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- Comment on How do I deliver an American eBay package to my hotel? 1 day ago:
If that was genuinely a typo, it’s brilliant!
Chicago is in Illinois, whose 2 letter code is IL 😁
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 1 week ago:
One of them calls me Betty.
- Comment on Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"- 1 week ago:
I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced “Wuh Wuh Wuh” which I kind of like :-)
- Comment on How come Netflix removed the N from their shows, kind of make it seem like they borrow all the stuff? I usually use it for a segway into other shows/movies not made by them? 1 week ago:
I think OP was saying the opposite. They use(d) the N to avoid Netflix originals. Which may also be an answer as to why they have (apparently) removed it.
Seems better to me though, the N was annoying, and there have been some very good Netflix originals, so it’d be a shame if people refused to even consider them on that basis alone.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
As long as you are not in major target city … you will be fine.
That seems pretty complacent tbh.
First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.
Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.
Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there’d be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.
Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked.
Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
Come, friendly nukes…
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not at all uncommon for major cities to be on or near bodies of water, eg London, LA, NYC, Sydney, Tokyo, Rio, etc. It’s a facilitator to (and outcome of) trade/travel and also can be a source of food and water (for cities on rivers/lakes, obviously).
And it’s also not uncommon for major cities to become capital cities.
Not really surprising that as a country with one coastline, they have their capital so close to the sea.
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 2 weeks ago:
The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.
Agreed, but if I ever spent a 1000 bucks on any product, I’d expect it to be able to sit in a usable position without wobbling.
I’m glad they’re highlighting this - the more the better until phone design is improved to eliminate such a stupid flaw.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 2 weeks ago:
In the way that this supreme power would exist, there is no way for us to quantify it.
So, dark matter, then?
/jk
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s a place on Earth.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 4 weeks ago:
Just change it to We Wished You…
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.
Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I’m regularly doing a small job for one client here and other there, and so on, so it’s easier to just leave them open.
I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.
It’s messy, but it works on the whole. It’s a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it’s safe to close! 😁
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 2 months ago:
Great tune!
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 2 months ago:
Good shout - OP, this is probably the one.
- Comment on Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
This is a stunningly beautiful extended metaphor.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 2 months ago:
+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: youtube.com/@dadhowdoi
Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.
OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.
You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 months ago:
Naggers?
- Comment on I got out easy, I'm assuming 2 months ago:
Only stupid and ill-informed Brits.
Unfortunately, that may be the majority of us.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
🙂
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
Yugoslavia. Mainly because it’s not there anymore. Would love to go to Croatia again for the first time though.
- Comment on Hide modal for 2 weeks 2 months ago:
This drives me up the wall, anywhere I encounter it. Bastards.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 3 months ago:
Nothing wrong with red hair. Mine’s brown now, but was red when I was a kid, and I got bullied for it all the time. Fuck that noise, and fuck the way it’s just accepted as being socially ok to mock people for their hair colour.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 3 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 3 months ago:
To add to that, it’s in Australia and AU$2200 is about U$1500 / £1100 / €1250.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 4 months ago:
I see you’ve got a rye sense of humour.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 4 months ago:
He listed the items because that’s the rules of the sub.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 4 months ago:
I don’t see anything wrong, or even odd about what he’s wearing. It’s just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I’d even register his clothes tbh.
- Comment on People who call for hotels people of people to be burned should absolutely be arrested 4 months ago:
This is the story:
BBC News - Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on X - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po?app-refe…
She’s since become a bit of a cause celebre for the hard of thinking right wing establishment.
- Comment on People who call for hotels people of people to be burned should absolutely be arrested 4 months ago:
Agreed. Also, she pled guilty.