Railison 1d ago • 100%
This is so mind numbingly fucking stupid. I have linguistics training and my dickhead uncle tried to pull this one on me. He’s never tried to flex his grammar on me since.
Next time this shit happens to you, try this trick.
In the above question, the word “can” could be interpreted in one of two senses.
- One is the deontic sense, which denotes permission or approval.
- The other is the epistemic sense, which denotes capability.
As a competent English speaker, you will easily infer that vampire is using the deontic “can”.
The confusion seems to derive from the recipient’s inability to understand that modals in English grammar can possess different senses depending on context.
It is worth noting that the deontic “can” has been documented in writings for hundreds of years. It is a normal and standard element of English grammar. Case in point: the idiot trying to flex on you knows what you mean but they’re pretending they don’t.
It’s not my problem that you don’t understand basic English grammar. Maybe you should go read a few books and educate yourself.
Railison 5d ago • 100%
Did you ever contrast it with Brave New World? In many ways the latter is more disturbing since the masses are kept busy with frivolity to question their world.
Railison 1w ago • 100%
Their rationale was, get this, “people don’t know who their councillors are”
Like holy shit nobody ever knows who their local MLCs or senators are, but are we scrapping hare clarke? No.
It’s a sleazy tactic to increase the impact of major parties.
Railison 1w ago • 100%
For a sec I thought this was a chrorpleth of how much people were paid to make choropleths
Railison 1w ago • 100%
They really like being in opposition, the Vic coalition
Railison 1w ago • 100%
🙈
Railison 2w ago • 100%
I think this is a really interesting question. To me, if I hear a claim, I might say I accept it as knowledge or believe it as a worldview.
For example, I get irked by people asking if I “believe” in climate change. To me, it’s not a matter of belief: there is a body of knowledge being scrutinised by extraordinarily smart and talented people. I accept the existence of and need to mitigate climate change.
On the other hand, do I believe we’re not alone in the universe? I can’t rely on knowledge, it’s a lot of intuition.
Railison 2w ago • 100%
I wish that naked TLDs were a thing. Like https://com/ or https://london/
Railison 2w ago • 80%
I’m just a casual observer, but do white cats get visible scratches more easily? And are they easier fix up?
Some car models look fantastic in white, sort of going for that mid-2000s futurism feel.
Railison 2w ago • 100%
I used to love forums back in the day, but I must say I’ve really gotten over the format of the medium. It promotes email-like long form responses with space used up with avatar images, handles and signature blocks. Nested replies become a nightmare steer several layer’s and you’re cooked on mobile.
Would love a Lemmy-like plugin to parse vBulletin forums. Endless scroll for topics, minimal non-content fluff, easy and quick replies. (The irony of this reply length isn’t lost on me. Most of my replies are short, promise!)
Railison 4w ago • 100%
Thanks for the suggestion I’ll follow it up!
So the final thing tethering me to macOS is Apple Photos, which is really a fantastic program. PhotoPrism looks like it’s improving quickly, but I was curious to know how it’s going today with regards to: * Search filters * Date * Place * Object/person recognition * Text recognition * Live Photo support * Ease of importing * Album support, including smart albums * Built-in touch ups * General stability
Railison 4w ago • 100%
I remember HATING clothes for Christmas. But now it’s all I want (so long as it’s my style). I don’t want random useless shit at Christmas, I want stuff I can use for years and wear out.
Railison 1mo ago • 100%
Thank you for reminding me of this one! I keep forgetting to try it out
Railison 1mo ago • 100%
I remember reading in Morgan Spurlock’s Don’t Eat This Book about a guy who worked at a crematorium. He stopped eating McDonald’s after they cremated a morbidly obese person and the smell was indistinguishable to the McDonald’s smell.
Railison 1mo ago • 100%
Isn’t it fortunate that we have robust user-centred privacy frameworks to protect people from corporate overreach. 🙃
Railison 1mo ago • 57%
FHS is an absolute dumpster fire that would never be dreamed up in this day and age
Railison 2mo ago • 100%
Who else yawned when you saw this post
Railison 2mo ago • 100%
One pothole and it’s done for
Railison 2mo ago • 100%
Hoping that the grids are actually upgraded to ride the waves of generation by that stage
Railison 2mo ago • 100%
People using carriage returns as paragraph breaks 😭😭😭
SOLVED: it’s Antitrust! Thanks everyone! It’s a tech related movie came out probably early 2000s. Bits I remember: - A group of home brew coders watches a webinar of some large software company. - One of them gets hired by the company to work on a large project - The project is supposed to enable content delivery/streaming while overcoming bandwidth constraints, but they’re stuck in development - Main character is working on the project and is making headway but discovers something nefarious might be going on in the company - He checks around the place and realises a large mouse sculpture in the company campus playground is actually a hidden satellite - Using a computer in the children’s daycare room he uncovers the conspiracy - He manages to finish off the project, and the company thinks everything is fine - The tech company tests the system and it works perfectly broadcasting everywhere. - But the guy uses this test to present a montage of all the evidence of the conspiracy. Also uploads the project source code - Company CEO gets arrested or something, everyone lives happily ever after.
Keen to hear people’s thoughts. Personally I think the SRL will change how Melbourne works in ways current modelling won’t consider. That comes at a high cost, but is it too high?
Part of me is inclined to say might as well keep going with the games, but then I think sunk cost fallacy. Does anyone even care about the commonwealth games?
Train is listed as stopping at MCE but the train’s stopping pattern says not.