AspieEgg

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an American living in Canada. Black Friday happens here and it’s really weird to me. In the USA, it happens the day after Thanksgiving, which always falls on a Thursday. So Black Friday makes sense because many people have Friday off (or take it off) and so they have a day to shop for the upcoming holiday season.

  In Canada, Thanksgiving does not happen on the same day as in the USA. It happens on a Monday in October. But Black Friday still happens the day after American thanksgiving, which is basically just a random Friday in November for Canadians.

  The only thing I will mention is that I don’t know of any Canadian who lines up outside stores for them to open so they can snatch a crappy deal on a TV. I’m sure it happens, but I think most Canadians just need to go to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could the Play Store changelog contain a link to the official changelog then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microbiota⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally happening. Without getting too specific so her job stays safe, my sister works as an ocean researcher for the government. They removed any mention of the word “diversity” and “biodiversity” from their research and so far, they haven’t lost their jobs yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side of this dipole is ground?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A dipole doesn’t have a ground plane like some other antennas. A dipole is a balanced antenna and both sides work off of each other equally.

  With that said, this one is probably used for receiving and if one end is connected to the electrical ground (different thing from antenna ground plane) then it’s going to be the left side with the uninsulated wire most likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  American living in Canada here. It took me a couple of months at most to get used to both. I still couldn’t give you an accurate conversion between metric and imperial, but my brain understands the metric units now. It’s just a matter of using the units in everyday life.

  Speed and distance were probably the easiest ones for me. You set your car’s dash to use km/h instead of mph. Then you just follow the road laws like normal. If it says the speed limit is 100 km/h, you just don’t let the number on the dash go much above that. Or you just drive the same speed everyone else does like you do on American roads anyway.

  Temperature was a bit more confusing, but you pretty quickly learn that you’ll be happy if you set the thermostat to 18-24 and that if the temperature outside hits 30, it’s going to be a hot day. That kind of precision is more than enough for your mind.

  I genuinely used to think I’d have a hard time switching to metric for most things. In my mind, I’d always have to be converting things back to imperial in my head. But that just isn’t the way it works. You quickly just start to relate the units to the real world and you understand it pretty quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Celsius:
  0 is freezing
  10 is not
  20 is pleasing
  30 is hot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoosh