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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Wouldn't it rather be DEL? CUT can only move stuff elsewhere and doesn't just delete stuff.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cut deletes if you don’t paste after.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Does it? I swear it puts the selected item in a quantum state until the resolution of if it was pasted elsewhere or not.

[–] spankinspinach 21 points 6 months ago

Farmer purgatory

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For files, yeah. I was thinking of text.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just checked it and it depends. On WORD, it removes the text, in EXCEL it does not (until pasted elsewhere)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It does but there are many farmers to cut and only the last one will stay in cosmic clipboard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ehh, embellishing its meaning a bit. I didn’t recall if it would remove the text when initially cut and replace it if was not pasted. Turns out when i tested these, it depended on the program on how it acted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Really depends on what. With text it usually does remove it no matter what. N9t so much with files.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They could have just had Cut and Paste help with harvesting 🤷🏻‍♂️

Then Copy could have devalued the crops by multiplying them to the point they cost nothing. 😊

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Honestly would that ever actually be a bad thing?

Like I really can't fathom a realistic way producing too much food (or whatever they're growing) can be a problem.

And before anyone brings up the economy I'd rather there be so much food it's worthless than what we have now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather there be so much food it's worthless than what we have now.

You're not wrong, but when food is worthless there's no reason to grow it. Farms cost money to run. Now a solution could be to nationalize or subsidize farms completely so that the tax dollars put into them directly lower the cost of food, but that ain't happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it even itself out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Probably not, but it's better than subsidizing farmers to not sell stuff and crash the market. That's just doubling down on waste.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Might be a carbon and unwanted other animal species issues. Bugs, small mammals, and predators thereof. Compost is great but it's still producing by-products. If distribution and politics could be solved (probably politics is the main barrier in distribution, followed by natural disaster, many of which are the direct result of politics), perhaps these things wouldn't be a great concern. But I'm not a scientist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what happens to us too. 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Should we run?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is that a Kill La Kill reference?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Hard to say, too much clothing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

There is a Kill la Kill reference hidden in there... Hidden in plain sight, I mean.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But cut doesn't work that way..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How so? It deletes something from the source and stores it in the clipboard. If you never paste it... it's effectively just deleting it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

But the handling of the command is application independent. Also many applications have their own clipboard

The fact that you say "it deletes something" means you are ignoring the copy process happening in the background.

That something could be any text or file and both have different implementation depending on the app receiving the command.

File cut doesn't even copy the file into the windows clipboard, it just copies the reference to where the file is stored

Other objects like Text behavior incur a replacement of the data on the w clipboard but that's not the same as erasing although it might seem like it that's why

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"I'm Mr Meeseeks, look at me!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's basically what happens to all of us!