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morgan423

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  • Has The Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy?

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  • I don't see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I'm primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.

  • Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstructing ICE

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  • Ah, we've reached the "start of direct attacks on the judiciary" stage already. That was faster than I thought it would be.

  • If you shit your pants, do you keep going with your day or is your day over?

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  • I've noped out on entire office days before where I've been "digestively energetic" so to speak. I'm not putting myself or coworkers through that at the office.

  • What do you do when you get ghosted?

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  • With jobs, it's just the job market right now. Companies aren't interested in keeping good relations with applicants. Expect to just never hear back on a significant number of your applications.

  • Do you interpret a 👍 as a rude reply?

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  • Never in the history of me sending thumb responses in work chats has it ever meant “whatever you say you fucking dumbass.”

    It's primarily used to show acknowledgement. It's the office worker equivalent of "10-4."

    Seems like you have some pretty serious projection issues to work out OP lol

  • If anyone could answer, where did Nicole the Fediverse Chick come from?

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  • I had no idea of the intentions, but history of the internet says there was maybe 1% chance of being pure and 99% chance of being something malicious, so I just ignored it, figuring it was a bot to dm everyone it could find on the platform.

  • The Singular of Data is Data

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  • I really do think it’s a mass noun.

    I'm not sure why you think that. By definition (which you even gave in your original post) that would mean that data are something that can't be broken down into individual, countable units.

    But there is a smallest unit, which is called a bit. Data can be broken down into smaller, countable units. So the word doesn't fit the common definition of what a mass noun is.

  • The Singular of Data is Data

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  • I think you're confusing this due to the common incorrect use of "that" in relation to data as if it's something singular, id est, "Could you please provide me that data?"

    Technically this is grammatically incorrect (and yes before you ask, I say "those data"), but I've come to understand that people actually mean "data set" when they say this, and are just omitting that word from the sentence.

    Since that is all that's needed to have everything correctly agree again, I can just fix it in my head when I hear it so that my brain doesn't explode.

  • YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltip

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  • The IPA is fantastically interesting.

    I don't agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people's accents from written text when they don't match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations... where you're actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.

  • People’s Union USA Calls For National Boycott In A ‘Feb 28 Economic Blackout’

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  • Which band blew your mind away live?

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  • A little old school here, but Tom Petty and the HB were always fantastic live, I got to catch them several times.

    I also once was socially-dragged to a Sheryl Crow concert at the Ryman, and even though she's not usually my thing, that show was fantastic. She had a bunch of folks from the Nashville Symphony Orchestra playing with her band that night, and I've never seen a group of classical musicians have so much fun. They really made it an unbelievable show. If you're ever there and can catch ANYTHING at the Ryman, do it... the acoustics are absolutely insane.

    My favorite concert story was that we went to a "Best of the 80s" concert in Indiana in the late 90s when I was a teen (bands that performed included Wang Chung, A Flock of Seagulls, and a few one-hit wonders I'm struggling to remember right now). At the end, the promoters took the mic and apologized to everyone that the show was ending a little early, the closing band, Missing Persons, couldn't make it. My friends and family I was there with laughed our asses off the entire way out of the arena, but it didn't seem like a single other person there got it.

  • What would you do with a single use portal gun?

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  • Pretty sure the game theorists channel on youtube did that one several years back. It's been a minute since I watched it but a search should pull it for you.

  • Do you think people's thoughts about death change as we get older?

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  • Middle age guy here (if I live out my family's typical life expectancy).

    I try not to worry about death, as it's something I can't change. Doesn't mean I'm ready for it to happen tomorrow, just that I realize that it's going to happen when it happens and isn't worth wasting thought on outside of preparing affairs for it once it gets closer.

    I'm not religious, but I've had an experience (and others have had experiences, such as out-of-body NDEs where the details that they witnessed in places and circumstances they shouldn't have been able to see were later verified by others) that indicate to me that we continue on somehow after death... it's not a nihilistic void.

    But even if it were one... that's not so bad. You wouldn't perceive stimuli, you wouldn't notice time passing... the unbelievably long mass of practically eternal time between your death and the death of this universe would be the blink of an eye for you. And if scientific theories about Poincare recurrence of the universe are correct, then eventually you'll go trhough life again from the same starting point, none the wiser that you didn't exist for an unfathomably long time.

    In short, try not to worry about it. You can't change it, and once you get there, there's either something or absolutely nothing afterward... and you'll be fine either way.

    Edit: spelling

  • USA: When do you file your taxes?

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  • If you're doing them, any time before the deadline from here is fine.

    If you've got complex stuff going on and are using a tax service or accountant, I'd say the best window is the back half of February through the first half of March. This misses all the people on the front end who rush to get them done the femtosecond they have all of their documents, and also misses the people on the back end scrambling for the late-season rush.

  • Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?

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  • Just tell me that you turn the water on pre-hork instead of touching the fixtures with hork hands, and I'm totally fine with your suggestion.

  • Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?

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  • I'm going to go with that horrendous, non-absorbent, 1/8th ply toilet paper that gets stocked in public and office bathrooms.

    I'm on Team Bidet now, so it doesn't bother me as much as it once did... but the stuff should not exist.

    I'm guessing that one day, the people who buy the stuff will figure out that it they're not winning if it costs one-third the price of normal TP when everyone has to use ten times more of it, but who knows when that day will happen. Because it hasn't happened yet.

  • Nearly One in 10 U.S. Adults Identifies as L.G.B.T.Q., Survey Finds

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  • Several of whom are dear friends and family, and I worry about them more each passing day, with the world increasingly losing its mind.

  • Gov. Evers: “I Want Wisconsin to Become the First State in America to Start Auditing Insurance Companies over Denying Healthcare Claims”

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  • Yes. YES. This is what we're talking about.

    Make the punishments hurt enough so that it doesn't make financial sense to improperly decline claims. It's the only way to get health insurance companies to behave, since we're dead set on keeping it a private industry apparently.

  • Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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  • I personally find it hilarious when people have slanderous conversations en español, thinking that none of the non-hispanic people in the vicinity understand them.

    Están equivocados. Lo aprendí como segunda lengua cuando mi hermano se casó, y agregamos venezolanos a la familia lol.

    It's adorable that someone world think that the fourth most widely-spoken language on the planet is a secret code that no one in public would possibly have a hope of comprehending 😆