Mane25

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brexiters shit themselves after eu flags waved at Proms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Europeans flying the flag of Europe.

Hasn’t this happened every proms since brexit anyway?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not ablism to suggest someone might not have the mental capacity to do a job.

I thought it would be obvious just looking at the shallowness of their reasoning. Also, an evil genius would at least act in their own interests, whereas the Tories have been pretty self-destructive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I know they don’t care but they’re also not very intelligent. I thought that would be non-controversial. The capitalist class that put them there might be intelligent but not the politicians themselves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You can still be cruel and mentally challenged.

They got in to power because of privilege. Those with privilege and intelligence have long since abandoned the Tory party, so you’re just left with the bottom of the barrel; the privileged and dim - it’s no wonder this country is failing.

It’s like that whole encryption thing they’re failing to push through; the fact that “this is an embarrassingly stupid and unworkable idea” never gets brought up just goes to show. They don’t even know what encryption is, it’s a joke.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This whole government makes a whole lot more sense once you come to the realisation that they’re all mentally challenged in the literal sense. It wouldn’t surprise me if they couldn’t even conceptualise how the two things are related.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I support it if it’s what the people want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solve this wordsearch 😛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I think all wordsearches are mildly infuriating, I could never stand them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Of course, yes, and that’s why I’m not much of an advocate for English spelling reform. Japanese has particularly a lot of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Just a learner of Japanese here. Japanese is difficult to read if written purely phonetically because there are a lot of homophones (words that sound the same with different meanings).

So typically kanji carries the root of words and kana is for all the grammatical parts, loan-words, and everything else. Hiragana/katakana duplicate each other but are no more redundant than lower/upper case.

Speaking as a learner, sometimes it’s easier to learn the kanji than the sound of the word so sometimes it can make learning to read easier.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wow thats great mate cheers helpful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I view it like open source where commercial and non-commercial are on an even playing-field, what matters is their contribution. The freedom afforded by a healthy open-source ecosystem should mitigate negative commercial interests, it doesn’t always work out like that but that’s the kind of thing I would hope for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This mofo was born on the wrong day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
There was nothing in the post indicating what app this was and “Remind” is a generic enough word, even if upper-cased, to make the service not obvious. It could be a porn-site for what we know, in which case that date should naturally be rejected.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wow thats great mate cheers helpful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What’s so bad about that? Even on Lemmy I’m posting things in public, intended to be read by the public, and if somebody wants to train AI on what I’ve given to the public then good for them. I refuse to use a walled garden. Being proprietorial about online posts is probably not the most effective response to online surveillance. I agree that Huffman is a douchecanoe though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wow thats great mate cheers helpful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The annoying thing for me is someone posting a question, getting help from the community, and then immediately deleting all their posts assuring that nobody can ever be helped by it again. This is kind of a reverse of that which I would say is probably less common?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Twitter in the old days and Mastodon now I treat as custom news feeds, you subscribe to people or entities you’re interested in hearing news from and there you have it. I find it much less useful as a platform for having discussions or browsing for pleasure than Reddit in the old days and Lemmy now, which as you say is topic-focused rather than individual focused.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings who downvote news posts because you disagree with the conclusions, why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not familiar exactly with your posts, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume the downvotes are for the reasons you think they are. Sometimes I’ll downvote a post because I don’t think it’s relevant to the topic or that it’s simply not interesting (and I really do view it merely as a vote, nothing personal). Then the OP will sometimes respond with “I can’t believe I was downvoted because of x, y, z” where x, y, z really had nothing to do with the downvote. If I disagree, I try to upvote because it’s on-topic and reply with my disagreement (which I have just done right now).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Of course yes, but it is mildly infuriating. :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t get upset about people having a bit of fun, but my personal opinion is that this joke is tired and there’s a standard for news stories.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Sure but Loch Ness is on the 3rd most populated island in the world, it’s comprehensively explored, there’s nothing newsworthy to say about it unless there was a vast oversight and that would be the head line, not the “monster”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This whole “Nessie” thing counts as mildly infuriating to me at this point. The whole loch ness monster thing was a fun thing to wonder about as child, but are people really taking it “seriously?” I’m not even sure if this article was written as a serious news story or not, it’s certainly light on substantial new evidence, but then it’s a BBC article not presented as satire - are we supposed to all be in on the the tired joke or is there really something new and substantial there?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It does go to show the necessity of adblocking software though. It’s not just a trivial convenience at the expense of sites’ ad-revenue, it’s necessary for online safety.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why words like 'okay' and 'taxi' are universally understood across the world but survival related ones like 'help', 'water', 'food' remained nation specific?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t worry, it’s a pet peeve of mine as well, shallow and pedantic or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My least favorite thing about Flatpak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Next time install Fedora!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Museum curator, 56, sacked after gold jewellery and gems worth tens of millions disappeared was world authority and one of institution's 'Monuments Men' who helped fight international looting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Balance doesn’t mean giving equal platform to every racist bigot though, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Wikipedia doesn’t accept the Mail as a source, personally I don’t think it should be accepted here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Correct, because it’s decentralised. It only becomes a problem when you have a monopoly of big centralised platforms.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Who says they need consensus? Instances are privately run, they don’t have to be democracies. Users can vote with their feet, so to speak.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Very hypothetical there, like you’re reaching for things that could go wrong.

I know that centralisation doesn’t work because I’ve seen it turn the internet to shit over the last 15 years. If I had it my way we’d go back to small independent forums with no federation because they were much better communities. But in the name of progress, federation does have some advantages, but as soon as things start getting too big there should absolutely be defederation to prevent the platform from getting like Reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Or just find an instance that has federation policies you agree with, you don’t need to post in every single instance - maybe some defederated because there were too many people posting the same shitty memes. And who needs 40x interaction? Reddit was too big, too many people competing for attention.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We risk being seen as the ‘nasty party’ again, warn senior Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They are slow aren’t they?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian have quietly added a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This seems to be more of a notice that you’ve reached the limit than an announcement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian have quietly added a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’d potentially pay someone who is upfront about it, but the Guardian has always said they won’t do that and has introduced this without announcement.