KombatWombat @ KombatWombat @lemmy.world

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The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made the British the best sailors in the world.

Actually, "earning a living" is an example of an idiom, and it is not meant to be interpreted literally. It just means aquiring the income necessary to pay for the basic expenses of modern life. You may also notice that people rarely find themselves inside of pickles or with butterflies in their stomachs, but before you get angry that someone is suggesting you should break your leg, remember that figurative speech is fairly common.

Just feed them seeds instead.

A lot of people got the game with the assumption it was coming.

Do you mean they bought Overwatch 1, with the anticipation that at some point after the release of Overwatch 2, they would add PvE? Because Overwatch 2 was free to play from the start. The only thing that you could "pre-order" was a pack that gave some cosemtics, some premium currency, and the first battlepass. At that point PvE was something they were still planning to add at some point but still had no date, so you could only use those bonuses for the PvP.

Thank you for the detailed background on that. People often resort to No True Scotsman claims to disavow bad elements from the group they support, or better yet toss them to their rivals. But honestly the more an entity is pulled away from center along the authoritarian/liberal axis, the less meaningful any left/right distinction becomes.

I think it would be cool, but I'm not sure if this community could pull it off. It requires pretty active moderation to make sure posters are engaging with disagreers and that everyone is debating in good faith. They also had a bot to keep track of deltas being awarded, but honestly I'm not sure if that was used for anything important.

More importantly, it also relies on a pretty high amount of traffic to get quality posts and comments with people giving actually well thought-out and well communicated arguments. Right now we instead get a lot of shitposts, exaggerated generalizations, and posts with no elaboration whatsoever. It would require a dramatic shift to say the least.

People really don't get the point of this community huh? For the record, I also think the downsides of the idea outweigh the benefits, but disagreement is to expected with an unpopular opinion. It was still neat to think about. Thanks for posting OP.

That's the correct interpretation of that use of the word, and the quote in the post is meaning to use it in that way before pretending it's a gotcha.

The term man (from Proto-Germanic *mann- "person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age. In traditional usage, man (without an article) itself refers to the species or to humanity (mankind) as a whole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_(word)

Yeah it's the same for me. Most of the time I don't open links to third parties, and when I do it's often to skim the introduction to see if the information is worth the read. But TLDRs are like trailers; they let me know what's going on and can sell me on the full thing if it's interesting.

This is relevant to a lot of the points people are making: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RequiredSecondaryPowers

Also, this thread reminded me of a video from many years ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-vQ2RVqJCNM

If you want to learn how to code, can't you just google "coding tutorial for beginners" or something similar? Probably you would need to pick a language, but that would similarly be solved with "recommended coding language for beginners". Then it's very easy to find a resource that starts with hello world and gradually introduces new things. And I'm sure if it moved beyond a browser toolbox, a guide for setting up whatever IDE would be included.

Learning to code is by no means easy, but it's possibly the best type of thing to learn when it comes to having a wealth of free, easily discoverable guides. The main obstacle is choosing to put in the time, and this comic removes that obstacle by forcing them to not put it off.

Ideally, an audience would pick up on the bad-faith side not addressing arguments, engaging in personal attacks, making unjustified claims, etc. and be unimpressed. The interrupting especially should prompt some intervention by a moderator, but usually they don't have a means of preventing it from happening other than chastising after the fact so it still relies on some degree of human decency.

I'd still call it a debate, just a poor quality one.

Another user's unpopular opinion gets downvoted in c/UnpopularOpinion, despite them having a reasonable explanation for their thoughts. Your complaints are valid, and I wish this place was more active too. Many of the fediverse equivalents of the subreddits I enjoyed before the exodus rarely get posts or are actually abandoned, and that's if someone bothers making one at all. Even the ones that are active still get a small fraction of the discussion that their subreddit would get. Also, there's more fracturing and inter-community drama, with instances fully defederalizing with other insances because of problems with certain communities there. And naturally the apps available are much less mature.

Lemmy is excellent for leftist politics, tech enthusiasts, and some other select interests. But it doesn't really let you discover things or integrate into a community well. Filtering out things that I have little interest in leaves very little, whereas Reddit was big enough for me to be very picky in flitering while still including all kinds of niche things in my custom feed. I still often search for reddit posts if I want to learn from an informed community perspective or get a guide for something.

I hope more people give this a chance, because it really does avoid issues with company-owned social media, but I guess it's hard for people to overcome inertia and make the switch.

There are vegan versions of those too, they're just less common.

Emojis are used very widely, including places meant specifically for young kids. These places would already censor words, but requiring emoji censorship as well is adding complexity to a problem that is already difficult to handle. Companies not on the ball with the release of sexual organ emojis would let kids see that until it's added to their filter list. Kids wouldn't know what it means, but it can lead to them googling for context or encourage a conversation with the predator using it if they ask about it.

Honestly, I just don't think it's worth the headache. Eggplants and peaches and cats are already pretty easy to understand in context, and if you need more than the emojis we already have, we do have our old fashioned words.

I also get them occasionally despite having "Hide Youtube Premium promotion" enabled in Revanced:Extended. I haven't updated in a long time however, so it might be fixed in later versions

Yeah I get that prices vary based on where you live but people taco bell is not expensive if you know what to order. I usually spend about $12 for about 2400 calories worth of food I enjoy over the course of two days. If you want to eat cheaply and not make it yourself, it is hard to beat their value menu or a build your own cravings box.

Strictly speaking, incel refers to someone involuntarily celibate, regardless of gender. Femcel is the common 4chan term for female incels. It's been used to describe the often misandrist subculture of r/FemaleDatingStrategy as an example.

For anyone else curious but unfamiliar, this is from "The Second Coming", a poem by W. B. Yeats written shortly after WWI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)

That's true, but the information age allows us to be more keenly aware of problems that aren't just local. Our new ability to be online has contributed to an uptick in mental health issues.

Fortunately, being able to shine a spotlight on problems in the world also puts pressure on us to improve. We do have issues like financial inequality and global warming that have recently gotten worse, but if you look at trends like violent crime, illiteracy, global hunger, extreme poverty, child mortality, or deaths to many longstanding diseases, it is hard not to realize that we're actually collectively doing a good job of making the world better.