FinishingDutch

Where’d you get that stat? That feels high. I certainly have never been asked to show my penis on Lemmy or anything like that. The signup thing also doesn’t ask for gender.

I believe the French had a nice invention for that. And it’s not the ‘pain au chocolat’…

Here in the Netherlands, we use the Euro. Which has 1 and 2 cent coins. The Netherlands and a few other Euro countries basically stopped using those, instead rounding off to the nearest 5 cents when paying with physical money.

If you pay digitally, you still pay the exact amount without the rounding off.

Frankly, I was amazed that they thought those 1 and 2 cents were useful. You can buy nothing with them and they cost more to make than their worth.

I imagine that might be handy if you’re trying to book something somewhere. Assuming the musician is still alive, of course.

How often do you get disappointed stares when you show up somewhere?

I share my name with a famous referee. I’ve had people try and talk to me about that sport when I’m very clearly not said individual.

Sure, in a technical sense, that’s true - the car radio in our 2025 Hyundai i10 is a DAB+ radio, which supposedly still has backup FM capability. Which is never used, as you just pick the station from a list. It’s never used anyway - I much prefer podcasts.

The other day I got a press release about disaster preparedness for grade school kids.

It made mention of teaching kids how to use a battery powered radio to get information. And it suddenly struck me that my 8 year old nephew likely has never even SEEN an FM radio, much less would know how to tune one to a specific station.

Shit like that makes me feel reaaaaaaallllly old…

I hope her parents took her out for pizza, ice cream and signed her up for a kickboxing class. Because I would be proud if she did that, honestly.

She asked them to stop, the school did nothing. Well, then it’s time to handle it yourself.

I love public transit, but even if you ran gold plated buses on five minute schedules that were free to use, people are still going to need and want some cars. And at least Teslas are electric…

But yeah, agreed on Elon. I’ve met too many useless take-credit-for-the-work-of-others management types in my life already. That guy is clearly not someone doing any actual work to create actual products.

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, since Hollywood loves to blacklist folks in general for opinions outside work. But to outright claim X, Y or Z won’t be working at Paramount seems a bit of a stretch.

There’s a lot of wiggle room in that article. It’s reporting on ‘sources told Variety’ that Paramount is making a list, but that they’re not sure who’s on it. But that they assume these people would be.

It’s all silly anyway. Even folks like Kevin Spacey eventually get back to working in Hollywood. Hollywood principles only go so far once the media attention dies down.

Huh, I didn’t know that. I would’ve guessed they’d use some open source alternative.

There’s people who use that? That’s news to me.

This is actually a pretty interesting topic.

I was born in 1982 and we didn’t get the internet until 1998. Which means I was a kid and teen in a mostly analog world.

Your day to day knowledge was formed by things you were taught in school, the things you saw on the news and the people you were surrounded by. That gave you a fairly broad understanding of the world.

If you really NEEDED a correct answer, you’d use an encyclopedia at school or the library, or any specific book on the topic. But you had to be motivated to do that. And even those resources might be limited in scope or unavailable. My local library in the Netherlands would’ve had some books on US history for example, but you wouldn’t really find say, a biography of Jimmy Carter. So at some point, you’d reach the maximum depth of knowledge to be gained in your particular situation.

The internet really helps us drill down way, WAY deeper than what we could find in the 80’s and 90’s. I can now have in-depth knowledge on the most obscure topic and drill down as far as I want.

It’s unfortunate that a lot of people don’t use the web for that. Or end up actually misinformed because of it.