lavabiopsy

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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I don't think Twitter users need to comport themselves as school teachers. Twitter (and also Hacker News) requires you to conduct yourself to a certain level of etiquette in order to use the service, and s
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
It may be obvious to you, but for someone not familiar with this person's type of humor, it might not be so obvious. Please consider that if you find yourself making sarcastic jokes in the presence of strangers and they are giving you
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I think there is some confusion here, it's not that there is assumption of ill-intent. It's just the possibility that it could be interpreted that way. From the perspective of a moderator being on the safe side, I could see how th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>This appears to be the slippery slope of freedom of speech we spoke about when people on Twitter were clapping when various people got banned. Enjoy the bed you made for yourselves. I don't know which people you are talking about s
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Just from my own experiences on the net as a teen where jokes about self-harm and suicide were extremely common -- One of those reasons could be because social media is not doing enough to protect children from this type of toxic content. O
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand, there's no pretending -- On Twitter, you are effectively talking to the whole world. Anyone in the world can click on your tweets and see what you're saying. If you want to have a broad reach, then minimiz
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I don't understand why you are saying that or what that has to do with the conversation. Please imagine a schoolteacher going into a classroom on the first day of school and saying with a straight face to students "I am going to s
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
And yet, all of those could be misinterpreted by someone who is not familiar with that. >I'd be careful before invoking misunderstanding with theoretical groups of non-english speakers. If you're being cautious (as is common fo
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I understand what joke you are trying to make, but I would say the real problem here is the exact opposite: a lot of tweets that I see end up being more ambiguous because of the brevity and lack of context. So it seems what you describe i
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Sure, but that is not made clear from the joke.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I believe children ages 13-17 are able to use twitter.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Sure. Have you learned a new language recently? If you haven't, it's an illuminating experience -- usually you don't start with the idioms until you have a really strong grasp of the basics and of some other advanced forms.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I can't answer that question because I am a native English speaker, but I can say, I would probably not use that phrase around non-native English speakers. It's confusing and could be misinterpreted. Generally one would want to av
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Please avoid making these type of snarky comments with (incorrect) assumptions about me. A better way to phrase it would be to ask which persons I know like this, to which I could give a pretty universal response: children. You wouldn'
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
Yes, the thing is that Twitter is also accessible to people who are not everyday English speakers.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
As usual with these posts, I don't really find this convincing, that joke is not obvious to someone who doesn't know this person. The tweet can very easily be misinterpreted by someone who does not get the joke. Please keep in min
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>There is no unified 'will of the people.' I don't think this is a useful thing to say, it seems to suggest that a given group of people can't reach consensus, when this is not really the case. >Communities that wa
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>If you don't want Gnome theming, don't use libadwaita This is not accurate, the current plan seems to be for libadwaita to gain a new theming API. Additionally, apps can still load CSS themes on top of libadwaita.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's generally the problem with theming, if some app does not support the theme (e.g. legacy apps that were not designed with theming in mind) then it will be in a broken state. Unfortunately not much can be done about it besides fix
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>Humans made these policies. Yes, but my point is that those policies were only made in response to the virus. They were not made for no reason, and of course different groups of people will respond to the virus in different ways. >Th
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I commented on this before, but GNOME is not preventing theming. The Solus developers have made their decisions based on missing and/or false information, and this article has unfortunately repeated that. See my longer comment here: h
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
If you mean GTK3/4 supports system themes, then no, that's false, it has never really supported doing that. The theme was meant to only be changed by the app, users changing the theme was always consider unsupported. Of course you
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
That's really interesting, I feel like I've experienced the opposite, most people I know have had some kind of interaction with the "hand of government" in some way, if not themselves then second hand. At least in the US
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
How is there asymmetry of information? AFAIK there have been just as many tech advances in police accountability as well, such as the prevalence of body cams, or the ability to see these warrants as they are issued in real time on a police
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
I'm just curious: What exactly is seen as being new or remarkable about the failure of some leaders during this pandemic? I share the frustration about these failures, but are your friends/family too young to know about other spec
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>Evidently not to a sufficient extent. Please avoid these snarky comments, this is also rude and unhelpful and against the rules. I'm continuing to talk to you as a show of good faith even though you're discouraging me from doi
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>It really sounds like you need a better email client, or you just need to learn how to use the one you have better. I have heard this sentiment a lot and tried a lot of email clients and personally I still don't enjoy using any ema
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
This is quite the negative and cynical comment and includes quite a bit of misinformation, I suggest taking a break from the net for a while. Your mental health is important.
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>Large parts of it are about politics and the different ways their system affects different kinds of politics and politicians This again would be a side effect. Obviously it's not irrelevant but I have seen no reason to prioritize t
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by lavabiopsy 5y ago
>You're just being intentionally obtuse. Please avoid assuming bad faith, this is against the rules here, and it's pretty hostile to me and makes me not want to talk to you. I don't see how that argument follows, as I have

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