it’s either:

• losing
• loosening

no other choice.

“loosing” can only be used immediately before “the dogs of war”.

even in that case, usage of -ing form is poor grammar which takes away potential choices of phrasing and reduces possibilities for creativity.

*losing

well said!

other than paddling, same. exactly.

i know that even if i could manage myself well enough to be a good parent, other kids and adults absolutely cannot be trusted to treat my child humanely, whether my child is ND or not.

society continues proving this point every single day…

this “infographic” is a bit too straightforward for me. no setup & punchline, just a line.

i can relate to the content. just can’t laugh.

yes i know critiquing the comedy level may be considered off-topic. but off-topic is always on topic for us. 🤣

same

but i always wondered, if my few “friends” actually think of me as a friend, why do they never initiate contact outside of school or work…

rsd & depression followed…

much cooler than a waterproof phone!

i fucking hate short videos. it’s the most vacuous thing invented thus far.

i literally block or dim the thumbnails with ublock origin.

then again i also hate long videos with slow talking and tons of useless and filler segments such as:

• intro montage
• recap
• sponsor product ad
• channel subscription begging
• alternate channel subscription begging
• off topic rambling/ranting
• outro montage

(thank you ❤️Freetube & ❤️Sponsorblock)

bonding with a total stranger is extrovert supremacy.

if i can be in the room with an existing friend, I’d do it.

but i would guess that invalidates the test.

I’m also really really really good at “keeping” secrets…

thanks for the eBay recommendation. unfortunately my financial anxiety is much much much more easily triggered than that. I’m working in myself for now.

i do plan to start using docker if i ever get started on projects again.

i wish i could get my home lab efforts (re)started. the memory of corrupted sd cards and pi hole config mistakes is debilitating…

not to mention financial anxiety about possibly needing replacement components regularly…

IMO this and Material File Manager are currently the best for android

however, i think they all need improvement. such as:

• long press popup context menu (for desktop right-click style menu),
• top-bottom multi pane view,
• file metadata/tag editing
• optional image/video preview pane (bottom half of screen)

hahaha yeah vox is so antique with everything they cover

Agree.

I also think a federated wiki is a great idea.

I think the way to do that is: instead of having separate realities/universes linked together by search and federation, try to unite those universes into a shared multiverse, to the greatest possible.

In other words

• ❌ merely give all federated users access to the same articles
• ✅ automatically link and embed similar articles into each other by default (collapsed, but expandable). similarity can be determined by authors’/contributors’ intentional citations, by instance owners’ filter rules, by LLM, etc.

of course, there may be attempts to obfuscate relatedness, astroturfing, brigading, whatnot. I wonder if its possible to visualize voting results for each duplicated/linked article along with the originating instance. I think this would function as a pseudo version of ‘community fact-checking’. Maybe a better name would be ‘reality-checking’ or ‘sanity-checking’ or whatever.

what the hell… are they afraid of crowdsourced luigism? are they full magat now?

eli5: what devilry is going on at r/privacy?

edit: scratch that. just read https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40745676

🤦

coincidentally, i hate the phrase “think of it this way”

Sūdoku

https://gitlab.com/opensudoku/opensudoku

thanks for literally devaluing all the work of my fellow translators and i that was stolen by Google and Bing and all the other crawlers/thieves.

it’s the same as with artists’ work being stolen by Stupid Diffusion and the rest.

not mad at you of course. but calling it free was too good a match for devaluing to pass up.

YouTuber Takashii just uploaded a video of street interviews in Japan on the topic of what tourists should/shouldn’t do in Japan.

https://youtu.be/fXV89VQ5dJQ

at least one person said that in Japan, foreigners should try to speak Japanese. some people might see a Japanese thread instance as a little piece of Japan. especially since English language education there is not on a high level.

and monolinguals outside the Anglosphere do sometimes complain that their languages are being replaced/invaded by English.

that said, i think fediverse users (if that’s where you’ve been replying) are less xenophobic than general population.

just remember that in Japan if one wants to complain about another’s behavior, it’s common to go to one’s home turf or filter bubble to do so rather than speaking to the offender directly.