MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Then it’ll just be so in my heart
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 week ago:
This feels like a Lemmy OC, is it?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 2 weeks 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... 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Full Circle 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month ago:
Surely it must be 4x20 + 12 then.
What is this madness!
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month ago:
“no he’s like really old. He reads a newspaper”
I think this is a fair dig haha
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I feel so left out
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
I also do not enjoy the taste of fish. High five haha
