MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 week ago:
Thank you, this detail had me scratching my head. D≈1.56" makes so much more sense.
Not knowing the difference between circumference and thickness? Instant turn off.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 1 week ago:
I’ve always hated “incompressible” when talking about fluids. It’s just shorthand for: doesn’t compress much under pressure.
In engineering unless you’re dealing with insane pressures, when something is “incompressible”, assuming it is is good enough.
But it’s still misleading so I don’t like it haha
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 1 week ago:
I took it as more of a PSA
- Comment on faen 1 week ago:
As a native English/German speaker, this sign just makes so much sense. Very onomatopoeic. I love it
Driving Bump just doesn’t hit as hard (what I assume the literal translation is, roughly)
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 weeks ago:
A better suggestion for Chinese is Pleco, but you have to download an app for that (if one is learning Chinese, one would already have this)
I’m keen to find something else for universal unicode character recognition, but haven’t extensively searched.
If you have any suggestions, feel free
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 2 weeks ago:
Your country had better have a state owned grid, with a state run retailer, else this is still the same sort of shit, just without hidden fees.
Sincerely, an annoyed Victorian/Australian that wishes their electricity was just managed by the state.
There may be no hidden fees where I’m from, but when there’s a private company with a monopoly, what’s the difference?
Capitalism/privatisation is such a scam
:(
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the original commenter didn’t really provide what I think you’re looking for.
The service you’re likely looking for is something like this: shapecatcher.com
If you’re a learner of Chinese (or Japanese, I think? I assume they use this character also) then this character is very basic so would quickly come to mind (大 dà: “big”).
- Comment on Speak American 3 weeks ago:
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 3 weeks ago:
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 1 month ago:
Tangential: my friends made fun of me when I pronounced every syllable in phenolphthalein including the “f” of the second ph.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenolphthalein
Skill issue
- Comment on Love me a Legume Garlic BLT 1 month ago:
Maybe you should try 7 hours straight + 1 hour gay. Everyone has their own ~c~h~r~omo type
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 month ago:
I hear you but what cranked it up to 1000?
I unfortunately am not versed enough in the topic to give a full answer on this, I’d guess upbringing, then personal experiences?
I suppose it’s similar to people who are arseholes in general.
Sorry for the very underwhelming answer haha
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 month ago:
Personal experience from when I was newly an adult, and chatting with a female university classmate and somehow got on the topic of games and I started explaining what Steam was, because I just subconsciously assumed, her being a woman, didn’t know.
She politely pointed out I had mansplained to her.
I am very thankful to her for the experience as it’s stuck with me and saved me from making a fool of myself on more than one occasion since.
I’m sure there are possibly small things like this, that you may have been been “guilty” of in the past.
These men, are engaging in similar behaviour cranked up to 1000.
However, it’s even more malicious with them, because it’s not like the last 30 years or so haven’t had constant and increasing messaging (in the anglosphere, at least) about feminism and ways in which women have been treated unfairly.
So, it’s not like they haven’t had the opportunity to reflect, and change.
In summary, yeah, it is kind of baffling, but I will say society, while largely better than 30 years ago, still does have structural as well as conscious and unconcious bias towards women.
So I’m not surprised people like this exist.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 month ago:
Then it’ll just be so in my heart
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 month ago:
This feels like a Lemmy OC, is it?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 month ago:
I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a things in many languages.
Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 month ago:
I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.
So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t call English simple haha
To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying
I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
Just my two cents, not having a go at you:
This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.
Stupid english with its stupid verbs.
We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.
Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?
I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!
I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
Step 1. Be courteous Step 2. Interact with people in general Step 3. Ask our the people you’re genuinely interested in, and feel you have some kind of connection with, respectfully, knowing rejection is okay
Repeat until you get a date.
Being attractive helps a lot. Obviously. But you can put effort into your appearance. More than anything your personality is the thing that will get you a date.
Having tried Tinder 12 years ago, once, around the time I became an adult, why you’d choose it over asking people out in real life is beyond me. Especially if you’re not very attractive.
The meta is all off haha
- Comment on Release the kraken 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, it’s usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.
If it’s funny, it’s funny
- Comment on Clean butt 2 months ago:
Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.
Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I did this today while in excel. I knew what would happen. Call of the void. The undefined void.
