Then they’ll say that God is probing them, or that it’s a sign of Apocalypse, or that he was sending to heaven the just among them, all that shit. They love double standards, even if their bible says that God hates them (Proverbs 20:23).

Ah. That explains it - thank you.

Wait. There’s some really weird federation lag going on:

• from mander.xyz (my instance) - you see no posts, no modlog
• from feddit.org (your instance) - the posts are there, with no comments. No modlog.
• from lemmy.world (comm instance) - the posts are there, with comments, and the modlog admin actions.

I ended checking the posts from my instance, but the modlog straight from LW. Anyway, the comm is locked and modless.

Also your Result is wrong, since that community is still accessible?

The community is locked, empty, modless, and the modlog shows that all moderator removals were done by the admins. For all intents and purposes the comm was removed.

It was just something silly to make me drop my guard a wee bit. I was scared, and he noticed it.

That’s from 1984. More specifically, “the book” inside the book.

…I hate how poorly people understand 1984, how much they distort it, putting words in Orwell’s mouth. And, in the process, they miss little gems like this one.

That’s a good one!

We don’t need to lie about it; not even by omission.

In the best case scenario, Meta is employing an automated moderation system, it’s incorrectly tagging what users share as “spam”, and can’t be arsed to fix the issue in due time - note that this was already attested at least September 2024. That’s more than enough to blame Meta.

Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this.

I see quite a few reasons to not trust = be gullible towards what Meta says. Starting by the fact that it’s on its best interests to silence mentions to competitors.

Even if it was a honest mistake (is it? I have my doubts.), I don’t think that “we” (people in general) should give it a pass. On its best it highlights how unfair those automated systems are towards the users; plus Meta is in a position that it should be held responsible for what it does, regardless of its “intentions”.

Meta be like:

“Calling LGBTQ+ people «mentally ill»? No, we can’t remove that, it would be censorship.”

“Linking to a competitor that doesn’t ? NO, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! No, we aren’t totally censoring you, we’re, uhm, you’re totally spamming! Yeah, that’s it, you’re spam!”

I think that people can - and should - capitalise on Streisand Effect against Meta.

Most of my dumb jokes don’t work in English, but here’s some that do:

• A Buddhist goes to the hot dog stall. What does he ask for? “Make me one with everything.”
• You heard about the claustrophobic astronaut? He just wanted some space!

Stop looking me weird when I eat banana with gorgonzola, folks! It’s actually tasty.

Also, at least in my chunk of South America, people look at the eggs+pork combo as something outright gross, but I got to admit that I love some pork sausages with fried eggs.

I drink half cola half wine. People scream bloody murder at me. I don’t care - it’s awesome. (If trying it do it with cheap wine, it’s a waste to do it with good wine.)

I’ve seen plenty people eating ham with melons, so this combo doesn’t look weird at all for me.

Fair.

Portuguese is more conservative on analysis; like, the phonemic inventory doesn’t change that much from Continental Proto-Romance. But once you look at the surface, you find a bunch of weird stuff, like:

• a general tendency to convert /Cl/ clusters into /Cɾ/; see praia/playa, cravo/clavo, or dialectally *prástico (standard: “plástico”). You typically don’t see this much in Spanish, except in the Caribbean. It’s nowadays stigmatised but still an ongoing process in some dialects (like Caipira).
• even conservative Portuguese dialects have a tendency to shift to stress timing on quick speech, with vowel reduction and/or elision. On the other hand Spanish typically keeps itself syllable timed, even on quick speech.
• most intervocalic /l/ and /n/ are gone, except in reborrowings. Some /n/'s got regenerated as /ɲ/, but that’s from a nasal vowel splitting again into oral vowel + nasal consonant. See e.g. cor/color, coroa/corona, boa/buena.
• the nasal vowels are becoming phonemic, Lombard/French style; in some situations you can’t simply analyse, say, [ẽ] or [ə̃] as /eN/ and /aN/ any more.
• rhotics. Unlike Spanish, Portuguese never backed /ʃ/ into [x], so there was that “gap” in the phonology that got filled by /r/ instead: [r]→[ʀ ʁ ɦ x χ h], with all intermediate links popping up in some dialect. In the meantime /ɾ/ became [ɾ ɹ ɻ], with [ɻ] trying to split into a third phoneme.

There’s also a bunch of phenomena that appear in both, but got stigmatised in Portuguese and accepted in Spanish. A good example of that is yeísmo - it does pop up in Portuguese but it’s associated with rural people, and seen as “poor speech”.

Sorry for the wall of text.

Hey, I ain’t dissin’ Chilean varieties!

…plus my native language (Portuguese) is a lot like “Spã’ish but you’re too lazy to prõ’ounce a few softer cõsonants, so you simp’y skip them.”, accordingly to some folks.

I remember a fair bit of my early childhood:

• My older sister playing school with me. I was three or so. That’s how I learned to read.
• When my mum taught me about the “little dragons” in our bodies; basically a child-friendly way to teach how sickness works, and how our bodies deal with them.
• My 4yo birthday. It wasn’t anything special, but I remember jumping all happy across the kitchen.
• A few times that my father ruined family meal. Making my sister cry, making me cry, whining incessantly about the food, encouraging me to eat the cooked yolk that my mum would use in the dish, this kind of thing.
• My grandma pouring condensed milk over my chocolate milk, and saying “shh, don’t tell your mum”.
• Locking my grandpa’s dog inside the basement, and getting gently lectured by him, on how the dog would feel afraid and lonely.
• My ophthalmologist asking me if I wanted pineapple or strawberry-flavoured eye drops. I was six or so. (More than three decades later, he’s still the one taking care of my eyes.)

Thank you! Sadly, I don’t talk too much about PIE in Lemmy because… well, it’s kind of a niche subject that most users don’t care too much about.

Feel free to ask for further info on stuff, though. I do enjoy talking about it!

Using it as a warning is fine, but you can’t do it if you’re against banning people, like the other user is.