Xavienth

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

So you're saying cops are terrorists? They violently silence dissent in service of suppressing political expression. Sounds like we can use "terrorism" as a stand-in "for any political group I don't like".

Glad we're on the same page. Or does state violence not count for some arbitrary reason?

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

I don't even look at the AI result. I scroll right past. That's the thing, if it's bullshit 50% of the time, and you can't always tell like you can here, then it's bullshit 100% of the time, and it's useless, just taking up screen real estate.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

"Y'all" has wider reach than this map suggests, particularly in black and queer communities.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

English used to be like other European languages too. We had thou/thee for singular, and you/ye for plural, and for respectful singular. Eventually, people began using it as respectful singular for everyone, and so it just became singular and plural, eclipsing thou/thee. Around this time, the you/ye accusative/nominative distinction was also lost, so now we just have you.

If you're curious, the you/ye distinction worked like this: "you" was used for the subject (the doer) of the sentence, and "ye" was used for the object (the done to). you/ye are analogous to I/me.

"You come with me." (plural you)

"I come with ye." (plural ye)

As a result of the loss of thou, we also lost the conjugation of verbs related to it, like "art" instead of "are", and "-st" or "-est" for other verbs ("goest", "thinkst", etc). It used to be that "are" was only for plural pronouns, but now both "you" and "they" can be singular.

And if you're curious about what happened to "-eth", evidence suggests this was for a long time a typographic feature, and it was pronounced "-s" as it is today. It was used exactly like "-s". "He thinketh" would have been pronounced "he thinks".

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

That is a $290,000 raise to every single employee while maintaining profitability, if I'm understanding operating ratio correctly.

The mathGoogle says operating ratio is expenses ÷ sales (revenue), so 1-OR is profit÷revenue, and therefore (1-OR)·revenue is profit. Not sure which OR to use so I'll use the conservative one

(1-0.618)·$3.8·10⁹/quarter·4 quarters/yr÷19927 employees=$290,000/yr/employee

Do mind that their existing salaries are already included in the expenses figure, so that's $290,000 on top.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

That's Pakistan

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

If you put it in the crease of a foldable, it's stretched when stowed, and normal in use.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

See, this is the problem with liberals. Kamala made absolutely no indication she would check Israel's aggression. It's wishful thinking based on no evidence. But she lost so she can be whatever liberals want now, she's full of endless possibilities.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Adobe products often have no real equal. It sucks, but it's the way it is. Gimp doesn't come close to Photoshop, Inkscape is almost as good as Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects is the most capable video editing software I've ever used.

It sucks that they try and lock you into proprietary file formats, like Substance Painter.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, they would need to if they got good enough. Rare or obscure road signs that are just text. But self driving cars haven't even perfected how to take a turn correctly.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I block the hb ones too because i browse all

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I blocked those communities once i realized they were basically the only part of hexbear that consistently made me feel dread. This shit is not good for you, and you don't even realize it until it's gone.

I think I'll be blocking these new communities because they will inevitably become like the old ones, and heavy moderation to try to change that is going to just cause whining.

 

I don't mean this in a nebulous sense, like that it's hard to find where things are.

But like, i find scrolling just has too much friction, especially with my small thumbs where i do a lot of flicking rather than sliding.

Anyone else find this?

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