Oh whoops, I just realised your previous comment was a reply to @Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafe and not @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de.

Ok so it looks like Piefed is the name of the platform you’re on, a different threadiverse platform from Lemmy or Kbin. Unfortunately some of the more advanced syntax like spoilers are the first things to become incompatible when you cross over between different platforms.

This should work on Lemmy:

This should work on Kbin, I believe:

::: spoiler Test spoiler text :::

!This is the syntax that worked on Reddit.!< (and tbh I quite like that syntax because it enables inline spoilers, instead of only paragraphs)

From what I can tell, Piefed has similar behaviour to Lemmy. Unfortunately emotional_series is on Kbin which means their spoiler syntax is breaking for you, and for me. Their above comment is particularly bad for me because they didn’t even include a paragraph break before starting the ::: spoiler. And it breaks even worse for you because Piefed seems to default to treating the text that Kbin intends to be hidden as the revealed part of the spoiler if they do have the paragraph break. And it also ignored code blocks in order to spoil code.

This is what you should be seeing in the lower comment:

instead of this:

and what emotional_series sees is this:

That doesn’t quite work on Lemmy, though it does on Kbin. On Lemmy you need

::: spoiler [unspoiled message]
[all your stuff you want to spoil]
:::

Is your instance Lemmy or some other fedicerse platform? And if it’s Lemmy, what client are you using? Because their syntax displays correctly for me on Jerboa and lemmy-ui, and I’m fairly sure it’ll work on any well-behaved Lemmy client.

Could also be that he just doesn’t meet the minimum weight threshold of the digital scales. Mine will read 0 up to 5 kg.

1997–2012 is the definition used by Pew (which also uses the oft-quoted 1981–1996 definition for millennials). Statistics Canada uses 2012 too, while the US census uses 2013.

But anyway, the earliest cutoff I could find was 2010, which is what the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses, and my point still works for 2010 kids. (The ABS’s other boundaries also don’t change the fact that I’m young millennial but my sister old gen Z, or that my parents are young boomers, either. So every point I was making still works.)

Ah shit sorry. I’ll edit that.

Still, it’s 1001 to 2001.

Young millennial here. My first memory relating to 9/11 is vaguely being told it was the anniversary of some event that happened the previous year in 2002.

It really wasn’t (at least not directly—the aftermath of it certainly was) the big generarion-defining thing Americans like to think it was. The impact on global diplomacy (not least of which is the Iraq and Afghanistan wars), the increased security theatre when travelling on planes. That’s certainly a defining generational experience. But the event itself is much less so.

Secondly, a millennium is a thousand years. Are you saying the previous thousand years (1000-1999) don’t count as a millennium that millennials… existed in?

I agree with that the comment you’re replying to is basically nonsense, but I do have two points to correct about this.

First, a small nitpick. Technically, millennia go from 01–00, so 1001–2000, with 2001 being the first year of the new millennium.

More significantly, it is obviously the case that millennials were so named because of something to do with the turn of the millennium. Frankly I don’t know what that is and it would have made more sense to name gen Z millennials because they actually span across the millenium divide and are the first generation born into the new millennium. Or if gen Y had started and finished 5 years later, they could have spanned the bridge, as well as even older genYers still being children during it, which would have been more appropriate.

Notice how it’s “Older Millennial, younger millennial, etc”. You don’t use those qualifiers with the other generations

Of course you do. I, a young millennial, have a lot more in common with my old genZer sister than she does with a young genZer born in 2011. It’s an important distinction because we both didn’t get smart phones until we didn’t have smart phones until late teens at least, while young genZers weren’t even born when the iPhone was first released.

My parents are young boomers. For my dad that means he never had to worry about getting drafted like his older boomer brothers.

It’s Pokemon games.

Yes. I would suggest having human decency is the bare minimum of good morals.

Took me until reading the other reply to your comment to realise you weren’t calling the lettuce evil 🤦‍♂️

Happy cake day, by the way!

Bad take. Is not teachers’ job to instill good morals in kids.

It also shouldn’t be in them to put up with abuse in the workplace, regardless of who’s the one delivering that abuse.

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, some of these can be very tricky depending on your knowledge of the English language, common English-language idioms, and well as various culture-specific things like American sporting teams, currency, American-specific vocab, etc.

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Thanks for adding it in.

Yeah 100% it’s that.

Damn, this post left out some really crucial context. I assumed the comment was left in response to someone martyring themselves, probably after having killed others in the name of their sky fairy. And in that context I’d have backed them 100% in what they were saying about it.

But yeah, your reply there said it better than anyone could. The comment was completely out of place and inappropriate.

Ha! Good point.

I think when most people talk about trebuchets, they more specifically mean a counterweight trebuchet, which is first concretely attributed to the Ayyubids in the 12th century.