• 1 Post
  • 31 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

help-circle






  • CreateProblems@corndog.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    79
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Not in any way defending terfs, however: lightening your hair is NOT cheap and just because your roots are showing (natural color is growing out) doesn’t mean you had a cheap service done. It just means it’s time for another one.

    Regardless, we shouldn’t be attacking people for their physical appearance, even if they’re terrible people. Being pretty is not the rent women pay to exist in the world, and failing to live up to your standards of beauty is not a moral failing. That includes hair and makeup and body modification (Botox, piercings, tattoos) choices.

    Edit: also Botox ≠ lip filler. (Sorry I can’t help myself lol)


  • So you also use a semicolon if you are separating a list and the list includes phrases separated by commas. For example:

    My favorite things are lions, tigers, and bears; sugar, spice, and everything nice; and the ol’ red, white, and blue.

    I came up with that in thirty seconds so admittedly it’s a bit nonsensical, but there are valid reasons to structure a sentence this way and a semicolon is the only thing helping those independent phrases stay separate and thus help the sentence make sense.

    That said, I love semicolons in general; I use them for fun and for variety. They are useful for slightly adjusting the pacing of written communication, since the reader won’t treat them exactly the same as a full stop.

    If it was actually useful… People would learn it organically and not need it to be explained.

    People don’t learn how to read “organically;” you need instruction. Learning how to use punctuation is a part of that instruction. You learned how to use a comma or a period way back in elementary school, you just don’t remember specifically learning it. And a semicolon is a perfectly useful piece of punctuation.











  • CreateProblems@corndog.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlsooo....
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    TIL!

    That said, reading the Wikipedia article, there very much were tapes made for repairing ducts.

    It was commonly used in construction to wrap air ducts.[20] Following this application, the name “duct tape” came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork. Specialized heat- and cold-resistant tapes were developed for heating and air-conditioning ducts. By 1960 a St. Louis, Missouri, HVAC company, Albert Arno, Inc., trademarked the name “Ductape” for their “flame-resistant” duct tape, capable of holding together at 350–400 °F (177–204 °C).[21]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape



  • This reads like a Rimworld post.

    I don’t think there’s a Rimworld community on Lemmy and I’m not going on Reddit anymore so I’ll just throw this comment into the void and hope some fans are out there. 👋

    Also in Rimworld terms the answer is corn (if monoculture) and send everyone to harvest at the first sign of blight.

    But in both Rimworld and real life, a monoculture strategy isn’t sustainable. Diversifying via multiple food sources reduces your risk of disaster leading to starvation.