Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

Wait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are these ratios of hours online in a day (3:11 implies 3 out of 11 hours) online per day? That seems unlikely given how difficult comparisons like that would be to make.

That leaves the other option that these "hours" are actually hours and minutes (hours:minutes). But, that option is almost as bad simply because then the map subtitle has lied to us through omission in not mentioning minutes.

This map should have either just shown the number of total minutes or shown the hours in decimal rounded to a sane number of significant digits. Making a distinction of a minute or three amongst such broadly general averages of almost certainly guesstimated numbers self reported in a survey seems a poor choice.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 20 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

Not to be confused with disco snails.

I always keep a few episodes of the various Pod Castle, Escape Pod, etc. short fiction podcasts loaded up for those times I'm stuck on a trip and between books.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 23 points 1 day ago (51 children)

Have you never actually seen a crosswalk before? Because I'm having trouble figuring out which part of these rainbow flag colored crosswalks makes them look any less like a crosswalk or makes them less visible or recognizable in any way. Literally the only other pavement marking that comes anywhere near looking like or being placed in the same way on a road is a stop bar. And guess what, car drivers routinely mistake the plain crosswalks for stop bars, thereby blocking the crosswalk. Making the claim that painting a pedestrian crosswalk in bright colors somehow makes them less visible or recognizable has got to be the dumbest argument I've heard this week.

I'm in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There's no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

A fucking Members Only pizza.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

1979: Ridley Scott directs "Alien".

1981: James Cameron works as a production designer on a Roger Corman "cash-in" of Alien called "Galaxy of Terror". It's mostly awful (mostly due to the giant maggot rape scene), but some of the production design is WAY better than anything in this movie has any right to be.

1986: James Cameron directs "Aliens".

I'm using the release years here as opposed to production for simplicity, but Aliens is really just a cash-in of a cash-in of Alien.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It'll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I'm not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.

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