I’m using Sync to write this comment :)

Exactly. And usually if I am replying to another comment later, I can see that balance has been restored by others doing the same :)

• If I see a freezer / fridge door open in a supermarket, I close it. Not for the supermarket, but for the planet

• as someone who stacked shelves as a teen, if I take an item and it leaves a gap, I pull the next one forward so the employee doesn’t have to keep fussing over the manager’s demand for it to be lined up

• my dad lives in a bungalow, on a small cul de sac of other bungalows. Sheltered housing for old folks. Litter often gets blown in and collects, I’ll pick it up every couple of weeks. Also cleared their paths / sprinkled salt when It snowed

• when old people are in the way, I don’t crowd up behind them. I’ll take a few steps back and wait so they don’t feel pressured

• if there’s an item in the road that could damage someone’s car, I’ll wait until it’s safe then remove the item

• if I see someone was down voted just for sharing their opinion (assumedly because the down voter is too childish to withstand an opposing opinion), I make sure to up vote it in an attempt to restore balance. Even if I don’t agree with said opinion (obviously this doesn’t apply to hateful rhetoric etc)

Prob a ton of other little things I can’t remember. Thanks for making this post!

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I hate to defer to a random comment because as is well established, Einstein famously said “don’t believe everything you read on the internet”… but the dictionary has to be deferred to, and it backs up your comment. I stand corrected, thanks for the info!

I looked up the dictionary definition in a fit of pedantry earlier and they’re right, they do refer to distinct different things. The more you know ey!

A distinction I did not make, good point. Maybe I misunderstand, I thought emojis and emoticons were the same thing.

Or is it an “all emojis are emoticons, but all emoticons are not emojis” kinda situation?

How much of the current lemmy base are ex-reddit? I remember emoticons being heavily frowned upon there. It may be a cultural hangover from the rexodus peeps.

I’d say to be careful what you wish for, because once the game has begun, it doesn’t end until the cat is bored. It’s impossible to resist the cute drop / sad little cat-activation-noise when you get distracted and don’t notice.

One of my friends in Finland has a couple of cats, one is fairly disinterested in people but the other loves to play fetch with her toys. It’s ridiculously cute.

Sounds like a job for Vicious Mockery. Call in the bard!

Leigh can be pronounced like ‘Lee’ or ‘Lay’

You can have a use for something, and you can also use something (first one is pronounced the same as the end of ‘papoose’, second one is pronounced the same as ‘ooze’)

Yes, English is weird.

‘Bough’ and ‘cough’ are not pronounced the same. ‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same. ‘Knee’ and ‘Leigh’ are pronounced the same. ‘Neigh’ and ‘nay’ are pronounced the same. ‘Polish’ (the nationality) and ‘polish’ (as in what you do to a metal object) are not pronounced the same. ‘Tear’ (as in to rip) and ‘tear’ (as in to cry) are spelled the same, but not pronounced the same. Other words which are spelled the same, but pronounced differently:

resume / resume present / present record / record close / close use / use live / live

I don’t get the hate for kale. Never would buy it after decades of reading how horrid it is… Decided one day to try it and found it’s actually refreshing and tasty, aside from the health benefits

One day, you’ll realise it was deep minimal organic afrotech dubhouse, and come to your senses

Might be a case of ‘build it and they will come’.

I’ve been writing dance music for about 20 years, I think the relentless pigeonholing of genres can get ridiculous, but if it’s within that cast array I might be able to help… Before someone else wildly disagrees :)

That’s awesome. Wish it was standard practice!

It’s quite scary to think that not only are kids not being taught logic, but many are being taught anti-logic; magical thinking etc. It blows my mind that right wingers screech about ‘grooming’ and indoctrination while they’re teaching their kids divisive skybeardguy nonsense. Literally grooming them to be religious.

Imo this is why they pushback and create false equivalence, because they know they’re losing their sad little foothold. Notice how whoever is downvoting comments in this thread has nothing to say.

Some ex ellent additions! Seeing as we’re all now well aware of each others’ religions, maybe they can replace the pointless RE (religious education in UK) class with a ‘Life Skills’ class.