mindbleach

@mindbleach@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giving up the iPad-only travel dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS locking out users should be a crime.

• ⁨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:

  Yeah it’s only a creeping error that’s making English harder and search engines worse. Fuck me sideways for politely highlighting the difference in a thread about language.

• ⁨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:

  “Why are words” is a question.

  “Why words are” is an explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cattlemancy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Scansion, people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cattlemancy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Practicing the forbidden art of nex-mex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College-Level Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do this for Proust and you’ll obstruct traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Elmo tries to be Facebook and pulls a MySpace instead.

  random_ind_dude

  What do you call a group of managers that used to work at Twitter?

  XXXX

  … god dammit, that’s pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why has uppercasing every single word in topics become so popular?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Revenue Sharing Proposal for Casts Was Flatly Rejected by AMPTP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The latter point needs concise shorthand, because it’s about 90% of what’s wrong with capitalism. I am a shameless milquetoast liberal. I have no intense objections to private ownership or profit motive. Not per se.

  But there’s no excusing anyone who sees a firehose of money and demands to know why it’s not two firehoses of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Revenue Sharing Proposal for Casts Was Flatly Rejected by AMPTP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Risk” always means “we have all the goddamn money.”

  If creative types could produce these works without you in the way - they would.

  Cartoons are a fucking nightmare right now. Studios refuse to fund anything that isn’t already a billion-dollar household name, and then won’t do a second season unless a completely unrelated toy company makes more more than the animators.

  Mid-budget movies are getting trapped in petit-monopoly silos. Meanwhile, theaters are sprinkled with two-hour advertisements that feel like we’re in another universe’s satire of 21st-century capitalism. They made a movie about a shoe and I thought the trailers were a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Revenue Sharing Proposal for Casts Was Flatly Rejected by AMPTP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As if executives declare personal bankruptcy when a movie bombs.