Mwallerby

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[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Something janky about the wheels, smells like AI...

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you're in STEM)

ETA: there was a dumb plan a couple years ago to "reintroduce" imperial measurements after Brexit, mainly aimed at food shops, ignoring the fact that the EU never prevented anyone using them, and then the govt quietly dropped it in December lawl

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

First computer in about '99, which I'd "built" (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad's friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)

First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I've got it in a box somewhere...

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was about to say the same thing - just annoying it's not all available online in the UK

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've got two - a potato ricer, basically a big garlic press you put a boiled potato in, instant perfect mash.

And one of those spiral apple peeler/corer/slicers, makes cooking anything with apple in so much faster (it's a fiddle to clean though unfortunately)

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Is that 25/80% of men will have thinner hair, or 25/80% of a man's hair will thin?

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A person and a human? So if a legal person like a company pisses it still takes the same time, neat

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The word "asteroid" literally means "star-like", because when they were first observed, no telescope could see enough detail to know what they were, so they were basically just called "those things that look a bit like stars".

Even when eventually we figured out what they were, they were generally considered to all be spherical like tiny planets (see: The Little Prince) until the 1970s when one of the Mars probes flew close enough to have a look at one.

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is crazy - we also rented an MG Excite in NZ (but on the north island) with exactly the same issues, maybe it was the same car 😆 was yours blue?

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

The TV show "Scorpion" for several reasons

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediversary, of course!

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