So, the dictionary is not a gold-standard.

It is, in fact, the opposite and in very simplified terms, just a book of how people currently pronounce words and their meaning today. Think of it more as a record book for the time it was printed, rather than a rule book; living languages are funny like that.

If you would like to know more, I highly recommend Word by Word written by Kory Stamper, one of the editors for the Merriam-Websters Dictionary.

Okay… Sheesh! Text message, email, voicemail, and now lemmy post!? Fine, I’ll call to schedule my yearly appointment. Happy now, doc?

It’s a very hard line to tow.

I think the death penalty should really only be allowed for mass murder / enslavement.

However, I doubt any billionaires are innocent of enslaving people, even if it’s “I paid them ($0.07 / day, which is slave wages)!” So, fuck the ultra rich. They didn’t get there by hard work; they got there by exploiting people and the system. Finances are not unlimited, so funneling that much money to yourself means you are directly depriving whole communities of livelihood and, almost always, actual life.

Well, Putin did increase his army by 1…

Woah… I forgot about all that.

Waking up to the latest AAA that was started 36hrs ago at 75.8kb/s.

Of course it dropped to 0.9kb/s frequently, but it still downloaded.

The front fell off.

That’s pretty cool!

Mine have names too, sort of like positions on the bridge, I guess?

[HopingForBetter], or just my name, is usually deciding what to pay attention to.

Vega is the one that’s usually analyzing.

Francesca wants to have fun.

And then there’s Vivian, the destroyer of worlds…

I like that the way to beat it is to go, Hmm… and move on.

I’m sure for most people, this is somewhat disturbing.

However, I have at least 3 voices going in my head at any given time, and they cycle.

One is figuring out what’s happening.

One is analyzing what was just happening.

One is talking to itself.

All while I decide which one is the most interesting.

They never do.

Amazon’s Rings of Firey Circle Ten Lords of Galadriel’s Quest (or whatever the LOTR pseudo-Silmarillion show was labeled) sucked and that’s the best advertisement I’ve seen in recent memory for nerd-culture media.

This better not be another attempt to reach me about my car’s extended warranty, godamnit!

Building more isn’t going to solve the problem.

Simply put, the homeless population is exponentially lower than the current number of vacant housing units (which, basically means landlords are almost exclusively the problem).

From gigafact.org "vacancies have decreased, from about 19 million in the first quarter of 2011 to about 14.5 million in the last quarter of 2022.

Homelessness has also decreased modestly from 623,788 in 2011."

So, if each homeless person got their own house, even the kids who are part of a homeless family, there would still be nearly 14 million vacant housing units held by greedy landlords.

Edit: Even looking at the overall numbers, there are about 142 million houses currently, and there are about 332 million people.

See? Nearly double the people? We need more houses.

Families. Families are anywhere from 2-5 people on average. So again, looking at the homeless population, which is listed as individuals, it would take less than 1/14th of the currently vacant housing units for no one to be homeless.

It would be OUR sports golf, at that point.

(Sorry, had to).

So, please read this as serious and no ulterior-motivation.

I’m hoping to release a game in a few years, and naturally I would like to sell it.

I am also supportive of this community and understand somewhat about the release date underground release.

I’d rather either get the revenue from my work directly, or give it away in exchange for donations, trade, or even nothing at all.

All this especially in light of how often independent creators get their shit stolen by megacorps.

Is there something I should be keeping an eye out for, or preparing for so everything goes smoothly at least with regards to this community?