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- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 days ago:
First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.
Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What’s missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car’s dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools’ fault. (Not to say that other things aren’t…)
Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start…
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 5 days ago:
If this question isn’t fake, it shows how senselessly polarized pictures drawn by both sides have become.
- Comment on I'm in danger 1 week ago:
So right at this specific moment you are simultaneously doomed and salvaged.
- Comment on Traffic safety is vital 1 week ago:
That’s essentially a perfect anti-meme.
I love it! - Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
Can confirm. Lemmy became a lot friendlier after I blocked the worst of the permanently outraged communities and a bunch of people with extreme views.
I try to limit that to the worst cases, though, as I don’t want to drive “bubblification” too much… - Comment on Beware!!! 2 weeks ago:
No, just part of the establishment. ;-)
- Comment on Beware!!! 2 weeks ago:
Funny thing is, this meme is so old by now, that “children” should be substituted by “parents”, as this is all completely ancient GenX/Millennial internet lingo…
- Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
No, just the standard Gboard on Android. It has build-in handwriting recognition which for some reasons I like better than the standard virtual keyboard.
And regarding the remaining typing errors: just take them as an indication that I’m very likely not an AI ;-)
The “slipt” was probably caused by a false-friends-like scenario based on the translated word in my mother tongue: “entschlüpft”.
Notice the added “t” at the end that denotes the past tense. - Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Not 100% identical scenario, but near enough:
what-if.xkcd.com/140/ - Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
See e.g. here.
The relevant part:
The second difference between each, every, and all impacts how the objects of a sentence are distributed among the members of the group. Look at this:
Each child wore a hat. → one hat per child
Every child wore a hat. → one hat per child
All the children wore a hat. → the children shared one hat
- Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you are right…
Sorry, handwriting recognition sometimes has its own mind.
An this error must have slipt my prove reading as it is just to well camouflaged… - Comment on Do it anyways! F R E E D O M ! ! ! 2 weeks ago:
But you are. Just buy yourself a Burger King. American kind of freedom…
- Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Coincidently I watched the X-Files episode a few weeks back.
I loved it!
It is one of their more dark comedy ones with some philosophical topics.
No “true wish” at the end, as far I remember, but a nice twist and imo quite satisfying ending. - Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Whatever it is that happens, it would be pretty violent.
“What If” had a slightly different, more localized but more concentrated premise it covered once:
Electron MoonQuote:
“This is, by far, the most destructive What-If scenario to date.” - Comment on Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough. 2 weeks ago:
As a guy taking the “Great Filter” hypothesis seriously, I would definitely switch the captions in the meme.
- Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Genie, looking up Wikipedia:
Aah, I understand. Nice wish, granted! - Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
Considering how intentionally malecious the side effects of typical genie-wishes tend to be, the extra electron probably comes to rest in the wishers hypophysis and causes a free radical that leads to a rare sort of cancer that prevents the wisher from falling asleep ever again, so he dies in madness scratching out his own eyes.
0r something similar along that line. - Comment on just one more bro 2 weeks ago:
ls this some kind of problem at all?
I mean, it is not wishing to add an electron to each atom in the Universe… - Comment on Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war? 3 weeks ago:
Because Hamas then wouldn’t stand a chance and prefers to use the civillians as tactical asset to increase there odds, which is asshole-behaviour.
And because the Israelis decided to don’t care about this civilians any more, which is also asshole behaviour.So, in short: because both are assholes.
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 weeks ago:
Just smile and wave!
- Comment on Dazzling! 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 5 weeks ago:
Fascinating read.
I liked learning about the “Simon effect”, only knew about similar, non-spatial ones (colours)…
And I might give non-inverted controls a try, although being a die-hard inverter.
At least it will be some brain stimulus to keep me from cognitive aging to fast. Like changing the mouse hand from right to left and back again once in a while. - Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 5 weeks ago:
As others already wrote, the original meaning has been specific to awareness of racial discrimination, later broadened to general discrimination topics.
But that is just the US, and e.g. in Germany these roots (and also the connection to wake/asleep) are mostly missing.
So it is just a normal imported word, with no clear antonym existing.
Also because of this only recent import of the term, it is less connected to its original meaning, but often only associated with a well-intended, but superficial kind of activism.
E.g. it is heavily associated with a generally not very popular over-gendering going on in official and news texts, which leads to a broken kind of the German language. (German is heavily gendered, but a word’s gender often has nothing to do with the sexual gender).So the term had a somewhat negative connotation to begin with, even in more progressive circles.
Doesn’t hinder the far right from doing anti-woke campaigns nonetheless, wokism is just such a nice (but actually in the broader population none-existent) opponent. And they use the term “Anti-Woke”, because it just makes sense for an imported word. - Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 5 weeks ago:
You have some autocorrect typo there:
“That’s all I was singing when I saw the hole.” - Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 5 weeks ago:
Mandatory soundtrack:
youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU - Comment on Google AI Mode To Become Default For Google Search Soon 1 month ago:
Great.
Next stage in the enshitification-process. 😒 - Comment on TSMC is Set To Raise Prices of Cutting-Edge Chips By Up To 10%, As It Tries to Maintain Profit Margins With 'Hefty' US Tariffs 1 month ago:
10% higher prices for the US, right?
…RIGHT?? - Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 1 month ago:
Google <-> Browser
[Add “They are the same” Meme here]
- Comment on birb 1 month ago:
No, I am the guy that just a few weeks ago got told that he can’t open the window of the joint staircases anymore to let out the stale summer heat, because then the pigeons would fly in.
I am the guy that can’t use the easternmost quarter of his balcony any more because it is constantly covered under shit from the pigeon-meeting-place above.
I am the guy whose car is covered in off-colour smudges because the pidgeon-piss from the tree above has corroded the paint.I am pretty sure that most of the people here that like pidgeons would think completely different when they had to live with them in close quarters and have their quality of live noticeably reduced.
Other birds are great, though! We have sparrows, tits, blackbirds, dozens of other types. All great!
Occasionally a pair of crows is visiting. Those are impressive birds! Intelligent as fuck, don’t give a shit but stay out of your way if you don’t want to interact. And, double Bingo: the pigeons don’t like them!
