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- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 19 hours ago:
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 22 hours ago:
Context is everything.
“When are you guys coming over?”
“We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”
If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 22 hours ago:
Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.
In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 1 day ago:
So they don’t have the resources to check returned goods or what? Or they simply don’t care enough?
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 day ago:
Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or you) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 2 days ago:
I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
For me it’s been mechanical keyboards as of late.
Maybe I should start stocking up on GMK sets - those seem to resell nicely.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
Yeah, imagine the situation of “I don’t want anyone else’s ads, I’ll host my own and look at them by myself”.
Probably helped of the common misspelling of “ads” as “adds”.
- Comment on Construction magic 5 days ago:
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 week ago:
Have you tried rubbing Ozzy Osbourne into her eyes instead?
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 week ago:
In the same line of thought: stop killing babies to make baby oil. /s
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 week ago:
You either 1) have a backup or 2) will have a backup next time.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, but hamburgers are importanter.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 week ago:
If that’s true, then the title is misleading and clickbait-y.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 week ago:
Imagine having all your important data in just one place.
- Comment on Don't leave home without it 1 week ago:
I, for one, always carry my two eggs, but for different reasons.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 1 week ago:
Someone forgot to floss
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 week ago:
You know why Santa is so happy? Because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 week ago:
It’s amazing how much the US doesn’t want you to go there, even if it’s just to visit.
Despite all the mediocrity, there are some things to see there, but if that’s the authorities’ attitude (and this here is not the first example of it), yeah, I think I’ll skip.
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 week ago:
I honestly forgot that… but the screenshot is from five years ago.
- Comment on Is this real life? 1 week ago:
Forget forgetting to switch accounts, he can’t even put together a complex sentence.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
The map says North America and South America, any other subdivisions are arbitrary.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Yep, exactly that.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Which America out of the two?
- Comment on My Religion 2 weeks ago:
My “religion” says you shouldn’t be religious. Oh, you’re suddenly offended? Too bad…
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 weeks ago:
Apparently something that lifts files off the user’s drive. /s
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 3 weeks ago:
Weight aside, those took a lot of space too. Almost every CRT from that era was put in a desk corner, swivelled sideways, forcing you to turn sideways too - and many of those were 15-17". Now imagine 21…
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 3 weeks ago:
How’s airflow?
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 3 weeks ago:
“Almost”
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
I see what you did there… and also there.