stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter? 2 days ago:
I believe that the no shirt no shoes was originally targeted at rural areas where someone might be working on the farm and come in as they were to buy some groceries. Time? Probably 1950s with the larger health and hygiene movements of the time.
- Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums 3 days ago:
I specifically got one with no WiFi to avoid any issues like this.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Don’t forget Bernie and AOC.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
Is that a JE reference?
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
It is a scummy thing to do but the leaders of the gaming industry, Gabe aside, have always been psychopaths.
- Comment on Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans 3 weeks ago:
It’s always been about power, not policy
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 3 weeks ago:
I’ve literally had this happen. Doing a doctorate in engineering rn and this is real.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 4 weeks ago:
As I understand, this clock measures how habitable the world remains for humans. If we get to the end, we’d say that humans can’t easily survive anymore.
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 4 weeks ago:
Or the heavy statistics….
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He was born in a spiral. He tried to rename PayPal “x” then tried to name several children “x” until he finally found a place that would allow it.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 month ago:
And it takes longer to season aluminium!
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 month ago:
That’s when it’s most useful because now it’s nonstick.
- Comment on Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Deploy National Guard in Chicago 2 months ago:
The catch is that it’s not a final decision and they can still do whatever the hell they want but probably won’t.
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
You are amazing. I have not paid super deep attention to these but seem them nearly every time you post and think that what you are doing is really cool.
- Comment on Foot long 3 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Foot long 3 months ago:
I keep seeing this reference but missed the news. What’s going on?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 months ago:
Why is it necessary to go on the attack over a past attempt that didn’t work? That’s how innovation functions. Sometimes you hit the mark and sometimes you don’t, but everyone learns from the process.
- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 3 months ago:
People in South America still play Santa but it’s a much different experience in the hottest part of summer.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 4 months ago:
These things have existed for as long as cities did but worried mostly about import duties than immigrants. In most of history, having more people to do useful things was a good thing and they tended not to block immigration except when there might be ethnic or racial tensions and such.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 4 months ago:
I had a friend who was a computer science student and did an additional major in Japanese just so he could read manga in original language. It can be done but requires a lot of dedication.
If you are a native English speaker, then learning Germanic and Romance languages will be easy because they have much in common. With Japanese, there’s no real evolutionary commonality so you really have to just learn a whole new system that doesn’t match your expectations–and from scratch. Example:
1,352
English: one-thousand three-hundred fifty-two Japanese: one thousands place, three hundreds place, five tens place, two
Just the conception of how numbers work is different. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t try to do this, it would be fantastic. Just know that you have to develop a lot of new intuitions.
- Comment on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg 4 months ago:
lol my first question was whether that was from wales
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 4 months ago:
When Austin Powers came out I thought it was the funniest thing ever. 25 years later I watched a few scenes and turned it off. It aged really poorly.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 4 months ago:
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 months ago:
This is an aspect of driving that people don’t get. It doesn’t necessarily matter WHAT the laws are–there are so many ways to drive all around the world. What matters is that everyone follows the same ones so that they know what to expect from others. If people routinely ignore one law in a region and that’s part of the expectation, then everyone is just fine. It’s that one person who doesn’t follow the norms that is dangerous.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 months ago:
There are no “bad people” but plenty of people who do shitty things. Here are some of those that street racers do:
- They endanger themselves and others
- They make a lot of noise
- They pollute, scar, and mark the streets
So probably “yes” if you want to define it that way.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 4 months ago:
So if you are a true Catholic you have to take the word of the Pope as the word of God. Catholics who disagree with the pope are hypocrites.
- Comment on After 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 4 months ago:
I agree. It was fun for a very long time and then somewhere around 2015 it became a political shitshow and people started getting mean.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 5 months ago:
Lol I love how you criticize the gaming industry and then your friends directly.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 5 months ago:
Or complete