I work from home 10-20 hours a day.

That’s fair. Drinking at one’s workplace is usually frowned upon.

Wait, what? Where’d you hear that from? I’m on .world and my home internet is hard wired to a VPN. I’ve never had a problem.

She needs to be defrosted from her summer stasis in time to sing about Christmas.

Though in all seriousness, it’s sad to think that enough people saw that AI slop of an update summary and thought, “Yep, that sounds better than anything I could’ve come up with. Let’s run with it.”

Oh snap, you’re me.

As an agendered pansexual, the wildest thing to me about the trans/cis divide is actually feeling that strongly about having a preferred gender. I simply can’t fathom caring hard enough to put up a fight about it. I default to “female” because I was AFAB, but if someone calls me by a different pronoun, it’s whatever to me.

Now let me be clear - just because I don’t feel gender for myself, doesn’t mean I can’t respect and support those who do feel strongly about their genders.

And as a reference to this comment, this post was fueled by unmedicated ADHD, autism, and cannabis (and a bit of frustration, since I accidentally closed the window after the first time I wrote it, so I had to write it twice.)

A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

They’ve got my vote.

I trust you, because if anybody knows a thing or two about people who like to sniff assholes, it’d be someone named Fartographer.

I have a coworker who wears a mask almost every day. (We work with small children, AKA sentient petri dishes. Wearing a mask by default isn’t a bad idea.)

I’m not that hardcore, but I’ve found that they help even in non-illness situations. Like when the air is cold and dry, wearing a mask means the air I breathe is warmer. Not only is it more comfortable, but it prevents the post-nasal drip that such conditions usually trigger. Without post-nasal drip, my throat is less likely to become irritated. An irritated throat can lead to laryngitis.

Ergo, wearing a mask on cold, dry days prevents an entire chain of shitty events from taking place. The people stubbornly digging their heels in against masks have no idea what incidental benefits they’re missing.

Bruh, it sounds like you and OP are both on the same side. Like the point of this post is to kind of -nudge nudge- that “disobedient” thought that’s teetering on the edge of realization, without making a direct call for action. You call for it one way, they call for it another way, but both of you seem to be attempting to conjure the same idea.

Why in the world waste time complaining that your teammate isn’t using the same tactics as you? We have to stop letting arbitrary shit divide us. If we all have the same goal, we should be aiming toward it together.

It was weird sometimes. Say you uploaded an image as a visual aid to a point being made on Reddit. It would make no sense without context, but you put it on Imgur because that’s what Imgur was made for. Shared on Reddit, the image successfully aided whatever you were trying to communicate. Mission accomplished!

But later you’d look back at the Imgur link, and find a bunch of annoyed Imgur-users complaining that your post made no sense.

I left Imgur when I left Reddit, since the only thing I ever used it for was hosting things to post on Reddit. Funny, I must have gotten spoiled to Lemmy instances self-hosting images, because I forgot Imgur even existed until I saw this post today.

You got me curious to find out which meaning of “sorry” came first, so I looked up its etymology.

The modern word came through Middle English, from an Old English word that meant “distressed, grieved, full of sorrow”. The Proto-Germanic root before that had a meaning of “painful.”

A meaning of “repentant, remorseful, contrite” was recorded circa 1200 AD.

The page also notes:

Simple sorry in an apologetic sense (short for I’m sorry) is suggested by 1834

Putting it all together, it seems people initially began saying “sorry” (or the word that would become it) to express that they were feeling some kind of “pain.” At some point it started being used exclusively for emotional pain. Around 1200 AD, it picked up the sense of “remorseful.” However, simply saying “sorry” to express that remorse wasn’t a thing for another 600 or so years.

I’m no professional etymologist, and I only checked this one source, so I could very well be wrong. However, it sounds like the meaning of “feeling sorry” to mean feeling bad (which is what people mean when they say, “I feel sorry for you”) predates using “I’m sorry” to express remorse over one’s actions.

Note - this isn’t intended to support nor sway anyone’s opinion. Language changes, and there is no right or wrong to it. An older meaning isn’t more or less valid than a newer meaning, especially when both meanings have already co-existed for centuries. I just find word history interesting and wanted to share what your comment inspired me to learn. ✌️

the entire fleet was mothballed

For anyone who was as confused as I was -

To mothball: to stop using a piece of equipment but keep it in good condition so that it can easily be used again

I’ve spent over 35 years speaking (and studying) this bizarre language we call English. Yet until seeing your comment, I had no idea “mothball” could be a verb. TIL!

Just looking at the wall behind the counter in 7-11 boggles my mind. Dozens of cigarette and dip brands (and now vape and nicotine pouches too), with most smokers having a preferred brand and style - they don’t buy anything except the one type they like. Which means the demand must be high enough for each of those products to justify keeping them fully stocked all the time. Then consider that every corner gas station and convenience store has the same set up, even if they’re all within walking distance from each other.

That’s a lot of tobacco/nicotine users.

Monday/Friday/Doomsday?

That’s true. I don’t disagree with you, I just think we’re reading this post differently.

Companies lie about their reasons all the time, especially when they claim they’re doing something for the environment. I interpreted this post as another example pointing out their hypocrisy, not as “this is the one and only thing companies lie about.”

Upvoted for the Vexillology reference.

But yeah, OP, just enjoy the show. Most of the attendants are going to be way too focused on the show, their friends, and themselves to care that some rando isn’t bopping along with them.

I think they’re pointing out the 180-turn in so-called “priorities.” Companies once claimed to want something done for the “sake of the environment,” but now they have no problem using resource-intensive AI without any acknowledgement of how bad it is for the environment.

Oh, I’m talking about roommate-seeking websites I’ve personally attempted to use, which were whatever non-sketchy-looking options came up on DuckDuckGo. I have no idea what OP’s post is from.

Thank you so much! Craigslist is something I had completely forgotten about. I dropped off Facebook years ago and unfortunately don’t live in Canada, but Craigslist is a great suggestion and I’m perusing it now. You may have just saved me from living in my car (again.)

Seriously, thank you!

Probably. Not much I can do. I’m not paying for a subscription. If anyone has any advice for finding roommates otherwise, I would very much appreciate it!