. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don’t need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
As an egalitarian, I’ve died on many hills.
I’ve said it somewhere earlier today, I’ll say it again here. I think Windows XP was bad, and that Vista was good.
But Windows in general is still absolute rubbish anyway.
Ok, I don’t like making generalizations, but let’s play the game:
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Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.
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Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it’s very complex.
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We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.
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Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.
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spelling “catsup” as “ketchup” is as juvenile as spelling “night light” as “nite lite”
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Ohio isn’t part of the Midwest
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all of Rory’s boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst
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using a slur “because it’s not a bad word in my culture” still isn’t okay
Question about the first one. Do you consider English a living language that evolves over time?
To that point, do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun? Which way do you spell it? How do you (personally) pronounce Worcestershire sauce? How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?
I would argue that words evolve with vernacular and sometimes the spellings become antiquated. In the case of Worcestershire sauce, pronunciation can vary greatly from spelling. If ketchup bothers you, are onomatopoeias even words to you?
Eventually, insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer. Since you spell it catsup, can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57 hoping to get it to ooze?
Seriously though, since this is the hill you’ll die on, convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling.
a living language
Yes
do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun?
I never have occasion to say either.
How do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?
Wursht-uh-shur
How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?
Love 'em. My current favorite is “shakshuka”.
are onomatopoeias even words to you?
yeah, by definition
insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer
Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.
can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57
They’re not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.
convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling
I’m not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I’ll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as “catsup” and the pastry as “doughnut” and the cultured dairy as “yoghurt”.
For the “Midwest”, in my opinion:
- Ohio is in the Midwest (or at least the places you can order “pop”…maybe this isn’t a thing in Ohio…I don’t know…Ohio sucks…Go Blue)
- North/South Dakota shouldn’t be
- Kansas shouldn’t be
- Nebraska shouldn’t be
That’s not an opinion, you’re just wrong on the facts. And that’s okay! The first step of learning is discovering your own ignorance.
see, i’ve always felt that kansas is just about the most midwest there is
It’s a knight light. It keeps the monsters away.
I didn’t even know that “catsup” was an option until now. Where I’m from, we call it “tomato sauce” and “ketchup” is the American word as far as I’ve ever known.
What I consider ketchup/catsup includes much more sugar and vinegar than what I consider tomato sauce. Is that not the case where you are from or is there a different word used?
I think that is kinda true. Like, American brands that sell here are branded as “Heinz Ketchup” for example. And it’s definitely more processed or whatever. But I feel like most people would still say “pass the tomato sauce”, or if they say ketchup it’s in a joking way. I couldn’t speak for my whole country though.
I suppose the context of condiment vs. ingredient is enough. I don’t think many recipes use ketchup/catsup and most meals don’t leave tomato sauce out to be used as a condiment.
For the first one… Not sure I get it. It was originally ketchup, and has been predominantly spelled that way for hundreds of years. It was spelled that way before ketchup even had tomato in it.
It’s not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.
It’s just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their “57” brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.
To each their own I suppose. “Catsup” has always just seemed like a weird affectation to me.
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Both employer related:
- no biometrics
- birthday not for sale
Python sucks.
Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don’t provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you’re basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn’t even a halfway decent documentation.
The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I’m not taking you seriously.
that’s why I use my city balls to explain stuff
I didn’t think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here… I don’t even have a clue what it is.
I’m picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.
You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there’s a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn’t you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?
It’s like, I’m an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.
I’m American. Speaking about geopolitics at a five-year-old’s level is often far too advanced for many people. Sock puppets might help actually.
Thongs aren’t uncomfortable
As long as the pouch on the front isn’t too constricting for my male bits and there isn’t too much material and stitching in the seam underneath, I agree. Just like anything, gotta find the right fit.
The feet ones or the butt ones?
Butt ones as this isn’t Australia, lol. It wasn’t until I was older myself I realized that thong had a different meaning around the world. I remember as a kid taking trips to Australia people used to always call things “thongs” and thought anything of it. As a New Zealander they’ll always be Jandals to me.
I’m a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my life once
It’s not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it’s certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city’s naked bike ride to bike around in.
Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.
Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it’s because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.
Small typo in my comment, was supposed to say get a laugh out of my wife
It served its intended purpose. It was for Valentines or our anniversary or something, so I was waiting in the bed for her to come home in my leopard thong, rose petals scattered around, and some funky 70s porno music playing, and she cracked the fuck up.
I love this! That’s kinda how it started for me and now I’ve got a whole collection of them. Fun patterns and colors. They always get the laugh.
Personally I’ve gone in on Hawaiian shirts, bit less good for a laugh, but still attention grabbing and easier to show off in public. No one wants to see my fat hairy ass sporting a whale tail.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Just the same, the confidence to wear it in public is what really matters whether you still do or not. When you don’t give a shit, nothing can touch you. Total liberation. Except if there’s kids around. That just feels creepy lol.
That’s oddly sweet.
People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.
American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.
Sausage is meat, just ground up. People use the term “american cheese” to refer to a variety of products, ranging from almost all real cheese with a small percentage of emulsifier added, to shit like Kraft singles which is mostly milk protein concentrate and emulsifier with a small percentage of real cheese added (allegedly). The latter is usually labelled “pasteurized process cheese food/product” or something similar, US law forbids actually calling it cheese if the cheese content is less than 95% iirc
If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don’t really own it.
Same for phones. But that’s the norm unfortunately
A phone is a computer. A smartwatch is a computer. The computers running a car’s infotainment and engine control systems are computers.
People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.
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Rainy, damp, cloudy, windy weather is peak weather and beats a “nice sunny day” 80% of the time.
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Ice cream is winter food and not summer food because of how fatty it is. Popsicles are summer food and not so appealing in the winter.
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All countries should be making a 100% effort towards eliminating all meat (except that produced by subsistence farmers and the like) in their diets for the sake of the climate. Poverty is not an excuse because vegetarian diets use many many times less resources (which is why wealthy countries eat much more meat).
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Large wealthy countries should provide free vitamin supplements worldwide to reduce diseases.
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