“Cocaine, I dislike. Kittens, I snort.” - Yoda.

He probably tried snorting kittens after seeing Mario doing it, and then he got addicted:

Following quantitative logic, his Thomasness decreases with each part being replaced.

I must admit I never read Ariosto either. I started Orlando Furioso years ago, then dropped it after a few pages (it was uni times and I was burned out with literature).

Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Pokémon Emerald, and Fire Emblem.

Turn-based makes awful phone controls more bearable, and since those games are RPGs it’s easier to pause and resume without breaking the “flow” of the game.

Zero is a good number, indeed.

Don’t mind me, just fixing the rule:

At those times I’m really glad I prefer my desktop over my phone. When I get up and leave, I’m way less likely to check social media. (Granted, nowadays social media for me is just YouTube and Lemmy, but… you know.)

It’s a great MP3 player though. And gameboy.

Ouch. Throwing things goes too far.

I don’t really consider myself Machiavellian, but together, we are. Take that for what you will.

I think I get that feeling - it’s like we (humans) have a few personality traits that are incomplete, and almost never surface, except when someone else provides the missing piece.

As for exes: I flat out refuse to contact my ex-fiancée. I can deal with a lot of her personality issues individually (gaslighting, getting irrational when emotive, assumptiveness, not thinking things thoroughly, laziness…), but as a set? No thanks. Thankfully I don’t think she wants to contact me either.

Not surprised - Latin “sine” without became a mess in the descendants, that’s why they don’t resemble each other much:

• Portuguese (sem), Sardinian (sine) - plain inheritance
• Spanish (sin) - likely re-borrowed, otherwise it would be *sen
• Catalan (sense), Occitan (sense) and French (sans) - partially mixed “sine” with “absens” (absent, away, missing), so it got a random -s out of nowhere
• Italian (senza) - similar to the above with “absentia” (absence, awayness). -tia → -za is regular in IT.

It wouldn’t help much in this case as ES “sin” /sin/ and PT “sem” /sẽ/ already look quite different from each other.

[Coquettte devil] Lesbian or fascist?

[Kirer] Animated characters I identify myself with, with no apparent reason.

Relevant to note you can apply the same curing and smoking process to pretty much any other meat, not just pork. (I actually prepared beef bacon at home once. It tastes different but equally delicious.)

Bukharin = Luigi; Lassale = Waruigi

Now, WHO’S THE PEACH OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL?

By “moderation” I don’t mean the unpaid volunteers taking care of individual subreddits. I mean the Reddit employees and/or tools enforcing site-wide rules, answering directly to the administrators and/or Reddit Inc.

In other words I think Reddit is implementing some automated enforcement of global rules, through LLM bots or similar, and since the bots don’t really understand what users say, they’re fucking it up all the time.

I put them slightly below, as even a mindless bot has more deep insights than them.

Ditto. Plus the mindless bot can be sometimes useful.

Now people won’t accidentally steal it.

Plus if this was accurate Portuguese speakers would get banned all the time. (“Nova” is “new”, so a really common word.)

I do know what Powderhorn is talking about, but by a different name - the Scunthorpe problem.

My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot “moderation” across the site, and those bans are false positives.

And the caramel dog was only there for the soft wares: