[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

English spelling wasn't even remotely standardized at that time. So phonetic was pretty much all there was

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry, but the example in your comment is nonstandard usage. The part after the semicolon would typically be an independent clause, whereas the "because" marks yours as a dependent clause.

There are still comma-like uses though. The major one I can think of is as a separator in a list where each element is long, possibly containing commas of its own.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

She was always far left, and that fact underpinned pretty much every older video. She has always talked about social and economic issues, and done a damn good job of it.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

My biggest caution about this test is how some questions ask about your beliefs about society and gender in general. Someone could be a cis woman through and through but also recognize that someone's gender can change over time, or dislike the gendering of a lot of things in society. I think it reads knowledgeable people who give a shit as being a little bit fluid and a little bit agender no matter what they actually experience of their own gender.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Teacher here. Yes and ouch

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

With some industry software, the proprietary stuff really is better. There are plenty of great FOSS tools out there, but not always the exact thing you need. For example, PDF software: I don't know of any editor as powerful as Acrobat. And I absolutely hate Acrobat, but it's the best tool out there for modifying a PDF.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Our idea of a week can probably be traced back directly to early Israelite religion. There's good evidence of a 7-day cycle by the 6th century BCE, maybe as early as the 9th. They cared which day was which because the 7th day was a holy day of rest (still practiced as Shabbat), matching up with the supposed final day of creation. Jews have been keeping this practice for a very long time, so I would guess that we're still aligned with the days the ancient Israelites were following that they thought matched up with the days of creation. Unfortunately, the exact nature of what day they decided was which is lost to time.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Curious how this will interact with RCS. Hopefully it will at least get Apple to natively support an interoperable rich format

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think it's because Amazon sends emails making it look like someone asked a question specifically to you, and the people who fall for that are also usually oblivious enough not to know the answer to the question

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Bunny ears aren't a problem! The resulting knot is the same as a standard shoelace knot. If your shoes are coming untied a lot, you probably are tying granny instead of square. Make sure that if you cross one way on the base crossing (like left over right), you cross the other way for the bunny ears step (like right over left). All the info in the link applies to bunny ears.

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Federation would also mean that you could use your account from threads to comment or post on Lemmy. So a Threads user links to a Lemmy post, the post could blow up with users who aren't familiar with the culture here. I think a lot of people aren't saying it, but they're worried about their cool, new favorite platform getting swamped with "normies."

[-] Coolishguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How many of those forcibly displaced and nearly wiped out the previous "owners"?

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