letsgo

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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

It's like one of those irregular verbs. I've got a cool fantasy, you're a pervert, he's in jail, etc.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Sounds like it's not just me that goes "ok then, try arguing with this" when power cycling an unresponsive computer.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

It's completely valid but needs careful use because it can be destructive. Unrestrained anger is way too common and a huge problem for everyone around those afflicted with it.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Not everyone is immune to swearing; I don't see any point in causing unnecessary offence; and they contribute nothing to the meaning, except perhaps voicing a level of emotion which can be better expressed in other ways.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Old man yells at Swift: wait, are we talking about Trump or Putin here?

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago
[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have a friend who thinks LOL means "lots of love" and uses it as a generic signoff.

Had to reread it several times when he wrote "Mother in law died yesterday LOL".

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not intentionally lying but I may have been misinformed. TIL, thanks.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's bonkers, St Paul repeatedly talks about how circumcision isn't a thing Christians need to do, even rebuking those who said it was: Gal 5:12.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=circumcision&version=NIV

especially 1 Cor 7:19 "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts."

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If capitalisation is used to indicate the start of words then it could make sense for a webserver to serve ExpertsExchange and ExpertSexChange. But yeah having 16 possible versions of "main" would be horrendous.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Perhaps you could update the Wikipedia article with your knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers

"It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance"

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Must be the updated version of ~~~~####3$3$$%^^~~~! NO CARRIER

 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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