CoggyMcFee

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But if you don’t get the amount of candy you want in the end (and even with a slow pace my kids have always had more candy than they could ever finish), just buy some more. Who cares about the excess of candy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If your lonely, go to a bar. I'm trying to run these street with my kids and make some real candy profit.

If you just want a bunch of candy, go to Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I don’t know what country you are from or how your voting system works. But I will guess that your country has many parties and after the election, a governing coalition is formed.

In the US voting system, similar parties get punished by stealing votes from each other. So, in effect, we have to form our coalitions before the election and choose the single candidate that will stand for all of us. So, you can think of the Democratic Party as the Democratic Coalition, made up of some truly left-wing factions, as well as some not very left-wing or even centrist factions, and so our candidate will be much more watered down than what you’d see in a different system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t know if you realize how condescending it sounds to hear you say you “don’t want to ruin whatever enjoyment she gets out of it” by telling her… what? That you arbitrarily look down on the use of this absolutely grammatical construction?

The thing that bothers me most about stuff like this is that it is effectively some kind of “gotcha” that makes people feel foolish, like their natural, completely grammatical speech has errors, or something they should feel bad about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The worst kind of grammar pedant: the one who is passionate about a “rule” that is actually only a style recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This is probably a fool’s errand, because it’s all or nothing, making it inherently unstable. If we ever get within striking distance of having enough states to cross the threshold, the law will be fought tooth and nail to prevent passage, and this battle would continue in perpetuity in every remotely purple state that has the NPVIC law in place, trying to get enough overturned to stop it.

Maybe it accomplishes something useful simply by bringing the conversation about reform to the forefront? But as an actual solution I’m completely skeptical, as much as I like the idea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

“How do I help my uncle Jack off a horse?”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I already was wary of buying from Amazon due to the sketchy sellers and fake products, so I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else, which has been rare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is genuinely amazing. I have watched it multiple times since I first saw it! It feels like something that would be funny but should get old after a few minutes, and yet it never does.

The whole talk appears to be done in one continuous take!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

When I have it integrated into my development environment a la Copilot, predicting the next block of code I’m going to write (which I can use if it is relevant and ignore if not), I find it to be a huge timesaver.

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