hihi24522
@hihi24522@lemm.ee
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 3 days ago:
Nope, gen z, and I haven’t actually read any of the Harry Potter books myself.
But you’re on the right track; I think it was reading The Hobbit that did me in lol
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 3 days ago:
When I am talking about fibrous material, like individual strands of carbon in a composite, I naturally type “fibre” but when I talk about nutrition or the internet it’s “fiber”
I also tend to spell armor armour and color colour despite being American.
Oh and I write grey instead of gray.
I also catch myself writing units like metre and litre instead of meter and liter sometimes.
It really all depends on if there’s a spellchecker turned on that will tell me I’m spelling things wrong.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Lower two panels of loss meme told with mosquitoes
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I grew up in a small Utah town. The only four adults I ever remember hearing admit they were wrong especially when it came to politics or science or religion were my father and three of my high school teachers.
All the rest would literally tell me that the research papers and encyclopedias I tried to cite as evidence were made up by either satan or some government deep state conspiracy. Or they’d say we can “agree to disagree” about shit like animals feeling pain and the flaws in eugenics (I wish I was joking)
Yes, they have always been this stupid. Learning requires accepting when you’re wrong and the vast majority of people I knew growing up saw that as weakness.
I thought it would be different when I got out of that place, and while living in a larger city is better, it’s not better by all that much.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
Already made up my mind and got a rotring 600. Plan to use it till the brass erodes
- Comment on With every exhale, we're smelling the inside of our lungs. 1 week ago:
This is why you can taste/smell saline when it’s injected. Trace amounts of dissolved things (which taste like plastic and metal) in the saline are able to pass through the alveoli in the lungs and evaporate into your breath.
Oddly, I think it’s a similar thing with my ADHD meds because about an hour or two after taking them my breath smells/tastes weird.
- Comment on New social experiment 2 months ago:
nvme0n1p1
- Comment on AND the Expansion Pak 4 months ago:
Y’know, ch-choose a movie or… Or we can watch some interdimensional cable if you want.
We now return to “Nintendo 69.”
Nintendo, oh, what are you doing to me? Oh, Nintendo, oh, Nin…
Or we can watch whatever, y’know.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 4 months ago:
I was born after 2000 (though not too long after) and this is actually one of my core memories. I think about the sounds of the static and the sound of the CRT turning off.
Also, we had a really old tv in our basement till at least 2008 that had no remote, just knobs and I remember messsing with the “hue” dial all the time trying to figure out how it worked.
The only reason that tv worked so late is that we had a black box connected to the antenna which I later learned was converting the digital signal to analog for the TV.
Also, you’ve just reminded me that I remember the switch from analog to digital. Specifically, I remember watching Elmo talking with some adult on TV about the change. Now I really want to find that video. I think the guy was wearing a suit had short dark hair and glasses. I also think the background was pinkish purple. I want to know how accurate my memories from so long ago are. (I’ll add the link to the video in an edit if I can find it)
- Comment on Metal is plastic. 5 months ago:
Geologically, ice is a mineral, aka a rock. If lava is just rock heated past its melting point, water is lava.