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tunetardis , to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?

Every place I live, there will be this incident when a torrential deluge of water breaks through the ceiling of my bedroom in the middle of the night.

So it’s not the bedroom itself that is cursed, since it is a different room each time. And the causes have varied also. The cursed object, therefore, must either be me or something in my possession I have kept around since childhood? Hmm…

IMongoose ,

I probably wouldn’t do any overnight stays on a ship.

tunetardis ,

Yeah. My wife is always wanting to go on a cruise and I’m having none of it.

One thing I will add regarding the nature of this curse is that it only manifests when I am the sole occupant of the bedroom. For example, I used to share a bedroom with my older sister, but within a week of her moving out and rejoicing at having the whole place to myself, the ceiling opened up.

So I suppose I would be safe on the ship as long as my wife is there with me? In our current home, she was my sole protection, but has recently taken to sleeping on the basement cot due to hot flashes. This leaves me staring nervously at the ceiling. It’s now or never, curse!

boredsquirrel , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it
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Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.

Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD

possiblylinux127 ,

Just use flatpak. It runs and installs local but still has the benefits of a package manager

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

Yup.

xmunk , to asklemmy in What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?

Saying that my favorite cli editor is nano

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

The only CLI editors I’ve used are VI and Nano. So my favourite CLI editor is Nano too.

ulterno , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

If it’s C or C++, I get the source from the project’s GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don’t read, I usually use the AUR.

Also,

  • GoG for games
  • Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
  • AppImage sometimes
InverseParallax ,

God that’s painfully me.

Except I moved to lxc and zfs with homebrew scripts for most now, pass containers around the network like candy, including an arch lutris one.

Decency8401 , to asklemmy in What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?
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Image Toolbox Its a photo editor with everything you need. Its really really powerful and so fleshed out. Everytime I use it, I discover something new. The only sad thing is, that I can’t donate in XMR otherwise I’ve would of donated. If you have an android, download it and try it. It’s a must have on any phone imo.

9point6 , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it

Wow a reference to those Mac Vs PC ads from like 15 years ago

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They stopped that ad campaign about 15 years ago, and they started it closer to 20 years ago.

Jessica ,

I am fairly certain the original version of this meme has red shirt saying Linux and getting beat up

meowMix2525 , to science_memes in try fingers but hole

This rule always pissed me off because it makes absolutely no sense to me and it’s terrible as a shorthand but my physics professors could not stop preaching it for any length of time to come up with something better

omega_x3 ,

If the flow of current follows in the direction the index finger is pointing, then the the magnetic field lines will flow in the direction the middle finger is pointing, the thumb points in the direction that the force is exerted.

youtu.be/ySx84Ca7BFQ

barsoap , (edited )

Does this help? Short of making sure that your fingers actually are mutually orthogonal. The perspective in OP’s picture is all fucked up and also not consistent between the hand and arrows.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/824ae210-5a86-407f-8fe0-14926f0db0bb.webp

“x,y,z” of course is an easy order you learned it in primary school, for it to make sense for the physics you need to memorise that order. The handedness is dictated by the signs of the vectors, I guess if you were to flip the sign of some natural constant the whole thing would suddenly be left-handed.

It of course is also not an explanation of why the stuff is like it is. You say handedness plus assigning things to fingers is terrible as a shorthand? Show me something better, then. Meanwhile, generations of graphics programmers could and can be observed holding out their hand like that and rotating it every which way to make sense of what other people preferring different orientations did. Or keeping track of local vs. global transforms.

(and, yes, for some reason there’s no 3d software which uses x as the up/down axis. Whether that means that the industry has a bit of sanity left in it I’m not so sure it might be an accident).

Cephalotrocity , to science_memes in Philosophy

gets real dark.

Cephalotrocity , to cat in RIP Bear

My condolences for your loss.

FlashZordon , to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?
@FlashZordon@lemmy.world avatar

My In-Laws house has some BAD juju for sure.

-Had an uncle pass away in it

-Multiple pets run over in the driveway

-Bad experiences living there when we moved back home and we looking for a place

-Bonus Room flooded MULTIPLE due to MIL not understanding how retaining walls work.

Just a cursed place in general and I’m glad I’m nowhere near that house.

