I’m sorry, but “he described the people with no mouths as having no mouths” is a bullshit reason. Just…don’t make accusations like that. It’s a shitty thing to do.

If you want to ask a polite question, that’s one thing, but going on and on through a thread trying to persuade someone else of a completely baseless and unfair accusation is really low behaviour.

And if you had been right, what then? What would you have gained? Weigh the consequences of your actions. When the potential upside is almost-nil, and the probability you’re right is a complete toss-up, it’s not worth it.

You’re right, it’s just me 😊

I actually tend to do these less verbose than what I’ve seen is common with others. I concentrate first on getting across the specific message of the post, and second on describing details that help get across the mood.

The wide shot is an important detail, because it explains why we didn’t see the other subjects in the first frame. The lack of visible mouth felt important to me because it contrasts with the smile in the first frame, the lack of smile (or indeed any mouth) gives it a weirder feeling.

Your initial comment seemed like a fairly innocent question and I was happy to answer it, but seeing the thread continue, it’s looking more like a baseless accusation. And that’s dickhead behaviour. Don’t do that. To me, or to others. It’s extremely rude, and honestly provides nothing of value. It’s especially galling to be accused when I’m spending my effort trying to make this a more inclusive space.

Nope, just me! 😊

Back on Reddit, I was a co-mod of a sub with the guy who founded the “transcribers of Reddit”, and that helped instill in me an appreciation for the value of accessibility.

It’s not too hard to do and I’d encourage anyone to give it a go. There’s no need for perfection, and you get a better sense of it as you get used to doing it.

Mastodon and Pixelfed both yell at users to provide alt text for their own posts, but unfortunately Lemmy’s devs don’t seem to have quite the same care for accessibility.

Interesting. What client are you using? It displays fine for me in lemmy-ui (the default Lemmy web app).

I hope this helps rather than being pedantic & annoying?

Absolutely it does! Unfortunately Lemmy and Piefed clients are…inconsistent, at best, when it comes to how some of the finer points of syntax get parsed. Spoiler text is among the worst contenders, because of how non-standard the syntax is (second-worst contender: superscript & subscript). I’ll try adding in the newlines and hopefully it won’t cause any extra problems, but I can’t guarantee it’ll help.

No, I was originally comparing two scenes in one episode of a TV show to a four-panel comic. But in retrospect, I only really needed to compare the first of those two scenes to the four-panel comic. The rest of Troy’s arc is an added bonus, but only the first scene of it is needed to establish the Good Will Hunting comparison.

Yes, and so is this comic. I just think Community did it much better.

Yeah, this comic is just a worse version of Troy’s plot from English as a Second Language.

edit: the whole arc, starting in ESL, ending in Introduction to Finality

A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

IMO the bad grammar adds to the quality of this meme.

Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.

Thanks, I hate it.

because I was sure it is. Since English isn’t my first language

To be fair, it’s an exceptionally common mistake. Even native speakers get it wrong a lot of the time. I think it’s because most people do think it’s referencing something similar to a “savings account”.

So, this actually provides an excellent example of a common misconception. It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings. Because it’s not like a savings account for time, instead, it’s the time for saving daylight. Daylight-saving time.

So a more accurate reversal might be “night-heavy losing time”.

(Anyway, it doesn’t work.)

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

So calling it “losing time” is apt.

I don’t think I had seen him in anything before 99. But he really was great. Top 2 moments for me are the rant about etymology in The Box, and “yas queen” when he pulls the “gay card”.

I binged this show like 3 or 4 times in one year shortly after it ended. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. I really need to go again, because it’s so great. The whole cast is amazing, but Andre Braugher especially just brings another level. RIP.