[-] Hope@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Pfffft as though we'd be so sane as measure flour by weight instead of volume

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's a set of patches for the base ISO, so hopefully it's pretty resistant to takedown? In either case I'm downloading it now while it's up.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One could be a annoying and insist that until John Quincy Adams no president had any non-foreign-born parents.

But more seriously, both of Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Northern Ireland.

Edit: and Van Buren's parents were Dutch.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

As to not having neopronouns "back in my day", a lot of neopronouns are surprisingly old. Ze is from the 1860s, hir from the 1920s. Even relatively new ones like xe have been around since the early 70s.

And they may be pointless for you, but they're valuable to some people so why be rude about it?

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We have a product at work whose acronym is a subset of the letters of YIPPIE, so our help chatbot ends every message with "yippie" with the acronym capitalized. It's absolutely adorable and makes me have an emotional connection to our documentation.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago
[-] Hope@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

For some extra background on the absurdity of the Drop the T nonsense, Caelan Conrad and Sarah Oeffler have this amazing video: https://youtu.be/6i91PzpWDAM?si=cdXLbhBOA39Zxg77

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I think they were trying to say slightly more Republicans found it unfair than found the verdict incorrect

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago

The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

We, a Christian nation, should instead teach Church Numerals like GOD INTENDED! (/s)

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

He's not stacking them, he played one, it skipped the other person's turn, and he played another.

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