FriendOfDeSoto

joined 3 years ago

I would demand to see passports if all the phone operators are really Swiss, like promised. And then complain if they're not.

The "why no more risky video games?" post was mentioned in this thread. If it was moderator intervention and you remember the post title and instance it was on you can try to look up the modlog and see if you can find it there. Open the web version and scroll down to the bottom to see the link.

I use a third-party client that puts the baby emoji by the user name for new accounts. In the age of bots and repeat sock puppet account offenders, you reply to baby emojis in great detail at your own peril. You could make it part of your routine that if you wrote more than 100 words in reply to somebody you snap a quick screenshot of the post before you move on.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It is a bugbear for some, irregardless of when the first example was documented. Loose/lose has the potential to be such an annoyance. For some people.

The word "new" can carry a connotation of "recent" but it more literally implies "the latest version." For all intensive purposes, I did not mean to imply the controversy about the metaphorical use of "literally" was a recent development.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Déjà-vu, mon faux-nez. New account, real wordy post, same subject as a few days ago ...

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 27 points 23 hours ago (18 children)

This will literally be the new literally, I guess.

Spelling conventions have taken quite a hit in the age of automated subtitles. We're devolving to the 1600s where this was more vibe based. I think there is also an element of wanting to show human frailty in content so no one suspects you of pushing slop.

Sloppy slop slop - 2 sloppy 2 slop slop

No, you can't. And there are messaging apps available on FD. The problem is not so much their availability there but whether or not the people you want to talk to also use them.

A home doesn't equal having a toilet either everywhere on this planet. I remember walking through areas of Shanghai in the early 2000s where chamber pots were collected and emptied in the morning. Erecting a roof is easier than hooking up to water and sewage pipes.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 47 points 4 days ago (7 children)

But now they want a court to treat that click as though an 8-year-old knowingly negotiated away her right to have these issues heard. It's insulting.

In the court of public opinion, sharpen your pitchforks, light your torches, and move on Roblox HQ. This is objectively a silly argument.

Made in a court of law. Where lawyers play by different established rules. Where they are often compelled by those rules to pursue every possible avenue to get the best result for their client. Where they may be held accountable when mishandling their case. Where company execs push their own moral compass out of the way not because they believe this argument but out of a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. It's a clusterfuck of obligations.

My gut feeling is they probably know this argument won't hold up in court. But it may just knock whatever punishment awaits them down a peg or two.

Whether you like it or not, you have to abide by local laws. You can't go to Pyongyang and exercise your first amendment rights either. The guy was warned and did this out of spite. Actions have consequences. Whether he just thought he was above the culture and norms as a tourist or whether he wanted to be a martyr for affected tourists everywhere really doesn't matter. And his fate doesn't infuriate me at all.

That being said the punishment itself is Draconian and not just mildly infuriating.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We also share half of our DNA with bananas. Therefore, we are also siblings of bananas.

There are places on this planet where mothers just breastfeed in public and nobody cares. There are places where they only do it in private. And then there are places where it's something in between. Some do it in private because they don't want creepy stares. Some dgaf any more because they haven't slept for longer than an hour at a time since giving birth. More reasons exist for either preference.

You laid the creepy landmine yourself so that's the most likely explanation for any down vote. Also, as a young parent you will learn that nobody cares about your thoughts on parenthood outside of a small circle of close family and friends. The same applies to being shown pictures, or worse, videos of your kid.

Any slightly controversial post illustrated with an image has the look of attempted rage bait too.

 

... and then you have to go back and do it again. Mildly infuriating a-hole design on the LINE messaging app (popular in Japan).

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