GreyEyedGhost

joined 2 years ago
[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

English is perfectly reasonable... if you think taking root words from 3 or 4 languages as a core and fleshing it out with words from another half dozen languages and stitching it together with grammar that kind of matches a couple of those languages is reasonable.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

There's no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

In my riding, only God Himself would have had a chance if He wasn't running for the conservatives.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

If it makes you feel better, I do that off of Lemmy, too.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd be happy if they had an unsupported version, but I get that could cause negative publicity for those who couldn't accept that unsupported means exactly that.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sadly, SailfishOS is region locked. Being from North America, I can't purchase their phones, or use the trial/emulation option, which really sucks because I like a lot of what I'm seeing there.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

I once had the perfect job for biphasic sleeping. I would get up at 4 AM, work and be home by about 1 PM, sleep til 4 PM, stay up til 11 PM, then back to bed til 4 AM. 8 hours of sleep a day, 7 or 8 hours for work, 7 hours in the afternoon and evening for whatever I wanted, and I felt well-rested the whole time. It's the only thing I miss about that job.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can appreciate what you're saying, but it's kind of like action adventure films. They mix the genres because the audience they're targeting wants that. So, if women are interested in romance, they can expand the fantasy readership by putting that in there. I've read some that aren't bad and some that are pretty tiring, but Allen Dean Foster wove a romance element into the Flinx series now and then, and it was a key part of the Spellsinger series. So not really just a women-only thing, and likely for the same reasons - expanding the market for the books.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Feeling pretty good about my EV right now. Costs me about $3.00/100 km, assuming I don't top up for free at work.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

In basketball, you must always have two limbs touching the ground when you have the ball, unless you are standing, shooting, or jumping. Why? I don't like basketball and think it would be funny as he'll.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I prefer to think of merging it into the gestalt.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I forgot about the orbs. Maybe I'm less of a wizard type and more of a lamp type than I thought.

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