Cowbee , to asklemmy in Alternatives to congress
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Soviet Democracy. Workers elect delegates from among themselves, who can then be subject to instant recall elections at any time. Remove the “career politician” aspects from government.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1cde6b45-3192-4b44-a52b-c7a3ec280f48.png

Aatube , (edited )

Could work if you remove the democratic centralism part, which is an effect of one of the main reasons the USSR was undemocratic most of the time

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Almost every democratic structure practices Democratic Centralism, it just means the group is bound to the democratic results.

Aatube ,

Just like many things in the USSR, It was perhaps that way in principle, but nefariously twisted in practice, where it means that everyone must vote whatever the elite thinks, majority requirements be damned. Like the ancient parable of Yu the Great choosing a successor, a dictating elite are bound to self-perpetuate and stray away from the proletariat, even if that's what they were once.

Cowbee , (edited )
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Nah, it was democratic, moreso than Capitalist countries. You can read This Soviet World if you want a look at it.

Aatube ,

Without a specific page or chapter number, I'm assuming you're pointing to the only paragraph that mentions "centralism". It just seems to repeat what I already replied to.

I'll explain further, then: At first, the lower body elects the upper body. The upper body decides everything. Then:

  1. Why not just skip the waste of time of the lower body voting on stuff? I can't find any time something like jury nullification of a really awful presidium policy happened.
  2. Since whoever disagrees with the upper body gets expelled, the lower body will perpetually elect whomever the upper body wants. While this may have enabled a dictatorship of the proletariat for a while, this behavior blocked out a ton of new ideas and became problematic after Stalin's straight-up purging of opponents and entrenched an oppressive old guard, by whom Khrushchev got ousted trying to get rid of.
Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m referring to the book itself, you have a lot of confused ideas about the USSR itself. Blackshirts and Reds is another great “Myth Debunker.”

I’ll explain further, then: At first, the lower body elects the upper body. The upper body decides everything.

Wrong. The lower bodies also decide things among themselves particular to issues specific to them, and elect delegates for the larger area. Imagine a soviet of a single factory, then a soviet of a city composed of delegates from all of the factories, then a regional soviet, etc. Each rung governs their respective areas with matters exclusive to them. These were workers with instant recall elections if needed.

  1. Why not just skip the waste of time of the lower body voting on stuff? I can’t find any time something like jury nullification of a really awful presidium policy happened.

Because the lower bodies vote on matters pertaining to themselves that don’t affect others.

  1. Since whoever disagrees with the upper body gets expelled, the lower body will perpetually elect whomever the upper body wants. While this may have enabled a dictatorship of the proletariat for a while, this behavior blocked out a ton of new ideas and became problematic after Stalin’s straight-up purging of opponents and entrenched an oppressive old guard, by whom Khrushchev got ousted trying to get rid of.

That’s not really accurate. Diverse opinions were held and discussed, what was purged was liberalism and fascism, which were dangerous currents deliberately infiltrating the USSR, as well as wreckers like Trotsky who collaborated with fascists and liberals.

Secondly, Stalin fought against beaurocracy, it wasn’t until WWII where the population was decimated and the USSR needed to be rebuilt that a beaurocratic class of “career politicians” began to take hold.

Again, I suggest reading more on the subject, you seem to be confused on the basic structure itself, causing other confusions to spring forth.

Aatube ,

I appreciate that you're taking the time to politely respond.

Obviously, the lower bodies decide more minutiae and local stuff and can't go against the upper bodies' decisions, and that goes for pretty much every democracy, just like you said. I was talking about specifically the Supreme Soviet and its Presidium, which could also be abstracted into the presidiums of every soviet. I think that's the source of our confusion here. I'm looking at principles in making wide-ranging decisions, which are the things that can cause division. Not sure why I said üpper body".

what was purged was liberalism and fascism

Ah yes, known liberals and fascists such as the other two people who ruled with Stalin and whoever believed in genetics. If diverse opinions were allowed, what was the entire focus on eradicating factionalism?

Could you cite some sources or elaborate on fighting against bureaucracy? Why was bureaucracy established and why did it remain after the war? How wasn't Stalin before Lenin's death a career politician?

I have to sign off now until tomorrow.

GarbageShootAlt2 ,

where it means that everyone must vote whatever the elite thinks

citation needed

TexMexBazooka ,

Dunno, we’ve never seen anything go wrong with the Soviet system of representation before have we?

Cowbee ,
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

Definitely became overly-beaurocratized after WWII, but was generally far more democratic than Capitalist states

Chainweasel , to asklemmy in What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?

