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Dick_Justice , in Why? Are we not doing enough?
@Dick_Justice@lemmy.world avatar

It was better before people absolutely fucking insisted on scraping reddit posts to bring over here. Post after post after post of regurgitated bot posts, without a single comment, no engagement at all. Fun!

jdeath ,

I wish we could not have those

Communist ,
@Communist@lemmy.ml avatar

You can easily block them

MrShankles ,

I follow one for news articles. I don’t need nor want the comments. I also follow several news communities from lemmy; just a way for me to aggregate.

ALostInquirer ,

Have you checked if the source sites of the articles being shared have RSS feeds? That would be a more optimal way to aggregate articles from a few sites than communities, depending on what you’re after.

Although, amusingly enough, you could also follow the RSS feeds of the news communities instead of doing that, but then there wouldn’t have been much of a point to making an account. 😅

Sheeple ,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

And then you find the same post on FIVE separate communities! Fun²

FreshProduceAndShit ,

I do wonder what the solution to this problem even looks like. Cuz I agree issa problem

TwinTusks ,

I read somewhere that theres cross-post option that people can use, but … don’t.

IMALlama ,

But but but… I want the little offshoot niche community to grow! I also want content to get seen by more than 5 people.

In reality there just isn’t the user mass to make small/niche communities viable right now, so you see more general communities filling the void.

An easy example is 3D printing. There are two 3D printing communities in the lemmyverse. There’s also a ‘fix my print’ community that’s a ghost town and a few printer specific communities that are also ghost towns. Posts in these more specialized communities tend to get a consistent level of votes, but very few comments.

I’ve intentionally been trying to seed more content, but it’s hard without literally posting the same thing in two spots.

sweetviolentblush ,
@sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works avatar

Maybe there should be a community that boosts all those smaller niche communities? I think that could help spread the traffic around lemmy

floofloof ,

I don’t see those. I think some instances have defederated from the worst offenders.

Uniquitous , in time to code

marks 8 on timecard

kryptonianCodeMonkey , in time to code

I work 9a-5p and I do my best work after 11pm.

zzx ,

I’m glad I’m not the only one

Konlanx , (edited )

For me it’s 7am-3:30pm and I do all my work between 7am and the daily at 9:30am. After that it’s just meetings and bullshitting on the internet. Everyone is satisfied with my work.

cumcum69 , in The Season of Warmth and Hope

i’d happily tip my landlord over the side of a building

DaMonsterKnees , in Guten Tag Everybody

Always know I’ve been awake too long when new turns Deutsche. Gotta brush up.

Console_Modder , in Guten Tag Everybody
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn

SchrodingersPat OP ,

Jein?

PatFussy , in Stayin' Alive

Christmas music from 90s is mariah carey, 00s consists of justin beiber and 10s consist of Ariana grande. I would take 50s christmas any day over these options

FreshLight , in The only FOSS browser with extensions

I’ve been using Firefox Nightly for Android and synched my Addons with my FF account. Works like a charm. I love using cookie message blocker, user agent faker etc.

asexualchangeling ,

Same here, honestly it’s news to me that the main version has limited extensions

XEAL ,

I’ve been using desktop addons on Fennec for at least half a year now…

FlyingSquid , in Every Job person now
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Can I pay rent? Also also no.

grayman ,

The trick to not having to pay rent is to buy a house.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Then you pay mortgage instead of a rent. Plus property tax.

grayman ,

Rent is just paying someone else’s mortgage and property taxes.

Rodeo ,

How to save for a down payment when you can’t even afford rent?

grayman ,

Wells Fargo got you fam! PMI will only be like 10%!

CaptKoala ,

Scott Morrison is that you?

Koof_on_the_Roof , in Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth

Capitalism has a solution to the tent problem though

UK - The home secretary is proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people, arguing that many of them see it as a “lifestyle choice”.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67321319

valkyre09 ,

It sure is a lifestyle choice. The choice is the tent or a cardboard box, fucking insensitive assholes.

AngryCommieKender ,

San Diego already banned camping in the city. The county board of supervisors either has proposed that they do the same or already has.

San Diego county is bigger than two states. They are trying to outlaw homelessness in an area about 65 miles north to south, and roughly the 86 miles east of The Pacific Ocean.

These are almost all Democrats, btw. We didn’t vote for Republicans.

Hikermick , in I love concerts. I do not love standing room only.

