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  1. Comment on 2026 Fifa World Cup - Finals discussion and news megathread (quarters/semis/finals) in ~sports.football

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    I mean, you pretty much nailed it.

    I mean, you pretty much nailed it.

    8 votes

  2. Comment on Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows in ~tv

  3. Comment on How to see my threads? in ~tildes

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    You can also click it from anywhere on the page, not just the one spot that I picked to explain that was maybe uniquely not helpful!

    You can also click it from anywhere on the page, not just the one spot that I picked to explain that was maybe uniquely not helpful!

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    Have you ever used "Tildebeasts"?

    Have you ever used "Tildebeasts"?

    3 votes

  5. Comment on How to see my threads? in ~tildes

    aphoenix
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    Oh yes, I totally missed that they were on mobile! Thanks for pointing that out.

    Oh yes, I totally missed that they were on mobile! Thanks for pointing that out.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on How to see my threads? in ~tildes

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    In the top right corner, you should see your username. If you click on it, you will be linked to your user page (this previous link also links to your user page). The default is to see all topics...

    In the top right corner, you should see your username. If you click on it, you will be linked to your user page (this previous link also links to your user page).

    The default is to see all topics (posts) and comments. You can also select "Topics" or "Comments" to see just one or the other.

    Here is a link directly to just your topics.

    Here is a link directly to just your comments.

    Edit: on mobile, you will have to go to the top right and click on "Sidebar" to open the sidebar. Then click on your username to get to your user page. The links I shared should still work though. Thank you @SamusAu for pointing that out.

    8 votes

  7. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

    aphoenix
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    I was invited by Deimos in the first week.

    I was invited by Deimos in the first week.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    There's about six active users who are less new to this site than me, but still, welcome! As @chocobean said, the docs are a great place to start, especially the philosophy and policy sections. I...

    There's about six active users who are less new to this site than me, but still, welcome! As @chocobean said, the docs are a great place to start, especially the philosophy and policy sections.

    I would also recommend looking at the list of groups and then you can select what you are interested in for a more tailored experience.

    If I were to boil the whole experience here down into two guiding principles:

    1. look for the good in other users and approach comments as if they are from a good intention, even if you disagree with them. This is easier here than on other link aggregation sites because of the smaller population.

    2. say what you mean, and mean what you say. The site is better for it.

    Welcome aboard!

    Edit: two guiding principles, sure, but what about an addendum?

    Addendum: you can make jokes and have fun. For example, I made a joke higher up in this very topic about another username. Jokes are great and build community. But in general top level responses should be on-topic and in the spirit of the post. By that I mean, if it's a serious topic, don't make a top-level response that is a joke or other type of less meaningful comment.

    That said, there are labels for comments: Exemplary, Offtopic, Joke, Noise, Malice. Other than Malice, it is not bad to get any of the other labels. Malice is used for bad actors and should be used sparingly - it notifies the site owner. Exemplary should be used for only the very best of comments and should also be used sparingly. Offtopic, Joke, Noise should be used at will to correctly identify things that are offtopic, jokes, or noise comments, and it is not a mark of dishonour to receive any of those labels.

    Final edit: the correct demonym is "Tilderen".

    20 votes

  9. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

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    You are right and they are wrong, and Cannibal_Is_Ticapple is the right way to parse it. I don't know why they are ticapple, or what ticapple is, but that is clearly what the username says.

    You are right and they are wrong, and Cannibal_Is_Ticapple is the right way to parse it. I don't know why they are ticapple, or what ticapple is, but that is clearly what the username says.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts

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    While I agree that music has some things that are not abstractions, I think there is an issue with the example. Major keys implying happiness is a perfect example of something that is purely...

    While I agree that music has some things that are not abstractions, I think there is an issue with the example. Major keys implying happiness is a perfect example of something that is purely abstract. The concrete things about music are things like the fact that an octave is the doubling of the frequency of a tone, or that a perfect fifth is a tone with a frequency ratio of 3:2 to the original tone. The meaning that we pull from the music itself is an abstraction; when we hear a tone, a tone above in ratio of 5:4 (major third) and a tone above that at a ratio of 3:2 to the original (fifth), then we, given the history of Western Music, parse those concrete things as the abstract concept of "happy". Those same intervals do not necessarily correspond to happiness in other musical cultures; happiness can be a minor second, or atonal, or a number of other things.

    Sorry if this seems like an overly pedantic reply.

    Edit: also sorry for not refreshing before finishing my reply and seeing other comments on this. Mine is a real pile-on sort of comment.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech

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    Oh sorry I should have been more explicit. I did try HEY out and I found the secret sauce to just be ketchup. Or to get off the metaphor, it was not significantly different from just being...

    Oh sorry I should have been more explicit. I did try HEY out and I found the secret sauce to just be ketchup. Or to get off the metaphor, it was not significantly different from just being proactive with a standard email experience. I think that what HEY does do is have a bunch of quite reasonable filters for things that are important to see, important to keep but not necessarily review, and things you can do without. But with a bit of forethought, most of that special sauce boiled down to effective management of your domain emails and then unsubscribing from things you don't care about. But YMMV, and it's possible that the "bring your own domain" version of HEY adds something that I'm not aware of; I only did the @hey.com trial, and it wasn't particularly recent.

