It being open source doesn’t necessarily improve anything for me. I’m a software engineer and could go through the code, but it’s not like I know everything about everything nor am I specialized in security. But at that point… Why? Even if the data somehow doesn’t leave my device (which I still doubt by default because vulnerabilities are being discovered all the time) why is that worth the effort or the risk?

I didn’t have an always-on internet connection until sometime in my 20s. I can live without it.

I’m probably just going to go back to shaving my head. I have no trouble growing hair, but can’t really be bothered. My wife doesn’t care either way which is probably the thing I most care about

If the fediverse starts requiring ID to post, I won’t post. I already don’t use FB, Insta snap, TikTok, or whatever the hell else there is these days.

12 makes sense to me and I prefer 24-hour-time but, yeah, the lack of the consistency is the maddening part to me.

annoying practically.

Strong disagree here. Maybe if you live in the US where the other units aren’t frequently used yet, it’s annoying. I grew up in the US but now live in Japan where most things are metric. The only big exceptions I can think of that require calculation are a couple of traditional units for property size, room size, and alcohol size (and some of those are slowly becoming less common).

I live in Japan. Pressure is in Bars (or, for older things, other odd units that are not PSI). Bicycle tires, screens, etc. are called HoweverManyInch-type but also have measurements listed in mm/cm. Nothing here has only floz. I guess imported products may, but I think they technically must be labeled in sensible units for sale.

1. where I grew up, we didn’t. I also grew up in a state that was always in the top 3 for speeding fines given.

2. Because, at least in theory, speed limits in the area should be set for safety, not desires. The US is generally really bad at safe road design (e.g. less wide and straight in residential and similar areas) which enables those speeding

3. fees based on things like net worth and/or salary would theoretically help. That will never happen though. Some places use cameras to offer civil penalties, but I’m not sure where camera enforcement is otherwise legal. I haven’t lived in the US in over a decade, though.

4. ah, yeah, I wrote my point 2 before this. The US is way too car-brained and me-centric for that in many areas.

That said, where I live in rural Japan, people customarily go 10-15 kph over the limit and pass like idiots even in 30kph residential areas. The police seem to mostly only give a shit during specific enforcement campaigns that happen a couple of times a year. I try to walk, cycle, motorbike, and drive in that order depending upon what I need to do and where. Even on my motorbike, it can be scary on our roads.

None of my history teachers in memory were anything left of American center. I guess I can’t comment on the ones in elementary school since it was basically 30-40 years ago and I didn’t have any real political awareness in my single-digit ages. My US History teacher in highschool was decidedly right-wing (and also an asshole who gave us all murderer/criminal/serial killer nicknames, nastier ones to those he liked least).

Piefed (though I also generally like Mbin). However, I haven’t used lemmy since the old version with autorefresh and such so I’m not sure. I also just use it in the browser with no separate client/frontend.

Wow, I forgot all about that them; I think we even opened for them once a couple decades ago in the band I was in.

Sounds like my history teacher. He gave us all murderer, criminal, serial killer, etc. nicknames

Adults with anime school girl avatars

Some of them, I’m sure. Some people I think just have a favorite character or look like them or relate to them somehow. I live in Japan and it’s not uncommon for adults to have a character for an existing anime or even something drawn for them in that style based on their own appearance (men and women, old and young) in LINE (messaging app) or whatnot.

As for the rest (i.e. being actually attracted to or overly-obsessed with), yeah, that’s getting in to creep/pedo territory.

Thank you!

That’s interesting! To me, it reads as ‘if I (have) belief’; false cognates are fun!

Edit: s/toe/to me; I hate typing on mobile

Thinking of this later, isn’t our English usage of ‘please’ contracted from ‘if it pleases you’ as in French "s’il vous plaît’? This would be closer to the Norwegian ‘vær så snill’ I mentioned in a previous post, I think? Looking at one source on old English, though, shows ‘Iċ þancie þē’ which looks like ‘I thank thee’ to me. It’s interesting.

Norwegian has ‘x, vær så snill’ which is functionally ‘x, please’ so far as I can tell. Adding ‘takk’ (thanks) at the end of a sentence is another way.

If your car is not drawn by animals, you are not driving it. You might be piloting or controlling it, but not driving it.