lugal

joined 1 year ago
[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

He's wearing jeans, he's got it

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Evil used to be a more colorful, sinister description of malicious acts. Now it's a synonym for bad jokes. Reminds me of lemmy diminishing "gaslighting"

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that true or are you gaslighting us?

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

It isn't only part of storytelling but literally one of the strongest forces of language change.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I'm doing my part

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

It's an identity matrix. You multiple a vector with it and the result is still the same (identical) vector

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

Really makes you think what a prince is. A prince is socially constructed. Someone is a prince because people think of that person as a prince, most often thru heritage, maybe thru marriage to a high born, certainly not thru a kiss with a random person

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

I think they used whole sentences back in the days and it was in the printing press era that they started abbreviating things to letters and symbols

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's one theory why x is used in math so much: in times of the printing press, the letter x was barely used so always free

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

That way you can search one instance but not the fediverse

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Boycott is more than the personal decision not to buy something but an organized action including public announcements, reach-outs, protests, ...

I don't know which one the first amendment is though. I guess it's freedom of speech?

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Sounds very not depressing to me...

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