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Great, now you can get that Nobel Prize you deserve :)
I am curious if its common when someone changes their name to retroactively get it changed on past publications. Seems like a nightmare for librarians honestly.
@matrix Its called "breasat hypertrophy" or "macromastia" and its hardly a mystery. Its a condition that happens all the time.
I find it funny though that the technical name is "hypertrophy" like "your breasts are so big you arent just a trophy for a man to have sex with you, its a hypertrophy!"
@Sphinx, @trinsec: about https://qoto.org/@Pat/107805405025437432 , and for context:
https://qoto.org/@tripu/107801777673859261
I used a certain word to refer _to the word itself_ (that's called “metalanguage”), because I wanted to refer to the controversy caused _by someone else_ who in turn used the word — I did not direct the epithet towards any one person or group. My typing the word could not be more removed from the intention of a true racist hurling it at someone.
I am not a US citizen nor resident. English is not even my mother tongue.
Speaking about languages, the word itself is an _alteration_ of a word in my own language, Spanish (_“negro”_) which meant (and still means) literally “black” (that's it, just a colour, no connotations and not taboo for 500+ native speakers).
Whatever responsibility or guilt someone else feels at the mere sight of that word, I am guaranteed to be 100% free of — different continent, different History, that word never been used by my ancestors.
The distance between me using a word in this particular way, and an American white supremacist using it as insult and abuse on purpose, is of cosmic proportions.
All that _has_ to matter, or we are all doomed.
I have to agree with @tripu and say im rather surprised at @Pat 's response. Trripu used the word to reference what someone said, not directed at anyone and not with harmful intend. Saying someone said the word, and not youtself using the word beyond that context, is an awfully petty thing to block someone over, especially considering he wasnt explicitly condoning its use. Context means everything and when we start ignoring context we cant possibly make progress on any issue.
That said, pat is welcome to block who they want and for any reason. So it is their right to block. But I do think its important to voice my disapproval.
For the record I am speaking as an individual here and not as a moderator.
@caranmegil Already do that already even when not drunk. I love ghost pepper!
@caranmegil I already do that whenever I get a new ordinary follower
@trinsec TD = Travelers Diarrhea
Giardia and TD have similar symptoms, mostly diarrhea and stomach pain. Both of these can be symptoms of covid so there is some overlap there. I had the cough of covid and loss of smell so my first guess was covid as it is a closer match (though rarely causes diarrhea as severe as I had). but once covid came back negative I was stuck looking for less likely matches. The loss of smell was partial and lasted only one day so i ruled it out as psychosomatic at which point gardia/TD fit just didnt explain the cough.
@louisrcouture sexy!
Made a new user-script that fixes mastodon on large screens.
#mastodon #ui #koyuspace
/* ==UserStyle==
@name KoyuSpace on large screen
@description This css snippet will fix your glitch-soc mastodon interface by making sure that the elements will use all the available width of your screen. It will strectch the home column.
@match https://koyu.space/*
==/UserStyle== */
.wide .columns-area:not(.columns-area--mobile) .column[data-column="home"]{
max-width:none;
}
@trinsec I've had symptoms for like a week, took a pcr test early on and was negative so assumed it was something else.. second pcr test was positive. So chances are im at the end of the sickness.
Thing that threw me off other than the negative pcr test is because i also clearly had some TD or gardia or something that gave me two things at once and it was rather confusing what was going on.
@trinsec Yup, I did that once :)
@trinsec You only get notifications for what sows in notifications I think
@trinsec lawl, ignored :)
@trinsec hmm weird im getting them. You tried clearing cache and refreshing?
@trinsec first day i was weakly positive on the antigen test. This is the second day and now it doesnt show up. so it seems its diminishing not increasing.
@Acer probably some challenges on codewars maybe
@trinsec yea pure logic, no recall. Much easier in some ways
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