davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 1 day ago:
The one on the bottom right hand corner of the picture is the ankle smasher.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
Doesn’t Toronto have the tram lines east west or trolley busses and buses with cheap flat price through ticketing for each journey?
The cables over and underground run from the cheap, green hydroelectric power?
If it’s cheap, regular, reliable with through ticketing, it’s good public transport, not bad.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
Wow. Sorry to hear that. That must be really tough to cope with.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
That’s a top notch clip, thank you.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
Not sure which way round you mean that. I hope the whole family has more harmony and happiness than just now, though.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 week ago:
Yeah, of it’s possible to have a normal licking experience with something that’s gaseous at room temperature, it’s not going to go well if you do lick it.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
Having kids can be stressful, but if you don’t play a largely united front and allow the kids to play manipulative games against your partner, don’t communicate, take sides and turn on each other, one or both of you is snide and used the kids to undermine the other one.
It’s still not the kid’s fault if they were brought up to tolerate and play emotional games against family members. Kids start off life completely self absorbed and have to be taught to be kind, share, think about other people and prioritise relationships over things. No toddler knows this. All functioning adults do.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 1 week ago:
Kids, just so you’re sure, this is a shitpost and you are NOT responsible for your parents’ divorce.
The only reason they increasingly shouted at you in the run up to the divorce was that their marriage was falling apart and divorce is one of the most stressful things that ever happens to people.
- Comment on RIP 1 week ago:
No no no no no no no no no no no no!
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 week ago:
I think there are free editors for LaTeX that show you the code and the end result next to each other, and let you edit either.
You need to learn the ability to resist the urge to tweak layout. You’re using a professional document preparation tool that well make your document look professional. Playing with trendy fonts and margins and placement is how regular people make documents in word that look less professional than LaTeX.
LaTeX gives you the respectability of the corporate style of the professional science researcher, but if you want free-form do-it-how-you-like, you really really really don’t want LaTeX.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
In the UK, for example, the “Liberal Democrats” are right-leaning.
Depends on the leadership. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. There have been times when they’ve been further left than Labour.
Currently of course, that’s easy because Labour is too busy trying to appeal to Reform voters and Conservatives and are governing like they were the Democratic Party, which is a shame, because the country is desperately needing some wealth redistribution.
Labour are in power because were gasping for some sanity after a succession of Conservative lunatics, but all the Conservative Party needs to do is stump up a leader who can sound like they have a couple of good ideas and have a bit of charisma and they’ll be back in power before you can say “short memory”.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the belly laugh!
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 weeks ago:
This one made me laugh almost as much as the OP. Thank you!
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
I was trying to think of some other meaning than ‘drinks dispensary’ for ‘bar’ and I couldn’t think of a sensible reason for putting a bar in your shower for quite a while until I realised metal bar.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
On top of that, it’s an annoyingly disproportionate graphic. The cow is much wider than the human so its area is much more than 60% of the area of the graphic.
The owl might be 3cm high and the hen 6cm high, but 9cm² and 36cm² would be the rough areas, even if it weren’t for the fact that again, the hen picture is much, much wider than the owl.
With 30% and 70%, the owl should just be a little under half as big as the hen, but it looks like about 1/4 or 1/5 of the size of the hen.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 weeks ago:
Best comment on lemmy today.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s weird to shave your pubes, and I think that based on who started that trend, why they started it and why it became popular, but people younger than me who don’t remember any different disagree strongly.
But the fact that your son trusts you with that question and that you calmly helped him and didn’t make a big deal out of it, is an absolute parenting win. Who does your teenaged son go to when he’s worried about something personal and sensitive and embarrassing? He goes to you, and you help him and he is right to trust you.
You are doing excellently as a dad.
- Comment on You know You want to 2 weeks ago:
You know this sign was made before the IBM PC was invented, right?
- Comment on You know You want to 2 weeks ago:
Language changes over time.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 2 weeks ago:
I agree it was a dumb comparison to start off with.
I wasn’t the one who made it, but the license issue is the logical conclusion if OP insists on the comparison.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 2 weeks ago:
If guns are so alike to cars, why not require a license that you get by passing a written test on gun safety and a practical test on basic competence and safe usage?
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
The same kind of grill that can be bricked remotely if you stop paying for software updates.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
Definitely, but I think that Proud Boys leader who showed he could take a black dildo probably thought he was doing some really clever double bluff thing, but we see you Gavin McKinnes. We see you and the insecurities you’re fighting so hard to hide.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 weeks ago:
This is hilarious. I laughed for some time.
“Log back in to continue your OralB brushing experience”
Who thought it would be a good idea to have an online toothbrush, who decided to log customers out after a period of inactivity, and why, for all that is sane in the world, would not being logged in stop you from doing anything at all with your toothbrush!?!
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 3 weeks ago:
Thank your for my first giggle of the day.
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 3 weeks ago:
However, if this turns you into friends with benefits, go you.
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 3 weeks ago:
We cannot accept responsibility if this ruins your friendship.
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 3 weeks ago:
Warning: If you wear a thong instead of swim shorts, your homies will get turned on when you tread water in front of them.
- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 3 weeks ago:
“My fellow Reform members and I believe that our young people should be protected from exposure to potentially harmful ideologies”
The whole f*ing Reform platform is a toxic and actively harmful ideology. Projection as usual from the far right.
- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 3 weeks ago:
If there’s one thing Trump has taught us, it’s that you don’t need to be competent or have even an ounce of intelligence to bring about the nightmare fascist takeover of your country.
Britain stood firm against the far right in the war.
Will we stand against Reform now?