Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@nate you could ask the retailer if they buy back open box.

@nate a good tip is to ask for the receipt, most will take the hint. If not you can say you need it for warranty in case it break.

@nate you should tell the person in question just that. You aren't sparing their feelings by hating your self.

@tess thank you, hopefully it will fix the clipping issue I have been trying to track down.

@w7voa have you heard of Pascal's bargain?

@KneeNeart yeah, I assume that the first woman on the moon was incidental. It's pretty common to talk about missions based on what makes them unique or novel, and saying "the first black person on the moon" probably didn't sound as good.

Missions usual become known to the public based on what they are called in the media, so if they referred to it as "the first woman on the moon" they are stuck with it. At least if they want people to know what they are talking about.

@KneeNeart I don't get it, someone had to design it. If Prada gave the best bid that's fine.

@gsuberland if the difference is in the order of a single hz I think it's fair to describe them as being the same frequency.

@bri_seven @gannet @futurebird you can imagine how confused and mad people were at Sweden pouring millions of dollars to build girls toilets in Afghanistan. While at the same time moving towards gender neutral restrooms as default domestically.

@melivia @goatsarah
In my experience that's just how people with neuro-typically personality dysorder cope. If they need to call them self supper heroes to actually treat their child as human, I am happy to support them.

@mrsbeanbag you might turn out to be more right then I thought, news recently reached me that the DOJ is opening a probe into Swedens sale of Gripen to Brazil. They already did it once before, otherwise this would be the kind of pressure that I would expect.

Every sale of military equipment is corrupt, but is also covered by national immunity. An investigation can't really do much, other than apply diplomatic pressure.

@mrsbeanbag I am very dyslexic. And I have learnt a love of word play from Japanese, which and witch may be deliberate because I find it amusing. and because I was unsure of how to spell which.

@mrsbeanbag the Babel fish solution of everyone magically speaking English isn't quiet as satisfying. Inventing a whole language is quiet an effort though.

@mrsbeanbag honestly this is really scary, because I never learnt the difference between Swedish and English grammar. I have no clue with witch I am speaking, or more likely what horrible amalgamation thereof. Mostly it doesn't cause problems, but every once in awhile I get a feeling that what I wanted to say and what was heard isn't quite, or even close to, the same.

@mrsbeanbag I don't think so. But I am speaking Swedish with English words, so what do I know.

@mrsbeanbag their exist a small community of revivalists that want to promote it as an alternative to English, they have their success every once in awhile.

My understanding is that they approaching numbers equivalent to Esperanto, or at least that is their main point of compression.