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  • faultyproboscustomemes@lemmy.worldMake me cry
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    18 days ago

    When I say ‘learn new things’, I don’t mean watch YouTube videos of factoids. I mean things like sitting down and learning calculus if you haven’t already. You’ll need to push yourself out of your comfort zone significantly to slow down the perceived passage of time.










  • faultyproboscustoTechnology@lemmy.worldLegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey
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    2 months ago

    Trustpilot tries to weed out fake reviews. A huge influx of reviews all at once looks like fake reviews. And, to be fair, I imagine a chunk of those reviews are “fake” in that the reviewers never used the app. It’s easier for Trustpilot to cut off new reviews for the time being than to deal with evaluating all these new reviews.








  • faultyproboscustoFunnyA concerned mother
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    7 months ago

    Ellipses as pauses is a leftover of telegrams which bled into the era of limited text messages(and/or charging by the text), because the financial incentives for long single messages were the same.

    In the era of unlimited texting, though, we’ve dropped that convention because it’s extra keystrokes. In fact, we’ve even dropped the period at the end of sentences in texts because you can just hit the send button as a thought separator, sending multiple texts.

    Including the period is unnecessary extra information, so it is seen as formal at best or even a way to covey unhappiness, anger, or frustration.

    Hope this helps! Note that none of this applies to longer form messages like this one.