Leonixster

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Holy shit I didn't know othe people do the first one as well lmao

I respond to "my god", usually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Except I am not, they has been used singularly for centuries now.

Let me put it in a way that will make sense for you. Singular "they" is, more often than not, used when people do not know the gender or amount of a group. Whenever you speak of a corporation or company, it is extremely common to use "they" instead of "it". E.g. "they are the ones in charge of making that decision". In the example, you are speaking of a company or similar group, a singular entity by itself. However, since the speaker does not know who or how many people make this decision, the speaker uses a singular "they".

This is but one example of how they has been used as a singular pronoun for ages, but let us digress a little bit. Why the fuck is the royal "we" allowed, but not the singular "they"? They both follow the same structure but inverse of each other, where the royal we is a way to say "I'm speaking of myself as a part of a bigger entity/community". You can make an argument that both of these carry plural connotations, but my point is that grammar rules and language as a whole is way more nuanced than black or white.

So, please, save your spit and time with a counter argument that only pushes forward discriminating thinking and stop being a pussy about language change.

Btw, I'm not a native English speaker, which goes to show that I was actively taught about singular they, instead of picking it up intuitively like most native speakers do.

Edit PS: don't even think of using my non-nativeness as a point against me, I know for a fact I have better grammar and care more about orthography than the average native speaker.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (5 children)

"Ah yes, let us disregard basic grammar rules in order to make a stupid argument to 'prove' my point, that's clearly what'll convince people that my way is the right one"

  • your stupid ass
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's odd, I remember reading about the feature that makes it so zombies naturally fill in empty cells from other cells, but maybe I misunderstood?

I do agree that the random spawning zombies can be dumb if you're coming back to your completely secure and isolated base only to find zombies inside

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Could you not adjust the settings so zombies see/hear you very easily and from far away, as well as making hordes a bigger amount for the feeling of being hunted by a pack? I haven't played the recent unstable versions so idk if they added other things that zombies can do to find you, like smell or whatnot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, I didn't mean to intend that we don't have memories from before that, since we very clearly do since we know who our parents/family are, the language we speak, etc. I meant that we can't actively recollect those memories, given a few exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Do you have photographic memory of stuff today? idk how to phrase the question lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So would the fact that most people start remembering stuff from then more vividly be more of a coincidence?

 

My earliest clear memory is that of my 4th birthday, from the moment I woke up to a couple of hours later. I remember my mom telling me to get dressed up so we can go to the daycare and after to school, which I started to do and then thought "what's school? what's daycare?" (these I asked) "why are you my mom?" (this one I didn't for some reason). After being fully dressed, we got into the car and drove to the daycare, I was guided to a room that's next to the kitchen and told to wait. A couple of minutes later, I notice a light coming from the hallway connecting to the kitchen ("what's that? why is it coming closer?"), then the nanny, her husband and my mom come out with a cake. I then immediately asked why there was a cake, I was told it's my birthday, and then I asked what's a birthday.

So yeah I think kids ask a lot of questions the moment or around when they start to be self-aware.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I literally had a teacher once "correct" me for saying the area of a circle is πr² instead of πrr. I was told "you're not wrong but that's for future classes". On another class, I had a teacher correct a short story by removing repeated words, whereas I used repetition for emphasis, but used a comma instead of ellipsis. Think "I saw it, saw the thing" instead of "I saw it... saw the thing". Both was in early elementary, no higher than 3rd grade.

So, believe it or not, things happen to other people even if they didn't happen to you.

The worst thing about calling this fake is that it's not even unbelievable, it's a perfectly possible and mundane thing that most likely happened to millions of children as they grew up, yet everything in the internet is fake, right? No one just happens to record people for no reason, no one's smart enough to make funny jokes in the spur of the moment and get a reaction from strangers.

EDIT: Added context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's exactly how it feels reading any global or US news recently.

I'm exhausted dawg

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Reminds me of the time I saw people arguing on Reddit about the phrase "time is a social construct" where some people were completely incapable of understanding what that means and conflating the concept of time with the fundamental physics thingymcgee (idk how to call it and entity feels wrong).

People were trying so hard to explain that minutes, months, seasons, etc. are all arbitrary things made up only for them to retort with "but a year is a full rotation of the sun" or "seasons exist because that's how the planet changes its climate".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Did you ever get a response? Also, what is the thing that gave it away to you that this is AI generated? I tried looking at the background in more detail and could only see 3 (?) odd things that could've been it (one of which I'm not even certain about), maybe 4.

But yeah, there's been this constant thing in the back of my mind bothering me about his content that I can't quite put the finger on, maybe just an instinct, which makes me doubt whether or not I should continue watching.

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