TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The problem with the term "toxic masculinity" is what exactly can we describe as "positive" masculinity? Is masculinity only toxic, or are there positive things that aren't feminine?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

Lemmy 24/7: "if its free, you're the product"

Lemmy on Nintendo: "Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I'm entirely justified in pirating everything."

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What type of rock is a penguin, pick boy

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren't as linked as they would be in French.

All of these are valid:

  • I went to a Moscow school
  • I went to a school in Moscow
  • I went to a Versaille cafe
  • I went to a cafe in Versaille.
  • I dated a London girl
  • I dated a girl from London

These sound more natural than the following:

  • I went to a Muscovite school
  • I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn't use fhat)
  • I dated a Londoner girl.

At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You could have a Muscovite school in London. You could have a Versaillian cafe in Osaka.

You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Those Irish Islamists. Always demanding Sharia law.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Our other trade partner also went batshit about 10 years ago and made it a lot more difficult to trade with them.

Life's lonely as a relatively norma neutrall northern-hemisphere anglophone state.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, because what he's describing is a self-run comment editing and deleting script.

GDPR account deletion works very differently.

Note I'm not defending Reddit here, as much as anything it's advice for anyone (like me) who has to go back and re-run the script every few months because of those brave people whose form of protest is very temporarily inconveniencing themselves.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a non-malicious reason for this - if you used a script based on interacting with the website, when subreddits went hidden, it actually hidden your own comments from you. So they aren't visible to automated scripts and then when subreddits go visible again, suddenly it looks like comments "came back".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello.

My nan passed with dementia a few years ago too. I felt for my dad at the time but after visiting her and her not recognising me, not recognising my dad, basically living and suffering for nothing, it was pretty neutral when she did die.

I didn't miss the old lady in a chair pointed at a TV that kept her conscious. I missed my nan who'd always sneak us biscuits (cookies) and insisted I was handsome from 0 years old to 30 years old. But she'd been gone a long time. I think my dad had hope she'd snap out of it. My hope is that I never see him like that. And that me losing things is my ADHD, not a precursor.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You've combined the two things together and said they are worse than one on its own. Duh.

The original poster is talking about the vast majority of kids today who do in fact get a decent sex education and if they see/hear their parents going at it, the 'trauma' is in seeing them in an unexpected context, not thinking Dad is beating mom.

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