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[–] Darkonion@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You got room on that hill for one more?

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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 84 points 4 days ago

Cloud-based. If a product won't work if my internet dies, or I can't access my data without internet or a subscription, I won't buy it.

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 11 points 3 days ago (9 children)
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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fish is superior to Bash and ZSH, I dont care that you can have auto completion on both its a pain to set up.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

[–] PeacfulForest@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not a small hill and I could not agree more. This is relevant to Noam Chomsky “manufacturing consent”.

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[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago (15 children)

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I honestly believe this one is a gorilla marketing gimmick. Like they purposely went back and removed references to it so any time someone brings up the Mandela Effect their name gets mentioned.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Probably a slightly higher stair in a staircase one day

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 51 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Using the term ‘assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.

All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.

Fight me.

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[–] Astrophage@lemy.lol 45 points 4 days ago (8 children)

It is NOT "habañero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.

It's just an N sound. Habanero.

It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 51 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 54 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to hate on it before I tried it at a friend's house. Man, Hawaiian pizza is one of my favourite ones now and I will happily join you on dying on this hill.

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[–] mub@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There is a letter G in the word recognise. Bloody use it. What people all say is "reckonise" which is not the same word. Also driving on the left just makes way more sense.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

driving on the left just makes way more sense.

Only because it's what you're used to. Also I know there are countries (Sweden, or was it Norway?) that have switched which side they drive on, and as far as I know no one has switched from right to left.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I have a reason. Most people are right handed. In a Right hand drive car with manual gears your preferred hand remains on the steering wheel when you change gears. Also messing with the stereo or climate controls also leaves your preferred hand on the wheel.

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