I've never heard "gyped" or "jipped". I'd say you were "duped".
But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So "dune" and "june" are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into "dupe".
Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though
This is something I really think Reddit did better than Lemmy tbh. Mods don't appear special in any way, unless they specifically declare "this post is me acting as a moderator". And only then is it highlighted green (or in some other way depending on the client). Ditto admins.
3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel
Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.
I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I'd say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.
fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health
I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn't dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.
Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length, intensity, and variety of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.
No offence, but accusations like that add exactly nothing to the conversation if they're correct, and are a fucking shitty thing to do to a person if they're not. Unless you've got really solid receipts, and there's some important outcome that it would actually affect if true, just don't fucking do it.
From what little Mandarin I’ve learned, I’d say the two are far enough apart
There are probably some loanwords, and I'd guess being able to read Chinese might help reading kanji, but beyond that, yeah, the two languages are completely unrelated linguistically. Japanese is effectively a language isolate, not related to any other languages in the world. (There are technically some minority languages on Japan's outlying islands with their own separate but related languages, so it's not quite a language isolate, but close.) That includes being unrelated to Chinese and Korean languages. (Incidentally, Korean is like Japanese, almost-but-not-quite a language isolate.)
From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on [email protected], some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).
I'll add, not me personally, but I do know two people who had a similar arrangement. I don't know the precise details of the reasons, but I believe it had something to do with dysfunctional parents or finances. In both of those cases, the couple are now happily married and well-integrated into the broader extended family.
“hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home
More than that! When Lucy is turned into a vampire, she feeds on children. She turns into the very opposite of the motherly feminine ideal. The same is true of Dracula's brides, who feed on a baby in one of the early chapters. Dracula, by contrast, feeds on adults. He shows an interest in Jonathan (bisexual? Eww, that's not natural!—side note, Stoker himself was likely bi) but most of his attention is focused on women like Lucy and Mina. The expectation of a gentleman being a chivalrous protector of ladies is inverted.
There's also the fact that Lucy, who early in the book expresses her wish to marry all three of the men who proposed to her:
Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?
It's the very sexually-forward woman who ends up succumbing to vampirism and being killed for it. But not before receiving the bodily fluids from all three of those propositioners—plus van Helsing. The sexual undertones of the blood transfusions are hardly subtle, but this also ties into another major theme of the book, which is how powerful modern science and technology can be as a tool to defeat strange unnatural superstition.
We've recently been doing a Dracula bookclub over at [email protected], reading through each diary entry/letter/newspaper clipping on the day it is set. We are, as we speak, amid the section between when Lucy has died and arisen as a vampire, but before she has her final death at the hands of the crew of light. In fact, as soon as I'm done with this thread I'm gonna go and do today's reading, and I think that might be Lucy's last. edit: I was wrong. Lucy unlives for another night...or two...
Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories
One of my favourite books I've literally only read on audiobook. I don't love ebooks, and this book is out of print with second-hand copies going for $200+ online, so audiobook is basically the only option. It's not the same experience as reading with your eyes, but it's still a great way to get the story.
My experience is that on Reddit it replaces the comment with [unavailable], similar to [removed] when a mod removes it, or [deleted] when they delete it themselves.
And that on Lemmy, it depends on client. On lemmy-ui (the default web client), it sometimes shows up as that "1 more reply" option, but when you click it, it never loads in. On Jerboa, it says something along the lines of "unable to retrieve this comment".
Both of those are what happens when you come across a comment from a person who blocked you in the wild. It may or may not be different when it's in your inbox.
I've been blocked by at least one person on Lemmy, for reasons that I honestly have no idea, and have come across this in the wild a couple of times, including opening something I originally found on my computer in Jerboa to double-check, as well as opening up incognito where I'm logged out and therefore not blocked.
I've never heard "gyped" or "jipped". I'd say you were "duped".
But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So "dune" and "june" are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into "dupe".