Amazing, what a beautiful language! (not sarcasm)

Not sure if this applies to all Scandinavian languages, but I remember learning that the word for “end” in Swedish is “slut”.

Would “end of speed” be fartslut?

The Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a “Jimothy” or something.

Relevant greentext:

Receive.

I think my grasp of English is pretty good, but this is one of the most common words I misspell on a regular basis. I have no idea why I keep wanting to write “recieve” instead.

I’d be shocked if this wasn’t happening already.

The mob could kidnap someone in broad daylight just with masks and bulletproof vests (even more convenient for them) and half the public would be convinced it must be the victim’s fault.

Literally ICE has shown that the public will not intervene when masked, plainclothed thugs with no ID are just ambushing and grabbing people off the street, so anyone else could probably do it and get away with it, too.

Arguably, lemmy is going to be more private than reddit because your data are being queried, refined, quantified and categorised by reddit to be sold off to the highest bidder. If a different actor is just scraping activitypub they need to do all of that themselves.

I don’t think there’s any “arguably” that Lemmy is more private, it’s a completely open platform. Sure Reddit is a closed platform that can sell data to whoever, but Fediverse data is freely accessible to anyone who just has a bit of technical know-how to set up an instance, after which they can query, refine, quantify, and categorize it all they want. If there’s profit to be made with that data, someone will do it. I am assuming that our info is already being collected by both private interests and governments.

While I am not the previous poster, that’s certainly how I’d describe it. The “I am euphoric” types who care only about the circlejerk.

Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I’m not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.

“My friends, you bow to no one.”

Have to fight through the tears during that scene sometimes.

I’m surprised someone actually likes AC3, most takes I see for it are terrible.

AC2 is the one people usually prefer

Almost guaranteed, at least. Consoles are now in the habit of closing their stores after a new generation or two when they stop making enough money, and there are a lot of games today that aren’t really playable without a day 1 patch or additional content requirement that are simply not included on the disc.

A lot of games (not even just Nintendo) don’t even include the game data on the physical media anymore. The disc/cart acts only as a license and the entire thing is downloaded from the store when first used.

Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.

I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it’s a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.

Dragon Ball

Nursing. There is still a stereotype that nursing is a women’s profession, while men are supposed to become doctors.

Doctors seem to have much less of a gender divide than before in defiance of the stereotype, but nursing is still a profession dominated by women.

Might get shit on for this, but this is one of those things that I would be okay with just outright banning.

The addictive nature of nicotine is widely known, and smoking cigarettes is way worse for health than weed. Chronic smokers are basically trapped into paying tobacco companies to essentially commit suicide in slow motion.

And that’s in a country where the very worst I’ve personally witnessed police do was surround and unjustly arrest people.

For what it’s worth, I’d look at it from the perspective of the protests being necessary to make sure that they aren’t able to get away with worse and worse stuff over time. Gotta let them know that even small acts of injustice will be met with resistance.

My country has been in the mentality of “Well at least they aren’t doing X” for so long that the police can basically get away with anything now. And the police are now at the point where they are doing “X” with increasing frequency, but the public’s ability to do anything about it is greatly hindered as a result.

Exactly my thoughts. I’m sure some people enjoy the thrill of it all, but I’d guess most people protest not because they want to, but because they feel they must.

No, I only attend out of necessity. I don’t enjoy crowds or confrontation.

Firefox on my personal devices, Chrome for work.