MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Too soon? 4 hours ago:
Wtf, I knew this guy was a nutter, but never really knew that much about him.
The USA is so screwed holy balls.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 day ago:
I’ll never forgive the French for going from grave to gram to kg as the base unit of mass.
All my other base units don’t have a prefix :(
Such a pity.
BRING BACK THE GRAVE
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 day ago:
If it makes you feel any better, most pipe standards around the world are based on the American system, as well as bloody valve coefficients.
I am far too aware that 1" is 25.4 mm :(
And I’m in Australia. Grumble
- Comment on Save the day 2 days ago:
Excel masochists contemplating an attachment to an app from such a shitty company: 👀
Can’t use OpenOffice Calc at work, so, I shall at least enjoy my kinks
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 days ago:
“No war but the class war” strikes again
- Comment on It's Wednesday! 3 days ago:
It just hits differently auf deutsch… meine Kerle.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 4 days ago:
~some-~
- Comment on Checkmate theists 4 days ago:
Pineapple on pizza haters are the preachy vegans/carnivores of the pizza topping world.
No one’s forcing you to eat it!
- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 week ago:
Me when some projects I’ve been on decide to use bar as the preferred unit with two decimal places typically shown: My sibling in engineering, at that point why not just use whole number kPa 😢
SI master race.
Of course I’ll take bar any day over anything non-metric.
* Cries in practically all valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients. 😭😭😭 *
- Comment on 2hot2handle 1 week ago:
This guy seems to think it’s equivalent to “by magic”.
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 2 weeks ago:
This is pretty convincing
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
Apparent we do not
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
Hey, some of us just want to have the biggest instance so we don’t have to rely on people subscribing to things. (Australia, I have 2 accounts)
- Comment on Anon saves up 5 weeks ago:
4 weeks vacation 38 hour work week.
I look on at countries in Europe with their 5 or 6 weeks and 35 hour weeks with envy.
But yeah, we (Australia) do have it pretty good in comparison to many other places.
- Comment on Hope you like math 5 weeks ago:
There being absolute fucks doesn’t imply positive and negative fucks though.
It implies we’ve set a point to measure against which we call zero fucks.
Perhaps there’s an absolute zero fucks which can never be reached.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 5 weeks ago:
This is my favourite word on the sign. People used to spell this way (however they liked, and by accent).
And I can HEAR this person’s voice through the words. Beautiful
- Comment on feeley feels 1 month ago:
Until I used spell check I wasn’t even 100% sure this spelling was made up
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 1 month ago:
There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.
But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 1 month ago:
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
- Comment on Fuck it, more surrealposting. 1 month ago:
It’s spaces like this I think of when people complain about modern open plan offices.
This is so claustrophobic, and luckily for me, I like a bit of chatter in the background.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 1 month ago:
What kind of stupid-ass system of government allows an executive to repeal laws?
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 months ago:
Thanks for sending this through, I don’t think this guy is Australian though. Definitely not grown up here anyway.
What a fucking shit guy though.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 months ago:
We’re they being serious? If so, please do share their name.
Also, do you mean 2GB?
Whole different line up on KGB radio I’d imagine haha
- Comment on All downhill from there 2 months ago:
Oh, I never knew this was a thing (also Voyager user), thanks!
- Comment on All downhill from there 2 months ago:
\ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ =¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
I get this is a joke, but speed limits shouldn’t be set by politicians (which I’m hearing apparently is/was a thing?). Politicians have a role to play in getting regulations standards re-written by people who understand the decades of research on this.
Speeding is mostly a design issue, but I still expect people actually follow the rules.
Strong Towns, NotJustBikes, City Beautiful, Practical Engineering, among others have made great videos on this topic.
A lot of people justify speeding, and it’s kinda dumb, if you ask me.
Just because you “feel” it’s safe, doesn’t mean it actually is.
Plus, there’s a fantastic way to reduce road deaths, just have fewer cars, switch to public transport, but that takes a long time to implement if the political will doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 months ago:
Engineers should absolutely include traffic calming features to get people to naturally slow down, but everyone should drive the limit.
Speed kills, kinetic energy is not linear.
Cars are tonnes of metal hurtling down the road. Thousands upon thousands die every year, and since the increased prevalence of massive US style trucks fatalities have RISEN, undoing decades of progress. (Both in the US, and elsewhere)
People driving 20 over the limit are arseholes (or have been influenced by car centric infrastructure and culture). Change my mind.
Speeding is never okay. Just that lots of people have convinced themselves it’s no big deal.
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 2 months ago:
🫡
- Comment on Just one more 2 months ago:
Oh my apologies, I thought we were talking about the number of lanes.
Yeah the traffic here looks photoshopped, though, I’d be willing to bet there are times where this freeway almost looks like this*
*Statement based on vibes, not actual evidence
- Comment on It's the dream 2 months ago:
I typically hear people say it at my company because we’re all busy as hell and time in meetings is time spent not doing tasks (which are a mix of necessary and not).
We’re “getting back” the time to work, not relax