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That said, look at Latin:

• dexter - right side, but also: favourable, fitting, proper (cf Spanish diestro)
• sinister - left side, but also: adverse, hostile, bad (cf Spanish siniestro)

The "privileges" that you see in derecho and right are an extension of what Latin already associated with dexter - things that are proper to do or to get. For example if I got a right to freedom, that means that it's fitting for me to get freedom, you know?

Based on that odds are that Spanish simply inherited the association, and kept it as such even after borrowing izquierdo from Basque and shifting directus→derecho from "straight" to "right". While English borrowed it, either from Latin or some Gallo-Romance language.

And overall you'll see a fair bit of that in the Western European languages, regardless of phylogenetic association, since languages clustered near each other (i.e. a Sprachbund) will often borrow concepts and associations from either each other or from a common source.

Also, note that right "as side" and "as privilege" are not homonyms. Those aren't different words from different sources, it's the same word with two different meanings, this is called polysemy. The same applies to derecho.

The word in question is not "fuck". It's "faggоt".

[And before someone complains: the above is an instance of metalinguistic usage of a word. It's morally OK as you're using the word to refer to itself, instead of using the word to convey any discourse that would target a marginalised group.]

A lot of times you don't need to buy containers, you can reuse the ones where your food came from.

For example inside my freezer there are three ice cream pots, but none of them has actual ice cream - it's tomato paste, chickpeas, cat food. In the past I've also reused margarine and requeijão pots to store leftover food, as makeshift planters, etc. The requeijão pots even worked as drinking glasses in my uni times.

Hard to choose, ever changing. Right now it's probably the chocolate and walnuts pastel that I used to eat downtown.

We're talking about apples and oranges. Or rather, fruits and oranges. Contrast my note #1 with your comment:

[Me] For the sake of this comment, I’m defining “dumb fuck” as someone who assumes too much, oversimplifies, disregards context, focuses too much on who says it instead of what is being said, lacks basic understanding of what other users say, or a mix of those.

[You] people who are arguing in bad faith, trolls, people who are being too aggro for no reason, and of course people getting into a fight who need to cool it. [...] say spready hate speech [...] users knowing just how to be a dickhead without actually breaking the rules and ruin the place [...] if someone posts hate speech [...]

You're talking about intentionally socially disruptive behaviour; Beehaw does address it. However I'm talking about bad = non-contributive behaviour in general, regardless of "intentions" or "faith".

When I registered 2y ago I didn't think that I'd stick around for so long.
\ I'm glad that I did.

Together, they make up a bit more than 50% of active users, yet basically all far-right trolls are from there.

That doesn't say much about LW besides being the biggest instance - because trolls beeline towards larger audiences.

but if you have more users to moderate, you should also increase moderating capacity or close registrations.

Closing registrations might be the sensible approach here. Because the necessary moderation grows exponentially, and eventually too large of a mod/admin team becomes a problem on its own.

Then again you’re talking about Beehaw, their users react so badly to anyone telling them they might be wrong that it’s not surprising their mods need to spend a disproportionate amount of time taking action against other users.

I think that you're partially right.

The sort of online fight that Beehaw seeks to avoid depends on having at least one dumb fuck¹. Two cause it faster, but one is enough - because smart people have an easier time reaching agreement or realising that no agreement is possible.

Both sides (LW+SJW and Beehaw) have their shares of smart posters and dumb fucks². The later are there for different reasons:

• LW+SJW absorbed the bulk of the Reddit diaspora, and Reddit culture revolves around being a dumb fuck;
• Beehaw doesn't prevent you from being a dumb fuck, as long as you are not the one apparently starting the fight. Effectively sheltering dumb fucks who are really good at passive aggression, and who'll have a meltdown once you say "what you said is incorrect, here's why", as they'll interpret this as a personal attack.

If you're a smart user, you eventually learn how to handle the dumb fucks in your instance, in a way that is allowed there: chewing them out (within limits) or avoiding them like a plague. But those approaches break once you're handling someone from the other side:

• smart Beehaw user interacting with LW+SJW dumb fuck: "I feel like I'm always swallowing frogs with those users, as they say stupid shit and I don't want to be rude."
• smart LW+SJW interacting with Beehaw dumb fuck: insert here your first paragraph. It's why I think that you're partially right.

Factorio and Dwarf Fortress both have great wikis IMO.

