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What a weirdly arrogant, condescending response. I also started on basic on a vic20, had a dad who worked in IT for the government, and have done all of that except the physical wiring on any noteworthy scale. This is utterly unhelpful.

Petrified fern (unless I gave it to my niece. Hrm, I don’t remember)

16, counting this one that I’m about to close.

And learn METRIC already you heathens!!!

I think these days, most US schools teach it. They did to us in the '80s and '90s, though we originally planned to go metric until Regan I think killed it. We definitely were using it in the late '90s in all our science-related classes and I’m sure that’s still true today.

The downside isn’t the learning bit, it’s that nothing else* uses it daily. I found the switch mostly painless (m/s for wind was a bit odd to me at first, but I like it at this point) and I think most people would be fine. I think older folks will have a hard time ballparking things in metric, at least for a while, as their minds are already using another system to estimate. That will fade, however.

A huge problem is all the signs and stuff that need to be replaced. The US is huge and has many, many streetsigns including in small areas that really don’t have the money to do anything about it. On the whole in the longterm, going metric would have far more benefits than problems.

* technically, I think all US government does use it in many regards and all US Customary Units are pinned to metric, but it’s not used by everyday people.

If that’s a problem for some reason, they make bags that fold down to nearly nothing and you can stick in a pocket as well.

Also, “Loss Prevention” for anyone else who needs it.

just bring a backpack or some other bag.

Whose feet are to my left and why are you teleporting me to them?

Same. I grew up in rural Ohio (USA) going to churches talking about the “synagogues of satan”, people at school saying “that’s Jewish” for something lame, lots of words I won’t repeat here about a number of ethnic and sexual minorities, etc.

It all basically never sat well with me. I moved out when my mom remarried which was a bit before my senior year of high school. Bigger city, bigger school, more diversity, etc. quickly proved what I had long felt: humans are humans and neither their religion nor ethnicity nor gender identity changed that. This would have been in the late '90s.

I now live on the other side of the world from that place (Japan, of course, having its own issues with things like gender and racism, but that’s (a) mostly the older generations and (b) a story for another time). Before I quit facebook years ago, I did catch up with a couple of people. Most of them did not change, but many of the bad ones got worse (this would have been around 2016) and emboldened by far-right groups growing in popularity. Living as a minority in another country also taught me a lot of about privilege and accidental racism.

This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not “Spotify Wrapped” so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but “Place” next to it just would not compute.

16:30 here, right at the end of my last meeting of the day here in ~ one hour :/

If not a screenshot, you do realize that things other than phones take pictures, right? Have people forgotten that cameras exist?

I drove from Houston to San Diego once. It was 26 hours and a ton of it was within Texas. You can drive for 8 or more hours and easily still be in Texas.

Also, out-of-state license whilst residing in Texas is illegal. You only have so many days (14, IIRC) to change your address on your Texas license if moving within Texas. I got hit with that at a traffic stop.

Some flip-phone from Sprint, though I can’t even recall the name now. It had the ability to play text-based games and even snake! I think I was carrying a Palm Pilot near the end of that. It was an upgrade from the first brick I kept in my car for emergencies only. In 2004ish, I upgraded to a Siemens SX66 (Windows-based smartphone) and ditched the Palm Pilot. I continued to use Windows phones (I think I ended with an HTC Hero or something similar), until finally being convinced by borrowing a friend’s old iPhone to get one of those. Was on iPhone from 3gs until 6plus. I made the jump to Android when Pixel 6 Pro came out, and that’s what I still have today.

I’m not racist but buying a bidet toilet seat was one of the better choices I’ve made.

We have that here in Japan with wild boar already

“beans on bread” I’m on board with; it’s only on toast if you toast the bread.

There’s this read to go through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan with the relevant bit being

Both stated that this agreement will "finally and irreversibly" resolve the contentious issue and that "on the premise that the Government of Japan will steadily implement the measures it announced", both countries "will refrain from accusing or criticizing each other regarding this issue in the international community, including at the United Nations".[56]

I think it will be better when the geezer ultra-nationalists finally die out, but there are of course younger ones as well that they raised.

On the other hand, this kinda goes against the “finally and irreversibly resolve” bit.

There’s also the political theatre aspect. Korea likes to rile up the ultra-nationalist left as Japan does with their right for domestic political points.

Then, they wanted more people to join their death cults before the end came. Now, I just think they’re less interested.

I only have 19 tabs open total counting this one and I feel like that’s too much.

Oh, that would make sense. My brain just didn’t make the leap there for some reason.