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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Lmao is that an actual quote? They deleted their comment, and I hope it's because they realized their mistake.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My stance was "Trump is going to make a lot of things worse, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You're either for Trump or against Trump, and if you're a single issue voter, you're either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse".

Some people told me that the Democrats are definitely in favour of the genocide, but who knows what Trump would do! I told them everyone else knows. They told me it's impossible to know because there was no genocide during Trump's first term, but there was during Biden's first term. So Trump is a safer bet for single issue voters.

Regardless, single issue (non-)voters have succeeded in making life much worse for Americans and Palestinians.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

The need for social belonging is exactly why there are gay communities. And the internet! Haha

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Ahh, I didn't get to that part of my French classes, lol

I learned that "ne" and "pas" are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

Thanks for the correction!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (8 children)

I didn't vote for Harris because Trump didn't do genocide

I wonder where all those people are now. Because they were REALLY active leading up to the election (and shortly after).

I wonder if they realize they were wrong.

EDIT: Oh, they're here, just had to scroll more.

At a glance, no, they don't seem to be taking responsibility, and even still seem to be taking the moral high ground.

Which suggests it wasn't even astroturfing...lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

Yes, myself. That's it though

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Me: What??? Ok sure, Coworker 2

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Small talk with coworker 1 doesn't work at all because they will randomly randomly act condescending to you when you make a joke or say something that doesn't land exactly with them.

...so are you coworker 1? Lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm familiar with the hierarchy, but I'm failing to see how or why it would be used to say that queer people would always be unhappy. What's that all about?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

That sounds like a euphemism for, uh... let's call it jailbait

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

10/10 joke

n'avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

/jokeI know it still needs to be conjugated. I also accept the possibility that I could be wrong.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is he/it? I have to wonder if this is one of those "The Beatles are overrated" kinds of opinions

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school... especially because you referred to "women" instead of girls...

 

(bonus points if it's being used for official business purposes)

 

One of the tricky things with English is that we often have words that can be combined to form different words.

Like greenhouse. It's a combination of green + house. But a greenhouse is something very different from a green house. Autocorrect may cause some people to make this mistake, but generally, the concepts are understood to be different.

On the other side of things, there's things like "alot" which is mistakenly used so commonly that my autocorrect didn't even care that I typed that (and it's not just because of the quotes!).

Then there are words like login, which as a noun is definitely one word, but as a verb, should almost definitely be two words ("log in to this website", but "this is my login for the website")...but "login" seems to be universally recognized as standard for a verb, even though we don't say loginned for the past tense (we still say "logged in").

And of course, there are other words that are commonly paired together that we don't often see with the space removed, like "Takecare", "Noway", or "Ofcourse". These could all be potential candidates for the "alot" treatment. What makes "alot" special?

So what causes "Please login to the website" to be "correct", but "I workout everyday" to be incorrect? (And maybe everyone is "wrong" about login, or everyone is right about "workout" and "everyday", and the compound word is an acceptable alternative to the versions with the space)

I feel like this would be better in an AskLinguists community here... maybe there's an active one that someone could point me to? But I'm still curious to see what people think

 

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

 
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Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

 

I've got a fairly new 14tb Seagate Expansion. It works fine, and I've been using it for a month and a bit.

I don't know how long it's been doing this, but the power supply is making a very faint alarm sound. The power supply is plugged into a Belkin surge protector powered on and with the "protected" status light lit, and it is plugged into an outlet. The HDD is currently not plugged in to a computer.

It's not a beep or electricity. It's a distinct weewooweewoo. I couldn't even determine the source until I pressed my ear against it.

Googling just points me towards typical "my HDD is making a sound, how long do I have until it dies", but nothing pointed me to the alarm sound from the power supply.

I'll check again if it makes the alarm in other conditions, but in the meanwhile, I was hoping someone here might know something.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The sound only happens when...

  • Power adapter is plugged into the HDD, AND the outlet
  • HDD is NOT plugged into the computer.

Plugging it into the computer stops the noise from the power adapter.

 

I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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