Typically 1~10. Four right now (all four are Lemmy: inbox, another thread, front page, this thread)

I close them as the tabs bar feels cluttered and/or I see no reason to keep them open.

Actually interesting video! I'm clueless when it comes to fonts, but a few comments about the start (when he gives it some historical background):

What the Phoenicians did was to take a look at the hieroglyphs like, "Yeah! Love that! But... what if we made the symbols even more abstract?"

I know, he's oversimplifying it (as it is not the focus of the video), but it's worth noting that this abstraction was done by the Egyptians themselves, while writing hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs often use something called the "rebus principle", where you represent a word by a similar-sounding word. For example, "son of" /sa/ was often represented with ⟨𓅬⟩, a white-fronted goose /za/ - because they sound practically the same.

(It's a lot like writing "I like The Beatles" as ⟨👁️👍🪲🪲⟩. Why ⟨👁️⟩? Because it sounds the same as "I".)

What the Canaanites (including the Phoenicians) did was to use this rebus principle in a more consistent way, and only for the first consonant of the word. For example, ⟨𓉐⟩ (a house) representing [b] because "house" in those languages usually starts with that sound. That's the start of the phonetic principle (graphemes represent sounds instead of concepts).

There's yet another level of abstraction, that it's hard to pinpoint when started to become relevant: instead of representing the "raw" sounds, you represent the underlying phonemes. It's the reason, for example, that the /p/ in ⟨pit⟩ [pʰ] and ⟨spit⟩ [p] gets the same letter - because although they sound different, they're still the same phoneme.

Now, there were a couple of problems with this early alphabet from the Greeks, there only had uppercase, and while they wrote in rows, sometimes they wrote LTR, sometimes RTL

Ah, come on, that's silly - neither is a "problem" of the lapidary early Greek alphabet. It's just the absence of a feature that he's used to, and the presence of another.

For comparison: this is on the same level as an Arabic or Farsi speaker saying "now, there are a couple problems with the modern Latin alphabet, such as lack of initial/medial/final forms, and writing the vowels with their own letters as if they were consonants."

Enter the Romans...

Further info on the alphabet. Be warned that it's mostly trivia.

• ⟨G⟩ is a later innovation, more specifically from 230 BCE. Originally the Roman alphabet used ⟨C⟩ for both /k/ and /g/.
• Including ⟨J⟩ was a mistake - it was not a letter back then, it originated as a curled ⟨I⟩ in the middle ages. ⟨I⟩ and ⟨J⟩ got "split" into their own letters rather recently.
• ⟨U⟩ was not a letter back then either, but he got it right. Same deal with the above, except between ⟨V⟩ and ⟨U⟩.
• ⟨K⟩ was only marginally used. You do see it popping up for native Latin words, but it's usually for Greek borrowings. Specially after Latin shifted /k/ to sound like [tʃ] (as in chill) before front vowels.
• ⟨Y⟩ was mostly used for Greek borrowings, representing the sounds [ʏ y:] (as in German Müller and über). Latin itself lacked the sound, and odds are that most speakers butchered those words to sound like [ɪ i:] (as in bit and beet) instead.
• ⟨W⟩ is not there because, although ⟨V⟩ represented three sounds in Latin, [w ʊ u:] (as in wool, book and boot), confusing [w] with [ʊ] was not a big deal (more on [u:] later). It wrecked havoc for Germanic dialects though, so they started representing the consonant with a digraph, ⟨VV⟩.
• ⟨Z⟩ used to be the sixth letter of the alphabet. Then it was kicked off the alphabet for being "too foreign". Then it came back at the end.
• Some Roman emperor tried to introduce three letters into the alphabet: ⟨Ↄ Ⅎ Ⱶ⟩, that were supposed to represent [ps w ɨ] (as in cops, wool, and Polish byt). They were mostly forgotten.
• The Romans used a diacritic, to represent vowel length, the apex. For most time it looked like its descendant (the modern acute), except over ⟨I⟩ - because then people wrote a longer ⟨I⟩ instead.

What makes this matter messier is that you got two parties to blame here - developers and publishers: Colossal Order and Paradox

Hallikainen (co_martsu)'s apology would have sounded sincere if she, among other things, showed that CO did its best, and that Paradox is to blame for the issues; she'd be feeding Paradox to the wolves/userbase, but there are ways to do that without losing face. She didn't - and in the process she's issuing that corporate apology to protect the butts of both companies at the same time.

