negative celsius is the most important part of why i dislike it. in the fahrenheit you have "below freezing", which isn't really all that cold, and you have "below zero", which is fucking freezing. you could say "below negative seventeen point seven eight" i guess
fahrenheit is the one unit i will never give up. fuck celsius and whoever said it was "more logical" to compress the majority of the weather into the same 30-degree span. i will go to my deathbed weighing 35 kilograms at a body temperature of 95 degrees.
about the reitter translation, i've been reading it along with the aveling one. it's been useful to me in understanding some of marx's wording and biblical references. it helped me understand what the hell he was talking about when he said all that shit about circumcision. from the translator's note:
Marx is playing with a prominent stereotype, namely, that Jews have a special connection to commerce, something he does elsewhere in Capital and beyond it, too—for example, in his essay On the Jewish Question (1843). But he is also making a point about capitalism by way of a New Testament analogy, and thus suggesting that capitalism and Christianity share basic conceptual structures. This, too, Marx does elsewhere in Capital. The high point of such analogizing comes in the present chapter, where Marx uses the doctrine of the Trinity to explain the ontological relation between capital and surplus-value. The line about the circumcised Jews refers to Paul’s Letter to the Romans, 2:25–29 (KJV): “For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” Thus the capitalist resembles Paul. For the capitalist knows that every commodity may be saved by Christ/capital, which cares only about what is in the commodity’s soul/value, not its outward adherence to any law/use-value.
oh lmao my bad i read that and then immediately forgot it. what a stupid website. seems like they saw .world and decided it wasn't enough that its entire community was
at the very least, your mods are able to ban them from your instance. i think it's a lot less abusable to be able to designate people whose comments you personally can't see than it is to designate people whose comments no one can see. at the very low end of what counts as abuse, i keep getting blocked by libs on reddit specifically so they can get the last word. it gives the appearance that they were so correct no one could come up with a response to their epic bacon comeback
if i'm on piefed god forbid, and i reply to a comment on an OP who has blocked me, will my own instance reject my comment? will it give me an error or will it silently drop it or what?
god i hate python. every time i update my system some python program breaks. every single time. and not ignoring whitespace makes programming in it such a pain in the ass. plus it's so slow all its packages are written in c++ anyway lmao
i've said this here before but people like this get a feeling like a rock in the pit of their stomach when they see something that (correctly) questions their worldview. the feeling tells them to look away, and sometimes to make everyone else look away too. they know something is wrong with the way they see things; they know a lot of what they say is flat-out incorrect. but that feeling in their stomach tells them never to dig deeper, never even to look at things they worry might correct their deeply-held beliefs about countries they've never even been to. you either learn to ignore that feeling when you need to like i did, or you spend your life leaving reddit and then trying to turn every place you go back into reddit.
they have no idea how things actually happen. not one liberal questions what "[parade]s on basically every weekend" has done to stop anything. they never wonder what makes these changes actually happen, they just know that martin luther king walked around a sidewalk for a long time and then racism disappeared. they should just stay at home and pray. at least then someone would be able to articulate the mechanism by which they expect actual change to be accomplished.
liberal individualism has developed into a complete lack of social skills. i genuinely don't believe these people can conceptualize that others have an inland empire exactly the same as they do. also they think words are actions so for them more of them have been attacked than 9/11
i will never forget when prince philip and queen elizabeth died and the bbc started reporting on "their great grandmother". i thought it was a typo at first
negative celsius is the most important part of why i dislike it. in the fahrenheit you have "below freezing", which isn't really all that cold, and you have "below zero", which is fucking freezing. you could say "below negative seventeen point seven eight" i guess