If it were supposed to be pronounced “jif” it would have been spelled that way.

derekabutton ,

So how do you pronounce giraffe?

lechatron ,
@lechatron@lemmy.today avatar

How do you pronounce gift?

jbrains ,

Yes, but “GIF” is not etymologcally Germanic. 😉

derekabutton ,

With the other pronunciation. Some letters have more than one. Your statement is nonsense lol

xmunk ,

How do you pronounce ghoti?

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

GIF is an acronym. Giraffe is not. The Giraffe response has been debunked for decades.

Graphical is a hard G.

derekabutton ,

Debunked? Its a counterpoint to the fact that it’s pronounced that way because it’s spelled with a g. If that poor argument wasn’t used, the giraffe one wouldn’t have to come up. It’s not evidence of anything other than that letters can be pronounced in more than one way.

For the graphical thing, imagine pronouncing NASA wrong because of the way aeronautical is pronounce. Or underwater in scuba. World in WHO? The I in AIDS isn’t pronounced anything like immunodeficiency.

Your argument doesn’t work either.

makingStuffForFun ,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

The argument holds up.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s a gift, not a jift.

derekabutton ,

Yeah and it’s giraffe, not jiraffe. See how that gets us nowhere?

AbouBenAdhem ,

If there’s ever a Giraffe Interchange Format, I’ll pronounce it the same as giraffe.

BumpingFuglies ,

The creator of the format is documented as having confirmed the pronunciation is “jif”, but I don’t care. Once he created it and put it into the world, he relinquished his control.

notacat ,

Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and yet we all pronounce it “lay-Zer” not “lay-Ser”

notacat ,

And clearly based on the intense response you win the controversial statement award

MrQuallzin , to science_memes in Platypuses

And they sweat milk!

MajorMajormajormajor ,

What the hell?

HexadecimalSky ,

If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.

MedicPigBabySaver ,

*their x 2.

wewbull ,

So are they really mammals?

b161 ,

They’re monotremes.

Anticorp ,

Definitely. I for one accept our fellow mammal platypuses.

Digestive_Biscuit ,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

They must have glands. Unless they have milk for blood.

thefartographer ,

Why… Wh- what? Do you sweat blood?

breakcore ,

… you don’t?!

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

It’s blood-comma-sweat, not “blood sweat”.

Notyou ,

They have glands but no nipples.

jol ,
hellabryanstyle , to asklemmy in What things from the 2020s do you think will age horribly?

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  • Wakmrow ,

    Fuck you

    hellabryanstyle ,

    Ha. I can see I’m off to a good start around here.

    Wakmrow ,

    Well you seem to be a transphobic asshole

    hellabryanstyle , (edited )

    I thought this place was supposed to be an alternative to Reddit. Don’t act as if there’s no room for a nuanced conversation when it comes to giving children the autonomy to choose to take puberty blockers or opt for surgery.

    anonochronomus ,
    @anonochronomus@hexbear.net avatar

    Eat shit, fuck off, and die transphobe.

    hellabryanstyle ,

    Is this how you intend to win people over not allied to your cause?

    anonochronomus ,
    @anonochronomus@hexbear.net avatar

    I know who my enemies are.

    makingStuffForFun ,
    @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

    Death threats are repulsive

    anonochronomus ,
    @anonochronomus@hexbear.net avatar

    Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Bitch.

    Wakmrow ,

    You do realize that spreading transphobia is a threat

    AFC1886VCC ,

    To be fair, that wasn’t a death threat. That was just a “fuck off and die” not “I am going to kill you” lol

    drq ,
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    @AFC1886VCC Technically, the guy is gonna die anyway sometime.

    @makingStuffForFun

    Wakmrow ,

    Lol

    Yeah it’s an alternative to Reddit because master debating is mocked here instead of “good sir let us meet in the marketplace of ideas”. Go back to Reddit.

    What do you think the point of puberty blockers is? How many gender affirming surgeries are taking place on children? Or are you just spreading transphobic lies?

    hellabryanstyle ,

    I espouse what I believe in, same as anyone else.

    Wakmrow ,

    Oh ok well you’re a stupid ignorant fuck threatening people for existing. You’re parroting literal Nazi talking points.

    hellabryanstyle ,

    People who speak like you do a great disservice to your own cause and make it easy for people to stand against it.

    robot_dog_with_gun ,

    blockers are safe, growing up in a world full of bigots like you is not

    AbouBenAdhem , to asklemmy in What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?

    Stuck a wire in a power socket.

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