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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely needed the /s there. I'm sure you saw the 3 or so other comments who were explaining why Valve are good guys, lol

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Our fast food isn't really fast, either. I'm not sure what the appeal is aside from known consistency, I guess.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I meant just making a spreadsheet and doing it manually. But if you have technical skills, you really just need to make a script that sticks data from your bank's CSV files into a spreadsheet.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

"impacts" has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it's common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.

I'm not afraid of language evolving.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

There are tools for nailing things and tools for killing things.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If it's making you so angry, it might be better to just do it yourself.

It'll also help you spend less because you won't want to log all those little transactions

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Canada, our fast food obsession is making fast food as expensive as sit-down restaurants.

But it's still cheaper because you aren't expected to tip.

But the people at fast food restaurants and at sit-down restaurants are paid the same amount hourly, so it doesn't really make sense. But we tip like Americans because culture and habit are hard to change.

But the fast food payment terminal still "gives you the opportunity" to tip

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If media can say "slammed" to mean "said something about", I can use "impacted" to mean "affected". Especially when we have the word "impactful".

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually not a man, believe it or not. The other women in my life have taught me to be that way as well.

Damn. I wonder if it's a cultural thing. Sometimes women are told to keep it inside, too. It's never exclusive to one gender.

Later is better than never. So keep looking towards the future.

You might find some helpful resources online in the meanwhile. Mindfulness and, in particular, emotional intelligence might be two key phrases to look into.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

First, don't tell me that the answer is just to "not bottle things up", because that's objectively incorrect too. Society doesn't want you to have any negative emotions.

I'm guessing you're a man. Society imposes this upon men in particular.

Tell society to fuck off. Have emotions, experience emotions, and process them like a human being.

Then take it a step further, and learn how to handle them like an emotionally intelligent human being.

I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I'm alone.

This is part of the problem. This is not what you need to know. You need to know how to express negative emotions without losing control of yourself or your reaction to your emotions.

I know it can be done because it is done in many other people on the planet.

People bottling things up and exploding when in a safe space is part of the problem.

I'll echo the idea of anger management, or even therapy in general.

Nobody who is healthy hides away their emotions. You're not alone in feeling the way you do. Society is sending you signals that you need to do something unhealthy, but that won't actually fix the problem.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Why are Valve the good guys?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yes, in Canada

 

One of the tricky things with English is that we often have words that can be combined to form different words.

Like greenhouse. It's a combination of green + house. But a greenhouse is something very different from a green house. Autocorrect may cause some people to make this mistake, but generally, the concepts are understood to be different.

On the other side of things, there's things like "alot" which is mistakenly used so commonly that my autocorrect didn't even care that I typed that (and it's not just because of the quotes!).

Then there are words like login, which as a noun is definitely one word, but as a verb, should almost definitely be two words ("log in to this website", but "this is my login for the website")...but "login" seems to be universally recognized as standard for a verb, even though we don't say loginned for the past tense (we still say "logged in").

And of course, there are other words that are commonly paired together that we don't often see with the space removed, like "Takecare", "Noway", or "Ofcourse". These could all be potential candidates for the "alot" treatment. What makes "alot" special?

So what causes "Please login to the website" to be "correct", but "I workout everyday" to be incorrect? (And maybe everyone is "wrong" about login, or everyone is right about "workout" and "everyday", and the compound word is an acceptable alternative to the versions with the space)

I feel like this would be better in an AskLinguists community here... maybe there's an active one that someone could point me to? But I'm still curious to see what people think

 

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

 

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

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