RustyEarthfire

joined 1 year ago
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

India is like 18% of the world population, so it becoming an autocracy explains most of the population swing.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.

I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn't actually represent "Lemmy without politics".

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Once you start showing formatting you will also be able to see and delete "Section Breaks" more easily, which brings in another bit of Word deep magic:

Settings for sections are at the end of the section. If you delete a section break, the previous section will start using the settings of the next section.

This is especially fun for the last section of the document. If you want it to use the settings from the previous section, you have to manually "copy" the settings by editing the good section and then Redo in the bad section.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Humans have honored the dead since before homo sapiens. Laws can be complicated, contradictory, and confusing; respecting the dead is clear and primal.

Yeah, this probably won't change a lot of minds, but some folks will see there is something wrong about a man who would dishonor the dead to celebrate himself.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 102 points 1 month ago (9 children)

For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

I think transforming "it's possible to think without language" into "language is not a tool for thought" is an overreach. Definitely a lot of our internal voice is post-thought, but crystalizing those thoughts into words can provide footholds for further thought. Some would argue it's not possible to think through a complex issue without writing:

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's a general rule of wine pairing that the wine should be sweeter than the food

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That's tough buddy

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The "SSH" picture would work for SSH tunneling

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I oppose beef subsidies, but the unsubsidized price seems entirely fabricated. How can $38 billion across 80 billion pounds of meat and 25 billion gallons of milk make hamburger $25 cheaper per pound?

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would involve unknown magnitudes of change

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