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- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 days ago:
- Comment on brand new sentence 3 days ago:
The best part about getting old with a beer belly is being in a loving relationship with someone who can see past that and not caring at all. The last time I smashed my face with a hammer was never.
Sucks to be young people these days, though.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 1 week ago:
I will take this opportunity to recommend a podcast ep about him from the QAA podcast:
soundcloud.com/…/episode-43-scott-adams
I hope I found the right ep. The ep number is so low that it makes me wonder if the one I wanted was a later ep? Too many total to go through and verify.)
And Behind the Bastards:
He became pretty unhinged later in life. He put some bizarre content into the world.
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
The bovine is the natural enemy of the shark. That’s why they deployed a herd of cows to save the day in Jaws.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 1 week ago:
Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
- Comment on So unfair 1 week ago:
We called it a “doob tube.”
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 1 week ago:
I can’t imagine a more advanced mind. I mean, maybe Einstein, but we have proof of her discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world! (I mean, they kinda are, but you get what I mean.)
- Comment on Can't wait. 1 week ago:
Note: Changed my mind but preserved initial reaction:
No. Read the book. Other languages had their massive shifts before or after the printing press. English evolved at roughly the same time. That caused chaos. While other languages solidified in advance, and others solidified after, the english language was evolving at the same time that rules were written. It’s a perfect disaster (those who know, know. great song. great album).
Not direct support for my argument, just context:
The standardization of English spelling began in the 15th and 16th centuries; the Great Vowel Shift is the major reason English spellings now often deviate considerably from how they represent pronunciations.
Back to commenter (so it doesn’t look like I’m joining different quotes):
Germany even had an official spelling reform in the 1990s.
I’ve never heard of this, so maybe I’m wrong / uninformed.
I’ll look into it because I truly believe that language shapes thought and this is interesting to me.The German orthography reform of 1996 (Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996) was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography, thereby making it easier to learn,[1] without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
Wow. That’s so incredible and impossible where I live (USA) that I’m dumbstruck at the pragmatism of it. I was wrong. Fuck England and the USA (as always!).
“German orthography reform of 1996”[1]
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 1 week ago:
Hooray for the Lady who might have written the first algorithm! She needs more attention.
Other: Charles Babbage (sp?) and the Analytic Engine: perhaps our first real computer. Imagine a steampunk world where all our devices were powered by huge mechanical chunks and chonks.
I saw a video of a constructed Analytical Engine (they couldn’t manufacture the parts to the specs required in Babbage’s time) donated to a Computer History museum by an early Microsoft exec. Didn’t find it on a quick search, but it’s a huge thing driven by a physical crank.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
What, you think either of you matter? They don’t give a fuck about you.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can't wait. 2 weeks ago:
I would like to recommend Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language.
It’s a pretty quick read and it explains exactly how the English language became such a mess. For each thing that doesn’t make sense, it provides a reason that explains it. Short version: the timing of the Great Vowel Shift relative to the invention of the printing press really screwed it over. There’s quite a bit more (Norman invasion in particular), but that was what codified all the badness.
Learning the “why” of so many previously preposterous language and spelling rules was gratifying and enlightening. They’re still preposterous but slightly less maddening now.
There’s also an excellent podcast interview with the author on 99% Invisible. Check it out. It made me buy the book and I definitely recommend it every time a post like this comes up.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
Even a blogger. I like to read. I don’t waste my time with videos that I can’t reliably skim to get to the real information and skip over garbage.
- Comment on Sick of this shit 4 weeks ago:
Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means “set everything on fire.”
I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying we have different definitions. Cheers!
- Comment on Sick of this shit 4 weeks ago:
Best advice I’ve seen in a long time.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
I feel like that’d be the stats even if we didn’t have a component disruption. Do all gamers build a new machine every year? They’d be broke (said the guy who buys / builds a lot of toys).
It’s cool to phrase non-news as clickbait. 50% people think $MYTEAM will win the big game. Holy crap, that’s news!
- Comment on Star Wars and Jurassic Park music composer John Williams, aged 94 2 months ago:
Immediately thought he must be dead. I was just saying to my partner how awesome the JP music is while we watched whatever the new piece of crap (but entertaining) thing was. Great music. Some of the best.
- Comment on I'm new around here, and learning about all the different instances and the culture/history behind them has been fun but overwhelming. Is there somewhere I could go for a crash-course? 2 months ago:
Or just stick with an instance that doesn’t block others and judge for yourself. I thought Hexbears were descent people experiencing crisis as we all flooded in.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 months ago:
Send it to the admin(s) of the instance. I’m sure they don’t want to host that bullshit.
- Comment on Weird... 2 months ago:
I mean, I’d have expected at least some acknowledgment.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 months ago:
Nothing pissed me off like a city with no trash cans when I still smoked cigarettes and carried the butts with me. Walked for blocks and blocks with no place to dispose of them responsibly. Fuck you, Berkeley.
- Comment on relatable 2 months ago:
I woke up at 3am after seeing Nine Inch Nails last night because I didn’t take my (prescribed) sleeping pills. I drank a LOT, but I just don’t stay asleep. I’m tired! I just can’t stay asleep. I’ll be close to falling asleep in several hours when I’m trying to pretend to work. Sucks.
- Comment on The workers at the Sheri's Ranch brothel in Nevada decided to unionize 3 months ago:
Salute to my fellow union members! Fight fight fight for fair treatment!
- Comment on Will they lie to you like the others 3 months ago:
They’re lying liars, I can tell you that much.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 4 months ago:
PiHole and Plex? Plex will help generate need for a NAS. It worked for me.
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 4 months ago:
What a fucking zero.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 4 months ago:
Go back to bed. You’ve already won. The day can’t possibly get any better from here.
- Comment on Long live the king 4 months ago:
Oh, that was a good laugh.
- Comment on 17 years* 4 months ago:
If those stats are true, eff. I already hated that industry.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 4 months ago:
I go to sleep drunk a lot. I forget to turn off lights. My partner calls me out for it. I have not shame.