Because yes, “the left” never changes anything, and only goes further right.

(hint: That’s not how this works)

Over the decades we’ve made massive strides in equal rights for various marginalized groups. But sometimes the dance takes a step backwards before moving forward again.

This is the kind of bullshit I don’t have time for, when shit gets broken in userspace because someone wanted to change the location of something.

Can’t wait until this guy DDoS’s his home connection and his ISP calls wondering why tf his bandwidth skyrocketed overnight because of hotlinkers.

Not hard at all. Both responsible for many millions of needless deaths while holding power.

Yeah, QWERTY was absolutely used to slow down typing as well, but it had a secondary function of spreading out the letters.

DVORAK just has the one function. It didn’t have to contend with other baggage. But it doesn’t mean QWERTY didn’t also have that goal. But since QWERTY handles the same goal that DVORAK does, reasonably well, it doesn’t hit the threshold needed for us to swap over.

Additionally, DVORAK is kind of nasty because it has all of the vowels on the left hand. I just picked a random word “Control” and most of the work is being done by the right hand; most of the time on the same finger row, which is horribly inefficient. Control on QWERTY is roughly equally left and right handed; not clusters of similarly used letters.

A common estimate of the ratio of vowels to consanants in the english language is 3:1 – So you’ll be doing 3x as much work on your right hand than with your left. Which makes DVORAK kind of garbage tbh.

Even if the mechanical linkage was the initial reason for the design, the design still holds value in basically spreading out the letters in such a way that it minimizes the need for fingers to be constantly used for the typical words that we use in the English language. You don’t want all the vowels to be on the left hand, for example, you want these letters spread out so that you get roughly even utilization of the fingers when typing.

endorsing criminal activity

Because now that wording, means anyone advocating for legalization of Marijuana falls under this umbrella.

As people we need to be able to voice our opinions on the legality and/or morality of certain laws. It’s a tricky thing to word correctly, while toeing the line of what is acceptable and what is not.

There are a large number of people on Lemmy who believe that you could be literally Hitler and that a human life is still worth saving. To some, human life is some unwavering near-godlike thing that nobody should ever take away.

But I like math. And I know that sometimes a -1 gives you positive values.

I think diversifying mods is a good idea.

Great, so then every post gets 10 chances to be incorrectly identified and culled? We don’t need diversity of opinion here, we need quite the opposite. We need a unification of opinion so that rules can be solidified around that.

Additionally, since lemmy.world remains federated with other instances which tolerate unpleasant behavior and I see no indication on this post that this will change

There is nobody in this world who can act in a way that isn’t unpleasant for someone. This is such an unachievable bar as to be laughable.

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What you can search to find more information on the subject is the “Soap Opera Effect”. – Essentially, people are so used to 24.99fps that higher framerates are considered to ‘look funny’ when the camera pans, etc.

VLC. If it can’t play it, nothing can.

I wasn’t here to help. I was here to mock - Not you; but others. I’m not going to hold every persons hand and baby them into enlightenment.

Finally a voice of reason in a mob of tribalists.

We’re not at the end of the timeline at which that’s determined completely yet.

Yeah, I probably used too harsh of a term there – It’s not stupidity or laziness, but more ignorance. You can’t exactly chase something that you haven’t been taught about.

And you’re right, the process is daunting - many of the people that argue against it are those that have to live in the city, and refuse to live further out in order to get better pricing. I’ve got plenty of housing around me being built in the 200k-300k range (2/1 and 3/2) - in Florida no less. But it’s in the country.

I went the “buy a slum house and live in squalor, putting whatever extra money I have into it to fix things” route. I learned a lot about housing maintenance; installing your own appliances, replacing well pumps and tanks, electrical, etc.

A buddy of mine is shacking up with his brother and they’re buying a house together for now so that in 10 years they can sell it an split the equity for their own individual houses.

It’s all possible, though for sure - you may have to do some things that we’d consider unconventional today. It’s definitely not ideal. The big guys are going to find out sooner or later that not paying people for jobs ends up with nobody having any money to spend.

Many states have first-time homebuyers programs that will absolutely shunt the issue of transitioning to Rent/homebuying. Most people are too lazy or stupid to take the initiative though. Every person I have talked to about renting vs home owning has always managed to make excuses why they can’t do something, instead of working to make it happen. It’s daunting as fuck, for sure - but it’s possible if you scrimp and do without for a while. That short-term of doing without, ultimately ends up with you paying into something you OWN. You’re building your personal equity with a house, and many people will argue against that because of learned helplessness.

Fuckin’ Smarrrrrrt. You’ll be one of the ones who doesn’t get fucked if the housing market crashes, because your interest rate won’t balloon through the roof.

Hell yeah, one of the smart ones. I hope you got a fixed rate mortgage.