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  • I, too, have done the “all communication is manipulative”, but in the same way as one would do a bar trick:

    all communication is manipulative, for any words I say/write that you perceive instantly manipulate (as in the physical manner / modifying state) your thoughts, and this is done so without you requesting I do so

    it’s a handy stunt with which to drive an argument about a few parts of communication, rhetoric, etc. because it gives a kinda good handle on some meta without getting too deep into things

    (although there was one of my friends who really, really hated the framing)


  • lemmy’s own post-formatting code

    oh but see, it has at least 2-if-you-squint representations of things (and possibly more? it’s been a while since I read the code). it’s got “raw”, which represents semi sorta whatever the user input

    iirc it broadly takes that for a local render (as in on the site frontend)

    and then it also makes a $something for the thing it sends out over ActivityPub

    I do want to make it clear that I’m not carrying water for lemmy here, fwiw. this’d be a legit cool thing to add to things (whether the spape it took was “renders latex locally, and ships images remote” or whatever). just saying it might be hairy




  • off the cuff, this feels like a "don’t cross the streams’ thing

    (there is that webfont or whatever thing for html latex, but having looked under the hood on lemmy’s post handling I uhhhhhhh yeah)

    neat idea though, maybe that should be a thing that philthy can do better








  • The nerd/jock thing always felt like an American thing

    similarly, I never got to see the “school bully” thing even nearly as much as it seems to be an issue US-side. not that we didn’t have (or that they didn’t try with me[0] on occasion), but it seems to be quite extreme in the US?