palebluethought

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[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm... Not really sure what your question is. What do you mean by your laptop "fitting in the community?"

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

90% of urban dictionary is 10-16 year old boys making up outrageous stuff for laughs, or putting up some inside joke that their friend group invented that has never been used by anyone else

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You managed to pick the 1% of urban dictionary entries that is an actual term, though

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It happens pretty frequently in tech job listings, to have a requirement listed for more years experience in some technology than that technology has existed

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, but the northern part of the peninsula is broadly more culturally uniform than Sicily and Sardinia, and while the exact borders fluctuated a lot and was mainly made of city-states for a long time, there had been past kingdoms that unified the North peninsula much more recently than either of those two regions. "Italy" as a term really only referred to the northern peninsula, for the most part, for well over a thousand years.

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Sicily (which would include the south end of the boot) would probably have the same label if it weren't less funny that way. They were all distinct kingdoms and cultures for most of their history. the modern unified Italian identity is quite young by European standards, about as old as the US civil war

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

? You're saying exactly the same thing I am. I was giving a definition, not an example. Admittedly confusing since I used the (real) word in its own (slang) definition.

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No, "aesthetic" is generally just a noun, historically. As in "it has a modern/minimalist/cyberpunk aesthetic." Its usage as an adjective just means "relating to the general idea of aesthetics as a field of study," or "someone with a strong sense of and attunement to the design and beauty of things." Using it to just mean "beautiful," basically, is a new usage in just the last 5 years or less.

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Using it as an adjective, to mean "has a pleasing aesthetic."

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I mean... Babies and small children don't "choose" what language to learn, they just pick up whatever's spoken regularly around them. So whatever their families and community speak, same as everyone else?

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, which nobody would "expect" you to if you're not from there

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where are you getting this impression? I've never gotten any sense that anyone outside the city is "expected" to know its geography. "Expected" how?

Also there are only 5 boroughs

 

First of all, thank you so much for all your work! This is definitely a way better experience than the web client. And thanks for adding community blocking, so now I don't have to go back for that feature.

I like to keep pretty huge categories of communities out of my feed entirely. But, I also want to be aware of what other communities of interest might be out there, especially now while the Lemmy landscape is evolving so quickly. So the strategy of only ever browsing subs and foregoing All entirely doesn't really work.

But, as I've seen other people highlighting in other posts, federation also means that the number of redundant communities across instances is huge. I don't just have to block all the political communities, I have to block them everywhere we're federated with. My block-list is already gigantic and I don't anticipate the need to block communities going away soon.

It'd be a much smoother experience if Block Community was an option directly in the three-dot menu of an individual post, instead of having to leave my feed, go through another menu, and go back every time.

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