I guess the use of “dropped” rather than “cancelled” is kinda interesting

That’s not what you get under feudalism; the industrialisation of agriculture won’t be undone. Look up modern slavery conditions, because that’s what you’ll actually get.

This exists as a plugin already, for those who want to live in the future: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

Yeah, there are some examples out of “clean code” that are absolutely ludicrous on the “tons of tiny functions” end.

I’d also say letting map/filter and other common operations show is entirely fine.

Arch apparently doesn’t want his money. I don’t have any actual sources, just internet hearsay, but still, I can still very much understand not wanting to take his money.

Mmm, bottle fermentation.

But I think the main point is more along the lines of expectations for alcohol and general tastes: I find overly sweet stuff a turn-off, and generally need to temper sweet stuff with something sour or bitter.

Also, mixing juice and alcohol can very often result in what a lot of us drank as teenagers, and may have rather negative associations to. Like I don’t have problems with gimlets and micheladas or radlers, but I think I prefer them all on the boozier side, and stuff like rum & coke is just … not for me.

So if I go to a restaurant and get what I interpret as more or less teenager drinking swill full of artificial flavouring, Black Tower and general goon sack swill, I’m going to have a bad time, and be left wondering if this stuff is actually representative of what they consider alcohol for adults, or if the people at the restaurant are being weird.

Yeah, same. Was struck by it at a korean restaurant that had the equivalent of a wine pairing, and their selection was just … something for children, only children can’t drink. As in, I like straight soju and makgeolli, but I’d rather get some craft makgeolli without sweeteners than something flavoured like chemical blueberry replica.

Yeah, I took it more as analysing and adjusting to one’s current situation, as opposed to going conspiracy nut.

Neither magic crystals nor PUA courses are what someone struggling to budget 2000$ for candles needs

Possibly you’re thinking about https://qntm.org/clean

Was expecting it to reference parse, don’t validate but now seems like the author might be one of today’s lucky 10000 (if they read lemmy comments)

W is a double-v for us, so our alphabet goes uvw (u ve dobbel-ve), rather than uwv (ju dabbel-ju vi).

Germanic languages vary a bit in their attitude towards w; we Norwegians use it pretty much just as a fancy old-timey v and could frankly drop w from our alphabet without missing anything (just like q is practically never used).

Germans use w the way we use v, and then use v pretty much like f.

The anglo w sound is something we have to learn in English class, and even then a lot of people start to hypercorrect and pronounce even the "v"s in English as their w. It can be wery funny to listen to, or wery frustrating.

Imagine if that money had been spent on building out renewables instead

People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

At the start, then they stop looking at the signs unless the gas prices have been in the news recently.

Us nords have nine vowel letters:

• a e i
• o u y
• æ ø å

and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn’t “c with a line” any more than q is “o with a leg”.

They’re also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

• ey i ay
• åo ju way
• ??? ??? ???

There’s an æøå song which might help.

It’s cow tools from a Gary Larson comic

Oh man, I used to have my irssi claim it was Comic Chat. Fun times.

Like other MS tech of the era it was at least lightly into EEE territory, as the client would add stuff to messages that just looked like crap to users of normal IRC clients, similarly to how Outlook users would have seemingly random Js in their text, because Outlook rendered that as a smiley through the power of a Windings font.

But it sure did spawn some memes.

I believe the expression is

oh look, a new public toilet just opened

The Department of Transportation is doubling down on its campaign against “DEI bike lanes,” as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called them in a social media post earlier this month.

JFC. I mean, I shouldn’t be surprised, but somehow I still am.

One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both “$nationality spicy” and “thai spicy”