Get yourself some good insoles and hearing protection.

bmsok ,

But you have to give respect to those old-timey crocs.

buzz ,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

I dont understand this meme, what headliner?

bmsok ,

The headliner refers to the main entertainer of the the show that comes on stage after the opening/warm-up acts finish performing. You have to get through the opening acts before you see the one you actually came for.

Pons_Aelius , in The joys of being alone all the time

The joy of knowing the difference between alone and lonely.

tdawg ,

Being good company to others starts with being good company to yourself

remotelove ,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

I try. Keeping myself occupied with a game of chess sounded cool too, but I always lose.

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

I don't mind the losing, I just wish I didn't have to get so personal with the insults every time.

Pons_Aelius ,

Well, there is no one else who knows what comments will sting the most.

jaybone ,

STOP INSULTING YOURSELF!

STOP INSULTING YOURSELF!

Pons_Aelius ,

Yep. I find many people who self-describe as extroverts are just deathly afraid of being alone with their own thoughts.

BaronDoggystyleVonWoof ,

As a father with a family, I’m almost never alone. and when I am, I really have to adjust to it. So I feel lonely at first.

Pons_Aelius ,

As someone without kids, I am the opposite. I need several hours of solitude each day.

BaronDoggystyleVonWoof ,

Weird thing is, I need that as well! But I’m so used to that there is always someone in the house, when they are all gone it feels lonely. But then when I’m used to it, it’s awesome and I do whatever I want.

craftyindividual , in This is no encouragement to waste energy

Can someone explain the dead Saddam for me?

simple ,

You posted your comment 4 times. Anyways, here: knowyourmeme.com/…/saddam-husseins-hiding-place

craftyindividual ,

Oh that’s good! I wondered why the old boy was making a comeback.

danc4498 ,

I have duplicate comments posted all the time. I think it’s just bugs in the 3rd party apps.

turbowafflz , in I lose mine last month :(

I keep one on my keys since it’s useful for pushing reset buttons and things and if I really need to it even works as a screwdriver

webghost0101 ,

Someone told me this a few years ago. Absolute pro life tip!

Catsrules ,

Does it ever poke you?

wetnoodle ,
@wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz avatar

I tried doing it at one point, yes, frequently

turbowafflz ,

Interesting, it never does for me. Maybe I’m just lucky or my sim tool is a slightly better shape

apprehensively_human ,

I kept mine on my keychain for the longest time until it got me right under one of my finger nails. The amount of times I’ve had to use it does not justify that trauma.

0x4E4F , in ¿¿Que??

Yeah, I never got the upside-down questionmark as well 😂.

jmcs ,

In Spanish questions are phrased the same way as affirmations, when you are speaking the only difference is the intonation. Without a mark to say you are starting to read a question it’s possible that the meaning changes in the end which would be annoying. (Source: Portuguese is the same but has no inverted question mark, and sometimes it’s mighty annoying, especially with long questions)

tdawg ,

Funny enough English does this all the time:

  • That’s food.
  • That’s food!
  • That’s food?
  • That’s food?!
  • That’s food…

All have different intonations and punctuation but are otherwise the same. Internet lingo does compensate for this somewhat but at least in “proper” form the above holds true for all kinds of situations

schmidtster ,

1 Food that is edible

2 Tasty food

3 Bad looking food

4 Either happy or disgusted at what was just in your mouth

5 Defending your cooking after it’s referred to as 1-4

jmcs ,

Imagine if you could ask questions like “James, Mary, and Jack went to the market last Saturday to buy a shovel, a black bag, and some gloves, to bury Karen’s corpse in the deep dark woods?”

Metal_Zealot ,
@Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

No no no, James, Mary, and Jack went to the market last Saturday to buy a shovel, a black bag, and some flashlights, to bury Karen’s corpse in the deep dark woods

bdonvr ,

True, though doing this makes it sound incredulous.

In Spanish it’s just how questions are.

margaritox ,

English can do that too, but it’s not really a “proper” way of doing it. The proper way would be to say “is that food?”

There are languages where the only way to pose a question is to change the intonation.

Littleborat ,

But doesn’t the intonation simply go up in the end? So it’s good enough to stumble over the ? in the end.

margaritox ,

I honestly haven’t paid attention where it starts going up. But I always thought that doing the two “?”s in Spanish was pretty clever for that reason.

Anamana ,

Yeah that’s true for any language really

IWantToFuckSpez ,

Not really. In my language subject and verb get switched around in a question.

Anamana , (edited )

Can you give me an example?

Edit: Ok thanks guys, I got it :D

araozu ,

Maybe

  • I do like cats
  • Do I like cats?

but taken to the extreme?

aka_oscar ,

Can you give me an example - Question

You can give me an example - Affirmation

IWantToFuckSpez ,
  • Hij schreef een bericht. (He wrote a message)
  • Schreef hij een bericht? (Did he wrote a message?)
stebo02 ,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

Zeg eens, waarom wil je zo graag met een CEO slapen?

IWantToFuckSpez ,

Fuck Spez daarom

nickwitha_k ,

I know you already got it but a few others came to my mind:

Finnish, which not a tonal language:

  • Sinä pidät kahvista. (“You like coffee.”)
  • Pidätkö kahvista? (“You like coffee?”)

Japanese:

  • Anata wa kōhī ga sukidesu. (“You like coffee.”)
  • Kōhī wa sukidesu ka? (“You like coffee?”)

I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.

Anamana ,

Yeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)

nickwitha_k ,

Oh. Very good point. I did not know that either.

octoperson ,

Portuguese is the same but has no inverted question mark, and sometimes it’s mighty annoying,

¿What if you just used them anyway?
¡Problem solved!

Kidplayer_666 ,

É de facto irritante. Nada como estar na escola e um prof pede para ler. Estás calmamente a ler o texto e de repente tens de forçar a porcaria da entoação para sobrecompensar o facto de que não reparaste que era uma pergunta

bleistift2 ,

*either

Grammar nazi out.

0x4E4F ,

Yes, that would be better 👍.

lorty ,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s so you can start reading a sentence in the correct intonation

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

This can’t be right. It’s far too simple and logical. I’m a native English speaker, and I’m used to grammar that’s nonsensical and inconsistent.

araozu ,

In spanish questions intonation changes occur only on the last word(s), not the whole sentence. I’m not a linguistic, but I think it’s so you can be sure a sentence is a question from the start.

When reading english sometimes I assume a sentence is an affirmation until I see the question mark, and then I have to reinterpret the sentence. I wonder how it is for native english speakers. Do they assume nothing until the sentence is finished?

lorty ,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

You are indeed right, my explanation was poor. But for other languages it is very common to get surprised at the end of sentences, yes.

dustyData , (edited )

In English most questions stay flat and only raises the pitch on the last syllable, if any. In Spanish we can raise the pitch on the first word and stay flat for the rest of the question. That’s what’s useful about the ¿

araozu ,

Solo me fijé en la ultima palabra, no en la primera. Tal vez nunca me di cuenta que si cambia

curiosityLynx ,

In spanish questions intonation changes occur only on the last word(s), not the whole sentence. I’m not a linguistic, but I think it’s so you can be sure a sentence is a question from the start.

That might be the case in the dialect you’re familiar with, but “¿Me dijiste que no te moleste?” has a different intonation to “Me dijiste que no te moleste.” in my Spanish (starting from “dijiste”).

As for English, questions normally start either with a question word or a (auxiliary) verb, while affirmations normally start with the subject. See “You told me not to bother you.” vs. “Did you tell me not to bother you?”. Using just intonation is possible (“You told me not to bother you?!??”), but when in writing, it’s usually formatted in a way that highlights it because it usually indicates outrage/disbelief.

araozu ,

Interesting. Afaik what determines a question is a higher pitch, so in your sentence I wouldn’t think of the sentence as a question until I hear the intonation of the last word.

Like, toda la oracion puede tener cualquier tono, pero si la última palabra tiene un tono mas agudo (molesteee en vez de moleste) recien cuenta como pregunta.

Me puse a pensar y escuchar conversaciones, fijandome si el tono cambia siempre en la ultima palabra, o en algun otro lado, y en donde vivo (casi) siempre el tono cambia en la ultima palabra, incluso solo la ultima silaba.

Me pregunto si de donde eres toda la oracion (o, desde “dijiste”) el tono es más agudo, o si usan otra forma para diferenciar?

curiosityLynx ,

The higher pitch for the entire sentence is another option in my Spanish, but indicates outrage.

The version where you hear it’s supposed to be a question from the word “dijiste” is more of a request for information, like if your mom yelled something and you’re not sure if she said “No me molestes” or “No te sorpreses” or something else that sounds vaguely similar or if she was actually yelling at a fly that was going on her nerves.

The sentence overall becomes more melodic, with the stressed syllables getting a higher pitch and more defined stress.

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