Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanders? Probably.

  Someone else? Depends on their policies and what you mean by “liberals”. If you mean general center-left / Democrat base types, probably they vote for the DNC nominee. If you mean people devoted to Enlightenment Liberalism, it depends on how authoritarian the the candidate is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fax machines still used by medical systems?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the eyes of the law, a fax is a secure way to send personal information. An email, even an encrypted one, is not. We need to fix the law, but lawmakers as a rule do not understand technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As you relax, so do your sphincter muscles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t answer that, but I can tell you that lemmy lets you edit post titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When Clinton lost we didn’t have a hostile Supreme Court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been more than enough for a while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, you’re looking at these results and seeing too little democracy in play?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It… does, though? I always go to my profile and check how my comments are doing before I sign off. Numbers go bigger make dopamine go brrrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do different ethnicities/races look different?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without the evolutionary pressure to maintain high melanin levels in the skin, and possibly also from interbreeding with Neanderthaal, European people’s got paler.

  Someone mutated to have eyes that were paler and more sensitive to light, which was useful during the longer nights further north, and that mutation spread.

  So it’s a bit of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicago, forever and always. Go Maroons!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so, first: It should also be written “Travis’s”.

  Only if it is plural do you put the possessive apostrophe last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why not yoghurt? or mai ploy? or a roux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never have mayonnaise in my fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever had to confront a female mob at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confront? No.

  Serve margaritas to? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of a long-distance friendship?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, not everyone forms connections based on shared activities; and even those who do, some activities can be done long-distance (debating philosophy, sharing music recommendations).

  For a lot of us, we don’t stop caring about someone we don’t see long-term (though I’m told this is a neurodivergent trait to some degree) so even a friend we haven’t seen in years we can talk to and have it feel “fresh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fuck” isn’t profane, it’s vulgar. “Goddamn” is profane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Form factor, mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teamwork⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  better with dinosaurs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not all the same people: Roman Catholics, for example, tend to oppose both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Working Class Waitress Could Decide Who Controls Congress⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t “working class waitress” a tautology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s part of a balanced breakfast on the go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have cool ones here, too!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to fake Vitiligo makeup for a cosplay??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to quote E40:

  everybody got choices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to fake Vitiligo makeup for a cosplay??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t, that’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well, okay, so:

  U, V, and W are all descended from the same letter in Latin. V and W are the consonate versions of that ur-letter and U is the vowel version.

  But W is much closer to the remaining vowel sound: We could spell “whiskey” as “uiskey” without really changing the pronuncuation, for example.

  So despite the glyph, it’s much closer to a U than a V; it’s the U that saw glyphic differentiation even though it’s V that saw phonic differentiation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  pay you for 10 hours of work even though you only worked 8

  This is PTO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is PTO ridiculous, exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us really liked Highlander

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If your goal is to avoid that, and you look 21 permanently a la Highlander, you probably want to get new one every thirty years or so, starting over as a “runaway teen” or “refugee” who lacks identity documents with a nominal age of fifteen.

  Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.