I can’t remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as “You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can’t do both”

A few years ago I’d have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

It’s a very American style thing. UK English media don’t do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

Thing is, a lot of these aren’t that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

Every metric? What about the poor shareholders in oil companies? Have you no empathy for them at all, you monster?

I’d much rather employ a 50-year-old recent graduate than a 21-year-old recent graduate. There are lots of reasons for this, not least all the extra life experience and the hard evidence of being able to make major decisions and follow through with a difficult challenge.

No employer expects a new graduate employer to stay with them more than a few years anyway, so I can’t see you’d be disadvantaged there either

Old man here… The first online bubble was probably the dot.com bubble of the late 90s, when lots of people first went “This internet thing is amazing and we’re all going to make millions!” I remember boo.com being one of the first high-profile crashes, but pretty soon a lot of that first wave of internet retail businesses folded, with notable exceptions like Amazon, of course.

Wouldn’t need to work so hard if you weren’t making massive car payments

Now imagine that, but onions

If people are driving with appropriate skill and care, the number driving into large, well-lit buildings should be approximately zero per year. It sounds like you’re willing to excuse a lot of bad driving

At this stage it’s a trope that people imitate, perhaps without really thinking about it. Originally it was almost certainly an ironic joke about the value of the medals, playing on the old-fashioned bite tests that would be used for for items of dubious worth

“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent

If you ask, some places can do early check-in. You might have to pay for it, because it disrupts their routine

Thanks. I’ve never blocked anyone, so it won’t be that. Could be the other thing

It’s not just Sync, I find. I’ve had this issue with other Lemmy apps yoo

I’ve just tested this and it didn’t work. I think this issue, of posts saying there is 1 comment when there are none, is some sort of Lemmy-wide issue. It drives me crazy, as it’s impossible to know whether posts have a comment or not without looking at each individually.

I wonder if my colleagues have picked up on the fact that when I start an email “Dear-” rather than “Hi-”, it means I’m annoyed with them

There’s a fair bit of published work on this. 33 senses is a common number but there are others who’ve claimed up to 53

You can buy very convincing stickers that make your frame look rusty

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