I don’t even want to turn on the speed limiter because I’m getting random fantom breaking, it’s really infuriating.

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Too young to drink drive and vote, old enough to be a parent and to soon enlist in the army

Kelly Claxon, the singer? Definitely a very irritating sound!

I watched a video (Invidious) yesterday detailing the type of coins they used before 1971 in the UK and its empire, and it was actually insane.

1 Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pennies, with coins for 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 6 pennies, 1, 2, 2.5, 5 Shillings and banknotes for the Pounds, and each of these coins had 5 or more different names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd

How the eff do you gain 400 lbs?! That’s roughly 180kg!

the customary unit for body weight in the UK is, however, the stone https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+stone+(unit)

Honestly, any platforms hosting user-generated content who use the legal argument that they only provide hosting and aren’t responsible for what their user post shouldn’t also be able to sell the same data and claim owning any of it.

Otherwise, take away their legal immunity. Nazis or pedophiles post something awful? You get in front of the judge.

edit: typo

hey don’t belittle technological advancements in germany, people here at are the forefront of innovation: https://simple-fax.de/fax-ki

:'D

Haha don’t get me started with US coins, I also have a fun story there: we arrived fresh off JFK Airport in NYC and headed to our rental apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. It was pretty far from the a subway station so we got a connecting bus to get us closer.

The next day, we thought of taking the same bus line to head to Manhattan, except our party of four ended up being expected to pay 4x $2.75 in a machine inside the bus… in coins. That’s 44 quarters. Yup, don’t have that on day 2 of my stay. So we walked 6 blocks.

I visited the UK back in 2022 and I was pretty baffled at how you can universally “tap to pay”. We visited a pub on the coast of Dorset where they wouldn’t even accept cash as a mean of payment. All in all it was nice, because it meant not having to deal with a foreign currency at all, we spent 10 days just using electronic payment, so as a tourist I think it was a good experience.

In Germany, where I live, you’re basically getting nowhere without cash, it’s still very difficult to eat out or buy small food items like bread or a sandwich. There’s also a culture of paying cash for many things, including pricier items like a second hand car! Shop cashiers usually don’t even blink if you try to pay with a 100€ bill (except if you’re coming super early and they don’t have change available yet). It’s not unusual for me to end up drawing a quarter to half my monthly salary in cash.

I first disliked it when I moved from France, but now I think it’s actually good for the society. You always have some change to tip a waiter or give to a beggar, a coin for the cart at the supermarket, get something from a vending machine… Also I live in a very quiet area so getting mugged is very unlikely, making it not so scary to carry cash around.

yeah that’s an absolutely fair point, when everything is read out loud there’s a lot of information transiting through the audio signal

I feel sorry for whoever had to sit through hours and hours of Minecraft livestreams, indie Mongolian folk and endless audiobooks of classic scifi I fall asleep to

Late.

It comes from Latin tardus = slow

Yup I’m already there but it’s hard to get any traction, im posting stuff into the void, its gonna take a while to get the typical Meta users over there :/

Nothing but by now we got used to switching service whenever it gets bad

Cyndi B @spintheiryarns 7 Jun 2019 Replying to @tinymediaempire

what happens if i give you $1.37

Daniel Danger @tinymediaempire 7 Jun 2019

i round down so you get one grilled cheese and i get a 37 cent tip and also i put you on a mental list for being a troublemaker

if you want to read the original thread, check this: https://nitter.net/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440#m