Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
To me, the biggest thing missed isn’t links. And I think I’m not alone—if I was, lemmit.online would have succeeded instead of being a wasteland. The thing missed is the conversation. Without the comments, you lose 95% of the value of Reddit.
If it didn’t do two-way bridging of comments I wouldn’t really see much point.
And Reddit would ban any accounts used for that pretty quickly.
Does software piracy count?
Ah who am I kidding, of course it doesn’t.
Somehow I don’t the UK will Be Heading down that same route again.
Yeah and if that background check were required, without loopholes like private sales, everywhere in the country, you’d halve the problem. The problem with America is that conservatives are so stuck on their ideology that even modest compromises in favour of sensible policy are rabidly opposed. Americans would rather children die than pass sensible policy. Every gun-supporting American has children’s blood on their hands.
Yeah, it’s actually extremely common here in Australia. Major sporting events and other special occasions are often opened with a “welcome to Country” ceremony, performed by an Indigenous Elder.
Smaller events, from the weekly City Council meeting to radio programmes to some Australian Twitch streamers, will often include an “acknowledgement of Country” made by a non-Indigenous person. A simple statement like “I would like to acknowledge the Yuggera and Turrbal people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we are gathered, and pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.”
Keep an eye out, if you’re interested, for the opening ceremony of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics. Or any other sporting events that might come to your attention that are located in Australia.
No, I think I will mention gun control. Because “it’s still technically possible to get” is a world different from the dystopian American “anyone can get one at any time for extremely cheap prices with zero oversight” reality.
The thing is, the time zones aren’t necessarily related to the lifestyle. A siesta at 1 on the current clock is identical to a siesta at 11 on a more natural clock. But either way you have a siesta when the sun is near its peak.
Midday is 12:00. If you want to refer to solar noon, call it solar noon.
In Australia, the term “country” can also mean which Aboriginal land you’re on. Sort of equivalent to an American saying which Native American tribe’s “nation” they’re in, I think.
That’s the thing though. Spain’s time zone is so far ahead of where it should be, for most of the year the hottest part of the day really is around noon. When stupid-pretendy-time is in effect (which a quick google tells me is 7 months of the year), solar noon is at 10 am in Spain, which means clock noon is at 2 pm, roughly the hottest part of the day.
There’s also the fact that local factors have an effect. Closer to the equator, the hottest part of the day tends to be earlier. Humidity can have an effect, as can the amount of concrete and asphalt versus earth and trees.
Oh damn, that’s a great comment! I’m glad you put it up, if only in summary form.
Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person
Hahaha. Yeah absolutely. And indeed, that’s sort of what I was getting at with my earlier comment. I’m a runner and triathlete. I can geek out about someone’s Garmin and relate to that in a way I just don’t care about any other timepiece. That’s what my watch says about me, and I’m very conscious of it. It doesn’t feel like being a “watch person” so much as being an amateur athlete.
I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be
Ubuntu. It’s 100% Ubuntu. Which, fwiw, is my Linux distro of choice. I like Linux, but I don’t care about it in a meaningful way. I can count on one hand the number of hours I’ve spent using a non-Debian based Linux distro (Android excluded, of course). Ubuntu, or some closely-related Debian-based distro, gets the job done. It lets me have the low level easy terminal access I don’t get on Windows and only kinda-sorta get on Mac, and any problem I have is exceptionally easy to Google because it’s what all the tutorials and questions are geared towards.
As for not using Rolex, unfortunately for better or worse, they are the by-word for “fancy watch”. It’s the one brand everyone will have heard of and understand basically what it means.
You’re literally responding in the context of someone who wouldn’t ride (heck, or even walk) 800 metres to work. Driving that short a distance is inconceivable to me. And it should be to any sane person.
Not a fan of bringing up Hamas. They’re not especially relevant, because tankies and real leftists alike both stand united against Israel’s ongoing genocide and long-standing apartheid state. Hamas might use terroristic methods, but their cause is every bit as just as Irish republicans, black South Africans, and 18th century American colonists. Heck, probably more just than that last group, because the worst oppression they faced was a bit more taxes. (And I still think that their cause was just enough to be worth breaking free of the US through violent means.)
Every one of those groups used tactics that would be called terrorism today. And history looks back on them kindly. The smart thing to do is to be on the right side of history today, not wait until it is history. And the bare minimum you can do here is acknowledge that while it might be better if fewer innocent people were killed as a result of their actions, Hamas are, on the whole, the good guys in this scenario. And that, at worst, every action Hamas takes is one caused by Israel’s actions towards the Palestinian people.
I’ll tell you, my “empirical view” is that I’ve almost (if not absolutely) never seen it used against someone who wasn’t simping for China—or worse, modern-day crony-capitalist Russia. As though anyone defending Russian imperialism against the perception of American imperialism has any legs to stand on from a leftist’s perspective.
Cuck I agree should be removed, but calling someone a tankie is very different. It’s a term for a very narrow set of political beliefs. It accurately describes someone who claims be be socialist while defending authoritarianism and human rights atrocities.
It’s also, in this context, not being targeted specifically at another user, but in the abstract at the people making the argument in the post.
Of any game? Codenames. Was playing with family when the clock struck midnight.
Of computer games, it was probably Kerbal Space Program, which I’ve just started to get into again over Christmas for the first time in years.
I will say, as someone who does not come from a soccer playing country, it certainly seems like the worst sporting behaviour comes from soccer fans. You get it sometimes with American football and even more rarely with Australian football or rugby league, but 9 times out of 10 a story about violence erupting at or after a sporting event and it’s soccer hooligans. Even here in Australia where the audiences are tiny compared to our main football codes, the violence is likely to be with soccer.
I’m not a fan of dancing. Love going to my local symphony concerts though. Never crowded; there’s no moshing at an orchestral concert. You get your seat and you sit in it, and you clap when the piece is done.
Plus the music’s just so much better.
Pfft, imagine not playing crazyhouse.