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xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.English4·7 days agoThey’re validating the policy of the instance on the basis of the police tactics potentially being used against them, not the tactics themselves
It makes it difficult to use the pavement, especially for elderly people and people with disabilities, costs the council a bunch of time and money to repair, and doing the repairs often require killing off the tree
What point are you trying to make?
That there’s better FOSS software (just generally)?
That there’s better FOSS document editing software?
That you don’t like Libreoffice dark mode?
It looks pretty good to me
“Anyone got a lighter?”
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Politics@beehaw.org•The far-right’s pretend fight against antisemitism is a perfect political strategy | Rachel ShabiEnglish2·2 months agoNo, it isn’t. Acknowledging that a strategy is ideal for the people executing it isn’t the same as agreeing with that strategy.
In fact, the idiom “a perfect storm” refers to a disastrous situation caused by a combination of multiple problems. You wouldn’t argue that using that phrase means you support the disaster.
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.English4·2 months agoCan you elaborate on what you mean by web tech? I don’t know much about how matrix works
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"You should probably just throw it away"English7·2 months agoGIMP is really powerful, but goddamn its UX is abysmal, unfortunately
No, you didn’t lmao
Would you call them He if you found out?
Yes I would
if we were friends I might call them the way they want
You specifically said you would actively misgender them, unless they’re your friend, in which case you “might” not actively go out of your way to do so. That’s a dick move, simple as.
And no, you can’t pretend that answer isn’t real by adding “I would never interact with or see a trans person” because that’s not how life works.
So what you’re saying is that if you don’t know the particular person, you will actively go out of way to be an asshole to them, but if they’re someone you care about, then you’d pretend to respect trans people enough not to intentionally fuck with them.
Lovely.
Just because you don’t think there should be social characteristics associated with gender doesn’t mean that there aren’t
They’re pointing out the stupidity of your argument, since it depends on ignoring the fact that the remaining 5% exist, in the same way that classifying everything as those two elements requires ignoring the fact that the other 1% of matter exists
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Population of the UK split into 4 equal quartersEnglish4·3 months agoOh cool, domestic terrorism. How fun and quirky of you
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Linux@lemmy.ml•Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These ReasonsEnglish8·4 months agoThat’s a very silly take
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto World News@beehaw.org•UK: Supermarkets that appear to be selling products linked to slave labour in China may be “complicit in putting profits above human rights”, British lawmaker saysEnglish6·6 months agoThat’s not what they said at all
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Linux@lemmy.ml•Tried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...English10·6 months agoI’m a big fan of starting the command with a
#
, then removing it once I’m happy with the command to defend against accidentally hitting enterPutting
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next to the enter key on keyboards (at least UK ones) was an evil villain level decision
It’s nice that this exists these days, but my god is it horrendously unreadable at a glance
I think BAC is supposed to be defined as a right-angle, so that AB²+AC²=CB²
=> AB+1²=0²
=> AB = √-1
=> AB = i
Are you saying that because you genuinely believe your statement isn’t an instance of the slippery slope fallacy, or because you want to insult me?