Landrin201

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[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Also I'd argue that none of this really matters because language doesn't follow an absolute set of rules. Language is how people use it. If people start using a word to mean so thing it take son that meaning, it doesn't matter if the word makes sense in relation to other words.

A word for something isn't a 100% accurate description of that thing and it never has been. It doesn't matter that a peanut isn't technically a nut, we call it a peanut. Everyone understands that it's a peanut. If you walk up to someone on the street and say "do you know where I can buy some peanuts" they will understand what you are saying with no problems at all.

We spend way too much time arguing over the "right" and "wrong" uses of words. There is no such thing really. Words don't determine their own meaning, people determine that meaning, and if enough people can regocnize a words meaning immediately when they hear it then it is a word with a valid definition. It doesn't matter if the word is contradictory to the way other similar words work, because language isn't defined like that.

Ironically this whole stupid "homophobic peoe aren't scared of gay people" actually proves that the person making that claim does acknoedge that the word homophobia is linguistically valid, because they are acknowledging that it's understood definition differs from what you would expect if you strictly read the word literally

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What us the definition of "hydrophobia" as it relates to chemistry?

I'll wait for you to explain how some molecules are leterally afraid of water.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

If you get bitten by a rabid animal and go get the shots immediately after your chance of actually dying from rabies is very, very low. The studies I know claim it's very close to 100% effective, which is understandable because of the very long incubation period rabies has, if you have antibodies it doesn't stand a chance.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My dude you clearly don't understand even a little bit of what leftists mean when we say that private property shouldn't be allowed.

Heres a hint: we aren't talking about your house and the stuff in it. Go read a book.

The rest of your comment is pretty spot on though, this is an insane post with even more insane suggestions

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are you seriously suggesting that this person soumd deliberately sabatoge a towns economy,after almost certainly having to lie to get elected in the first place, against the best interests of its inhabitants, just to personally enrich themselves?

Id be on board if you had said he should pass an ordinance banning Airbnb, that would be one thing, but you're suggesting he should make the whole town inhospitable to tourists and crush their economy so he can buy himself a house then fuck off

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

The FCC is still to my knowledge taking public comments about data caps:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests

May be worth people here commenting about how they are ridiculous

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not protecting children, you're teaching them to be hateful toward gay people.

Literally nobody is trying to force your kids to be gay. You are trying to force them to be straight, though.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget that those first 5-8 sites are all written by a aithat doesn't know what it's doing! You can tell those apart from ones written by a person because they cram as many keywords in different combinations as they can. Like, if you searched "windows 10 Firefox connection error" the first result will be:

"How to fix Firefox Connection Error in Windows 10

Firefox connection errors in windows 10 are annoying. Luckily, there is an easy way in windows 10 to fix Firefox conne tion errors. The Firefox connection errors in windows 10 can be caused by a few different problems. In this article we will explain how to fix Firefox connection errors in windows 10."

It's infuriating, because those articles inevitably are wrong about the solution, but they're always the top results because they win the keyword battle. I use QWant for my search engine now, and while it's WAY better than Google it still serves some of those sites up when I'm troubleshooting something because the keywords are just too strong.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

And unfortunately IDK of any alternatives to YouTube. A big part of the problem is that some of my favorite creators only upload to YouTube. I don't want to switch to an alternative and lose a large percentage of the content that I like to watch, that would be pretty shitty.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that rocks, thanks! Funny enough, it's making me consider a 2060- according to that site the 12gb 2026 can transcode 2 more streams than the 2080 can at 4k, and they aren't ridiculously priced- the 1660s that a lot of people seem to recommend are only a little cheaper but get fewer streams.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"People should abuse their children so that other passengers are more comfortable."

That's literally your suggestion

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I just tried it and got this result. The sentence is incredible, I can't get over how painfully stupid it is.

Apparently Kenya starts with a k sound and a letter that resembles k but not the letter k

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