Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.
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Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that soda crackers were shipped in barrels, and that's where the name of the store came fromEnglish3·1 day agoThe nostalgia is the point. Nobody stores crackers in barrels anymore, but everybody did then because it was the best option at the time. Same reason the save icon is a floppy disk.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts3·2 days agoI’d ask a couple thousand people to guess in private. So the most popular answer would probably be either surprisingly close to correct or Cuppy McHazelnutface.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone11·3 days agoSame era, I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post. We would even trade the games around with the kids that didn’t have a computer and/or Internet at home. We’d connect them with funky little cables that looked like audio jacks.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Casual UK@feddit.uk•Seen in my supermarket this week.English0·3 days agoTo be fair, nothing on the face of this box indicates any relation to chocolate anyway, except the company brand by implication. My only other clue as an outsider was that the wording “Dairy Milk” was just a little too weird to be taken at face value.
This example has really bad optics though, unless you’re trying to shine a light on medical cartels and their part in the capitalist distopia Americans live in.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Mobile screen time in hours per day (2024)English1·3 days agoThe point is that those are 2 separate and distinct units. I’m not saying it’s not a valid representation of time. I’m say the units in this case are actually hours and minutes, not only hours. It is compounded by the fact that the title is talking about time in a way that is ultimately also a ratio (something a colon is also used to represent), the ratio of hours on the device to the hours in a day. There were many other ways to represent this data that would have been less ambiguous, more clearly showing real differences at a glance, and paying attention to using more appropriate significant digits.
This place should be called mapshitposting for how often actual map enthusiasts get voted down for pointing out amateur mapping and statistical blunders here.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture.2·4 days agoWait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Mobile screen time in hours per day (2024)English22·4 days agoAre these ratios of hours online in a day (3:11 implies 3 out of 11 hours) online per day? That seems unlikely given how difficult comparisons like that would be to make.
That leaves the other option that these “hours” are actually hours and minutes (hours:minutes). But, that option is almost as bad simply because then the map subtitle has lied to us through omission in not mentioning minutes.
This map should have either just shown the number of total minutes or shown the hours in decimal rounded to a sane number of significant digits. Making a distinction of a minute or three amongst such broadly general averages of almost certainly guesstimated numbers self reported in a survey seems a poor choice.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•We have always been at war with the Kingdom of MyrmEnglish24·5 days agoPrimates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It’s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you’re considered an anteater?
Not to be confused with disco snails.
I always keep a few episodes of the various Pod Castle, Escape Pod, etc. short fiction podcasts loaded up for those times I’m stuck on a trip and between books.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow ColorsEnglish263·5 days agoHave you never actually seen a crosswalk before? Because I’m having trouble figuring out which part of these rainbow flag colored crosswalks makes them look any less like a crosswalk or makes them less visible or recognizable in any way. Literally the only other pavement marking that comes anywhere near looking like or being placed in the same way on a road is a stop bar. And guess what, car drivers routinely mistake the plain crosswalks for stop bars, thereby blocking the crosswalk. Making the claim that painting a pedestrian crosswalk in bright colors somehow makes them less visible or recognizable has got to be the dumbest argument I’ve heard this week.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto xkcd@lemmy.world•How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)?English91·5 days agoI’m in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.
Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There’s no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.
David Byrne. Stop Making Sense
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never ExistedEnglish2·6 days agoA fucking Members Only pizza.
1979: Ridley Scott directs “Alien”.
1981: James Cameron works as a production designer on a Roger Corman “cash-in” of Alien called “Galaxy of Terror”. It’s mostly awful (mostly due to the giant maggot rape scene), but some of the production design is WAY better than anything in this movie has any right to be.
1986: James Cameron directs “Aliens”.
I’m using the release years here as opposed to production for simplicity, but Aliens is really just a cash-in of a cash-in of Alien.
Wolf314159@startrek.websiteto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.2·7 days agoIt’ll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I’m not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.
Let’s play Peaches on some peaches.