WhipperSnapper

@WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feral naming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I’ve been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who’s tasted one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think lemmy will ever be popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say I think I liked reddit more before the digg folks came. Maybe Lemmy is right where it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And now for some golden oldies!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a wild time to invest in phone booths!

  Real answer is dialup modem speeds. Doubled our download (in my case, from 10 minutes per mb to 5 minutes!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And now for some golden oldies!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so you do or do not remember the excitement of going from 14.4 to 33.6 for dialup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Places I worked when I was younger, it was just one of the jobs of the courtesy clerks, along with bagging and filling some things to the shelf. Even in a really busy store, I think there’d be a ton of wasted time if someone was doing only carts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea that there’s some shift that’s just getting carts all day.

  “Sorry, Johnson, people haven’t left enough carts out lately. We’re letting you go.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch toilets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using “bis” for toilets is funny, like you’re grinding a raid at the hardware store hoping for an epic toilet drop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicken just isn’t gonna need to be that precise. It’s not an ingredient that mixes with others in that way. That being said, chicken is an item that most recipes would mention by weight. Nobody is going to actually weigh out the chicken; they’ll just go with a close measurement, or use potentially use the packaging it came in for reference.