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5too

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  • Oh yes...

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  • Yeah, Firefly suffered from this 23 years ago

  • Cusp

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  • Nah, this is just the glimpse before the time travel cleanup crew comes through and clears up all the evidence!

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • Could, sure - this was a fast example off the top of my head; someone else in the thread used "Great" as a better example.

    But even here, while "Yay" could be seen as sarcastic, "Yay." looks even more so

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • I hadn't heard of this before, but I think I can see how they're getting there. With no punctuation, you have to infer the emotional detail from the context. If you add a period, it can be perceived as specifying that you're using a flatter, less excited tone.

    Compare:

    Grandma's coming this weekend

     
                                 Yay

    To this:

    Grandma's coming this weekend

     
                                 Yay.

    On top of that, these kids are used to using emoticons and such to indicate a variety of emotional shadings, rather than just an exclamation mark - so deliberately specifying the flattest, least interested emotional load could very well read as just waiting for the conversation to be over.

  • Understanding the assignment

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  • Eh, not everybody works well with faces

  • This is wrong on so many hilarious levels

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  • This is the way.

    In Narnia, the inhabitants were complaining about the witch making it "always winter, but never Christmas!" And this was before the local Christ- equivalent sacrificed himself.

  • 50/50 chance this is a shit post

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  • ...is she capturing it, or is that the poke ball she keeps it in?!

  • U.S. military willing to attack “designated terrorist organizations” within America, general says

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  • Did it? I'm not able to read the article that far

  • Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

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  • People keep talking about divided media and a lack of shared shows - did nobody else see all the KPop Demon Hunter outfits last Halloween? I swear it was about 20% of the outfits at my kids' school. Nobody seeing the Stranger Things merch in stores for the new season?

    There's still new shows most people see, and some are good ones - but the media landscape changed. Used to be, in the US, you had CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. The difference is now it's Netflix, Disney, Paramount, and so on. The quality mix is still pretty much what it was, but you've got to go to where they've moved to - YouTube doesn't have much professionally done content.

    As for 67, that just seems like what memes have always been to me. The Beans meme here was random too, but no less meaningful for it.

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • So nothing would really change for them, right?

    They'd get UBI, but it wouldn't cover their lifestyle. So they'd still be working to support that, no? And UBI would just mean they have a safety net?

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • And not only did he see for himself, he wrote up and published his results.

  • Removed

    Lemmy be like

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  • In our case, it's a sign that my kids struggle with extra-long noodles. We're letting them get used to scooping with a fork before worrying about much longer strands.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • Man, played that a bunch as a kid, then we found a copy again at a random estate sale!

    Just ended up Youtubing the VHS tape, though

  • Which one of your views gets you labeled as "the other"?

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  • I largely agree, but I don't think people actually need to have an "other" to hate. I suspect it's an easily activated community-level defense mechanism, if that makes sense. One that's easily a used by manipulative people.

    I'm just trying to figure it if there's an evolutionarily-selected use for having manipulative power-seeking types in our populations, or if they truly are more analogous to a parasitic mutation of a more conventional personality type.

  • Factual btw

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  • You wanna mention fossil fuel subsidies too?

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • In the American Midwest at least, it varies by household. You basically just pay attention to what your host does.

    Used to be less common to remove them, but at least as far back as the nineties, it was a thing to be aware of.

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • For a similar reason, I've gotten a kick out of the back seat shots in Bluey:

    They do (mostly) keep the house surprisingly clean, though

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • The only incident like this I can remember is Firefly:

    Simon: "Are you Alliance?"

    Jubal: "Am I a lion? ...I don't really think of myself as one. Though I do have a mighty roar!"

    Simon: "....I said, are you Alliance"....

    Jubal: "Oh. I thought you said...." Points gun more at Simon "Where's your sister?"

    I like it because it doesn't really drive the plot or anything, it's just the first time we see Jubal Early misstep, and seem awkward.

  • Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

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  • That was my first thought - aren't homosexual relationships documented in Greek and Roman culture, among others?

    That sounds very traditional to me!