Me too! They covered the porch rail and then mold grew on top of that.

Ruby-throated? I think that’s all I’ve seen in Florida.

Hence the post! Everyone will still understand your intent and take the appropriate action.

Same reason lemmy downvotes Sxan for using a thorn.

Lemmy: We support diversity! The weirder you are the better! We accept all people!

Also lemmy: Fuck your thorns.

If someone says, “Turn the AC up.” you know they want it colder but you actually turn it down.

I used to say lemmy was too small for bots to bother us. Apparently I was wrong.

I thought Ranger Rick went under long ago! Great news!

I’m coming for you Elizabeth!

Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)

Holy shit, this thread made me realize Hammond invited the scientists and grandkids to the island with a hurricane inbound. Not like those things just pop up like tornadoes. You know it’s coming as much as a week in advance.

I don’t hate AI nearly so much as I hate what’s going to happen to the American economy, and then the rest of the world. Have a look at the Buffett Index.

That’s all driven by AI speculation. We haven’t seen numbers like that in history, not before the Great Depression, dotcom bust, 2008, never.

For those that think the files will be heavily redacted, I have a question. Ready?

We just got 20,000 docs that were not redacted in any way. How do you think the full release will be edited?

That’s rather the point? See how ridiculous is sounds in a different context?

Incels. Interlinked.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until Trump’s death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post.

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realm of Greenland. I pledge my life and honor to Trumps’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

Ah! But you’re not accounting for radio, then television and now the internet. Mass communication is squashing languages and dialects and accents flat, while at the same time working for archival purposes.

Spoken, live languages? Very damned few. Archived languages? We might do pretty well.

In my lifetime I’ve seen accents disappearing in America. Doing tech support in the early 90s, I played a game of guessing what state a person was from. Did quite well! I could almost always match their accent. (Midwestern was my kryptonite, very generic.)

We’re seeing regional accents and dialects disappearing very quickly due to the internet, and formerly, TV in general.

For example; I haven’t heard a deep Cajun accent in ages, unless I look for it on YouTube, and even then it’s mostly intelligible. I talked to people 25-30 years ago I could not comprehend, and I’m good at languages!

Another example; Go watch Steel Magnolias from 1989. (Great movie BTW!) That deep, propuh, Mississippi female accent is all but gone except for the oldest, and those women only use it amongst each other.

In any case, English seems to rule the internet, a modern lingua franca, don’t see that changing any time soon.

"No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

Been saying this about tariffs for months:

Say you have cash on hand, or the ability to get a monster loan, to start a factory. You would be a fool to build in the US!

You know the tariffs will be disastrous and eventually repealed, and we’re seeing both actions right now. So even if tariffs allow you to compete with imports, the rug will get yanked out from under you at some point. And there you are, holding the bag on a brand-new, worthless factory.

Goes for ex-coworkers as well.

between yourself and God knows where

Kinda gathered that bit. 🙁 I may install it and try to track exactly how that flow works. Anyway, seems an easy way to bypass the UK’s block without hassling with a VPN.

I’m in Florida. Fire up my VPN to surf porn. But that’s not a thing I want running 24/7, let alone just to browse lemmy.