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  • “Shit” has always been a swear word. Would you let your toddler walk around saying “This is shit!” while pointing at random things in public? It’d be a funny online video, but I wouldn’t want to be the parent in the video. Just because you casually say to your friends, “I gotta take a shit.” Doesn’t mean it’s not a swear word in most cases. “Poop” isn’t even close. That’s a word we intentionally teach toddlers to say.

    I’m actually curious. Would you be 100% ok with your (hypothetical) toddler doing that? If so, then you really don’t see it as a swear word. I feel like the vast majority of people in the USA would say it’s a swear word.

    A swear word is just a “lowly” word with a bit more gravity than normal words. Consider how even “This is trash!” Doesn’t carry the same weight as “This is shit!”.

    You can insult things and people with any words… “naive, ignorant, uneducated, slow, ineffective, disabled”, etc. But if a person were actually any of those things, and you spoke those words with tact, they aren’t necessarily mean. “I’m sorry to say this, but disabled people do not have a good time on this ride.”

    Now replace “disabled” with “shit” and tell me that could ever be gentle in any context. 😂 That’s what makes it a swear word, that’s it. It’s a word that has no chance of being “nice” in any way.

    These are just my own thoughts, and I’m certainly no linguist.






  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubtoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyzi think, therefore i am
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    3 days ago

    literally the only thing he could be sure of was that he was doubting, not that he was thinking,

    He literally said, “I doubt, therefore I think”, and you say he was not thinking? I feel like maybe you’re not thinking.

    If you’re sure of one thing and the conclusion of that surety is believing another thing then you are sure of both things.







  • I’ll never understand why people use apt-get for anything other than scripting, or specialized commands when programmers have put in real effort to make apt easy.

    The author could have saved 4 keystrokes! Saving keystrokes is the entire point of Linux! Just look at how abbreviated the root folder naming scheme is. It took years of effort to find the perfect abbreviations and directory structure to minimize keystroke. The loss of legibility and discoverability might suck, but it’s worth it. And this author is over here wasting keyboard fuel on “-get”. smh



  • Orginal Oblivion with mods. I have never played it. I just got the game installed yesterday, and set up in Vortex. Now I have to go grab all the mods, which is very manual. Vortex mod installation links on the Nexus don’t work on the deck. There might be a way to fix that because the mod suggestion list I’m looking at said there’s a way to make links work with Mod Manager 2 on the Deck.

    I’m following a curated list of mods that will be a “vanilla+” experience. Not too crazy or anything. It’s called “A Pocket Full of Cheese Wheels” on the Nexus. It comes with a one-click installer shell script that installs Mod Manager 2 and a bunch of other stuff on the Deck but I’m just going to do it manually. The script is old and no longer maintained.

    I modded Fallout 3 with Vortex on my Deck, and it was pretty easy when the game is installed on the SD card. I feel like that was key, but I don’t remember exactly why. You also have to symlink the “My Games” folder from the Fallout 3 (or Oblivion) Proton prefix into the Vortex Proton Prefix. That’s so Vortex can manage the INI files and such. Plus you set the SD card as the D: drive in the Vortex Proton prefix so it can see the game’s folder, too. In fact, I think that’s was done automatically done by Steam. Maybe that was why I installed the game on the SD card. But it’s not like you couldn’t make your own drive mapping. It’s a simple symlink named like “d:” or “e:” in the “dos_devices” folder. I don’t see why that couldn’t point to the NVMe drive, but I feel like people online said that wouldn’t work. Vortex is also installed on the SD card.

    Maybe some day I’ll document all of this.