Maybe it’s just my algorithm but I don’t think I’ve been presented any slop videos. Surely not long videos, right?

Walking backward is just walking negatively forward by another name

Sorry that it came across as bitching

I don’t think they posted on Lemmy to get search results

This is why online discourse is so hard! Beyond the anonymity, which causes its own problems, the absence of nonverbal cues and lack of immediacy in feedback leaves a lot open to interpretation, so anything can be taken in any way.

Opinions become accusations and idle musings become absolute certainty in the vacuum of supporting information that is text-only communication. I worry that the only real solution is for people to–like you–embrace the uncertainty and gracefully admit that their interpretation could be wrong. And it seems likely that the only way to collectively get to that point is to fuck it up a lot for a long time.

Yeah, the US and Europe do DST a couple weeks apart, presumably because of latitude differences but it could also be spite, I guess.

Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly, you’re talking about an exchange like this?

Person 1: It sure is hot today.
Person 2: I know, right?

Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, “It sure is, isn’t it?” or, “Don’t I know it!” feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.

It’s so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.

That’s a good one. I like this guy’s series on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

I don’t clap when planes land safely, but I’m sure I would celebrate if the train I was on landed safely!

Noooo, getting the bay leaf is lucky!

I bet it has a few vibrate modes

“Book of the New Sun” was a fucking fever dream and is widely considered one of the best fantasy books. My friends couldn’t stop talking about it but I just thought it was strange.

“Latro in the Mist” was more accessible to me.

A weird form of arrogant elitism

I always just mentally pronounced it neck-essary to remind myself to only use a single C. It never occurred (thanks, spell check) to me to relate it to a physical object.

Mine, of course, is “ocurr” and its iterations.

Dumb or lazy? Why not just apathetic?

Lmao, so what does your opinion mean?

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon.

I have only heard a few things, but if the US and Israel don’t want it, I assume it’s something good for the world.

I don’t think that the semantic discrepancy is really the point.

Grooming is so gross, but it’s not like Christians are out there targeting children, right? That would be insane wouldn’t it, everyone?

https://www.cefonline.com/articles/teach-kids-articles/the-4-14-window/