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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of good answers here, but I don’t see anyone mentioning the minor differences between military time and 24 hour. With military time, they don’t use a colon when writing it, and they always verbally say the leading zero. So a time using a 24 hour clock is written 06:00 or 6:00 and said verbally as “six o’clock”, but with military time, it is written as 0600 and said verbally as “Oh six hundred hours”.

  That’s it. That’s the only difference. Though many Americans do indeed incorrectly call any 24 hour clock “military time”. I myself used to say it incorrectly when I was a kid because my parents said it incorrectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nestle employees taking notes furiously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get everything out with my finger while in the shower. It goes down the drain, then I wash my hands and I’m done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way I can stop seeing sports posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not. I’m really into hockey, for example. We have a “hockey” community, but there’s also a community for each team. So 33 communities for hockey alone.

  Though as far as I know, there’s only one bot that posts scores of hockey games, and it only makes one post a day and posts all of the scores as comments under that daily post. Then it edits those comments to keep them all up to date as the games are played. I wrote that one myself, and I specifically was trying to avoid spamming with tons of posts, as there can be as many as 16 NHL games a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way I can stop seeing sports posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a sports instance would be great for this reason. Starting with the next major release of Lemmy, anyone would be able to block the whole damn sports instance and be done with it. Though as far as I know, the sports communities are spread throughout different instances, so it won’t be that easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it has been confirmed that all the characters in Smash are toys, and the human playing with them are the hands, does that make a hand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if Diablo 2 comes to Steam I’ll finally play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course. That makes sense. I just meant to say that I think you being able to point to those things as contributor to why you are hesitant to ask for help is a good thing. 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they are sort of the same thing. But I’m a firm believer that being able to identify why you might not want to ask for help (or feel any feeling, really) is an important step to take, because that can give you insight into what solution you want to pursue.

  When I saw therapy, this is what was most helpful for me. Being able to identify the underlying reasons for my feelings was a game changer for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are absolutely not an asshole for needing help and asking for it.

  Too often people need help but refuse to ask because of pride, embarrassment, or some other reason. To need help and ask for it is brave, not shameful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Spy X Family Switch Game Gets Its First Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “2024”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom grew up saying “tonic”…

  She also says “quarter of 8” when it is 7:45, which never made sense to me either. I usually hear quarter til 8 or quarter after 8 (for 8:15). Never quarter of. And wherever I point out that the phrase doesn’t really make much sense, she does this whole hand motion to explain it, which just confuses me even more.

  It’s those Bostonians, man. Gotta watch out for them. They say weird stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard that exact phrasing before, and as a native English speaker born and raised in California, that wording sounds a little awkward to me. It does kind of sound like something my mom, who is from the east coast, would say. 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another work day that I don’t get off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are wrong numbers so common in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everything you see on the internet that doesn’t apply to you is a US thing. This is purely just a meme and doesn’t actually happen everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How System Shock's Reboot Wrestles With Adapting Its Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also on the fence. Someone tell us!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did The Capitol Police Put Down Trump’s Insurrection?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a conservative that believes those people didn’t do anything wrong because one police officer guided them in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People are losing their jobs. Their families are going to be in serious distress. I don’t wish layoffs on anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 1 + 2 is coming to Steam on October 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  SO HERE I AM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long to grow a community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but I always forget to check my saves. And also, adding a comment increases the priority in active/hot sorts, increasing the probability of getting other responses later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long to grow a community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just commenting here so I can check responses later…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do sports commentators talk soft bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It usually does get better during the season, but there is always an element of that in the sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do sports commentators talk soft bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really into hockey, and I feel the reddit sub is 99% hockey-themed soap opera content, like what players are getting divorced from their wives and such. It’s so boring to me. I just want to see highlights, trades, stats, etc. But it’s very clear that the sub wants to see this type of content, so I guess give the people what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do empty nesters deal with over cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, well you can still only eat the same thing for so many meals in a row. Like, after I have had something three times in the same week, I’m not even even enjoying it anymore. Freezing it so I can eat it later when I’m not bored of the flavor is great, but not everything is good after being frozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long Haired Men, How Do You Take Care of Your Hair??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hair ties leading to receding hair line reeks of an old wives tale. I would look into actual research on the topic, and if it hasn’t been proven true, assume it is false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited (should we?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who works at Nvidia, and he said the problem is that Moore’s law is dead. Apparently the only way we can generate more performance right now is to input more energy and/or increase size.

  Obviously that doesn’t scale forever, and the 40 series are already fucking massive. So where does that leave us with the 50 series? We need some breakthrough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that Microsoft will get the $10M fine they deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It took me 16 years to figure out why I hated a Journey song. What song did yiu hate untim yiu figured out why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason I hate Don’t Stop Believing is because I sang it in choir, and my part was literally “dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut…” for the whole fucking song. The same note the whole time, except every fourth measure we would go down a half step, then back up to the first not again for 3 measures.

  My tounge would go numb by the end of the first verse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to think the Japanese government wouldn’t approve that.