josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@noyoushutthefuckupdad That's what Romans thought when people started saying “Merry Christmas!” instead of “Io Saturnalia!”. And they were right:

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Saturnalia?lang=en

@LukeAlmighty It's a crossposting bot, man. I don't think it will reply.

@mangeurdenuage I haven't seen the movie. Have you seen other posters in it? It would be cool if Esperanto was the common language in the _Street Fighter_ universe.

Actually...

https://libreddit.tiekoetter.com/r/Esperanto/comments/26hoi8/the_1994_street_fighter_movie_is_full_of/

@mangeurdenuage It actually says ‘TERORISTO’. I think it's Esperanto.

@vaartis Cool. I'm sure it's a good PR.

@vaartis I believe Godot creators were Argentinians, so it might take a while for them to get back to you.

@TechUr Best of luck, man.

@cnx
> Seriously though, quote-posting is bad because it’s technically top-posting.

Very interesting point, but I think it could be argued that, while it is true that top-posting in email is bad because you're putting your response before the text you're replying to (thus making the whole thing harder to understand), in the case of QT/QP, you're not responding to anything, but initiating a new conversation based on someone else's content. In other words, the quoted post acts like a footnote, adding context to one's own post.

Seen this way, it makes perfect sense to put it below one's own text instead of above.

@hugot
> If getting wasted, jumping off balconies and fighting in the street were what made someone an exemplary citizen in Magaluf, that analogy would make sense to me.

True. It was a bad example, I noticed that shortly after I clicked on “TOOT!”.

In any case, my point was that if you really have values, you would conduct yourself by them everywhere, not just “where it matters”. After all, we're talking about values, not customs or mores.

She's absolutely right.

@elshid Unfortunately, I don't think they'll read your comment. They crosspost from Twitter and literally follow 0 accounts here. That's the EU for you.

@Curia @edps

@hugot So one's allowed to be toxic in Rome but must be on their best behaviour in Athens? Is that what you're saying?

That's like being English or German and an exemplary citizen on a daily basis only to go to Magaluf on holidays and start getting wasted, jumping off balconies and fighting on the street. I assume you see the hypocrisy at play.

Not related with the quoted post _per se_, but I find it really ironic that Mastodon's Twitter account used QTs. I thought they considered them toxic and that's why they refused to implement them themselves.

@hfaust I respectfully disagree. Stupid is contagious and we're letting a lot of that in.

@RL_Dane As a PHP developer, I'm pretty used to the ternary operator, and even to the null-coalescing operator (??), which is not ternary, but it's pretty similar.

In normal use, the ternary operator is less verbose than an if/else statement. That said, I don't remember ever seeing, or needing, it in C.