It’s just whatever culture you’re familiar with. I grew up with a ton of different pasta names as well but I didn’t know the difference between dumplings like gyoza, shumai, xiaolongbao, and wontons.

I absolutely despise the continued american assault on language.

I’m sure words have never once changed meaning in your country.

It’s not all pasta. The small bead types or star shapes aren’t generally called noodles. But otherwise what’s wrong with calling an egg and flour mixture in a string or ribbon shape a noodle? It’s a generic ingredient/shape descriptor. Is it only Asian cuisines for you?

Mike Birbiglia (comedian if you haven’t heard of him) said his now wife’s phone fell out of her pocket and into a river from a bridge the first time they kissed. She’s a poet and she wrote a poem about how she still gets prank calls from fish

I first heard about it on reddit but it was before the API exodus, so…

Oh right, typo. I meant 0.01

I think 0.0 is stupid too, but the one benefit is since it’s so obvious if driver’s been drinking they don’t have to bother with open container laws. Like in Japan the passengers can drink in the car

Some counties are 0.0%. My friend in Japan slept in his car after a night if drinking and got pulled over the next morning (I think cops had seen him in the car and were waiting). He had 0.1% 0.01 and got deported

I downloaded whatsapp because one friend back home used it and within the same day I was getting spam texts for the first time ever. Fortunately I convinced him to switch to signal and deleted that shit asap

Except then you’d have to see chuck norris’ face

Around 2000 I remember a guy at the computer store telling me that 20 gigs was a ton and how would I even use it? Well, one pirated 700 Meg movie at a time is how (most pirate copies tried to keep movies to 700 mb so they’d fit on a burned cd)

SAY WHAT AGAIN!

NO SERIOUSLY, SAY IT AGAIN, I COULDN’T HEAR SHIT!

go through the menu for every three episodes

So many providers these days STILL don’t get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it’s a shame you can’t compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.

scunthorpe

Hasan Minhaj had an interview with the “Gen Z Luddite” movement

https://player.fm/series/hasan-minhaj-doesnt-know/the-gen-z-luddites-rebelling-against-big-tech

I dunno the ins and outs of wiki infighting, but I don’t think one person should have control over whether hundreds of comments get seen or not. Unfortunate if people can quote things that put you in a bad light but unless things are taken out of context maybe just think harder about what you post in the first place.

Deleting a post also removes all comments on it.

This really needs to change. OP shouldn’t have control over the conversations everyone’s having, even if they can remove their portions of it. Even reddit didn’t give OP that power, even if it was removed from the sub page.

FWIW some instances/front ends preserve the comments section, although it ends up being a bit jank. For example, if you load this through lemmy.zip, it shows as an error because OP deleted it. But if you go through old.lemmy.zip you can still see (most of) the comments, although not what the original post was.

https://lemmy.zip/post/65423752
https://old.lemmy.zip/post/65423752

Da Bears?

You’re welcome, dipshit. If you ever need help identifying things you find scary or putting a comprehensive argument together you know where to find me.

OK well, the rest of us with good media literacy will keep checking the bad places and let you know what to watch out for. Hurry on over to your safe account now before you get swayed by info you can’t be sure about.