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  • Comparing an overused “lol meanest album of thr century” of literally any group of animals to the motherdoing king of poetry? (He originated the "I fucked your momma joke, which still goes hard by the way.)

    The original, the one with pigeons shot from a frog perspective, it kinda looked like mean posing hip-hop guys, and in that context, the joke was actually funny.

    Now it’s just anything related to animals “album cover haha”.

    Do a better one. If I see a foldfish going after a piece of bait that even looks a bit like paper in the same framing that the Nirvana album was? Sure. That would make it somewhat fun again… Marginally. Maybe.

    But this is just not a good utilisation of something that never was a classic, just a simple meme from like 20 years ago.







  • So should someone like Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have their “own classes”? Who would they be competing against?

    They too are “rare people who have a significant competitive advantages against vanillas”.

    This cannot be discussed rationally in the current political shitstorm unfortunately.

    You misspelled “my own ideology isn’t rational, so I can not discuss this rationally”



  • Eh, pirate sails around the world, picks up disgraced samurai who needs to leave Japan. Afterwards they’ll sail to England at some point or another, and the thief is looking for passage to America (as a thief he needs to get abroad for a while). They sail over the Atlantic, where they meet the cowboy who’s driven cattle from the West to sell at a better price on the East coast.

    A call to adventure on top, aaand campaign is a go.


  • I mean, I’m European, on metric and fully agree with you.

    But you’re not right about the units. They’re just the most well known, and used ones.

    An inch is 3 barleycorns. A barleycorn is 4 poppyseeds. A poppyseed (2.11mm) is six points. A point, 0.35mm is twenty twips. A twip is 17 micrometers. 0.0176mm, roughly the width of a human hair.

    Which makes it even dumber, because it shows it’s from a time in people could measure things in twips, yet those people still chose to make a unit called “a twip” instead of just saying “fuck this we’re going metric”. Nevermind I checked and point and twip are both typographical measurements, so it’s less unreasonable.

    With most common and best known ones, the same things still exist in metric, but they’re just minimally confusing, as people know it’s prefix+unit. A milliliter is very common. Deciliter as well, but probably less so (someone once told me their country don’t use it as much despite being on metric, can’t remember the country), but something like a decimeter or a decigram would sound pretty weird. Hectogram however, isn’t too unfamiliar, pretty used in the drug world. I’m sure a lot of people would be confused by the prefix “yotta” or “ronna”, which I was too. Yonna is above zetta, above exa, above peta. I’m sure a lot of people on Lemmy know at least “peta” and probably exa.

    Discounting those amazingly big prefixes, even if I use a less used combo like, say, “megasecond”, you don’t need additional information to figure out how long that is. But with seconds it’s annoying to transform them into days and hours and minutes, because you have to also use base 60, but still doable. Here’s a tangentially related example: a nice comparison between millionaires and billionaires; if you earned a dollar a second, you’d be a millionaire in a megasecond, a billionaire in a gigasecond. A megasecond is is 11.57 days. A gigasecond is 32 years.



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    8 months ago

    An online calculator (idk the formula they use they’re all rather silly) says that on a golden retriever, 18 would be 131 in dog years (and it doesn’t even do 21, saying the inputted value for the dog’s age must be between 1-20 years) and 21 would be ~150 (20 is 145).