Are you dense? Or just looking to troll someone?

That’s kinda like our chicken.

She’ll be doing her thing, then hop up on you long enough to squawk and wipe her beak on you until you stop what you’re doing and talk to her, then jump down and go back to her chickening.

Well, until she’s ready for a nap, in which case she assumes you have turned into a nest and will treat you as such

It isn’t a universal thing, but yeah.

As others have said, a tablet typically refers to a prebound pad of paper, and most typically to one that is bound across the top, ala legal pads.

Like anything language related, usages bleed and shift. Back before bound paper was a thing, it was used to refer to any flat writing surface.

It goes back to tabula, from Latin, where the primary (but not only!) use was for the equivalent of a placard or other inscribed label, as well as any writing surface.

Think like a writing slate. The term tabula rasa is essentially the same as “clean slate”, and refers to writing on an actual slate being erased.

So, tablet over time has been used for pretty much any writing surface at all, and it’s not unusual to see it applied to any bound writing surface, even if it’s a loose-leaf binder. It is archaic though, and wasn’t exactly common in that specific usage (not that I’ve ever heard or seen anyway). But I have seen and heard it used that way, particularly for the kind of binders that run across an entire edge of a stack of papers, like you might use for a presentation. For ringed binders, I’ve only heard it used a handful of times, and never seen it in print.

Caveat: I’m just a word nerd, so I’ve never tracked things down to primary sources. Etymology is a fairly rigorous thing, and nothing I’ve said here is exactly rigorous. Take it as a casual thing pulled from memory rather than something you could cite in a class assignment.

Weregirl? There girl.

Yup, that was exactly the thing I was going to say.

The little convenience store nearest the gym I used to go to sold the hell out of them. When there was a road crew working in the area, we couldn’t get them because they were always sold out.

When I started martial arts, there was a small batch of us that would stop at a different shop on the way in and grab a big pickle and a small beer for after class. That combination worked so good after a serious workout where you’d end up throwing up from the intensity. Which seems crazy, but it was way better than the usual drinks and snacks sold for replenishment.

What came first, the urge to be a dick needlessly, or the lack of creativity?

Same as they always have. It’s fast. You can grab taco bell in a flash compared to even the best run diner or cafe. And you don’t have to sit around with a bunch of strangers that are essentially walking disease vectors to do it, unless you want to.

The draw of fast food joints has never been primarily about the food quality, or service. Yeah, you’ll likely pick the place that has what you consider better food, and avoid shit service, but that’s a different thing.

Even joints that pretend to not be fast food (like chikfila) only pull a small portion of their consumers on the food primarily. They might draw some customers away from other fast food places, but not from sit-down places like you’re talking about

Ngl, that looks like a fun group. Back at that age, seeing that many boys smiling and getting along long enough for a picture was not realistic at my school lol.

Well, yeah, but they’re all cunts ;)

I’ve been skeet missing lol

Which is an exaggeration, but not a huge one. Definitely fun anyway, but more because it’s outdoors and active for me. Haven’t done it in decades. Back in the nineties, I’d go with some of my family just for the joy of shooting with them, but was never into it on my own.

A decent scope on a lever action is a little slice of heaven though :). I’m not a hunter, nor was I ever a regular one; really only small game then. But lever action shooting is very engaging, once you get the hang of keeping a good sight picture while cycling the rounds.

Nothing wrong with that :)

A lot of my family shoot at some degree of regularity or another. I’ve got a cousin that flat out won’t shoot handguns, of any caliber. Says it isn’t worth the hassle, he just wants a relaxed shooting session, and that means a rifle to him. Just hunkered down and no need to deal with grip, stance, etc.

Me, it’s shotguns I’m not into. To me, they’re only for when you need a shotgun in specific, and I’ll only practice enough to hit what I intend to, never for the fun of it. But some folks love the skill set and practice.

I dig that. Expressive, but still open for the viewer to find their own path through the image.

Eh, you can’t rely on votes made, unfortunately. Too many people use it to disagree for it to be a sign of an opinion being deemed not unpopular, or vice versa.

Fwiw, I agree that this is currently unpopular, though I disagree with it and my vote was up.

My disagreement is in the colloquial usage of idiot vs a stricter usage. Old school, idiot was a term to indicate functional intelligence, or rather the lack thereof. Now, it has come to mean someone either making poor choices via bad thinking, or someone that’s ignoring any thought at all

Musk -definitely- fits the looser usage. Not specifically because of twitter, it is reflected in all his business decisions of the last decade. Twitter, he isn’t making decisions, he’s following someone else’s plan, and that’s the decision he made.

I don’t think his actual iq is relevant tbh. You can be a genius (and he isn’t) and still fail to use that. He makes poor use of what brains he does have, which makes him an idiot overall.

