ImplyingImplications @ ImplyingImplications @lemmy.ca

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I've never heard of Nostr but Mastodon is a twitter clone and I don't find that style of website suits discussion well since you subscribe to accounts rather than communities.

avoid starting/continuing discourse offering your personal opinions about whether or not someone elses identity is valid, there are no bans.

The OP here is literally starting discourse offering their personal opinions about whether or not someone else's identity is valid.

If you don't use the pronouns a user lists in their bio when referring to that user you'll catch a ban. There is a user who has dragon as their pronoun and anyone not using it is being banned.

Huh, really interesting that I haven't heard of any of the ideas the workers have brought forward to make Canada Post a better service. The elderly check-in service would definitely get a lot of use, and post offices offering financial services or other government/community services as well as mail is also a neat idea. Canada post delivering internet to rural communities is also cool.

I'm disappointed that even CBC isn't running stories about these ideas and instead only quoting the professor of economics from a conservative think tank saying privatization of public services is always good.

They're the Lead Director of Staff Scheduling. They're the Vice President of Meeting Budget Restraints. They're the Chief of Handling Customer Complaints. They're the manager and they got a fancy title instead of a raise.

I got bachelors of science in biology. Couldn't find a job because, unlike what my parents told me, a degree doesn't guarantee you a job. I ended up going back to college to get a professional degree. I didnt like the profession after a few years so I quit. Now I work at a factory where a high school education is considered an asset. Some of my coworkers are high school drop outs. It is the easiest job I've worked and the most money I've ever made in my life thanks to the union.

While my education didn't really help me get a job, it does allow me to think critically about the news which seems to be the biggest benefit.

You're talking about protecting language and culture in a thread about a small town relying on one guy to translate the government's website because the law forbids the use of their native language.

French speakers are the majority in Québec. This is like a law forbidding Mandarin from being used in Canada and saying there are 3x as many Mandarin speakers in the world than English speakers and the law is required or else we'll all be speaking Mandarin one day.

Managing updates, versions, mods, and settings can be done from a launcher instead of the game itself and it's often easier that way. If you wanted to adjust mods in-game you'd need to restart the game for changes to take effect.

Before Steam became the universal launcher, lots of games had their own. Minecraft isn't a Steam game so it comes with its own launcher.

Jessie: I've been thinking of dating other men

James: Me too!

Get Glomph'd on! Thankfully I've never met someone who actually wants people to refer to them as dragonkin outside of FFXIV roleplay servers.

And he's set to retire. Or maybe he's already retired. Been a while since I've read about that.

David Mills is dead, but there are other people.

The mirror is showing you the reverse side of the card

Yup! See the guy's finger is on the reverse side of the card? It's touching the N on the right side of your view. If you looked at it from where the mirror is, you'd see the guy's finger touching the N, but now it's on the left side of your view. Because you flipped, not the writing.

The context for the original quote is Jesus speaking to a "young ruler". The young ruler asks if he will be judged as a good person. He follows all the religious laws and is very pious. Jesus tells him to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor. Jesus promises the man that his reward will be great in heaven, but the young ruler cannot bring himself to do it.

I don't see this as Jesus telling everyone to live in poverty. This is Jesus testing the man's faith. Even though Jesus himself promises the man a reward for giving up his possessions, he doesn't trust Jesus. He doesn't have faith that his actions will be rewarded in heaven. The warning isn't that having possessions is inherently evil, but that one can be so tied to their Earthly possessions they can refuse a direct request by Jesus himself.

In addition to being a flipped image

Common misconception. Mirrors reflect images, but do not flip them. If you put two items next to each other, their order is preserved in the reflection, not inverted.

The reason people think mirrors are flipped is because writing on shirts appear backwards, but that's because your shirt is facing the wrong direction. Write a word on something clear and hold it up to a mirror. It's not flipped. Put the word up against your chest like it was written on your shirt. Notice how you flipped the word in order to do that.

I quoted the Bible because the image in the OP is Luigi in the style of a saint. I'm not religious.

If I said "the Sun is hot" and you said "if you live on Earth you experience temperatures hotter than most of the universe" you also wouldn't be wrong. You'd be Neil deGrasse Tyson. Most of the universe is -270°C. Earth is 15°C. The sun is 1,000,000°C. No matter how you look at it, the Sun is hot. The Earth is only hot if you purposefully compare it to cold things.

1/3 of the world make $2 a day. I made about $137 a day. Thompson made $27,945 a day. I am $135/d away from the poorest and $27,808/d away from Thompson. I'm not sure what the goal is of saying I am rich compared to the poor when I am 205x closer to being the world's poorest than I am to being a multi-millionare, let alone one of the approx. 2,700 billionaires in the world.

Anyone who gives steam $100 can upload as many "games" any "game" they want. There is no quality control.

It's a common scam to throw some free assets together to make "collect coin" and then swap the coin asset out with a stick and call it "collect stick" and then swap out the stick with a brick and call it "collect brick" then upload all of them to Steam and bundle them into a 50 game pack with a sale price of $100 (95% off!) and hope someone buys the collection thinking they're getting 50 real games at a steep discount.

Here's an example. It's a 33 game bundle for 99% off its original price of $8,579! They're all the same "game" with different free assets made by the same dev who uploaded 167 versions of this "game" to steam on March 28, 2024 and priced each around $200.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God

Matthew 19:24

Is "Mistress" a chess title?

I worked at a small business that hired on a new guy. After a few days he asked us if we've noticed the owner and secretary were a little..."close". I guess nobody told him the owner and secretary were married.

People who vote for fascists don't believe it will solve inequality. They believe it will make them the benefactors of inequality. They don't want to get rid of societal hierarchy, but to be placed closer to the top.