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Jojo
Jojo @ Silentiea @lemm.ee
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Lemmy is weird somethimes, and that's a rule

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  • These words... They cause me... Discomfort.

    • What is your socially unacceptable guilty indulgence?

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  • Wiktionary says whisky is Scotch and whiskey is Irish or bourbon, apparently.

    • What is your socially unacceptable guilty indulgence?

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  • Why is there a difference between whisky and whiskey?

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • Yeah, imperial units are terrible. 1/3 cup nuts, 1/2 cup flour...

    More granular units exist, but they're not easier to use and so no one does. The only reason anyone would refuse to switch to metric is because "it's always been done that way around here"

    Edit: typo

    • Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again.

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  • Firefox can search your bookmarks. I'd be surprised if another browser couldn't, but it probably isn't as easy as just using the address bar

    • secret rule

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  • This phenomenon is called enantiosemy, enantionymy (enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autantonymy.

    Apparently it has more names than a great old one...

    • If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.

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  • Unless you think the recent decision was very based, I don't think our opinions are all that different.

    • Freedom☭

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  • That seems somewhat tautological then, but okay. I'm not here to judge.

    • secret rule

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  • An antaunym.

    • secret rule

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  • The blahaj is ours now, we dibs'd it. Get your own shark. (You can play with ours too but you have to be nice.)

    • Freedom☭

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  • Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your response, we can't redefine communism if you play the "communism has never been tried" card based on a rigid definition?

    Is someone saying that? I don't think I am.

    ...are you?

    I'm so confused.

    • If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.

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  • I mean, I don't begin to understand it, and it terrifies me. But at least it's far away from me for now.

    • Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again.

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  • Truth, but it's three more key presses when I can just click the bookmark under the address bar instead of clicking the address bar. Takes you three times longer!

    • Freedom☭

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  • People redefine capitalism every time it suits the rich folk, why can't we redefine communism too?

    • If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children.

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  • If it's any slight consolation whatsoever, the Bible quotes being used as evidence was just from the concurring opinion (that came to the same conclusions for other reasons from the majority), written by the chief justice of that court.

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • Schools I've worked at have all had analog clocks for all their time pieces, unless a particular teacher brought their own. Or the clocks on computers, but those weren't always consistently reliable.

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • Toppa tha marnin' to ya!

    • I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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  • On the other hand, quarter inch and half mile and such are meant to be precise?

    • What are some good games with zero replayability?

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  • I haven't played it, I've only experienced it through essays. I think it's because it took a look at war and such from a pretty different perspective than other shooters had before, and examined the messier psychological aspects of it in a way that incorporated traditional shooter gameplay as hadn't been done before?

    • What are some good games with zero replayability?

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  • I think it kinda falls into the same sort of category as citizen Kane. Important for what it did when it did it, but not really good by modern standards.