It’s all bullshit for gullible people.

Yup, full agree on that. But the gullible people keep pre-ordering their bloody games, and here's the result.

You do realize it was very likely not CO’s decision to release the game in this state, right?

Contrariwise to your "I assoome that you're ignorant, so let me enlighten you", I'm aware of that, as shown in the very excerpt of my comment that you're quoting. And my point still stands.

The company likely responsible for the decision to ship the game (Paradox Interactive) was the exact same company responsible for its QA. It knew that the game was a buggy mess and it still decided to ship the game like this. CO relies on Paradox even to breathe; it shows that CO is not to be trusted, regardless of being their fault or not, given how it depends on a cancerous company.

Even then Colossal Order is still at fault, alongside Paradox. Think on why. [Hint: "teeth controversy"]

Game companies have absolutely died by going against the publisher and going bankrupt from withheld funding, e.g. Free Radical Design and Lucasarts.

That only further reinforces my point, it does not contradict it. And it makes me wonder if you actually got it on first place.

Like have you ever [...]

This is almost a textbook example of genetic fallacy=brainfart. As such, I won't bother with it.

DISCLAIMER: before anyone vomits further assumptions or idiocy like "ur sayin dat cuz...", I am not among the people who bought the game. It doesn't even run in my system (for further reasons than the ones why it doesn't run on you all's). As such I have no direct emotional or monetary involvement on this matter, OK?

We could organise something to advertise Lemmy in Reddit, but I think that organic word-of-mouth is a better approach.

Instead we should make sure that the Lemmy experience is as good as possible. (Plus it benefits us "older" users regardless of any potential migration.)

I think that it will, potentially worse than the APIcalypse, even if there are less desktop than mobile users. They'd be messing with whatever was left of a sane interface, that even mobile users who don't want the app use. And the alternatives (incl. Lemmy) aren't just a bunch of ghost towns any more, they'd be reaching actual communities instead of a "make your own community" place.

For context, look at the negative reviews in Steam. Cities Skylines 2 developers promised the sky and a bit more for their game; suckers pre-ordered the game like there was no tomorrow, because CS1 was a good game; and the devs (Colossal Order) released some rushed mess, full of bugs, with performance issues, missing features that players expected from CS1 + dev promising "CS2 will be berrurr, chrust us", and shallow gameplay.

The comment being linked is corporate "we are sorry for your inconvenience" babble trying (and failing) to address player outrage.

Relevant detail: Colossal Order has strong ties with Paradox Interactive, a company known for its awful DLC policies and buggy DLC releases (cough Europa Universalis IV: Golden Century cough cough). And guess who does quality assessment for Colossal Order? Paradox.

Note to self: put CO in the same "don't buy" blacklist as EA and Paradox.

It's inference based on mouth movements, but it isn't as rough as it seems like - context plays a huge role on disambiguation, just like it would for you with homonyms that you hear. It's just that the number of words that look similar when you mouth read is larger than the number of words that sound the same, since some sounds are distinguished by articulations that you can't immediately see (such as [f] vs. [v] - you won't see the vocal folds vibrating for the later, so "fine" and "vine" look almost the same.)

Also, the McGurk effect hints that everyone uses a bit of lip reading, on an unconscious level; it's just that for most of us [users of spoken languages] it's just to disambiguate/reinforce the acoustic signal.

still not identical - for [v] the teeth will touch the bottom lip a bit longer.

How I'm reading those news: "as astroturfing in Twitter becomes unviable, online pulp magazines turn to Reddit. They're clueless on how to navigate the place and, once they learn how to do it, Reddit Inc. will spoil their fun by finding some way to squeeze them dry, and because Reddit is undergoing the same process as Twitter that makes you uneasy to associate your brand with that place."

“We had some organic success on Reddit. So we were like, we should start being more intentional,” said Brady Stone

"We found some grassroots there. We should replace it with astroturfing ASAP."

Pros: no fanning/bellowing
\ Cons: needs a stool to reach the chimney

...this channel is a treat. He made a natural draft furnace 6y ago, and with this one the improvements are visible - addressing short-circuit drafts, stronger airflow due to parallel tuyeres, and apparently far more yield. (Back then he got no iron from the slag around the tuyere.)