You can feel free to handle your pronouns however you want. That’s your choice, and I have no beef with that. You said you’re essentially venting with this post, so my interpretation that you were seeking some degree of understanding as to why people react poorly to your choice was incorrect, so there’s really little else I can say.

Sorry to have wasted your time.

The only thing I can say at this point is that you’re going to continue to have problems with people while you continue using grammar that’s so far off of the way everyone else does. It comes across as a troll attempt rather than a genuine thing.

I mean, when they’re expressing frustration at people responding in anger, and there’s a significant portion of that anger that stems from poor grammar, I would say it’s totally on topic to talk about the semantics of words, particularly when the post is inaccurately pointing towards a cause for the anger that isn’t accurate, based on things people have said in the open.

Yup, and likely not the recent past, say ten years plus

My homie, I’m going to quote here

drag’s pronouns are very consistent

That sentence is drag as a possesive noun. The 's means that the “pronouns” word right after the 's is possessed by drag.

You don’t say, in English, I’s pronouns, or mine’s pronouns, or my’s pronouns. You would only say my pronouns. My is the singular possessive of the self.

Like, I have mad respect for you, you make people think, and you handle the bullshit with grace. If you’re going to make it work, you kinda have to choose between following english grammar and structure in a way that communicates clearly, or expect confusion followed by anger. When you try to explain your choices to people, you fall back on incorrect grammar. It makes it look like you’re fucking with people rather than explaining.

Now, if you want to do that, that’s cool. You can make that choice freely. I’m not trying to change your mind, or get you to do things the way everyone else does. But that’s why you get anger.

Again, I dig you. I’ve enjoyed seeing you around lemmy. This isn’t an attack. I’m just trying to explain what other people have said already, but in a slightly different way, since you seem to not see where the anger is coming from. It could be a language barrier, I dunno.

Well, no, transphobia is a specific thing with a fairly well defined set of limits. You can’t apply it willy nilly. Well, you can, but it not only won’t achieve anything, and it waters down the term.

Go through their history, look at the comments. Any venom towards dragonrider is because of the dissonance of the terminology, not because they’re trans. Which, have they even said they’re trans before now? I haven’t checked every single post and comment. This is the first time I’ve seen them mention it.

Neo pronouns aren’t just a cis thing with it being confusing. Trans people get confused about it too, and some directly object to it being lumped into trans rights at all because the struggle for acceptance of established pronouns is already fraught with difficulty, and outright danger. IDGAF, though I’m not wasting my time adjusting my keyboard settings to capitalize it, or translating every single pronoun to drag. More power to anyone. But dragonrider asked something, and I gave the best response I could to it.

They genuinely seem confused why people get angry with them, and the post seemed to be wanting discussion about that. The truth is that people think drag is trolling because it’s inconsistently applied, and doesn’t follow grammatical structures. Regardless of what anyone thinks, you can’t just redraw the grammar of an entire language and think people are going to play along.

Seriously, have you not seen drag around lemmy? The heat they’re taking is directly because of the confusion around the weird choice and the explanation not matching what they write. Nobody is all “oh, you’re trans, you suck, go away”.

I mean, c’mon dragon rider, you have to realize that the inconsistent way you use drag as pronoun makes it confusing as hell, even to the best intentioned

And the choice of it as a pronoun is a hard sell to begin with. Neopronouns are pig dubious value, and a ton of people will point out that it makes it harder for trans people to be taken seriously against an already douche filled world. With it also being part of your screen name, the entire thing looks like a troll attempt.

Hell, I’m not certain you aren’t trolling, and I enjoy seeing you around, making people think.

Truth? If you stuck to replacing gendered pronouns, you wouldn’t run into the confusion. Replacing I with drag really, really doesn’t work grammatically since drag is part of dragon rider. I, my, mine, they just aren’t the same as gendered pronouns, and when you’re wanting people to ignore a lifetime of speaking english with the rules of grammar as they are and replace self referential pronouns with a random word that’s only for you, I’m surprised you haven’t ended up banned across lemmy.

Seriously, you seem cool as fuck. But choosing to apply drag to I, me, mine, and then using drag’s, which is a third person possessive, it just isn’t ever going to end. You’ll always have someone confused as the best case scenario. You could be the most awesome person on the planet, and the dissonance of being expected to adapt to inconsistent rules using an awkward word is offputting enough to make it not worth the effort of communication with you. If I had to try and remember to insert drag for every “you” in this, I would have quit entirely. It just isn’t realistic to expect the majority of people to automatically obey your arbitrary rules.

What you’re experiencing isn’t transphobia, period. It’s the dissonance of choosing a random word as a pronoun and expecting people to know what you’re saying.