I love this! There’s a family in my neighborhood that has three cats, indoor/outdoor. My wife and I check to see if they’re about basically every time we walk in the neighborhood. The cats will saunter up to us for pets most of the time :D
I love forests, especially when the terrain is rugged enough to straddle the line between hiking and freeclimbing.
For books, I like the feel of turning the pages by hand, but I won’t begrudge anyone their e-reader!
What about playing FTL? :)
I’m with you on everything except gardening. It sounds appealing in the abstract, but then in the spring it turns into “ugh, too much to do” and “ugh, gotta get up early to water” in the summer.
Actually…what DID get you into gardening in the first place? Maybe there’s something to it that I’m missing.
Would you mind talking a bit more about your approach to cooking? I take some satisfaction from being able to cook and sometimes from the feeling of improving my skill as a cook, but mostly it feels like a necessary chore.
Try to shoot Nestle.
Miss? Mad Max.
Hit? Waterworld.
I thought for sure you’d have a picture of the Stargate…
What, Thor is switching to swords now?
Then there’s also legitimate mail that contain all those red flags.
Thanks, FedEx!
I don’t agree. It’s easy to backseat drive the chariot now, but at the time? A mile as one thousand paces? That seems sensible when you’re measuring distance for men marching and horses or oxen pulling wagons. I can’t really speak to their monetary system, I’d have to read up on it more. And for numbers, well, you can hardly fault them for not using something that didn’t exist yet.
For units in general, though, there are definite benefits to a base 12 system over base 10: You can easily deal with halves, thirds, and quarters without introducing decimals.
Oh, and I did chuckle a bit at your Lego remark. I’m glad you phrased it that way :D
Sorry, what do the ancient Romans have to do with it?
And, ok, so we’d be talking numbers in the 5-10 oz/mi range. Why is that better?
Status quo: “How far can I go with a unit of fuel?”
Flipping it: “How much fuel does it take to go 1 unit of distance”
It just seems arbitrary to me. What am I missing that makes the status quo backwards?
Edit: I’m leaving this up, but nevermind – after posting this reply, I read your replies to others in the thread. I think I see. Linear units vs. “confusion units” (lol, cute term!).
And thanks for correcting my correction. I’m not sure how I came up with 1973, but I was thinking of the credit act. I should have looked it up myself before posting :\
'73 I thought
Keep fighting. I got laid off twice in the past two years and managed to find new gigs each time. I’m about the same age. Programmer.
I worked in a remote job 2021-2025, large organization, layoffs (or “impacts” is the newspeak word I guess) in Feb. Job hunting was a real rollercoaster, but I found a local company that sounded promising.
It seemed fine at first, in-office but a short commute that I didn’t mind. But…laid off again in early March. Another year, another job hunt. Even more of a rollercoaster. But I did manage to get another remote gig working as an independent contractor for another large organization.
It’s not ideal, but it is possible. You’ve got skills and experience. There are still jobs out there that need doing even if you have to wade through more bullshit to get there.
Would you prefer we talk about .04-.07 gallons per mile?
At the same time.
Sweat?
Oof, I’m drawing a blank on this one.
Cools as it warms - chemical reaction or maybe ice melting?
But that doesn’t really fit with moisturizes as it dries or especially oxygenates as it de-oxygenates.
I have the opposite reaction. I feel like reddit is easier to curate for good things.
I still look at communities like DIY, personalfinance, Timberborn, etc over there. Some of these are topics where Lemmy doesn’t have much coverage.
*Well, this prompted me to search, and I found a couple of equivalents here. Lower traffic, though.
IIRC part of the gimmick in the game was that the word length had to match. Combination locks on chests, maybe? It’s been a while, but somehow a couple of the riddles stuck with me.
Another one was
With sharp-edged wit and pointed poise
I can settle arguments without a noise
You would weep at the coat the library pays to provide that service. It certainly isn’t cheap. Free…so long as you ignore your taxes.