Isn’t it time that Canada annexed Alaska?

That’s not a language, it’s a dialect and nowhere near standard. I think there’s quite a difference between responding in a language that can be translated by existing translation tools vs whatever offshoot of a dialect you wrote that in. After all, people from the UK will respond in English, not Cockney, Geordi, Brummie or whatever else. And they don’t write words how they sound when spoken, which is what you’re doing.

Surprisingly your text was translatable by DeeplL

As to the UX, I don’t see the problem. Lemmy allows you to select which languages you want to see and if people consistently respond in a language you don’t wan to see, you can always block them. It’s a pity Lemmy doesn’t allow deselecting “Undetermined” because it would turn this into a non-issue.

Hmmm… I thought it would be rude, but considering the consensus here, people speaking other languages should just respond using their languages to English comments and posts. There are way more non-English speaking people on the planet than English speakers. It would make the fediverse truly international if people did what you did!

Thanks for possibly starting a movement :)

If that really is what they meant, they are still regarding it as “good” or “bad” through the lens of monogamy. Free love, polyamory, and all that jazz don’t necessarily bind themselves to the disney interpretation of love “one partner forever and if you don’t, you’ve failed”.
Some people are happier having multiple partner sequentially or in parallel. Some may have one stable partner and at the same time multiple others that come and go while retaining that stable / main / primary partner. Others may move in and out of relationships with the same people simply because they have other definitions of “relationship”. And so much more.

The evaluation of “good” is highly subjective.

By that logic, a spousal abuse victim is much better off staying with the abuser because “changing partners isn’t good”.

How would you define “success”? 50% of marriages end, there are less people getting married and they are doing so later in life. I can’t remember the numbers but it wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of people who did marry had at least one partner beforehand. Did the end of the previous relationships mean they were “unsuccessful” at relationships?

Also, would how the relationship ended be taken into account? A relationship ending because “you cheated on me you bitch” with an ensuing shouting match is probably very different a mutual breakup due to distance, time, or other factors.

Additionally, it would require defining “relationship”. There are people who serially monogamous and have many short-lived flings are those “relationships”?

And happiness is important too. There are people who are in the same relationship for decades but deeply unhappy with their partner but can’t leave.

I fear for how any such would be misrepresented in the media. “Study with one-dimensional definition of success says monogamy better than polyamory”. “Study with 1000 couples in a university of which 10 were poly says polyamory is a failure”.

Which crystal told you they are poor decisions?

Such emotions are often can be triggered by ignorance - that’s not a negative, we are all ignorant in one way or another. What counts is what we do with that ignorance. Your daughter is in a polyamorous relationship or something similar to that. I would recommend you educate yourself about what that is, what kinds of healthy poly relationships can exist, what kinds of unhealthy ones can, and learn how to accept that your daughter is different - just like you are.

Seminal reading on the subject, which I would also recommend your daughter pick up, is The Ethical Slut.

Edit: You are not a bad person for feeling what you feel. But you are an intelligent being, capable of thought and reasoning, that doesn’t have to simply give in to emotions. How would you feel if somebody found out about something that makes you you, felt icky, and did nothing to question that emotion but simply gave in and treated you accordingly regardless of your other attributes?

Yep. The idea that microsoft can “do nothing” to a system that isn’t hosted on their servers is pure delusion - or ignorant. They haven’t thought more deeply about being evil, which is quite cute actually.

Of course they could. One update could render the system worthless or come with malware that infests systems in the network.

Well that’s one way to destroy somebody’s reputation. Do this on twitter @ fElon with the same text.

Leave some holes for the rest of us!

Either it’s a fake ceiling or they are slabs of concrete.

source

There are no other companies out there. Amazon is the only one.

Serious question: why do people work at amazon? Are they unaware of what’s happening? Is the money just that good?

For a real explanation of this watch this illuminating video.

TL;DW According to the perons, it’s based on counting sheep and from base 20. 1 score = 20 sheep. 2 score = 40 sheep.
To get to 50, you have 2.5 score, but they don’t say “two and a half”. They are quite Germanic and say “halfway to 3” (Germans do this too). So, 50 = half three score.

The video also points out that English has (as the hodgepodge of a language it is) yet another remnant of Germanic languages: 13-19 are not “te(e)n-three to te(e)n-nine”, but “three-te(e)n to nine-te(e)n”, just like in German “drei-zehn bis neun-zehn”.

It’s quite easy to mock other languages, but there’s always a reason for why things are the way they are. Think of Chesterton’s fence.