Acamon @ Acamon @lemmy.world

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I remember when everyone was excited about playing Pokemon Go and wishing that there was a way to do something similar but in the wilderness rather than cities. I wanted to be able to wander around the wilds trying to encounter strange and rare creatures. Then I realised I had just invented birdwatching.

The irony is the "one of these people is wrong, somebody painted a six or a nine" is overtly false in this situation. Given the message of the original image, the artist spefically draw a symbol that could be interpreted two ways, and therefore (by design) both figures are equally and partially correct.

I don't believe we should abandon all pursuit of truth or objectivity, but the commentor is really making the artists case for them.

I actually partially enjoyed it, watching Fury / Talos, or fury / wifey chatting was good. But it doesn't really go anywhere, and the central conflict is kinda pointless, so meh. But as background tv with low expectations, sure!

Yup, I like a lot of the performances in this show (a testament to the quality of actors that marvel has been able to pull in to these things) but the overall plotting, themes and structure was a complete mess.

Shape-shifting skulls! Exciting! But we'll almost never use this!

They can be anyone they want! But they'll just keep to the same form 99% of the time for vague reasons!

No-one knows who to trust But they they'll make no effort to try and figure who's a skrull even once they know that their blood is a different colour. But that's fine, because the skrulls won't try and trick anyone too much.

Total waste of a premise.

It's not an area I know deeply, but it's my understanding that certain fonts are more generally "legible" than others (for most people). This study found Arial and Microsoft Sans Serif to "be good and legible fonts" and Tahoma to perform poorly. But overall conclude that as long as people are literate, it doesn't make that much of a difference.

On a personal level, I do find certain fonts easier to read (especially for complex, run on sentences in journals) but when reading a novel a thematic font can help set the tone. It can even slow down my temptation to skim read and force me to focus on each word, which can be satisfying. So, it's part preference and part asking what you want the font to do for you - bland, familiar, accessible, easy to skim over? Arial is a good bet. Don't want people to fee like their in the office while reading your novel? Go with something else.

Lol

Most of my friends are in signal, but I still use WhatsApp for those who aren't, and for my family. Never really used WhatsApp to communicate with business. (UK)

2.9 for me in France

Medium seemed to have removed that article... Here's something about the problem with Malthusianism (the theory that are too many people).

Well, it worked, I've made an Epic Games account just to get a free copy of Elder Scrolls Online. Which I know I will never play seriously, and in the end will probably not even get round to installing just to see what it's like...

Not the op, but I think I get what they're getting at. I have been scrolling lemmy a lot this last week and everytime I see something about the climate catastrophe, unions being fucked over, terrible politicians etc I up vote it. These are all important things, and by up voting I feel like I'm čsupporting the cause" and "raising awareness".

But I do wonder if it's actually very helpful, for whatever cause, for me, or for lemmy. It makes scrolling lemmy stressful and depressing, which is accurate for how the world is, but it doesn't really make things better. I feel like I'd rather be reading something interesting or informative that might make the world a better place, whether it's by actually making real chnage, or just me learning something meaningful.

"Starbucks fucks it's employees!" "Trump lies about soemthing!" "the world is on fire!" are always going to drive engagement because these things upset us and we want to do a small act to make ourselves feel less powerless. But I'm not sure they're really doing more than preaching to the choir, and leaving said choir frazzled and distracted.

Ahh makes much more sense! Thanks!

I'd never heard that about Wikipedia before. What sorts of things are they contrarian about?

SwiftKey. There's some things I don't love about it, but I'm trapped by swipe punctuation and predicting emoji from words. Every so often I get mad at SK and try something else, but it never lasts.

Whenever it gets down to the 30s if there's a charger available, but only to around 80. This ends up being once or twice a day depending on usage (i sometimes watch hours of videos while doing chores and that sucks my battery).

Yeah, despite having quite a lot of accidental backswipes, it's not annoying enough to go back to buttons over gestures. Especially when browsing and scrolling, my fingers are not down at the bottom of the phone.

I watched the first episode and noped out of it, but I was tempted to skip first season. Do you think starting with season three would work? I'm not particuarly completionist, and I'm sure I can fill in the blanks...

I heard that child Tolkien told his mother he'd "written a story about a green, great dragon" and when his mum told him it had to be a "great, green dragon" he was so put off that he didn't write again for years.

So maybe track down that story?

That's interesting! I've heard aussies refer to that campaign/guideline a lot and I've always heard it as "slip slap slop", which follows the rule but doesn't make sense as the order of activities. I don't know whether they reverted to the vowel order when talking casually, or if they said it right and I subconsciously 'corrected' it in my memory.

It's broken if I open it in lemmy (Connect) but if I open in External it works fine. Not sure why!