick, am i not?

  thanks for the support, so tiktok it is next time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it depends on the chat client / config but i like that the lower status of the reaction, ie. it does not even generate notification and a badge.

  my pal can just totally forget about it and just check on it when he needs.

  (it’s often times at random times in the middle of the workday when we exchange these messages so i want to be respectful to his focus.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the crab story.

  I would totally click the crab because if i’m in a good mood all it can mean is just someone being playful so it feels like a tiny adventure.

  On the other hand, If you ever win huge amounts of money and decide to leave your job flipping everyone off you could also say “and those 🦀 's were a test and you FAILED! sheeple!”?

• What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩ | ⁨41⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  obviously,

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t fold them diagonally before wringing them out.

  Who does that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that’s why he’s small and bald: he cleans so hard he scrapes a layer of himself off every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  gulp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  r?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Teach him kindly and lead him to be a better man. Only if he will not be led, cut him down with a regretful stroke and send him to Buddha.

  Just for entertainment, I’m going to assume your post was a Markdown equivalent of “teaching kindly”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really worth starting a lemmy community?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you stare at it forever and wonder what you could have done better.

  Or move on after realizing that there’s no way you’re going to learn stuff without doing a LOT of stuff, most of which won’t work out or even go anywhere, and it’s perfectly normal and fine to have lots of unfinished/dead/dormant/abandoned/(call-them-whatever-helps-you-move-on) projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called “khlute”. (From now on–I made it up.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I’m 45 and I don’t blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I’m just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I’m 65. Like, “when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it’s justified!”.