It’s generally a lot less pretentious, which might appear as a lack of “intelligent” comments. Most Lemmy users just don’t spend hours trying to write page long comments on obscure topics that nobody else here cares about.

Also, in the more specific communities, lots of things are taken for granted. Places with more users will more often have the “todays 10000” user, who just discovered something that is new to them and then decides to write about it in detail. Lemmy is more polite that way: Not reposting noob stuff on a daily basis for karma or whatever point system brings it up constantly on other sites.

11 is missing the minute hand in the miniatures.

“Thanks in advance” has changed meaning.

It used to mean: “I appreciate your effort into this, no reply needed”.

It now means :“Fuck you if you don’t do this, and I expect this done without complaint.”

Makes up theory of relativity. Marries cousin.

Removed by mod

Once upon a time the west. (Ennio Morricone)

Blade runner (Vangelis)

I don’t ever use the start menu for anything. I can’t be bothered to look through that mess.

Instead I press the windows key and type the first few letters of whatever I need, unless it’s already stickied to the bar. It’s fewer key presses than clicking through the start menu. I suppose that still counts as opening the start menu, even if I don’t use the actual menu structure.

I also use the windows + arrow keys to toss windows around the multiple screens. It has a lot of other purposes, like creating extra desktops etc, which I admittedly never use.

It’s a useful button for sure, but it does get a little overwhelming when combined with shift ctrl or alt . I can’t possibly remember all the uses, but I have the most commonly used on muscle memory.

Sounds like a Tesla model or one of Elon’s kids.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/abby-thicc-sea-otter-monterey-bay-aquarium-apology/2376653002/

Thanks. There are a few minor details in the melody, but considering the harmony and rhythmic structure, it’s really not coincidental why that note is there.

In order to follow common practice theory and with that limited rhythm, there are very few ways in which that note would be any different.

I used “also” because it’s describing the same note.

The two songs have the same melody.

Coincidentally the 7th note of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is also 7 semitones from the root.

Yes, the atmospheric CO2 is still rising due to emissions from previous decades.

The decline mentioned in the title is the current emmisions. The article goes on to explain it like this:

Locally, Europe and America have lowered their emmisions in the recent years, but global emmisions have still rised due to China emitting even more.

This June however, China’s emmisions have also decreased, so it might be a sign of a peak being reached.

Energy consumption is still increasing, but renewable sources provide enough for that, and it’s economical the best option, so the rising demand does not cause more emmisions.

Personally, I’m afraid it is too soon to tell. I also wonder where all the drilled oil and mined coal goes, because if there is an actual decline in fossil fuel usage, we’d be hearing from the oil companies and experience lower gas prices etc. Any fossil that is mined or pumped up is going to get burned, so I’d really like to see a decline in fossil extractions before celebrating.

Also, in order to address the atmospheric CO2 levels, we need something entirely different. Forests and CO2 capture etc., which have a long way to go still.

There will be plenty news about him after that. If anything he’s going to be unleashed by whatever he thinks is restrictive for the election, so I expect the worst. Also all his grifting and law suits and all that shit.

I’m considering blocking everything including his name, because I seriously can’t stand watching his disgusting face anymore and nothing good is ever going to come out of it.

Initially I figured that the story was that the guys were made to believe that it was her fantasy, not theirs, simply because I find it unlikely that he’d be capable of even finding 50 guys with that kind of fantasy.

I have personal no experience in this, but I suppose that’s the purpose of “safe words”, which will allow someone to participate in that kind of roleplay featuring imaginary non consencual sex until someone yells “Oklahoma”.

Anyway, with it happening in some small village, I can imagine how they could be oblivious to any proper way of doing that sort of kink, but it can never remove their own responsibility of not having concent.

Put in a more straightforward way: I can not allow you to punch your friend in the balls. Only your friend can allow that. Regardless of how many times I tell you it’s okay, it’s just not okay, until he allows it himself, which has nothing to do with what I said.

I used to think the same, but kids are really much further ahead these days.

There’s a lot of variety of course. Even my two kids are totally different. The older one knew the entire alphabet and basic math before kindergarten (<4yo), while the second one was still catching up on that in 2.grade (8yo here). Their gross motor skills are opposite though, and the oldest might never catch up on that.

So, play is learning in one way or the other, but there’s no reason to hold back the children who are talented in one thing over the other. My oldest is being held back that way by the current curriculum. Starting school earlier might be a way of addressing this.

It’s really just a matter of task assignment between institutions. Anything pre-school (nursery and kindergarten) is focused on behaviour and play, while early school (gradually) introduces more abstract learning, which requires a different teaching by teachers with a different education. Strictly speaking, it’s a teachers problem, and there’s currently not much overlap, except for “backwards compatibility”, because schools do have employees who are educated in kindergarten levels, whereas kindergartens do not have school level teachers employed. By introducing school earlier, it is possible to widen this overlap while still allowing for kids to proceed in their own pace.

So, IMO, it makes sense, but yeah, it’d be dreadful to go to “school” for that many years. Coincidentally, kids also leave schools earlier. There’s no longer many kids in 10th grade, because almost everyone goes on to the following studies after 9th these days. (which is a completely different discussion…)

I hope this makes sense. British/American school system are wildly different, but at the end of it, the kids will be kids, no matter what box they fit into.

Yeah well, I think a lot of people can actually do that. It’s rough times for fartists.

It’s not an entirely lost (f)art. Jackass had a skit with a similar guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIHMUibMio

Perhaps it should be decided by a cognitive test instead of age. This is a dangerous road though, because a lot of people with cognitive disabilities can and should be allowed to vote for themselves.

Maybe the test could be made to test if a person understands what an election is and them being able to form their own opinion.

The main issue isn’t age, but rather that a lot of people vote for something that they think others expect them to vote for without ever forming an opinion of their own.

However those people should also be allowed to represent themselves, so I think all elections ought to have the option of voting for “shit, I don’t know, I have no idea what’s this is about”, and if that vote came over a certain threshold, then the election should be void and postponed for a week.

Guinness World Records made him famous. He’s also the only person from that book that I remember anything about.

I wonder why he decided to eat 15 shopping carts. Like, the point of it would be proven after, I don’t know, 7?