bignate

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[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to love all the Marvel movies. and then I started watching one film and couldn't tell if I'd seen it already and didn't want to watch it if I hadn't... and then realised they're basically just identical stories player by different characters.

no reason to hit up the opening weekend if you're just going to watch a rerun.

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

my experience: make a comment, wait a day is this thing even on??

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

The article title is correct, it just wasn't as much of a burn as you'd like. The calling out did happen, but was just a bit misplaced since Greene didn't explicitly make the offending statement.

Also Greene is dumb and I'm sure is still confused about what a founding father is.

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to think the same thing: first three results or so are always ads, so just ignore. And then recently they've changed to be 90% ads even after the initial few. It's hard to find something that someone hasn't paid to display :(

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

This is my favourite part of the whole ridiculous parade. For a good two weeks or so all my meetings with US colleagues are just chaos.

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with keeping the time change every so often as long as they can program my 2-year old alarm clock to also give me an extra hour of sleep when it happens.

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks great! Did you at least get to buy a few new tools out of it as well?

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Not using metric is so much more fun:

  • water freezes at 32, boils at 212
  • 16 cups in 1 gallon (both standard units of measurement)
  • 1 (US) cup of water is 8 (US) oz
  • 1 (US) cup of water is 14.4375in^3

Makes your maths so much more exciting!!

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

This is a great scale. Let's solve all the arguments about temperature and instead just create a "pleasantness scale". Could probably even market this and sell a "personalised pleasantness scale" and you pass it out to your friends when you meet them.

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the temperature 0 was assigned because it was the lowest temperature that winter in Fahrenheit's town, and the "powers of two" was only chosen because it was simple to mark degree lines on his instrument. Feels quite arbitrary to me...

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You think they became corrupt after they got the position or did they get the position because they were corrupt?

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm sorry ... What tf is a "blonde espresso" and since when does it come in a 32oz cup?? That's the real shame...

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