raresbears

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[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh didn't know about that card actually, I'll definitely have to see if I can fit it into one of my decks.

Sidenote: cool that we have mtgcardfetcher on here, definitely makes discussions about cards easier

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have an Alesha commander deck (like any good trans person) so I'm pretty partial to [[Master of Cruelties]] (although ik it's not really a biggun, it can definitely make a splash)

Should I be banned from women's sports? I mean I've been through a male puberty which according to your criteria would seem to make it an immediate no, but I'm also 5'6 and for various reasons likely have a lower than average bone density. Would I be competing with an 'unfair advantage'?

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Then do we ban cis women who are tall or have a high bone density from women's sports? Do we allow trans women who don't have these advantages? Why single out trans people? If you judge that certain advantages are too much, why ban all trans people specifically?

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean they just defederated from two of the biggest instances (including lemmy.world) and have the largest list of blocked instances of any instance

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not until the definition of the word “of” changes.

Well that's what's happening here isn't it. It's a word that is potentially gaining an additional use as a result of reanalysis. Whether it sticks around long term remains to be seen, but language is defined by usage and it's foolish to pretend there's such a thing as objectively correct. Already the use of the verb 'to have' to form the perfect in this case is quite different from it's other meanings related to 'to possess'. And that's not even getting into you describing nonstandard usage as the result of 'mush-mouthed laziness' which is a whole nother can of worms.

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

ITT: Awful linguistics takes

People writing of instead of 've is pretty well attested before Siri even existed so I doubt that has much to do with it

[–] raresbears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure it's actually one of those mistakes that is made more often by native speakers than non-native speakers

SearXNG personally

The other thing is that Discord search is god awful. There's absolutely no way to modify your search for better results, whether that's to require something to appear exactly as typed, or to exclude certain results, it's just you put in the words and hope you get the right thing. Sometimes that works out, but sometimes it will make the dumbest connections and render your search useless unless you want to trawl through pages of crap you don't want. Like I've found out that Discord considers the words universal, universe, and university to be the same...

 

So I found a book I'm looking to read on the Internet Archive after failing to find a PDF on libgen or anywhere else on a quick search, but while I could read it on the site, I find the interface annoying and I'd rather just use my PDF reader, but the book can only be borrowed for an hour at a time which means no use of the built-in download function. Is there a way to easily get a PDF of it by some other means?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I did try to find an answer but I ended up getting a lot of Reddit results on what ended up being privated subs so I figured I'd ask here.

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