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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

That's not what this double negation cancels to, though. The cancellation of "I can't believe it's not butter" is "I must/I'm compelled to believe it is butter". This is because you're saying you lack the power to believe that it is ~B, where B is the set of butter. Thus, because you're addressing that it exists (i.e. you have to believe it's something), you not only believe it is in set B but are powerless to do otherwise. ∎

See also: /r/isitbutter

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, everyone's.

Images of pure text aren't accessible or necessary: use proper text, instead.Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:

  • usability
    • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
    • text search is unavailable
    • the system can't
      • reflow text to varied screen sizes
      • vary presentation (size, contrast)
      • vary modality (audio, braille)
  • accessibility
    • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
    • some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
    • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
    • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
  • searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
  • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
    • image breaks
    • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It could work with accessibility captions and transcripts.

I've done that when posting on !microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I can't not believe I can't believe it's not butter, but when I do, I believe it.

[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

but i'm not always so sure.....they should call it I Could Believe It Might Be Butter

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

And then there's English's double negative which results in single negative somehow

"I ain't doing nothing" means "I am not doing anything"