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cupcakezealot , to piracy in Piracy advice
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do i want to be her or date her?

Binette , to technology in Be careful.

That is extremely hilarious

dan ,
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Except for the fact that a lot of less tech savvy people will fall for it.

SexualPolytope , (edited ) to selfhosted in What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
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I’ve been very happy with Navidrome. I have it accessible on a subdomain, so I can just use it from wherever I want. Feishin is a great frontend for Linux desktop, and Tempo is a great frontend for Android.

My friend used Jellyfin instead of Navidrome, and he’s also happy with it. Both the frontends that I mentioned work with Jellyfin as well.

LadyAutumn ,
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Second Navidrome. I use it with the android app Symfonium and have thoroughly enjoyed it.

eezeebee , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in How is "son of a gun" an insult?
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Something about taking prostitutes on voyages across the sea in the olden days. You’d romance her under the cannons and the bastard child would be a “son of a gun”. I don’t remember where I learned this so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Edit: I looked it up and got some details wrong, but pretty close

solidgrue ,
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If you’re wrong then I don’t wanna be right.

SnotFlickerman , (edited )
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_a_gun

The phrase potentially has its origin in a Royal Navy direction that pregnant women aboard smaller naval vessels give birth in the space between the broadside guns, in order to keep the gangways and crew decks clear. Admiral William Henry Smyth wrote in his 1867 book, The Sailor’s Word-Book: “Son of a gun, an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands to sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”

Checks out. Very interesting.

Since its naval, Jimmy Buffett comes to mind.

Son of a son of a gun.


EDIT: too much time was spent on this

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/7c27a324-0c2f-4792-a9ed-93cd232e5f89.webp

itsathursday ,

I always thought “gun” was a replacement for “bitch” and was a way of saying it without saying it.

bamfic ,

Minced oath

NegativeLookBehind ,
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I long to fornicate with many a sea bound trollop, under the blazing fire of a worthy vessels’ cannons

demizerone , to memes in Decision time

I gave up on factamatic.org, my note taking app many many years ago, basically what obsidian is now. I suffer from a lack of execution.

Lurkinney , to cat in Hot or Not?

Who spoke my name without fear in their voice?

Zerlyna , to nostupidquestions in How is "son of a gun" an insult?
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First I heard of that.

someguy3 , (edited ) to showerthoughts in Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

And even if the candidate wins, then what? They have no say in Congress. It’s the House of Reps and the Senate that passes legislation. Your new third party candidate can only choose to sign or to veto bills passed by the House and Senate.

Beau on it youtu.be/-KX8xddKfeM

valen , to asklemmy in If you could "Eternal Sunshine" a piece of media so that you could listen to it for the first time again, what would it be?

Babylon 5

konalt , to asklemmy in Chinese pop music?
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You have K-Pop, but Chinese pop doesn’t exist. Chinese rap (crap) exists though.

myopic_menace , to linux in Distro and/or config for elderly person
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Pop!_OS or something like Bazzite would be decent choices.

sgibson5150 , to showerthoughts in Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

I’m going to hold my nose and vote for Kamala but I won’t shame people who can’t bring themselves to do it.

jonne , (edited )

And this criticism of ‘the greens only show up every 4 years’ is in bad faith. The greens run in other elections as well, you just only hear about the presidential elections because that’s the only time they get some media attention.

This list has a bunch of school board members, city councillors, even a mayor on it. They do run in local elections, and even win sometimes.

ShinkanTrain , (edited )

Noooo you must enjoy voting for our designated ghoul and voice your full throated support every day until November or else it’s basically a vote for Trump. Also, you can’t ask us to change any platforms whatsoever cause that’s divisive and a vote for Trump.

eestileib , to showerthoughts in Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

Primary elections are how parties change. Primary elections are how the Republican party became what it is today. They are often the highest-leverage vote you can cast if you’re in a solid district.

NuXCOM_90Percent ,

Yup. People don’t realize there is already a not horrible approximation of runoff voting that still avoids the spoiler effect.

And just look at what happened when Sanders realized that. He went from being a meme about how nobody watches C-SPAN to one of the more influential politicians on the Left.

NewNewAccount ,

Remind me who won in 2016? How do you think all those Bernie supporters felt about the election that was still very much influenced by FPTP dynamics.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

More voters went from Hillary Clinton to John McCain in 2008 than went from Sanders to Trump in 2016 -Source

SpaceCowboy ,
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Well I’d say it’s still pretty bad with the super delegates and such. But yeah it’s runoff system of sorts and people should pay more attention to it.

But a lot of the “system is broken” angst comes from people being not happy over who the majority of people vote for. But that’s just democracy, baby.

But the Electoral College, yeah that shit is broken.

Drusas , to nostupidquestions in How is "son of a gun" an insult?

I've never heard it used as an insult, more as a very mild expletive.

colourlessidea , to asklemmy in Chinese pop music?

Faye Wong, perhaps?

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