dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 8 hours ago:
Move. Right.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 8 hours ago:
It isn’t the fast lane, it’s the PASSING LANE. If you are in that lane and you aren’t passing, YOU are the problem.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 8 hours ago:
That’s sweet and all…
Get over to the right bro. Yes people drive dangerously. Yes there are improvements everyone can make.
GET THE ABSOLUTE HECK OVER.
- Comment on This place is a prison 4 days ago:
The real pro tips are always in the comments.
- Comment on Wowee 1 week ago:
I suspect with some work we could even fit Poland 17 in there…
- Comment on What belongs to who when it comes to wealthy families? 1 week ago:
I can only remember hearing that once as a child.
It was in the context of “If you don’t give me XXX or do YYY I’ll just call the police / CPS and have them come take me away!” when I was maybe 8 years old.
I don’t know which of us said it, but dad’s response was something like “Well ok, you do what you have to do, but just remember all your stuff that’s here was bought for my kids with my money and so it stays here. And you still have to deal with me and the house rules for as long as it takes them to get here.”
Needless to say, no agency was ever called (and never needed calling in the first place).
I also can’t conceive of a circumstance to assert property rights over my kids’ stuff in my day to day life. Like, what, give me your tablet because I’m bored and it’s actually mine? Sounds pretty juvenile.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
🎉
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of ferrets or sea cucumbers I think.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I assume it’s your presumption that animal names means wanting to fuck animals that’s leading you astray.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Is yiff.it not an instance anymore? Maybe I’ve been here longer than I thought.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I started with the yiff ones but you do you. My block list is pretty extensive.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
No asthma attacks anymore.
- Comment on Oh no I've dropped my box of Twinkies. This is such a...uh...oh, what's the word I'm looking for...? 2 weeks ago:
Your tongue doesn’t quite fit between your teeth.
- Comment on Name one 3 weeks ago:
Classic McSteamy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s some barely legal weird. But make no mistake that, legal or not, it’s pretty fucking weird.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The end of the game for FF7.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Social norms dictate that I cannot support this post.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Offbeat complainers can just not pass on their genes, right wrong or indifferent.
So make a funny face to this post and then feel entitled because Lemmy is a microcosm of the real world.
- Comment on The math checks out. 3 weeks ago:
His hair is so angular…
- Comment on if not fren why fren....nvm 3 weeks ago:
Is that black Powerline?
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 5 weeks ago:
I’ll add the book to my list.
I am not suggesting by the way that words should never change in meaning. Rather, I don’t think that the default mode shouldn’t be “ah well whatever, let’s just add a new colloquial definition”. The dictionary can chase language, but maybe it shouldn’t go at exactly the same pace that people say things on tik tok.
I came across a word I had never seen before this week in a book I’m reading (“schismogenesis” which is apparently a common word in anthropology, but not for engineering) and I immediately had a working definition. This is the reward for learning to me. I have another friend who did similar schooling and he is of the opinion that knowing “$5 words” is stupid and is reading the same book as part of our book club. I can’t imagine what it must be like for him to read a book and constantly feel like all you’re getting is the gist. The dumbing down of language eliminates nuance because the real depth doesn’t come at the 4th grade reading level it feels like descriptivism wants to sink to.
I don’t like flattening out language to meet the least common denominator.
- Comment on Get in the AI cube 5 weeks ago:
In fairness, you can probably keep enough whole humans to stack in there without touching and then just liquefy the rest. That should save some money and time.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 1 month ago:
Sure, languages evolve I guess but this isn’t really that IMO.
The whole idea of etymology is that you can figure out what a word means from its roots. If you throw all that out, you give up the scaffolding that makes words make any sense. Same goes for grammatical rules. It seems like the argument for descriptivism is “let’s not be elitist when people become less competent with the rules of a language”, and while that’s a fine ideal, yer usin ma words wrong!
I suspect there is also a body of professional linguists who oppose your point for the same reasons.
- Comment on Spring break on a budget 1 month ago:
“Aaaahahaha… Blyat.”
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 1 month ago:
To get an associates your course load was probably disproportionally gen ed requirements so… No kidding.
- Comment on Fear the bean 1 month ago:
You want the Ted like the stuffed animal? I guess that could work too.
- Comment on Fear the bean 1 month ago:
Tedpool - like Bill and Ted.
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
It’s like that sometimes 🤷
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
Cya.
