MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 23 minutes ago:
Surely Trump could have ignored them, as an official act of course.
- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 2 days ago:
This is only the case for cheaper models. There are models with inverters that actually run at lower power.
I am like original commenter, I gotta turn down the power because my microwave is a deadly lazer (1200 W)
- Comment on Reddit assemble 3 days ago:
Everytime there’s piss on the seat or the floor I just think: who the fuck are these people and do they do this in their own house?
Like, go use the urinal, why you gotta ruin the seat?
And if it’s an accident, at least wipe up after yourself!
- Comment on Absolute unit 3 days ago:
Probably whoever was writing this in plain text didn’t know about the superscript numbers in unicode ³.
Somehow I’ve seen it written as cum multiple times in my line of, and never registered it haha
Context is a hell of a drug
- Comment on Good luck, mom 5 days ago:
This is great, meane she’s giving the game stakes too
- Comment on Tips off the cops 6 days ago:
Gentleman vs Gentleperson
Seems like a legit substitution to me
- Comment on Tips off the cops 6 days ago:
I like using “gentle people”.
Would the gentle person care for some more wine?
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 week ago:
The percentages of respondents in surveys on infidelity from France are a bit of a cultural difference (from Australian perspective, anyway)
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that it was completely caught on camera so there’s no wriggling out of it. It was deliberate at close range.
US officials have some answering to do to us.
Though, we all know we won’t get shit, as their vassals.
Maybe we’ll do some more war crimes on their behalf, you know, as a treat. Then lock up the whistleblower 👍👍👍
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
If DFAT still don’t update their travel advice after this…
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, this detail had me scratching my head. D≈1.56" makes so much more sense.
Not knowing the difference between circumference and thickness? Instant turn off.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 3 weeks ago:
I took it as more of a PSA
- Comment on faen 3 weeks ago:
As a native English/German speaker, this sign just makes so much sense. Very onomatopoeic. I love it
Driving Bump just doesn’t hit as hard (what I assume the literal translation is, roughly)
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 3 weeks ago:
A better suggestion for Chinese is Pleco, but you have to download an app for that (if one is learning Chinese, one would already have this)
I’m keen to find something else for universal unicode character recognition, but haven’t extensively searched.
If you have any suggestions, feel free
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 4 weeks ago:
Your country had better have a state owned grid, with a state run retailer, else this is still the same sort of shit, just without hidden fees.
Sincerely, an annoyed Victorian/Australian that wishes their electricity was just managed by the state.
There may be no hidden fees where I’m from, but when there’s a private company with a monopoly, what’s the difference?
Capitalism/privatisation is such a scam
:(
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 4 weeks ago:
I feel like the original commenter didn’t really provide what I think you’re looking for.
The service you’re likely looking for is something like this: shapecatcher.com
If you’re a learner of Chinese (or Japanese, I think? I assume they use this character also) then this character is very basic so would quickly come to mind (大 dà: “big”).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
🇦🇺 heh, amateurs… But seriously this is ridiculous, and straight up anti-democtatic. Single member first past the post is the worst voting system out there.
Inb4 they make mulit-member electorates winner-take-all (all seats to the party who got the plurality of votes).
This is THE fight USA. In my opinion, your ridiculous voting systems is probably why it’s so easy to suppress you.
- Comment on Speak American 4 weeks ago:
🇩🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴 Traditional?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
If they keep not complying, which is my understanding of what apple has been doing, they should absolutely be bankrupted. Or something drastic.
A warning, which will make other companies self-Police, bringing down the cost of enforcement.
Countries are so permissive of corporate bad behaviour it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Love me a Legume Garlic BLT 1 month ago:
Maybe you should try 7 hours straight + 1 hour gay. Everyone has their own ~c~h~r~omo type
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 month ago:
Then it’ll just be so in my heart
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 month ago:
This feels like a Lemmy OC, is it?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 2 months ago:
I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a things in many languages.
Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 2 months ago:
I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.
So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 2 months ago:
Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 months ago:
How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 months ago:
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 months ago:
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 months ago:
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.