etuomaala

joined 1 year ago
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Can your web browser zoom the text out?

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
What is this mobile thing of which you speak?
But seriously, if your screen can't fit 80 columns, then
    what am I supposed to do about that?
My phone can do that easily.
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

What is greentext?

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Start and stop the message with three backticks on a line on their own:

```

This stuff gets rendered in fixed width with preserved whitespace.

```

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (19 children)
It's an experiment I've been trying for about two weeks, now.
I am using whitespace to make written English easier to read.
I put one sentence per line.
Long sentences are broken into multiple lines
    according to natural breaks in the sentences.
(I try to aim for an 80 column width.)
Indentation is used to signal the continuation of a sentence.
Basically, I am treating English like a programmer would treat code.
As an interesting and unexpected corollary,
    the English is much easier to edit, and
    diffs are way cleaner.
(I'm editing this in an external dedicated text editor.)
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Do you know of another way to preserve white space?

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (26 children)
Because
    it
        preserves
            whitespace.
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
Yeeeeah, that's a good point, kind of.
But even people serving life sentences can
    still communicate with the outside world from prison.
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

If Путин wants people to listen to him, he shouldn't lie so often. I hard-ignore all articles beginning with the words "Путин says".

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 year ago
People do it anyway, though,
    don't they...
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think that the Israeli government's current approach is reasonable and will work?

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
For real, though,
    MDMA is shockingly good at conflict resolution, lol.
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