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folkrav@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything6·1 month agoFunny. In French, we call it a “pronom impersonnel”, meaning non-personal pronoun.
I think it’s at the very least true in the sense they’re both things many people can’t afford
folkrav@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We joke a lot but what is happening in the US is really scary.34·3 months agoGen Z is getting downright worrying at this point. I keep witnessing behaviours and hearing opinions that had practically disappeared since my high school days. I didn’t expect the same ass-backwards bullshit I would have heard some drunk uncle rant about at a family outing when I was a kid, to come out of the mouths of a generation raised in the 21st century. It’s utterly mind boggling. All I can wonder is, who failed to teach them this shit? Were they legitimately raised that way? Who did this, how did it get so bad?
folkrav@lemmy.cato Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that 'Goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colors, and sounds'English8·3 months agoYou’ve never put your head under water?
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?6·3 months agoVance’s liking of Yarvin Curtis’ NRx philosophy, which openly dreams of neomonarchist technocracy[0], Peter Thiel’s funding and support of both Curtis/Nrx and this administration[1][2], this administration’s ties to Project 2025[3], including the lovely Russell Vought[4], hat’s planned in it for the first 6 months of Trump’s term in terms of getting rid of democratic safeguards, dismantling government institutions and concentrating power into the executive[5], is already well under way to execute[6]… Combine all this with the things he’s been doing publically, like aligning with Putin, and threatening Canada’s and Mexico’s annexation over a couple of pounds of fentanyl and the trade agreements he signed himself 9 years ago, the constant barrage of executive orders, many found inconstitutional, but in such a volume that it’s completely overwhelming appeal courts, and Trump directly threatening judges not to cross him… I don’t know how you manage to call any of this “fear mongering”, when it’s all just things they themselves said and did. The only variable I can see here is how you interpret all of this, and I don’t understand how one can both support democracy and think what they’re doing is not completely messing with its very safeguards.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluMysK2B1E&t=1027s [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-donald-j-trump.html [2] https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105 [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/06/project-2025-author-russell-vought-confirmed-by-senate-here-are-all-the-trump-officials-with-ties-to-policy-agenda/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrhyBwgFFE [5] https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf [6] https://www.project2025.observer/
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?6·4 months agoWait till they officially start calling for a constitutional amendments and they suddenly start losing some of their own rights. But by then who knows what it’s gonna look like.
folkrav@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•I don't know why but it pissed me off so much that they called gimp "freeware"10·4 months agoInteresting. I interpreted this definition more like an oval vs. circle distinction. The vast majority of ovals aren’t circles, but circles are a subset of ovals.
folkrav@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Work is like music: if you listen to your favorite song for 8 hours a day you are going to hate it81·4 months agoIMHO it’s even worse with ADHD, just less immediate. There are songs and artists that were major favorites of mine at one point, that I just haven’t listened to in years cause I’m so fucking tired of them after listening to them 8h a day for 3 months straight. There also not a single job I didn’t get tired of after a year or two lol
Oh, I mean, power tripping moderators has always been a thing, even in my phpBB forum days when I was a teenager. I’m sure some of us older than I will have similar stories about it happening on certain BBSes. But the user base and therefore impact of that moderation going to shit was much more limited in most cases.
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?2·4 months agoI’d love to believe this, but cynical me is thinking about those conservatives that look at Milei in Argentina and legitimately think it’s going great.
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?41·4 months agoYou managed to describe a feeling I’ve had for a while but never managed to articulate correctly. Thanks.
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you change the mouse over highlight color in windows 11? Where the mouse pointer is (Apps) in the photo it is easy to see what is highlighted. On the computer screen it's impossible to see1·4 months agoI thought Ctrl+Win+S was a shortcut that launched the Snipping Tool
folkrav@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•answering captchas as badly as possible while still not being determined to be a robot is actually pretty fun11·5 months agoWe do get what you mean (extremely condescending and reductive take, if you ask me). I was thinking rigidly along the lines of data engineering, as this is, well, a data engineering problem… There just isn’t 30% of people doing this on Google captchas, and this isn’t a “take”, just a reality of the scale and amount of people interacting with Google products. Have fun all you want, you do this, your data most likely gets thrown out, that’s all.
We’re still talking about image recognition, aren’t we? This feels like a general commentary on how Big Tech sees their customer base, which I don’t disagree with, but in my mind was just another discussion entirely…
folkrav@lemmy.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•answering captchas as badly as possible while still not being determined to be a robot is actually pretty fun61·5 months agoThat kind of data sanitization is just standard practice. You need some level of confidence on your data’s accuracy, and for anything normally distributed, throwing out obvious outliers is a safe assumption.
folkrav@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•AITAH My brother is a Musk apologist and I no longer want to come to his wedding103·5 months agoThat’s quite a strong table, holding 11 people
folkrav@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are some actual good *sour* sour candy?6·6 months agoMaybe my taste buds are just broken, but for me, candy has always been either very sour for a very short time, or slightly sour all the way through. I’ve never had anything be very sour all the way through.
folkrav@lemmy.cato Open Source@lemmy.ml•Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere?6·6 months ago58% goes to fundraising, administrative and technological costs. The rest has some money going towards, but no limited to, other programs.
Only thing I can find in their financials that would maybe qualify as “random outreach” would be “awards and grants”, at 26mil last year out of 185mil revenue, or 14%.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund
As far as I can tell, it’s not particularly random.
Maybe I’m missing something?
Eh, I’m about the same age as OP, I don’t have to get to 50 to know that I’d take my parents’ economic context over the two crashes. The rest… For many reasons, if medicine does some miraculous leap forward by then, maybe I’ll still wish I got a lot more left to go by then.
Audition, Photoshop and Cubase you’ll probably have the hardest time to truly replace. Even more if you rely on third party plugins for either of those.