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[–] iddqd404@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Ok, I don't like making generalizations, but let's play the game:

  • Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.

  • Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it's very complex.

  • We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.

  • Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)
  • Mental illness or/and a disability aren't excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
  • No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
  • Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
  • If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
  • Littering should be punishable with jail time.
[–] The_Ferry@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Honestly good points overall, but I will die on the other egg hill

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.

Complete protection? Certainly not, but melanin does provide some protection from UV radiation. Still important to wear sunscreen because if a melanated individual where to get skin cancer it usually has a higher mortality rate because they're often caught late.

Epidemiological data strongly support the photoprotective role of melanin as there exists an inverse correlation between skin pigmentation and the incidence of sun-induced skin cancers (1) and subjects with White skin are approximately 70 times more likely to develop skin cancer than subjects with Black skin (67). The shielding effect of melanin, especially eumelanin, is achieved by its ability to serve as a physical barrier that scatters UVR, and as an absorbent filter that reduces the penetration of UV through the epidermis (68). The efficacy of melanin as a sunscreen was assumed to be about 1.5-2.0 sun protective factors (SPF);

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2671032/

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[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad

[–] snake@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe you are referring to the Thinkpad clit.

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[–] hallettj@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't say "acronym" when you mean "abbreviation"!

"Acronym" specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,

  • scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
  • NASA (pronounced like a word - you don't say "ehn eh ess eh").

It's acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.

In contrast "NIH" is not an acronym because it isn't pronounced or read as a word. It's appropriate to say, "'NIH' is an abbreviation" or "'NIH' is an initialism". But saying "'NIH' is an acronym" is wrong!

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are knights that may disagree.

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[–] Captain_J@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.

[–] gobbles_turkey@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Daylight savings time needs to be gotten rid of.

The imperial measurement standard needs to be gotten rid of.

The UN security council veto should be able to be overridden by the general assembly.

Collective responsibility for a democracy's crimes should be a thing.

The country of Israel should be moved to an open area of land with no people on it. Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, or the jungles of South America.

There should be a corporate death penalty when they commit crimes.

All kids should have food.

All humans should have access to very basic water and food. Like beans and rice for everyone, no exceptions.

Basic sanitation is a human right.

Religion should not be respected any more than any other bag of philosophical ideas. Stupid parts of religions should be called out and discussed, not hallowed and treated with respect even if its utter nonsense.

[–] Washuchan@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Data is pronounced data and not data.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Using "themselves" for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.

It's "themself." (Unless they're plural.)

Also, "Latinx" is performative white ally cringe. It's not pronounceable in Spanish. Use "Latine." -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't get why people think "Latinx" is unpronounceable in Spanish, it's equally pronounceable as in English lol.

You could either say "Latincs", or "Latin Equis" which would be the Spanish version of how i hear people say it in English.

I do prefer "Latine" though, it sounds better and matches the gender neutral versions of other words in Spanish. Also feels cunt, which is important.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Spanish doesn't have the /ks/ consonant cluster, does it? like the 'c' in "acelerar" is pronounced like /s/, not /ks/ like in English "accelerate" right? I can't think of any words with /ks/, anyway. Consonant clusters are often hard if you didn't grow up speaking them. Plus the /ks/ in Latinx is final, and final consonant clusters are extra tricky, especially since Spanish words mostly end with vowel (+ {s,r,n}). So I assumed it'd be tricky for Spanish speakers, the way that initial 's' is (this I know firsthand, since my boss always pronounces "stress" as "estrés" even though he's very fluent in English.)

Maybe it's gotten easier now that most kids grow up studying English? Idk, I'm really surprised to hear it's easy to pronounce.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"Acelerar" is pronounced like that because it has a single "C", the english equivalent has two. A comparable word for pronunciation would be "Acceso", this one does use the "KS" sound.

Also words that start with "S" aren't hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers, it just sounds like your boss either has a thick accent or doesn't care to use the English pronunciation of the word.

Source: i'm Hispanic, lol.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If my boss has a thick accent doesn't that mean it's hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers? Obviously it's not hard to pronounce English words if you have a good English accent.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not really, it will depend on the person.

Another reason some hispanics tend to add an "e" for english words that start with "s" is because the spanish equivalent of it does start with an "e" (stress, study, etc).

If we take words that start with an "s" in both languages, suddenly that's not an issue, that's why you don't hear hispanics saying "Eh-Shadow" instead of "Shadow".

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

the sh in shadow isn't /s/ though, it's /ʃ/. and I'm specifically claiming that no Spanish words start with s+hard consonant. s by itself is fine, for example sonriar obviously, but I claim that no Spanish word starts with 'st', 'sp', 'sc' etc. so you have estudiar, espalda, escuela. in Latin these were stūdium, spātula, schōla. Spanish added an e before the s specifically because it became hard for them to pronounce. this same shift happened in French, hence étude and ecòle, but not in Italian (studio and scuola.)

so I think you have it the wrong way around. the reason Spanish has those initial es in the first place is because it's hard to pronounce consonant clusters without them.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

You're saying that certain things are hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers, and i'm letting you know that it will depend on each individual and not apply to the entirety of Hispanics as a whole, not too difficult to understand, everything else i kinda don't care. Also, "My boss has trouble pronouncing this therefore it must be an issue to literally all hispanics" is kind of a nonsensical conclusion to arrive to.

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[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is "Math" and not "Maths"

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