    That said, my bias is against using Hansson's services so I may not have given it a fair shake.

    Edit: that's why I marked my original as off-topic - I had only used the non-domains version - but I realized after re-reading that I actually insinuated that I didn't use it at all.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech

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    I am not using HEY for this, but I do use PurelyMail and it is a small fraction of the cost that is listed on HEY. My expenditure for multiple domains is usually around $10-15 USD per year. That...

    I am not using HEY for this, but I do use PurelyMail and it is a small fraction of the cost that is listed on HEY. My expenditure for multiple domains is usually around $10-15 USD per year. That said, it is purely an email solution and works best as the front end for an email application like Thunderbird.

    I use it by setting up emails like [servicename]@[domain] so I can sign up for a service like netflix with an email like netflix@mydomain.ca. Those emails just forward to my primary email. I can have any amount of them, and I've never had any increase in cost. I also can set up a catchall and give rules about what to do with the emails that are caught. It's pretty straightforward, but not perfect; the UI for management can be a bit clunky. However, I've never had any issues with it, and it is wildly inexpensive.

    Edit: this may be off topic, because it doesn't directly answer your question, but I figured saving upwards of $90/yr is worth the potential off-topic comment, if this suits your needs

    Second Edit: @delphi I'm sorry I started the replies with "have you considered doing something else" and not directly answering your question. It bugs me when I get that as a reply to questions that I ask online, and I usually try not to do that.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Do you cook with cast iron? Is it the hassle everyone says it is? in ~food

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    I do season my pans when I get them, but it's also not particularly difficult. I rub a layer of oil on it (top and bottom front and back) and then put it in the oven for an hour, and then turn the...

    I do season my pans when I get them, but it's also not particularly difficult. I rub a layer of oil on it (top and bottom front and back) and then put it in the oven for an hour, and then turn the oven off and let it cool. It takes almost no effort at all.

    Caring for cast iron pans is really easy. They are my favourite pans when you think about them in a value-for-dollar way. The one I use right now is 10 or so years old and just gets better with each use.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on What do you think the top three most used apps on your phone for the past week are? in ~tech

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    Mine was way off and interesting (at least to me) as a result. My guess: Messaging App email app YouTube or Simon Tatham games Actual: youTube Simon Tatham games Firefox I checked the usage and...

    Mine was way off and interesting (at least to me) as a result. My guess:

    • Messaging App
    • email app
    • YouTube or Simon Tatham games

    Actual:

    • youTube
    • Simon Tatham games
    • Firefox

    I checked the usage and messages and email were quite far down on the list. I was questioning my perception of time and how I spend it, but then I checked out the digital well-being a bit. I found out that if you answer or read from the notifications drop-down it doesn't actually trigger that as time spent in any application. I figured out that I most commonly read things from the notifications area, she even respond from the notification area with some frequency.

    So I think my actual most used application is probably the notification drop down.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    Lol I should have waited for your more in depth and more correct explanation.

    Lol I should have waited for your more in depth and more correct explanation.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    I didn't mean to start an argument with my tongue-in-cheek posting about linguistic determinism, so I apologize for that. However, I think that there's a bit of a problem with calling any appeal...

    I didn't mean to start an argument with my tongue-in-cheek posting about linguistic determinism, so I apologize for that.

    However, I think that there's a bit of a problem with calling any appeal to people who study the manner an appeal to authority. The appeal to authority fallacy has some limitations. If we are talking about the same idea of "appeal to authority" as I linked - ie. it is a logical fallacy and thus something that one should take with a grain of salt - then what @sparksbet has done isn't logically fallacious. It's simply referencing. Not all referencing, and not all education, is an appeal to authority.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    It means "wishing you prosperity". It is commonly used to express happy greetings for chinese new year, but the literal meaning is about prosperous wishes. It is often accompanied by lyesee (not...

    It means "wishing you prosperity". It is commonly used to express happy greetings for chinese new year, but the literal meaning is about prosperous wishes. It is often accompanied by lyesee (not sure if I anglicized that correctly) which are red envelopes with cash in them.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    Here is why this is exactly wrong. When someone says "a grilled cheese with cheddar, provolone, bacon, granny smith apples, and pepper jelly" do you know exactly what it is that they have gotten?...

    Here is why this is exactly wrong.

    When someone says "a grilled cheese with cheddar, provolone, bacon, granny smith apples, and pepper jelly" do you know exactly what it is that they have gotten? The answer is yes. Thus it has met the requirement of language - to effectively describe what it is describing. Or to put it another way, the futility and pedantry of linguistic prescriptivism is a ginormous bore, and linguistic descriptivism is where it's at.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    Ha, I also frequently have wraps in high fiber tortillas as well. Usually it's scrambled eggs in a wrap for me.

    Ha, I also frequently have wraps in high fiber tortillas as well. Usually it's scrambled eggs in a wrap for me.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food

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    I realized after reading another comment that my favourite hot chicken is actually korean hot chicken - instead of the nashville style hot sauce, it uses gochujang. I like to put pickles and a bit...

    I realized after reading another comment that my favourite hot chicken is actually korean hot chicken - instead of the nashville style hot sauce, it uses gochujang. I like to put pickles and a bit of iceberg lettuce, and sometimes kimchi as well.

    Sandwiches and wraps are my favourite things to eat.

    2 votes