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Eiri

@ Eiri @lemmy.world

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  • Health food

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  • I love to eat a bowl of them for breakfast. But sometimes I have trouble waking up and don't have time for them. Then I reach the weekend, looking forward to finally eating them... And half of them have spoiled. Damn it. I really wish they lasted longer.

  • Israeli settlers torch West Bank village

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  • I'm talking about things that are possible. There wasn't any physically unavoidable reason the colonization of North America had to turn into the mess it did.

    It was sparsely populated. It would have been possible for Europeans to negotiate in good faith, not kick people out of where they lived, and fairly compensate for any harm caused.

    And in fact, while overall the result was overall pretty damn deplorable, you can dig in history and find some examples where it went well, at least for a while.

    My point is that it's not that settling is not inherently borderline an act of war. It can easily, and it often does, turn out badly, no one's arguing against that.

    But even though that's the case, there are degrees to these things. Between literal genocide and cultural harm, for instance.

    Am I arguing that anyone SHOULD settle any area? Not really. But I'm also not willing to put literally every case in the same basket.

  • You gained pounds

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  • Hah, that's smart. I like that.

    Also woo, dials. I hate how most ovens use capacitive buttons nowadays.

  • Israeli settlers torch West Bank village

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  • Well you can send settlers to an empty desert. You can also send settlers to a sparsely inhabited land and have them get along with the locals. It's not like it's physically impossible.

    I see the concept of settler as someone who goes live somewhere where there aren't many people, not a role where conflict is a major part of the thing.

    West Bank settlers sent by Israel were already highly questionable, but if they start doing things like this, they're just soldiers with extra steps.

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • You know what happens when I stop visiting Facebook? I don't learn anything about extended family because they don't give a shit about me.

    You know what happens when you sell not on Marketplace here? You get like 10 clicks a month and you don't sell.

    You know what happens when you message people not on Messenger? You're the annoying person on the hipster app/sending text messages to a phone number and people don't talk to you unless talked to first.

    Also, good for you if you're a significant enough friend to be invited personally, but no one invites me anywhere unless I show up in a list of people to invite.

    I realize my comment was a bit too generalizing but holy shit dude calm down

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I do use it because that's where people are. You can't really not do Facebook at all. You can't talk to people on Messenger, you can't sell stuff on Marketplace, you can't get invited to events...

  • RFK Jr. admits he falls for online misinformation “all the time”

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  • Honestly, generally speaking he's an idiot, but in this specific instance I like that he's admitting to his fault.

    We all fall for misinformation at least sometimes. It's time to stop shaming people for falling for it and doing something about the issue.

  • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • To the disappointment of evil prankers everywhere. Reminds me of "format c:"

  • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • That's genius. Absolutely evil, but genius.

  • Homeowners are increasingly re-wilding their homes with native plants, experts say

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  • I heard there are species of thyme that are basically a weed that you never need to mow and needs much less care than grass. Maybe look into that if clover doesn't seem to work.

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  • Blacklist-based ad blocking.

    I don't mind ads when they're reasonable. If it helps fund your website at all, advertise away. But when there's a sticky banner plus an autoplay video ad reducing my mobile viewport to a ridiculous degree, and the X buttons are too small to click and ad loading completely breaks the search bar until it's done (hi fandom wiki) I want to be able to say "fuck these ads in particular"

  • Is this for real? (Please see text)

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  • I think that would be a history/etymology lesson going all the way back to Latin. I haven't studied Latin, but I think there used to be a lot more grammatical genders, but they were gradually merged into one another in languages with a Latin heritage.

    Why the neutral gender got merged into masculine and not feminine is a good question. Maybe it was just because they were the most similar.

  • Is this for real? (Please see text)

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  • The very same happens in French. The use of recently popular gender-neutral structures like "étudiant.e.s" is strongly discouraged in formal writing. The older "étudiant(e)s" less so but still not recommended.

    What's recommended is to either say "étudiants et étudiantes" or just use the masculine form as a group for both masculine and feminine forms, as has been the standard forever, and almost no one bats an eye at.

    It's not TERF, it's not misogynistic, it's just to make texts easier to read. It takes more time and effort to read a text full of those extra period/parenthesis characters, for very very little gain.

    People wanting to write a text where they consider the sacrifice in readability worth it for the extra emphasis on gender inclusion still can; the police won't show up. It's just not standard grammar.

  • Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem

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  • IF the categorization works well, and that's a big if, I like it.

    And if the categorization isn't absolutely perfect, you can bet everyone will be clamoring to be allowed to customize it or disable it.

  • Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular

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  • Oh yeah I certainly hope we can. It's just hard when there are big systemic and evolutionary obstacles in the way.

  • Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular

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  • Hmm, probably, but I feel like humanity would largely come together, or split into two camps.

    I would envision either "everyone against the demons", and the few who are with them are a small, covert minority, kind of like criminals, or humanity splitting into two camps, which would still be division, but arguably less divided than how we currently are.

  • Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular

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  • The tragic thing about that is that it's kind of not concrete enough for our little brains to comprehend on an emotional level.

    Or rather, it's so large and long-term and complex that we can't deal with it.

  • Discussion: What made Sword Art Online, the fictional MMORPG, special?

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  • "Multiple nested menus to perform basic functions like equipping something"

    Damn no need to roast Elden Ring alive like that! :D

  • at least rule

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  • My favourite answer is "who the hell cares".