Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @ Erika3sis @hexbear.net

"I am reckoned a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie

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The key just to the left of the # key, i.e. the A key in the default Thumb-Key layout, should have a ▲ for the upward swipe. That swipe is how you get into shift mode. Swipe up on that key again to enter caps-lock; swipe down on that key to release the shift/caps-lock.

That's a bit mean, I think Lemmy is pretty good all things considered.

is there a point where I will be so comfortable as to not need to fear misspelling something without this crutch of autocorrect?

I can't speak for how long it will take you specifically, but yeah, I absolutely think you can get to that point. I don't really remember how long it took me to learn, but it couldn't have been more than a few weeks, and I think I had some factors which were working to my advantage, anyways. Have you adjusted any of the settings?

• Thumb-Key — A flick keyboard for mobile phones; a FOSS alternative to MessagEase created by Lemmy's own Dessalines. It's not perfect, neither was MessagEase, but for what it is it's pretty damn good and definitely beats using a mobile QWERTY keyboard.
• Ibis — A federated wiki created by Lemmy's own Nutomic. It's currently pretty barebones with little activity, but I'd like to see more interest in the project so that it can grow and improve. I think it has a lot of potential.

I only just realized that "ETA" in Internet comments stands for "edited to add"

Please don't think that I'm necessarily agreeing with your stances and attitudes and so forth, but do think that I find ShimmeringKoi to be kind of embarrassing right now.

I'm just gonna be honest, you're being cringe right now. "No it's not my fault I mistook this person's nationality, it's their fault for coming across to me as the wrong nationality" — no, just own up to your mistake, for God's sake, it's not hard. Preferably you wouldn't have made the mistake in the first place — you might've even been able to avoid it if you'd just read more carefully, given it even a second longer of thought, and weren't so quick to make assumptions.

exasperated sigh

Wasn't it obvious from the literal start that that person was Irish‽

och jag är faktiskt 15.

For en tilfeldighet! Jeg kan respektere ærligheten, i det minste. Jeg virkelig burde slutte å tenke at alle på Internett er like gamle som meg.

Jeg virkelig ville anbefalt å lære mer om Marx og Engels sine idéer, for eksempel Engels skrev "Om autoritet" (svensk oversettelse her — veldig kort!)

Du høres ut som meg når jeg var 15. Har du faktisk lest Marx og disse "andre teoretikerne"?

I could say that bourgeois ownership of media and academia and the state means that those institutions will represent the biases and interests of the bourgeoisie, and so people in first-world capitalist countries end up living in a sort of self-propagating anti-communist media bubble; but the thing about propaganda is that people are rarely ever truly "tricked" by it, propaganda is always most effective when it reinforces something that someone already believes on some level.

This is why the second part to building anti-communist sentiment has to do with super-exploitation, imperialism, and the labor aristocracy. This is to say, workers in first-world capitalist countries are materially invested in capitalism, through various perks and "treats" that workers of "poorer" countries are deprived of. By being materially invested in capitalism, workers of the first world are primed to take on a sort of "bourgeois mindset", as it were.

There's more that can be said, too, I'd strongly recommend listening to this speech by the leader of Revolutionary Grenada, Maurice Bishop, but I think that's a good start...

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc² in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

As your home instance is Lemmygrad, I shall tell you how to add your pronouns on that instance.

Go to your account settings, and under "display name" type the name you wish to be known as, followed by your pronouns in brackets or parentheses. There is a character limit for display names, however, so if you use many different pronoun sets, you may need to choose just one or two for your display name, and include the rest in your bio.

On my own main instance, Hexbear, there is a separate field for pronouns in the settings, a drop-down menu above the display name. This feature seems to be unique to Hexbear, however.

“Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

"Despite the best that has been done by everyone [...] the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage,"

John Kirby's just trying to figure out whether or not he's become a real boy yet.

The fact that I can recognize that picture even with my instance's default blur filter over it

Nazi forum

I can see why. Although the stars occupy a larger portion of the sky, they are also further away than the moon. So either version of the phrase makes sense in its own way.

as they say - shoot for the stars, and you may just land on the moon.

I've only ever heard, "shoot for the moon, [and] even if you miss you'll land among the stars", which is the phrase as it was first said by Norman Vincent Peale. But maybe swapping "moon" and "stars" is a common enough variant of the phrase that I just haven't heard before.