Sentrovasi

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Sentrovasi ,

I'm sorry but you're wrong: effect can be used to mean to cause something to happen. This is different from affect's verb form, which is to influence something.

Affect also has a noun form, if you're curious. This duality of effect and affect having both noun and verb forms, even though each has a more popular common usage, is a common thing to misunderstand.

Sentrovasi ,

Posting the article here so you all can make your own minds up.

Got permanent ban in r/LGBT and when i asked why I got a 3 day ban for promoting hate. ( lemmy.world )

This was my conment on a post saying that pregnant people should always be used instead of pregnant women. My comment was under someone saying vitamins for pregnant women should say vitamins for pregnant people. I have a trans son and many trans friends. My comment was not promoting hate! Fucking reddit mods

Sentrovasi ,

In case my deletion of the comment wasn't federated: mb, I didn't realise it was an image post.

Sentrovasi ,

It's worse because the arc isn't even like going through Os or anything, it crosses two letters and misses a third. They didn't even understand the design they stole.

Sentrovasi ,

The original post was asking about why devaluing the dollar would be good for Americans.

Sentrovasi ,

The other person is saying that devaluing the US dollar would make it easier for others to buy American products.

I assumed you thought they were talking about strengthening the US dollar, so I pointed out that the original post (yours, I realise now) was talking about devaluation. Not sure why you think devaluation would give greater buying power.

Sentrovasi ,

I think it's an anti-riddle, or a joke, more than anything else.

Sentrovasi ,

I honestly can say I've never quicksaved to kill an NPC for slighting me.

Sentrovasi ,

I'm not sure if we're reading the same article or some parts didn't load for you, but it seems full of whys:

Why the supermarkets left at the start
Why it's harder for them to come back
Why certain urban areas have made it more difficult for them to come back (things like zoning)
Why supermarkets themselves may not want to come back (interview with rep and speculation on violence)

Do these not help answer the question?

Sentrovasi ,

Some of those are answered. Some of those are also answered in the piece they linked that talks about the zoning issues. And some of those don't have an answer beyond the obvious. I think the root of your unhappiness may lie with the few points that fit into that last category, but that's hardly the fault of an article that I wouldn't consider clickbait.

Sentrovasi ,

Yeah, kinda puts paid to the idea that piracy is about sustainable, non-DRMed software for all when the one company whose niche is ensuring that such resources are available is being undermined like this.

Sentrovasi ,

If by "engage in public life" they mean being quiet and not interrupting others' quiet time then sure.

To me it sounds like people want another public space that isn't a library. Once libations enter the picture it also feels like it's not always going to be a safe place.

Sentrovasi ,

I do spend my time in libraries, thank you very much :) Didn't expect there to be gatekeeping on libraries, but here we are.

And a big part of such activities is either that they're cordoned off and airgapped (and are done on select timings which are telegraphed way ahead of time) or are themselves quiet. Drinking and socialising to me don't come under that same category. I've been to a library next to a board game shop and been struck by the difference in noise level and distraction there, so if it comes down to what the OP is actually suggesting, I'm skeptical it won't intrude on others' needs for a quiet, private place.

Sentrovasi ,

Why I think it's gatekeeping:

You're essentially implying people haven't been in libraries by your last sentence if they haven't seen what you've seen. That's gatekeeping, like it or not.

EDIT: In case it isn't clear, what you said was essentially:

"You're not a library-goer because [reasons]."

That's gatekeeping, my person.

Sentrovasi ,

You're the one who's disqualifying people from saying what libraries look like because they don't share your common experience. Have a little self-awareness.

Since no upvotes are possible, the 'Hot' and 'New' pages of Kbin should show the same content. That's kinda awesome ( kbin.social )

Browsing by new was great in the early days of the first Kbin expansion, right after the reddit migration. I got to see all sorts of posts from interesting communities. Things you wouldn't normally see browsing under 'Hot'. Eventually, as thread numbers increase, I found myself using 'Hot' almost exclusively because it delivered...

