hm, if it’s not too much to ask, maybe a visual would help? Like, an example where Excel or some other program shows correct layout, and LibreOffice has incorrect?

I haven’t had much discomfort with LibreOffice and I tend to be pretty OCD and I do UI work, so … maybe I’ve just ignored it - would like to learn, though!

this is the way

I prefer Google Sheets to Excel, but I still use LibreOffice Calc for everything anyway

it doesn’t feel that different than Word and Excel, tbh - I don’t know what you’re talking about

are you a computer?

yes!! I’m a fan of 24-hour time, though we should honestly switch to metric time, I think we’re at least a second French revolution away from that happening 😅

or put them at the end of the year, that would fix it for me 😅 July can be the 11th month and August the 12th month!

The English word comes from Latin, septem = 7, membris or mens = month (like menstruation).

In the Roman calendar the months are:

1. March
2. February
3. May
4. June
5. July
6. August
7. September
8. October
9. November
10. December

So the order of the months was more logical, and a Roman would naturally understand that September, October, November, and December read as literally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth month respectively.

I basically constantly have to manually correct myself over and over that for example September is the 9th month, to look for the number 9 even though when I read “September” I am reading “seventh month” and my brain automatically wants to look for 7.

I think most people would not relate to my experience of the months let alone how upsetting this is to me, hence I consider it a “small hill” to die on, lol. But it’s a very big hill in my world!

All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

One billboard said:

Avoid student debt, learn a trade.

or something like that. It jives with the general opinion. I do live in a very conservative place, so maybe like you’re saying it’s a matter of where in the South you are. I’m sure in a major city like Atlanta that’s not a common attitude, for example.

huh, I would guess that the majority of people where I live think this way, it’s repeated dogma from teachers, parents, etc. - there are literally billboards along the roadways talking about how useless university degrees are and advertising for trade schools and certificate programs.

those instincts will keep you alive

you should visit the Southern U.S., lol

furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

ContraPoints did an excellent video on conspiracy theories recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

sorry, I should have clarified that I was talking about active communities (where users regularly visit and interact)

You forgot:

• that
• what
• this
• then
• they
• them
• thus
• y’all
• y’ins

Meaning there isn’t an instance for women, nor are there multiple communities - as far as I know there’s just this one community.

this is a bit of how Blahaj works as I understand it, so it’s a good model - if anything I would think Blahaj might already be poised for this kind of instance-level protection of women

EDIT:

one of the Blahaj guidelines does include removing bigotry, including sexism, and would be a candidate for a safe space for women:

Inclusion and Acceptance

Embracing inclusion and acceptance means listening when people tell you who they are and what their needs are. It means not telling people that you know their experiences better than they do. It means not gatekeeping experiences of identities of others. It means no bigotry such as racism, sexism, anti LGBT commentary, ableism etc. It means doing your best to ensure that you don’t over-talk the voices of folk who don’t share your privileges.

That said, the women spaces on Blahaj are mostly for trans women, so a more general women’s community would be nice.

unfortunately I think this is the current answer, at least on Lemmy.