lemmy_outta_here

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Thanks, Trudeau!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hi! I use a fountain pen all the time. I learned to use one as an exchange student: at my school in Belgium, all work needed to be completed in fountain pen (this was in 1996, which i just now realize is almost 30 years ago).

i hate talking on the phone and i zoom all day at work, so i recently decided to start sending longhand letters to my old friends and distant family. I’ve had pretty good response, though a few people seemed puzzled.

I write essays and short fiction, and writing on paper is just better for me. On a word processor, i tinker with wording too much: one sentence can take me ten minutes to finish. On paper, i move on and fix things when i type it up later. I think paper lets me build momentum.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Now JD Vance should cosplay a Wal-Mart greeter: "Salutations, fellow human"

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

I really hate Trump and it feels weird to defend him, but i think everyone is freaking out over what is the closest thing to a witticism that Trump has ever uttered. He’s stupid and has low self-awareness; however, this sounds like a facetious comment - possibly tinged with self-deprecation. Am i giving him too much credit?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

The only thing any person sees in him is money, and Taylor has her own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is the perfect answer. Self-reinforcing loop

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Imagine needing to other someone so badly that you have a tantrum because someone created a name for the "default" category. Peterson views trans people as so subhuman he doesn't even want there to be a word for non-trans people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fortunately, lemmy isn’t a peer-reviewed journal, so speculation is perfectly acceptable.

I speculate that teflon pans might have contributed to the egg thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Apostropheline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Rooting for the winning team.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Hi! With the OED, it has been like that at least since I started university in 2007. However, lots of public libraries have subscriptions. I just go to my library website, login, and follow the link to the OED. There are many other reference tools that are also included in my library card. Libraries rule!

Edit: you can check merriam-webster for free, I think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Different child field? This is like my first two read-throughs of a new paper in my own specialization!

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