JargonWagon
@JargonWagon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 1 week ago:
Redundant acronym syndrome bothers me too. It irks me that the wikipedia page for it is “RAS Syndrome” which in itself is echoing the issue it’s describing. That shit has to be intentional.
It’s like how hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. That’s some fucked up shit. Even it’s more official word “sesquipedalophobia” is still a bit long for anyone who experiences that fear.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
US here - I haven’t seen one used at a grocery store in over 20 years. Only people I’ve ever seen use them are old people, or people using them to pay bills.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 weeks ago:
They’re all delayed by some stupidly long freight train blocking all the tracks.
- Comment on Please the Beans 3 weeks ago:
Segregation pleases the beans. Ask Kansas.
- Comment on Anyone else? 3 weeks ago:
I came to comment the opposite - We need a second layer of pointless a e s t h e t i c borders /s
- Comment on home gardening 1 month ago:
🤩
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
*behold
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
I don’t see it in the article, but I found the following in Wikipedia’s Talk section:
Karl relates in his book that he hopes to walk through one of the service tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Tommfuller (talk) 12:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
Read the wiki article above, it has links to other articles where it’s sourcing its information.
Link to article documenting his expedition across the frozen Bering Strait.“Karl Bushby reached land after 14 days walking across shifting plates of ice in temperatures reaching -30C.” “The ice was breaking up behind him as he walked across.”
However, it does appear that some of his walking has been replaced by swimming.
“In August 2024, Bushby started the swim across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia, as both countries were then too dangerous to enter with a British passport. Bushby was accompanied by co-swimmer Angela Maxwell and two Azerbaijani national swimmers, Anastasiya Boborikna and Abdurrahman Rustamov.[15] Each day, Bushby and company swam in two 3-hour sessions: one in the morning, one in the afternoon and resting and sleeping on support boats each night.[16] The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days with 132 swimming hours.[17][18] From Azerbaijan, Bushby then went to Turkey to cross the Bosphorus Strait into Europe”He’ll probably end up swimming across the English channel.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
Where are the Epstein files?
- Comment on Why? 1 month ago:
Exactly. If we son’t have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we’d get endless “Same”, “This”, and “No” types of comments.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Yes, indeed - it encompasses parantheses, brackets, and braces.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 month ago:
I don’t understand - you’ve never read books?
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
Where would we mail order it from?
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
Real job!
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 months ago:
I do enjoy dull men’s club
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
Welp, that attitude is why the written portion of English hasn’t updated in a long time and is why it’s so bad. Also, English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, wild to call it useless lol.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
Maybe we can develop our own Lemmy update to written English?
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
Interesting, I never thought of it from the perspective of AI before.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
I think there’s a lot of change in written English that needs updating. I think the thorn is lowest priority, if not completely unnecessary lol
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 2 months ago:
I think delftware isn’t as popular in the US, which is unfortunate because I love how they look.
- Comment on Not impressed 2 months ago:
Do they also believe that birds aren’t real?
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 months ago:
I printed out a list of gaps in THPS2 from GameFAQs. I didn’t realize it was 80 pages. My mom was really upset. I think I got every single one though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Right? What the fuck is with the comments in this.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 2 months ago:
I loved how at first, I was able to rebind that stupid button to anything I wanted. Then that stopped and it became only Bixby. Horrible decision - Having a button that can launch any app you want is a beautiful thing that more phones need to get behind.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 2 months ago:
bed bugs tend to bite like that where it’s all grouped up together and I think sometimes in a line.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 months ago:
Put some commas in there
- Comment on If you don't understand it instantly you will never get it 2 months ago:
Wait, I thought that if I didn’t get it instantly then I’ll never get it!
- Comment on monumentale 2 months ago:
4k+ nested if statements with comments.
- Comment on Just that extra bit of rage 2 months ago:
Add an extra panel at the bottom for full bars on 5G, but websites won’t load anyways.