morgan423

Yeah, that was out there.

This sovcit drives Lyft. If I knew that they were posting stuff like this, I’d be afraid to get into their car lol

I didn’t realize it was a reference. Still, it really does invoke sovcit energy lol

While I admire your effort in sovcit-Harry-Potter-spell-shouting a legal condition into being, it feels like they would have some bat-turd insane terminology that they would use here, and that would be the chef’s kiss.

Still though, a solid effort, I’m going to give an 8/10.

Plenty of issues overall, sure, but I’m speaking specifically about the statistical inability to vote for third parties and have it mean anything.

First past the post voting is the sole issue that is keeping legitimately contending third parties off of our ballots.

Installing ranked choice voting (or one of its very close cousins) is the the number one reformation change that can be made to give the people their voices back. So of course, the powers that be are terrified of it… no surprises here.

Rookie mistake, you’re supposed to ask to file it with a red ink signature at 45°

So do you mean at an angle, degrees longitude, latitude, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin…?

~taking notes~

So what you think you’re saying is that they…

…I mean, that is, that you…

…

…

Nope, I’ve got nothing.

I don’t see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I’m primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.

Ah, we’ve reached the “start of direct attacks on the judiciary” stage already. That was faster than I thought it would be.

Every time I read a sovcit passage like this, I feel like someone shrunk peak 1980’s Mike Tyson down to a quarter inch tall, stuck him inside my skull, and he just spent the last fifteen minutes repeatedly clobbering my brain with power hooks and uppercuts.

“It was the damndest thing. I called a ten minute recess to step out of the courtroom to go take a dump, and when I returned, the entire legal system had changed.” - This judge I guess

If you land randomly in 1963 and wonder if it’s before or after the Kennedy assassination, it’s way more likely that it’s before, since it happened in late November.

“I am the gatekeeper.”

“I am the postmaster.”

This reads like something that Chat GPT would output, were it designed to always output the least likely word each time rather than the most likely.

I really do think it’s a mass noun.

I’m not sure why you think that. By definition (which you even gave in your original post) that would mean that data are something that can’t be broken down into individual, countable units.

But there is a smallest unit, which is called a bit. Data can be broken down into smaller, countable units. So the word doesn’t fit the common definition of what a mass noun is.

I think you’re confusing this due to the common incorrect use of “that” in relation to data as if it’s something singular, id est, “Could you please provide me that data?”

Technically this is grammatically incorrect (and yes before you ask, I say “those data”), but I’ve come to understand that people actually mean “data set” when they say this, and are just omitting that word from the sentence.

Since that is all that’s needed to have everything correctly agree again, I can just fix it in my head when I hear it so that my brain doesn’t explode.

I’ll take “What in the Actual Hell Are You Trying to Say” for $1,000 Alex.

Ah, I see the problem. That person should have bound the cop into a contract before he took action, so that he couldn’t have completed arresting them and towing their car. Rookie mistake!

Ah, yes, the standard “I enjoy getting pulled over half a dozen times a day” sovcit license plate.

The IPA is fantastically interesting.

I don’t agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people’s accents from written text when they don’t match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations… where you’re actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.