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bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Try it this summer

London, all the Italian girls break out their scarves in September.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in science

I think dildo scissors handle is something I could use at my job to hit people with when they act like idiots

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in There's no such thing as too much garlic

You measure baking soda with a teaspoon.

You measure garlic with your heart.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Car

The brake pedal in automatics is twice as wide as a brake pedal in manual cars.

No one is intentionally hitting the brake pedal. They’re moving their foot to push in a clutch pedal that doesn’t exist, and accidentally hitting the left hand side of the wide ass brake pedal.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

Between the two, I think temperature is the harder one. But strangely, it also brings weight and volume back into it: Cookbooks.

So many recipes are finely tuned balances of measurements that just look plain alien when converted to metric.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

Because that’s it’s name

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system

But if you wanna get all specific about it we can call it SI

…m.wikipedia.org/…/International_System_of_Units

It’s certainly not the Decimal system

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

lettuce* switch

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

When you ask someone “what day is it today?”, they usually have a handle on what month it is and just need the day.

You’re still allowed to exclude implied information, no matter which method of dating you want to go with. You can just say “the 15th”.

For making plans, it’s only if you make them way in advance that you need the month first, which would be sorting and scheduling, not daily use.

I can’t speak for you, but for me I am making plans, sorting, and scheduling every single day.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

Hard disagree.

Least specific -> most specific is generally better in spoken language as the first part spoken is the part the listener begins interpreting.

Like if I ask if you’re free on “the 15th of March” vs “March 15”, the first example is slightly jarring for your brain to interpret because at first it hears “15th” and starts processing all the 15ths it’s aware of, then “March” to finally clarify which month the 15th is referencing.

The only thing practical about DD.MM.YY is that it is easier for the speaker because they can drop the implied information, or continue to add it as they develop the sentence.

“Are you free on the 15th” [oh shit, that’s probably confusing, I meant a few months from now] “of July” [oh shit, I actually mean next summer not this one] “next year (or 2025)”.

So the format is really a question of who is more important in spoken language: the speaker or the listener? And I firmly believe the listener is more important, because the entire point of communication is to take the idea you’ve formulated into your head, and accurately describe that idea in a way that recreates that same idea in the listener’s head. Making it easier for the speaker to make a sentence is pointless if the sentence itself is confusing to the listener. That’s literally a failure to communicate.

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

This has been the thought in my head when the argument comes up. Glad I’m not alone.

Preach on brother!

bitwaba, to lemmyshitpost in Everyday, as an American

ISO8601 crew represent!

bitwaba, to politics in NYPD preparing to revoke convicted felon Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York

“you can pry it from my cold dead asshole!”

bitwaba, to games in PlayStation VR2 players can access games on PC with adapter starting on August 7

That still doesn’t make sense. All this does is enable the PS VR headset to be used with a PC to play steam games. It gives people that already own a PS VR another option for usage: plugging it into a PC and playing VR games they purchased through steam. It lowers the barrier to entry for the user to experience PC VR games by being able to use hardware they already have on hand instead of having to purchase an Oculus or Index. Valve still gets their software sales cut because you can only use the PS VR to play games in your steam library on PC.

bitwaba, to games in PlayStation VR2 players can access games on PC with adapter starting on August 7

Sounds like a dumb move. I thought the money was in software/game sales, not hardware that’s sold at a loss?

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