Sentrovasi ,

Have you tried it recently? It brings you to an error page.

Sentrovasi ,

Wouldn't it eventually fill up with blood and holy water

The longer Biden enables Netanyahu, the more his presidency is at risk | Mohamad Bazzi ( www.theguardian.com )

Biden, a supposed foreign policy pragmatist, doesn’t seem bothered that the US is one of the few states that continues to wholeheartedly sustain Israel’s war on Gaza. In fact, Biden has staked his political future on his support for Netanyahu and Israel – and Biden is losing. In this year’s presidential election, where...

Sentrovasi ,

I think the biggest bugbear for me is always why blame voters voting their conscience and not blame the politicians who refuse to listen to their voter base?

Sentrovasi ,

I think the biggest bugbear for me is always why blame voters voting their conscience and not blame the politicians who refuse to listen to their voter base?

Sentrovasi , (edited )

It can work if the politicians are willing to change to listen to their voter base. Both war parties aren't single-issue parties. If parties want to win the democratic mandate to enact other policies, they need to play ball with their electorate. That's the entire point of a democracy - that the electorate gets to be heard. It seems ridiculous that one side is enacting policies that are almost across-the-board unattractive to their demographic, and they're getting away with it because it can't be helped, we can't vote for the other guy, after all. (Obviously the other side is worse, but presumably their side loves their evil policies.)

Your argument basically amounts to "because our political parties will never listen to the people", which to me is pretty damning, and ensures that the DNC can continue to never listen to their voters. Do I want Trump to win? Absolutely not, even as someone not in the US. But the DNC can't be allowed to keep looking at these numbers, shrug, and say people will vote for them anyway.

Edit: My main point is that if Biden loses this because people aren't willing to vote for him, maybe some of the blame should go to the DNC and not just the "stupid voters"?

Sentrovasi ,

Not sure if I'm not getting something or you're not getting something, but it doesn't seem like a non-sequitur. The idea is that if the DNC chooses its candidates, it can force Biden to step down by pressuring him, forcing him to take the route of "heroically stepping down" (publicly) return2ozma predicts will happen.

Now I don't think it's likely because Biden seems as establishment as it gets, but saying that the DNC chooses who wins the primary is not a non-sequitur in that scenario.

Sentrovasi ,

Between Biden originally saying that he wasn't sure if he would run for a second term (in 2019, to be fair), and comments from 2023 that he's only running because he doesn't think anyone else can beat Trump, I don't think it's far-fetched to think that he would not run just because he's "the incumbent president".

I do also buy the argument that people who would vote for Biden wouldn't suddenly vote for Trump if another Democratic candidate won the primary. In fact, I feel like from discourse on this platform it seems like the opposite is true: some people would vote for Trump simply because the DNC continues to push Biden.

Sentrovasi ,

To be fair, I actually find it more difficult to visualise 1500kg than a rhino (I just don't normally interact with things on that scale), so it does help me in terms of knowing how big the satellite roughly is.

Sentrovasi ,

But I know what one looks like, and I go to the zoo fairly regularly. I don't know what a 1500kg weight looks like, because even for the things which are 1500kg, it's not normally its defining characteristic.

Sentrovasi ,

TIL :)

Sentrovasi ,

Yeah, agreed, but to be fair all of this is no longer criticism about why they didn't use the metric system and actually acknowledges that people need visualisation sometimes.

Sentrovasi ,

I don't know much about how it works, but will Elon "switch it off" the same way that he prevented Starlink from being used by Ukraine in Crimea? If he has the capability to do so but does not choose to do so, that seems a red flag.

Sentrovasi ,

I don't think Trump supporters have a monopoly on being critical of Biden...

Sentrovasi ,

Again, you're assuming the people criticising Biden for being old are Trump supporters.

The blind polarisation in American politics is getting really bad.

Sentrovasi ,

> still using first person pronouns even after asking the reader to be them.

It's nice to have someone accept you for who you are though.

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