The need for social belonging is exactly why there are gay communities. And the internet! Haha

Ahh, I didn’t get to that part of my French classes, lol

I learned that “ne” and “pas” are like a sandwich, and the verb stuff being negated is the sandwich contents, so that stuck with me. Lol

Thanks for the correction!

Me: What??? Ok sure, Coworker 2

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Small talk with coworker 1 doesn’t work at all because they will randomly randomly act condescending to you when you make a joke or say something that doesn’t land exactly with them.

…so are you coworker 1? Lol

I’m familiar with the hierarchy, but I’m failing to see how or why it would be used to say that queer people would always be unhappy. What’s that all about?

10/10 joke

n’avoir pas (verb goes in the middle)

Is he/it? I have to wonder if this is one of those “The Beatles are overrated” kinds of opinions

I thought you were talking about college instructors until you mentioned high school… especially because you referred to “women” instead of girls…

Some people say Pokemon Go is already P2W. But as long as Community Days/shinies are still as available as they are with F2P, then I’ll stick around and even give them some of my Google Play money, lol

You might’ve missed the word “not” in my previous comment, lol

EDIT: My apologies if I misread your intention – I’d entertained the idea that someone would try to goad me into an argument on the same topic, so I didn’t get invested in thinking too much about your comment.

Another commenter clued me in as to what you were probably getting at, and I think we’re in agreement, lol

Sometimes that’s just the up/downvote train. Sometimes people will just see the first couple of comments in an argument and just downvote/upvote alternatingly. Despite the idea that the votes are usually for what contributes to discussion, and not agree/disagree votes…

I’m just going to assume you’re not a racist looking for an excuse to downplay racism

I had a multi-week long argument with someone on Reddit who was convinced that racism is irrelevant and/or doesn’t exist because it’s a distraction from class warfare or something.

I argued that yes, the rich are screwing us over, but racism still exists and is bad and you shouldn’t be racist.

They made responses that were at least 3x as long as mine. They didn’t really ever say anything new, except to say that my points were wrong because class warfare. After they went on a rant in response to my comment to the effect of “it’s still not nice to pretend racism doesn’t exist”, I lost hope with this person.

I started replying to them by mentioning something they said, then followed it up by copy-pasting some of my previous comments to them. I didn’t even read their essays. I started pawning off my replies to ChatGPT, and they’d reply every time. Unless they were also using an LLM and telling it to include typos and stuff, it looked like they were still vehemently arguing with me/ChatGPT.

After a few weeks of almost daily replies, I gave a two-sentence reply where I admitted that I wasn’t even reading their replies because I thought their opinion was nonsense and the “conversation” had been going nowhere.

I didn’t get a reply to that comment.

We also have the ability these days to back up a lot of our physical media. It wasn’t so easy back when those things were new.

That sounds bad. I like Pokemon Go. What kind of ruining are we talking about?

As unpopular as this may be, LLMs (aka. “AI” like ChatGPT).

I don’t think we’ve seen something that’ll change the world as much as I think it will since the Internet was introduced. It will change the way we interact with computers. For a lot of people, it already has.

Congrats!! As I’m sure you can imagine, I am incredibly excited for COI!

With the API changes, I became read-only (without an account) on Reddit.

I now skim the communities that don’t really exist here.

… it’s actually saved me a lot of time now that I can’t (and thus don’t feel the need to) debate local politics with morons anymore!

… unless and until they come to Lemmy.

Ur-Quan Masters (aka. Star Control 2)

But, it’s not really abandoned anymore. The developers are FINALLY making an official sequel!

The sequel

The sequel is not open source, but UQM/SC2 is.

This happened in the early 2000s, but I think they found the source code to a port of the game and said “We haven’t earned any money from sales of this game in a decade [and buying digital games wasn’t really a thing yet, as people generally believed that anything digital shouldn’t have a price], so let’s release this to the community to open source as long as they do all the reverse porting and support!”

Oh dear…

I don’t even understand how that would get past even the first couple of people using it. I imagine the idea was that they’d copy/paste the value into the password field. But did nobody ever paste the password into somewhere other than a password field and realize, “Hey, I can see this password!”…even accidentally?

Yeouch. How long ago was this? It feels like the standards for even junior devs have gone way up.

…but I guess even the C-students must find jobs eventually…?