Sunsofold @ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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'Don't do that thing that these several clearly successful musicians do because it'll make you sound weird.'

Having a word for it is fun but this woman is a dunce.

Big L, I see. The american Libertarian Party is a combination of 99% of the people who still want to vote but can't fit in with the dominant two, with 127 reasons per 5 members. Lots of them are just looking for a way to be allowed to do whatever they want that is currently illegal, whether that's as banal as recreational drugs or as oppositional to society as child slave torture-rape. Whatever their 'thing' is, they want to be allowed to do it, the rest of society be damned.

'A ten' or just 'ten?' Rather worrying.

Wee, another person who doesn't understand how analogies work. You see, class, saying A is analogous to B is not a statement of equivalency, but a statement of structural similarity. The response 'welcome to the internet' is sarcasm meant to imply the previous responder is foolish for having standards of some kind and should simply accept and expect that people cannot be held to any standard. The further response asking the respondent, via analogy, if more people doing something is all that it takes to make it acceptable, asks them to consider the implications of the belief that repetition makes right.

Now that you have a more fullsome understanding of things, will you demonstrate the maturity and intelligence to integrate that knowledge into action or will you demonstrate an inability to comprehend, only to raise a pretense of reason?

'I want you to make me a Facebook-killer app with agentive AI and blockchains. Why is that so hard for you code monkeys to understand?'

The first one is odd, but 'through a mirror darkly' is itself a reference to a poetic use of language from the bible. It was around long before trek.

LinkedIn is Poe's Law for corporatism made into a lifestyle.

So, if I slap you, it's assault, but if loads of people make slapping you a regular occurrence, we should stop caring?

It's the white house. You think they don't have a fridge/freezer capable of holding a body somewhere in there?

Game publishers: We aren't predating on children fast enough. How will we ever achieve infinite money if we don't predate on children faster?

Discord management: We can help with that.

And then someone sends Cirroc Lofton a vest made of this chair.

It changes one kind of stress for another in a lot of cases. If you annoy everyone you come into contact with, you end up alone, which isn't great for your mental health, and turns every interaction into an annoyance, so you end up stressed by the necessity of interacting with people you don't want to interact with. There is no escape from humanity when you are human.

To my understanding, ballet is a form of dance, and while it can be performed to music that has lyrics, and something like an opera can contain ballet dancing, ballet is not directly associated with the lyrics. Ballet is a creation primarily of choreography rather than oration.

Uhoh, now the anaconda is going to want some.

Most people feel obligated to at least pretend they like their family.

I remember a talk about this exact concept. KDE Eco was announced a ways back but it's KDE's initiative to remind people that Linux offers a more environmentally friendly option for computing, preventing the creation of E-waste, a godawful source of toxic pollutants in itself, but also in many other ways that play out across the computing hardware lifecycle. Anyone who claims to care about the environment, the global south, or even just the affordability of personal computing should be on board.

• Sneakily work together in secret, private meetings to manipulate people's beliefs
• Have direct influence over which companies make money
• Have direct influence over which politicians are elected
• Have direct influence on which laws are popularized vs vilified
• Make obscene amounts of money by parasitizing others' work
• Lie constantly
• Perpetually working to worsen society for their own benefit
• Have space lasers (okay, not this one, as far as I know)

You know, most of the crap anti-Semites say about the jews is actually true of the marketing industry.

'I am tired. I just want to go home and go to bed.'

You can see the quandary.

Don't forget the third system, where y is inverted to come down from the origin at the upper left of the view as y increases.

Depending on where you live this might be because of pricing regulations which require payments to be equal to the most expensive source used in a given period plus a preset margin. Some of the regulatory systems don't know how to cope with the differences in generation that come from renewables. ...not that they're great at managing the non-renewables these days either.