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    Any speed above the speed limit is speeding. And any speed below the speed limit is impeding the flow of traffic.

    Vehicles would never be able to get up to speed.

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    This reminded me of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. So many characters are like this.

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      See this is the problem with Lemmy. I want to tag this or even crosspost this to a Pratchett place (“unexpectedpratchett” or similar) but a) I haven’t found a populated one, and b) I can’t just type in its name if I have one or guess its name like you can in other media, and c) even if I did, the link won’t work for everyone, and those it will work for are often (like me) sent out-of-app to a browser if they successfully click on the damn thing. Frustration.

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        a) should resolve itself overtime with both features and people
        b) is something devs should be working on, or at least I heard that they are working on better cross-instance community search
        c) this is currently my gripe too, on Android jerboa does offer opening any https:// links in the app but it rarely works or you have to do it twice for whatever reason.

        Though I get the frustration.

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          The “critical mass” argument only makes sense if there’s a critical mass in the future. There might never be one. People might give up threaded-discussion platforms before this ever makes it.

          I vote we go back to phpBB.

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        You can very easily write cross instance links if you weren’t aware, e.g. !memes@lemmy.world – this works on desktop (opens the community on your instance instead of the instance the community is on, so you stay logged in) and on every mobile client I’ve seen

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    Good Evil - Villain who ends up doing good whilst trying to do evil.

    Evil Good - Hero who ends up fucking shit up so poorly, people think he’s evil.

    Neutral-Neutral - Not to be confused with True Neutral, these characters are just extremely indecisive.

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      Germans (of course) have a term for it: “Dienst nach Vorschrift” (work by the book).
      It’s a way for government officials to strike even though they don’t have the right to strike and can’t form a union.
      They simply apply every single regulation concerning their work to the letter, grinding everything to a halt.

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    “Byzantine Clerics must enter and exit all buildings through windows on the second Tuesday of the month. It is written.”

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    The first one is just chaotic neutral, the second one is lawful evil.

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    i have a strict moral code but nobody can figure out what the hell it is

    Sounds like it could be used for encryption.

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    I am absolutely this in real life.

    I am lucky that i live somewhere where most laws do make enough sense to act within them on a daily basis but the second they cross my personal ideals there just as useless like any old religious text. Il accept whatever consequence there can be in order to stay true to myself. (Except endangering others).

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    III. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, Let there be Signs, so that All within shall know the Proper Running of the Store.

    IV. On the Moving Stairs, let the Sign Be: Dogs and Pushchairs Must be Carried;

    V. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) waxed wroth, for many carried neither dog nor pushchair.