randint

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[–] randint@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But then what the other commenter said would basically be "Both Wikipedia and Prolewiki are biased, but Wikipedia is biased to the wrong direction. I like Prolewiki's bias more than I like Wikipedia's bias. Therefore, Wikipedia is not reliable on the topic of Authoritarianism."

[–] randint@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I first cited a nazi sympathizer without noticing this. After they refused to accept this, I cited the UN instead. Guess what they said in the comments? That the oppression of Uyghurs is not genocide.

The comments weren't entirely mild either. Have you not seen those screenshots of comments using insults? Don't you think it's a red flag that such a large portion of hate speech on Lemmy is from Hexbear?

If you like Hexbears, you should leave lemmy.world and go make an account on an instance that has not defederated from them.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Ok, maybe Wikipedia is biased, but I want to hear your arguments on why Prolewiki is not.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yes, instead of Wikipedia let's just use this random wiki that is heavily biased toward those authoritarian states.

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

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] randint@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for your concerns. I am doing fine.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I also hate this convention tbh. Doesn't really make sense.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I actually got almost half of my colleagues to use Signal. Well maybe they probably still use another chat app even when talking to a fellow colleague who has Signal, but at least I got them to register an account.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 53 points 2 years ago (24 children)

I fail to see any reason for hating a chat app so passionately except possibly for privacy concerns, which is definitely not the case here.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mine is not blocked yet. I am definitely worried about this though. I am in East Asia.

Wonder how much YouTube is going to squeeze out of this ad blocker blocking.

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Probably not, but the convention is that periods and commas always stay within the quotes, whether the period or comma is a part of the quote or not. (This differs from what one expects from writing code.) When using question marks though, the placement does depend on whether the question mark is a part of the quote.

Edit: When I was younger, I also didn't know this and would place all punctuation marks according to whether it is a part of the quote. In fact, in my native language that is what you're supposed to do. To this day I still dislike this convention in English.

Edit 2: I know that this is an American English thing.

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