davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on We have one at home 1 day ago:
Similarly: The one with the bear
- Comment on We have one at home 1 day ago:
I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
By the 10th iteration it will have surpassed the mass of an average adult human.
And at the 21st, will be more massive than the largest Blue Whales. - Comment on Dear God 3 weeks ago:
That article wasn’t updated when it became a hurricane later.
- Comment on Snow Kitty 3 weeks ago:
Oh! I thought the post was just a joke. Thanks!
- Comment on Dear God 3 weeks ago:
Epsilon is not E, storm names went Greek after running out of English letters (skipping Q, U, X, Y and Z.). E in 2020 was Tropical Storm Edouard.
They now no longer go Greek, there’s a list of alternate names and I think it starts over at A.
- Comment on "I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird." 3 weeks ago:
I’m skeptical of it eventually being automated in a useful way, and if it’s not, then this is just an expensive roundabout way to hire a personal assistant/caregiver.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 weeks ago:
Aww. Modern tech is too ‘smart’ for its own good.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s on when you unplug it, does it go back on when plugged in? If so then turn off its own timer and just use a regular appliance timer.
- Comment on Piping mouse 3 weeks ago:
The first sentence had me thinking this was a ‘Gen-Z doesn’t know PCs’ thing.
It got so much better.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
“People” is one specific person. Sxan or something.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 4 weeks ago:
Just recently I was imagining a dating site that doesn’t use profiles, just randomly matches people with compatible age and gender settings (weighted by proximity and how long they have waited for a match) and trying to think through how it might work.
There would have to be a penalty for rejecting a match before setting up a date or for cancelling on them, such as a delay before being able to request another match (and maybe double the delay each consecutive time)
Anyway this would eliminate the whole ‘5% of men get 90% of dates’ thing (whatever the real numbers are) - after requesting a match eventually everyone would get one. There would of course have to be a report system for actual problem people. And likely straight women would get dates much faster (more frequently) than straight men, but still more evenly distributed.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that chart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
… Is it not?
Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 weeks ago:
I guess I assumed ‘sprout’ meant directly out of the ground instead of a “Brussels tree”.
I don’t recognize a few of the other ones.
- Comment on That's my pile 5 weeks ago:
I like that it’s exactly the same pile, none of them even shifted while being painted.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I haven’t kept up, I edited my post a little. Thanks!
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 weeks ago:
Wife and I decided on moissanite. It’s big, extra sparkly, and 1/10 the price a similar diamond would be. Almost as hard, too - won’t get scratched except by another moissanite or a diamond.
- Comment on Spongebob Squarehero 5 weeks ago:
No clue, but I was curious too, so I found this which says:
“the most common amount people paid for it was between $51-$100.”
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 5 weeks ago:
At some point wasn’t it actual stone walls around cities, with guards at the gates checking people?
- Comment on Spongebob Squarehero 5 weeks ago:
Fake IDs are a whole industry in the US. I don’t think I personally knew anyone with one, but it was certainly a thing.
Also older siblings or friends.
- Comment on Which is your song, chat? 1 month ago:
Obviously “Cry, bark, groan”.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 1 month ago:
That’s effectively just the bottom track, where an uncountable number of people (literally) will die as soon as the train reaches position (0.
- Comment on Imperial Wastes So Much Time 1 month ago:
There’s a connection, but after that it’s base 1/2 instead of base 10 (or 1/10). So A4 is ~1/16 m^2
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 month ago:
No. A typical “supermarket” (grocery + clothes, housewares, etc.) does not, nor do smaller stores that are mostly just grocery. Walmart is an exception.
Costco has people who could be called greeters, but they are just checking that you, or someone you are with, has a paid membership. Some stores have security guards at the entrances, but that’s a different thing.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 months ago:
Oof ouch my bones [are hurting me]!
- Comment on Trump administration drops defense of ban on employee 'noncompete' agreements 2 months ago:
This is so hard to read, but I think the end result is of course the anti-worker one.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
If you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
I’d say that the original statement not including “sometimes” does in fact make it the ‘not a fact’ type of factoid!
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
I wish that was updated for the current year (and beyond) It’s important to know when giving OP’s statement whether it’s outside the sun at the moment
