etuomaala

etuomaala, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

<span style="color:#323232;">I still feel a strong pull towards r/worldnews.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">c/world@lemmy.world is juuuust not quite as good,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    content-wise.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">edit:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    !world@lemmy.world
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Still new to lemmy, lol...
</span>

etuomaala, 1 year ago

<span style="color:#323232;">Perma-bans are fucking crazy.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The correct way to think about them is as a death sentence.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Hatred speech in real life:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    what, like 2 years in prison?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    IDK actually...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Hatred speech on reddit:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    death penalty.
</span>

etuomaala, 1 year ago

<span style="color:#323232;">Yeeeeah, that's a good point, kind of.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But even people serving life sentences can
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    still communicate with the outside world from prison.
</span>

etuomaala, 1 year ago

<span style="color:#323232;">Because
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    it
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        preserves
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            whitespace.
</span>

etuomaala, 1 year ago

Do you know of another way to preserve white space?

etuomaala, 1 year ago

<span style="color:#323232;">It's an experiment I've been trying for about two weeks, now.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I am using whitespace to make written English easier to read.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I put one sentence per line.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Long sentences are broken into multiple lines
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    according to natural breaks in the sentences.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(I try to aim for an 80 column width.)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Indentation is used to signal the continuation of a sentence.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Basically, I am treating English like a programmer would treat code.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">As an interesting and unexpected corollary,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    the English is much easier to edit, and
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    diffs are way cleaner.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">(I'm editing this in an external dedicated text editor.)
</span>