MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 11 hours ago:
It’s cursed because if you’re not gonna use metric, then don’t use it.
Do drams per pound of body weight or something like that. Still cursed because it’s not metric, but less so.
Or do the thing that’ll make everyone* happy, just use metric.
(*me, personally)
Moles are somewhat cursed, but we do need some standard number of molecules, else all our chemistry would be in insanely large numbers. May as well make it something related to the gram.
Though, in fairness, I will grant, it’s one of the less metric-y units out there since atomic weights aren’t perfect round numbers anyway, other than carbon.
Perhaps we could have standardised a mole as 1x10^10^ molecules. Ah well
- Comment on High-risk 3 days ago:
I did this today while in excel. I knew what would happen. Call of the void. The undefined void.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Surely it must be 4x20 + 12 then.
What is this madness!
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.
Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it’s within the realm of possibility.
I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work…
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 1 week ago:
As someone who prefers not to drive where possible, and in a country where manual for regular cars is not common, why do people think manual is so great?
Gives you some more control on your gears, sure. But heck, the only time I ever, ever need it is going up or down very steep hills - for which there are low gear settings on most cars which you can switch on for those moments.
For most people, it’s just a massive waste of time to learn, when an engineered solution already exists and presumably doesn’t add significant enough cost to be worth not having it (I assume, because of the lack of demand, here).
Is it just, for the “love of driving”? Okay fair enough, but that’s your hobby then, not sure why we need to like it also
In any case, do enlighten me because I don’t get it haha
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
This is me. I’ve always been too lazy to switch (I have some of the worst hardware for it. I’m running my old surface pro into the ground and have hardly any internal storage so hard to dual boot for testing).
But now, well hey, Windows 11 is stupid, windows 10 has been spying since forever.
Linux it is, thanks Microsoft for giving me the push I needed.
You know, later in the year. When I have to.
I’m only human
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 2 weeks ago:
“no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”
I think this is a fair dig haha
- Comment on Nicole got a new outfit! 2 weeks ago:
I feel so left out
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 2 weeks ago:
I honestly wonder what these sorts of jobs are. I feel like I have barely any reason to use AI ever in my job.
But this may because I’m not summarising much, if ever
AI can’t think, and how long emails are people writing to every make the effort of asking the AI to write something for you worth it?
By the time you’ve asked it to include everything you wanted, you could have just written the damn email
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 weeks ago:
Downvoters mad to find out cars are inherently unsafe and need very good infrastructure and to be remotely safe.
Downvoters mad that E~k~= ½mv^2^, and speed, funnily enough, is dangerous.
Downvoters mad that manual transmission isn’t making cars safer.
Car go vroom vroom, but public transport go better
Fax
- Comment on nets 3 weeks ago:
I also do not enjoy the taste of fish. High five haha
- Comment on fish roast 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia seems to not be unanimous on the brain-to-body ratio claim. There’s a discussion link next to the citation.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 month ago:
How did the sub total become $53.96?
Breadsticks and cinnamon sticks we $27.96??
Otherwise, did they do hidden fees in the subtotal, on top of the already hidden fees?
Y’all need some better laws in the states.
There is (off the top of my head) only three types of extra charges in Australia for consumers:
- transaction fees (provided the lowest you can possibly pay, even with transaction fees, is advertised. i.e. if you accept card only the minimum fee is included in your advertised price)
- delivery fees (but strictly speaking you ought to advertise “+delivery fees” in your listed price, and only if it’s variable. And finally,
- surcharges based on time. But again, you need to advertise this prominently ahead of payment.
If I were really splitting hairs some restaurants and cafes that do weekend surcharges reeeeally ought to put it on the front cover of their menus, not just at the till.
Anyway, what you have in comparison is maddening.
Taxes? Yeah, that should be in the prices. “Fees”?? Yeah, that’s part of the price, bud.
Absolute yikes.
- Comment on Emma 1 month ago:
Heh, well done
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 1 month ago:
This what we would call false advertising in my country.
You can’t write: “NO ADS!*”
“*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat”
That’s just completely negating the headline claim
- Comment on TIL it's impossible to delete a free trial account for AppleTv+ or Apple Music without an Apple Device 1 month ago:
It 100% will cause your apple account to get banned.
There was a fraudulent charge on my card once to iTunes, so I got it reversed by the bank, because it was fraud.
This banned my account and I had to go to apple support when months later I discovered my account was banned. They give you one chance.
So yeah, you gotta ask them first if you don’t wanna get banned. But you should basically say, cancel my subscription, please and thank you, I’m not required to use your device to do so if you let me sign up without a device.
I suspect in multiple countries they would have to comply under consumer law, and I know for a fact they would be obligated to on Australia.
- Comment on It do be like that 1 month ago:
Ah righto, no worries!
- Comment on Victim Anon 2 months ago:
I mean, “look at my naked photos, please” is pretty direct haha Sorry OP, I feel your pain
- Comment on This community needs some uplifting posts now more than ever! 2 months ago:
The poor font. Forever associated with shitheads
- Comment on Woloolooloolool 2 months ago:
Hey hey, don’t know you that those employees just never finished their training /s
- Comment on BDSM 2 months ago:
Windows 8 was pretty bad, but you could at least still use desktop mode just fine with a quick settings fix.
Fucking windows 11 took top, left, and right taskbar from us and then locked all the threads asking for it back, and prevented the registry hack to at least get top taskbar back.
Windows 8 was fine
I’m holding out on my work laptop until they force me to “upgrade”
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 2 months ago:
This has happened dozens of times, each time it was an “error”. Press X to doubt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Gotta love the Murdoch media…
…com.au/…/87ee12096270397564ed460a26137ad7
If he did it once, sure could be argued to be accidental, but he did it pretty forcefully, multiple times, and he baaaaarely has plausible deniability that he didn’t mean this as a wink wink to the neo-nazis.
- Comment on Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit 2 months ago:
Journalists (as a whole) are some of the worst when it comes to referencing. “A report from organisation found…” yes, okay, what’s it called, when was I released, better yet LINK THE DAMN REPORT.
Journalists, why you so bad at this?
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 2 months ago:
This is the one time Australia’s terrible defamation laws could do some good, if they lived in Australia.
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 months ago:
It’s been like this for thousands of years. Have you heard of religion?
But yeah, it is not a pleasant thought that people love this way :/
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 months ago:
This is why you always copy something innocuous immediately after
- Comment on Must be a college town. 2 months ago:
Only developed country where mass shootings regularly happen, so, I’m gonna press X to doubt on the claim bows and arrows are anywhere near as deadly.
Gun culture is weird to the rest of the world. Get a different hobby if the trade off is preventable deaths.
Or, ya know, properly licence the damn things.
Practically every pro-gun argument is countered with: it’s being done better elsewhere.
High gun ownership in Switzerland!! Yeah, because you go through stringent military training, and registration!
Oh, but criminals will still have guns, there’ll be a black market!!! Yeah, but much, much less easily, with proper licencing and restrictions to only allow guns for things they’re actually needed for (farmers, police, etc). Again, this is plainly obvious when you look at every other country.
Boggles the mind.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 2 months ago:
I guess not retail, which I randomly plucked out to get some numbers. I also thought 2.5x ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 2 months ago:
Fuck, you Americans are getting ripped off. Here the legal minimum is 2.25x pay for public holidays (Australia)
1.5x? Are ya serious? That’s like the lowest tier of overtime. Or sunday penalty rates.
For real, I can’t believe people aren’t even getting that.
(Illegal underpayment still happening here, aside).