I genuinely hope this is wrong and we are not still stapling ear tags on livestock in 4269.

Where are my Star Trek-style food replicators?

…being pedantic for no good reason

Nuance has meaning. While I don’t agree with the political statement the reviewer was making, it is not the same statement OP was accusing them of (though by implication, the reviewer likely does hate muslims).

This isn’t the Oxford comma where genuine misunderstandings are unlikely—using quotes incorrectly is dishonest. It isn’t pedantry to look at a quote and take it to be a direct attribution.

Looks like you forgot that prescriptivism belongs in textbooks, you boreish snob. Also, I pooped my pants.

It isn’t just text books where quotes are used. People understand quotation marks to mean they are direct quotes. Using them incorrectly in this manner is dishonest. The person OP is complaining about is clearly a douche, but given the context, Valve is not (quite) as bad as they imply by refusing to remove the review.

Go clean yourself up.

Looks like someone forgot what quotation marks mean.

inb4 livestock farmers claim to own the words ‘patty’, ‘not a burger’, and ‘anything else really’.

Using blank lines to separate paragraphs in a document.

Word is really shit for paragraph spacing, particularly when it comes to text surrounding tables. Instead of manually adding paragraph spacing, people just hit Enter twice.

In Markdown this is fine, as it is smart and properly understands and renders this as paragraph spacing, but in Word, it adds a new line with an empty space. I understand this is not the user’s fault, but just Microsoft being shitty and dumb, but still…

I loathe this.

I don’t know. Shitting on a footpath is pretty wild.

Oh, for sure. I most definitely did not reach out to my local representative. That would be a weird interaction considering neither I, nor my local representative, are American.

BTW, you’re very welcome for highlighting your point here. Most people do not diligently follow their local politics. ‘Wanting’ them to do so isn’t much of an incentive. Nor is gaslighting them into believing that they should already be aware (coz reasons).

Yep, because all the constituents magically knew that their elected representatives were making deals behind their backs.

This guy’s Wikipedia page shows that in his entire life, his greatest achievement is beating up 3 people.

His entire political career can be summed up as Jafar from Aladdin; he has a fetish for hurting people, but has evidently never done anything ever to actually ‘help’ anyone in his electorate.

If I ever became noteworthy enough to have a Wikipedia page, I would be downright ashamed to have his. How the fuck is this person an elected representative?

From the actual USDA website (had to use a VPN to access—clearly America doesn’t want other countries to witness their shame):

“Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.”

I cannot think of a single developed country that would allow such blatant partisan propaganda to be on an official government website.

How the fuck is this actually permitted?

Fall from Heaven II. It’s a fantasy themed overhaul mod for Civ IV. Has extraordinarily deep lore and unique game mechanics. I’ve never actually played the unmodded version of Civ IV. I only bought the game to play this mod.

My first job application as a spotty teenager landed me a job. This developed a false impression of the job market for baby me (in my country it’s perfectly legal to pay minors less than the minimum wage, thus an incentive to exploit children).

My second job, in my spotty mid-twenties, took me around 100-300 applications, and I only ended up getting the job due to some programme that let companies get cheaper onboarding through a government scheme.

I’m in my spotty mid-thirties (I might have bad skin), I’ve had success only applying for the occasional job that actually interests me, and putting my best foot forward (each application generally takes 3-5 hours preparation). I’m fortunate enough to not be desperate though (employed, just seeking something better).

Even with LLMs, I think most employers are savvy enough to tell if a person is genuinely interested.

Side note: Don’t use em dashes. I love em dashes—but so does ChatGPT—it’s one of the first things a recruiter will look for apparently.

“In other news, person in Milky Way galaxy starts bawling like a baby”

Why change the title? Australia ≠ Queensland

This is like changing the title of any story about Florida to be about America.

I kind of get a ring. I wore a smartwatch for years, it was only after my last one broke, and I didn’t immediately replace it, that I realised how inconvenient they were. I used to constantly get it caught in things e.g. while getting dressed, and constantly had to keep adjusting the position of the band. With a ring on a finger, I can’t see this being anywhere near as much of an issue.

Would be great if they didn’t risk blowing your finger up.

Don’t worry, the next time we ‘hurt the feelings of the Chinese people’ things will be back to normal.

I hate this. China is just as shitty a trade partner as America. They are reactionary and impose nonsensical tariffs in response to perceived slights.

Increasing trade and dependency with these countries creates a deterrent against free speech.

Let countries like this stand on their own.

I hate universities that do this patronising nonsense (which is probably most of them tbh).

Things like this should be taught at school and assumed knowledge at uni. University is (generally) for adults.

Having adults teaching other adults ‘how to respect other cultures’, ‘how not to rape someone’, ‘how to work in a group’, ‘how to be ethical’, is condescending af.

TIL by my coworkers that there was real shit going on in Nepal, Poland, and Qatar. Unfortunately, all of this was drowned out by every single fucking post in Lemmy being about some random American I never heard of getting shot (as if that were a noteworthy achievement in America).

I need to find a better way to get non-curated news. The public is clearly absolute utter shit for this purpose and no single news company can be trusted.