um… “I wonder how many directors say ‘director’s cut’ when cutting turkey at thanksgiving.” Did you really not consider this…?

Well, for one thing, he was the president who OK’d drones.

This is hardly bikeshedding.

I wonder if male, middle-aged dogs dream? Do male, middle-aged postal workers deliver their own mail? Question for male, middle-aged linguists:…

It’s human nature to wonder why, in a one-sentence post title, you included some details that don’t seem relevant.

He was a war criminal, just saying

furiously angry

I see people asking why male + middle aged is relevant. I don’t see anyone furiously angry.

ngl this is such a toxic community. The Nazi thing is definitely part of the problem – we live in an age of “soft fascism” so of course we have our fists up and we see nazis everywhere. Honestly I think most of the nazis are on twitter or truth social though, they don’t come to lemmy so much. Hmm, don’t assume that someone espousing an (1) conservative-looking belief is a nazi maybe?

This is actually an easy thing to do – usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.

search engines hardly index lemmy unfortunately. Probably due to having too much repeated content on different URLs.

I see no horses posted – oh, right

be the change you want to see. Post and upvote.

Help retain users by discussing more than just politics

What is your plan, exactly? I don’t understand how we can rebel against fascism if there aren’t enough people on the same page that it’s bad.

On this day 16 years ago, using Ubuntu led to a girl dropping out of college.

I used a computer without any hard limits since I was 2 and I turned out homose🏳️‍🌈 just fine.

Actually on second thought I have crushing depression and feel terribly unsatisfied at my job as a software engineer, maybe you have a point.

in the case of discord, it’s not convenience, it’s the network effect.

I’d like to point out that the dialect-language-family distinction is really a continuum. As dialects drift apart from each other, there is no point where God comes in and declares a dialect has graduated into its own language. Mutual intelligibility simply decreases continuously.

For instance, Portuguese and Spanish are widely considered to be different languages, although they are partially mutually intelligible, particularly in written form. Cantonese and Mandarin are less so, but still a bit. My uncle-in-law speaks Canto but can still understand my Mandarin (however, he can’t respond). I won’t deny that there is a political reason to want to refer to the Chinese/中文 languages as a single “language,” but the classification is honestly quite arbitrary. My understanding is that linguists generally place the category of “Chinese” somewhere between “language” and “family.”

Is Scots a different language than English? I don’t think I could understand someone speaking Scots without incredible concentration. (However, it’s still considered a “linguistic variety” of middle english.)

What does BLOB stand for?

what’s underage for hrt? like… 12?

The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.

You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS

Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there’s open source software, and then there’s free/libre open source software – note the distinction.

If this were true, we wouldn’t need the term “FOSS.”

You’re talking about the OSD presumably. Stallman’s definition differs, and I think his terminology seems to be widely used.