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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • Angry Italien noises

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  • If you thought muricans were gonna get mad because you accused us of smushing a bunch of European countries’ cuisines together to produce something new, you have fundamentally misunderstood our national character and cuisine.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • Seriously, just block them. It’s not a punishment, it’s a curation tool; you’re allowed to block people who haven’t done anything wrong just because you don’t want to see their content. If you don’t like women’s sports, block me! It’s fine — you should have the social media experience you want, and you can use the block button to get it.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • Moderation. We had a big influx of users with the Reddit api drama that created a bunch of communities, and then all returned to Reddit shortly thereafter, leaving most of the big communities largely unmoderated. The threadiverse isn’t going to become less toxic until new moderators step in and clean up the worst of it.

  • RFK Jr. says he's launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

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  • Does he know he can just call a press conference basically whenever as HHS secretary? Cabinet members don’t have to launch podcasts, they can just say stuff over a podium and actual professionals will make a bunch of podcasts for them out of the audio.

  • Why you should stop unnecessarily making image posts on the fediverse

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  • Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

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  • Sure. What words am I allowed to use when relating this anecdote in the future without being called a nazi? A simple blocklist and allowlist is the easiest format for me.

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  • By "Germans" I mean "the early Germanic peoples who occupied the region that became Germany" and "Russians" I mean "the early Slavic peoples who occupied the region that became Ukraine". I kinda just assumed folks would understand the modern federal German state didn't exist when early Slavs first encountered other ethnic groups and could work backwards from there.

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  • If the "pa" part of "companion" comes from path it's basically exactly the same: "s" and "co" are both "with" and "nik" and "ion" are similar noun endings.

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  • I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were "sputniks" I'd assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

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  • The Russians call Germans "nemtsy" or "the mute ones" because allegedly the Germans were the first ethnic group the Russians encountered who didn't speak their language and so they assumed they couldn't speak at all. The sausage sounds delicious, though, so maybe they just weren't speaking because they were eating cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages.

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  • Sputnik is a fun word in Russian. It comes from the prefix s- (with), the suffix -nik (one who), and the root -put- (path). A sputnik, then, is someone or something who travels a path with you, and it is also a model of train (because it travels with the tracks) and a word for spouse (because they travel your life's path with you).

  • 1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI Chatbot

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  • I agree, but I still think the “1 in 5 know” formulation is worthwhile. “0.2% of people are in a relationship with an ai” isn’t as concerning to me as “20% of men are receiving social signals that dating an ai is socially acceptable” is.

  • Just Block Them

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  • Can you even block banned accounts?

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • Oh that's awesome! Thanks for sharing the link; I'm gonna rewatch it.

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • I wish they’d go back to four full productions each season. The concert as the fourth performance is just not the same.

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • My local opera company does one new opera and two traditional operas every season, so I’ve seen quite a few over the years. The wildest one was definitely The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, a 2017 opera by Bates about the Apple founder.

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • The last opera I saw was Fellow Travelers by Spears, an 2016 opera based on a novel of the same title about two men who fall in love during the Lavender Scare. It was absolutely heart-rending, just the most tragic love story you could possibly imagine, and the sex scenes were so hot — I don’t think I’d ever seen a fully nude scene at an opera before, even if it was just from behind, and the tenor clearly had spent some time in the gym to prepare. Highly recommend you go see it if you have a chance.

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    Which country is best to move to from russia?

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  • Yeah? I'm a Russian speaker in Seattle, it might just be possible that I'm more frequently in Russian-speaking places in Seattle? And "often overheard" is not a high bar to clear -- if you take the bus to lunch and back again, you'll hear dozens of conversations; even if only a very small portion of them are in Russian, you'll still hear one most days.

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    Which country is best to move to from russia?

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  • You’re clearly not listening. It’s a rare day I don’t overhear someone speaking Russian.

    edit: to clarify, I'm not sure if you just hang out in neighborhoods with a smaller group of Russian speakers, or if you have a different sense of what часто means than I do, but I can tell you I would have struggled with homesickness a lot less if I had heard English spoken in Nizhni as often as I hear Russian spoken in Seattle.

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    Which country is best to move to from russia?

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  • США, конечно. У нас в Сеаттл много русских, часто русский слышано на улицах. Приезжай к нам — будет лучше здесь через несколько лет, уверен.