Posts by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
(DIR) Post #9v2nRWEpdah1SwjAUS by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2020-05-14T17:24:19Z
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@sir You seem to do that a lot, what with useplaintext.email and git-send-email.io. What's the reasoning for spreading stuff across many domains?
(DIR) Post #9wGOsTp9roieFl4WR6 by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2020-06-20T04:46:49Z
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@sir @njoseph What other issues are there with Riseup? Their politics?
(DIR) Post #A0A3sJyGJu6jvvZGLI by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2020-10-14T18:30:21Z
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@sir @roobre If your output is PDF, pandoc markdown allows you to drop back into LaTeX when you need it, which I think gives the best of both worlds.
(DIR) Post #A0AkgzkJTJRo3AtAQ4 by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2020-10-15T00:37:08Z
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@portpupper I like the syntax of markdown better. I still use textile for poetry though because it preserves line breaks in the output.
(DIR) Post #A0EAOJ0wmz3KaeIXIm by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2020-10-16T18:25:06Z
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@NekoSock Deal
(DIR) Post #APZUuqCqRR39DEhqhU by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2022-11-10T04:51:29Z
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The Republicans' economic policy positions are extremely unpopular, so they survive electorally by capitalizing on widespread hatred of minorities. For instance, most voters, Democrative voters included, are against trans people playing sports. Sad, but true. I think the thing for Democrats to do is not to dig in their heels on righteous but unpopular social policies. Instead, they should act laid-back on social issues and bring the debate back to economic. E.g.R: If you vote for him, your daughter will have to play against boys on the girl's field hockey team!D: How schools choose to assemble sports teams is not the concern of the state legislature. Instead of talking about the two trans kids in our entire state playing school sports, why don't we talk about the thousands of elementary-school kids who HE says don't deserve school lunches because their parent can't afford them?
(DIR) Post #AQ6SuB3BdNlOnnFeQS by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2022-11-29T17:38:51Z
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If I ever have children, my top priority as a parent will be making sure they know that cyan and blue are different colors, as dissimilar as red and yellow.
(DIR) Post #AQ6aOll4Q3hP13JPpA by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2022-11-29T19:12:37Z
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@ai "Obviously your teacher went to school in the 1850s, before magenta pigments had been synthesized."
(DIR) Post #AZ8OYqWew9gCQZWwXg by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2023-08-24T23:57:57Z
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—You can connect your computer to the internet through wifi or ethernet.—What's the difference?—One goes through air and the other through a wire.—Ok, so "ether" means air, so ethernet must be the one that goes through the air. And I guess the "wi" in "wifi" stands for wires.—Nope, "wi" stands for wireless, and "ether" doesn't stand for anything.
(DIR) Post #AdZiHSEkrlsDIrdNpo by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2024-01-06T12:56:09Z
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Learning alphabets, even those used by languages you don't plan to study further, has a surprisingly large payoff. Learning cyrillic allowed me to advance from understanding 0% of Russian text I encounter to maybe 5–10% that I can pick out as names or loanwords. That's probably the largest increase in understanding for the effort required you're ever going to get.I think next I want to learn the Hebrew alphabet. Then kana. I understand that there's two kinds: hiragana and katakana. I'm not sure which I should start with for the goal of picking out bits of Japanese text here and there.Cursive scripts intimidate me.
(DIR) Post #Ahiswae5Z4cB4HcbcO by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2024-05-09T18:26:00Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I think this is basically a pure function of the amount of time you spend listening to people talk in native-level French. That's tricky because it means you have to spend time listening to things that you only expect to understand a small part of, which you probably won't want to. Ways to do that:- Re-watch your favorite shows or movies dubbed into French. It has to be ones you know well enough to understand what's going on even if you fail to interpret most of the dialogue.- Listen to songs and learn the lyrics.- Take a class taught in native-level French, where you feel obligated to attend lectures even when you don't understand much of them.
(DIR) Post #Aj5dAapkkKMsQRsmOm by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2024-06-19T15:39:41Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I felt a bit uncomfy about that comic but not more than that. The idea that God's covenant with the Jewish people is replaced by Jesus's covenant with the world is called supersessionism. I wouldn't say that it strictly must be antisemitic, but it often takes an antisemitic form. For instance, many Christians claim that the church, and not the Jewish people, is the "true Israel." That seems antisemitic in the same way that it would be racist if a bunch of Irish people started claiming that they were the real Koreans, and that all those people from Korea are just confused and behind the times. Since the holocaust, a lot of Christian denominations have abandoned or at least softened their supersessionist teachings because they could be seen as antisemitic.
(DIR) Post #AsiYrcSuOuWUmd1TNI by 0shame@eldritch.cafe
2025-04-03T15:08:15Z
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So much of the Talmud is the Rabbis reading about G-d in the bible and going "It's ok—I can fix Him."