[-] WammKD 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, it's pretty commonly said, especially in a colloquial setting. More people than not probably use it.

But there is a convention that the "and" should be adhered to when a decimal is present; that said, – like many grammar rules – this isn't far from universally followed.

[-] WammKD 15 points 1 month ago

See, my problem is that it's never 2 minutes.

I tell myself it is; I truly think it is. A half hour later…

[-] WammKD 9 points 1 month ago

That's kind of the funniest way to not know what it is, though.

[-] WammKD 24 points 1 month ago

Which is galling, in its own right, as it's – by definition – all overtime.

[-] WammKD 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It can also help tenderize the meat (via vinegar or lemon/lime); I tend to find that, when "nondeveloped" countries talk about washing their meat, it means in a vinegar/citrus solution while "developed" countries quite literally mean just plain water.

[-] WammKD 17 points 1 month ago

Usually, the brackets include a part of the sentence that wasn't said but the interviewer believes the speaker meant or was implied.

In cases like this, maybe the speaker was speaking quickly (and, so, didn't say the words during the interview) or were dropping implied parts is the sentence (like we all sometimes do when speaking casually; like if I say, "Quick thinking," to someone. It's implied that I was saying, "[That was] quick thinking").

This also gets used often if the interviewee is talking about someone they know personally but we don't so they're usually just using the first name (e.g. "Yeah; me and [General] Howard [Zimmerman] go way back").

[-] WammKD 34 points 2 months ago

It's not clear from the screenshot but the advertisement used audio directly from his original video; that was his issue.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/MultiVersus/comments/1hk71b8/comment/m3czdlk/.

[-] WammKD 12 points 2 months ago

The origin of the term “op-ed” is derived from the piece originally having appeared on the “opposite side” of the newspaper from the editorial page.

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[-] WammKD 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just noticed that the thread is from last year…

But, considering how much we're still not heeding this fact a year later, perhaps just as well to keep the post up.

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“An estimated one in 10 infections results in post-Covid conditions suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer term care” —Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

[-] WammKD 56 points 5 months ago

Actually, Fury's always been black in the Ultimate Marvel Universe; the character and the design was actually based on Jackson so casting him for the MCU probably was an obvious direction choice.

I also had my boss, when I worked in fast food, list this as one of the issues he had with the movie, when it came out (to quote him, "he's a white character; no offense but that's what he is," which was particularly galling, given the aforementioned fact).

[-] WammKD 8 points 5 months ago

That's absolutely fair; I guess, more so, what I was trying to push against is the implication that eye contact is a necessary component of sharing interactions with people IRL (and, rather, it's perfectly possible to be IRL with others without eye contact), if that distinction makes more sense.

[-] WammKD 15 points 5 months ago

Some of us are autistic, Harold.

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So I'd originaly created this because I looked for a Guix sublemmy and hadn't found one.

Turns out, I just hadn't looked hard enough. Turns out that there's a Guix sublemmy at lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/c/guix) and already relatively active.

I don't think it makes sense to fragment things (especially when Guix is pretty small, as it currently is) so I'll probably delete this one in a week or two.

Just wanted to give a heads up.

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NonGuix is holding a poll for a logo for themselves; the design has already been voted on but now a color for the design is being decided.

There are 4 colors being chosen from (red, blue, green, and purple) and voting will end Sept. 15^th^.

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Per the original toot:

Call for speakers for #GuixLondon #GuixSocial.

Anyone who's recently entered the world of #Guix and might be willing to share their impressions and ideas?

What have you been using Guix for? What the immediate wins of switching to Guix and what the challenges you had to overcome?

Speak to us!

All levels of "Guix seniority" welcome, including newcomers. Don't hesitate. If you like Guix, you could be our next speaker!

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