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YICHM

@ YICHM @lemmy.world

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  • A photo of myself bruised up summarizes this year for me, what would yours be?

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  • A massively underexposed picture of some textbook.

  • No parking pavement marker being right beside a parking slot

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  • No.

  • 每次拉屎都尿尿但不是每次尿尿都拉屎。

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  • With context, this sentence can be simplified to

    有屎必有尿；有尿不必有屎。

  • What's the story behind your username and avatar?

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  • romanized real name; result of clicking in Inkscape for 2 hrs.

  • The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.

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  • The 族 feels really… idk it feels very insulting for some reason.

    確實，用「弱勢群體」會比較好聽，因為「群體」一詞還沒有遭受汙染。「族」字通常用來表示外加分類，[來源請求]所以複詞褒貶全依 [X] 決定，如「草莓*族」一詞就十分刺耳。不過，通勤族、開車族、家族等詞就沒有負面意涵。

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  • The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.

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  • 「弱勢族群對偏見敏感。」 "for good reasons" is added to clarify intent.

    You should not "correct" the post by pasting this into a translator.

  • The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.

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  • The first interpretation. I'm not sure whether or not it is true.

  • "Fed-iverse" can be rephrased as "Fe-diverse", which suits Lemmy more.

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  • not yet

  • FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!

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  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • but strive to have a good one on the table

    When the bad option is chosen, people making these options would often claim that the bad option is 'good enough' and stop improving, if not improving is more profitable to them.

  • If you think sneezing is rough, just imagine if you had anal hiccups..

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  • Searched for 'anal' and 'hiccough'. Digital insertion came up.

  • Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means.

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  • Should I delete this post?

    E: seems obvious that I shouldn't

  • A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.

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  • In this case, does the body belong to the donor? Is the donor still alive? These questions have been stuck in my brain for a long time and I don't know where to start my research.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • I didn't say that I won't choose the better (less terrible) option.

  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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    1. it's interesting that, for me, "中國人" is easier to read than "zhongguoren"
    2. from the use of traditional glyphs, you can assume that i don't live in the PRC
    3. you are technically correct. see also: Republic of China.

  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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  • A water multiplexer (faucet) and a water demultiplexer (showerhead).

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • It would be even more effective if everyone carried lighter, pen and paper.

  • Reverse Polish Notation may be more intuitive to native speakers of a language using SOV sentence structure.

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  • They usually come in bursts. I've buffered them.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    It looks scared

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    The Westminster Chime is mostly played on crappy speakers.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    In natural languages¹, the word 'and' can be used to denote the union operation. The confusion over (logical) 'and' &² 'or' stems from that.

  • hmmm @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    hmmm