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One nitpick with this: This only applies to the US.

I get that a large percentage of Lemmy (and Reddit, earlier on) are from the US, but it bugs me that things like this default to being US-centric without mentioning it.

Awesome initiative, nonetheless!

Eggs.

Headline English goes BRRRRRRR

We can do better than that. What about dual wielding guitars?

If I’m not mistaken, there’s a weird trend here.

My SO worked in admin at a school for a few years, primarily young people of less fortunate backgrounds, immigrants, etc.

To her great surprise, almost everyone aged 16-22 knew how to use a phone, but an equality small percentage were comfortable with PCs, macbooks or other desktop systems.

That surprised the hell of me. Like you, I grew up using brick phones, then command line systems, then gui computers. I grew up being better at computers than my parents generation, a digital native who was expected to fix the older generations computers, fully expecting to be one day out-done by the younger generation who would grasp the newer more advanced tech faster than me simply by virtue of having been around it longer.

Somehow that seems to both not be the case and very much be the case. Mobile devices are the native device now, but it seems like being native to mobile does not translate backwards to knowing how to build a computer or what a file system is.

My best bet is that it’s a matter of UX and accessibility. You don’t learn how to troubleshoot installer errors when everything runs through an app store, the same way I didn’t learn how to fix a car like my dad did. I didn’t need to.

That’s awesome.

I’m in Denmark (so close to Germany) and we usually have the Danish variety of Gluwein, Glögg, multiple times throughout December.

I can totally relate to not being much into traditional Christmas cooking. My family isn’t either, so we try something new every year.

That sounds awesome.

You gotta give us the story of how it came to be.

Tacos and Gluwein are spectacularly, gloriously far apart culinarily.

How did you come to having a middle American dish with a northern European beverage?

I might be mistaken, but I think this style was pioneered by Welcome to my Meme Page.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/welcome-to-my-meme-page

Interesting! Do you happen to know where the -UX suffix convention came from?

I think what this comment is trying to say is that we’re headed towards an age that resembles what that song talks about: An age of unfettered capitalism, with a small number of corporation owning so much of the market that they can do what they want with no repercussions.

Now that I think about it, tahini and peanut butter are fairly similar in texture and consistency.

I wonder what Hummus with peanut butter would taste like.

I also wonder what peanut butter with garlic, lemon and cumin would taste like.

The qualifier listed by op was “popular music”

Yes, but how often do you see them in mainstream media these days?

As is Denmark, but with even fewer rifles, owing to a noticeable lack of big game.

I think it’s important to mention that, like with medical products, we don’t generally get adverts for firearms. I want to say it’s illegal, but I’m not actually sure. Regardless, the lack of advertising for weapons contributes to the absence of firearms and related items in the public consciousness. You don’t really get people over here standing around talking about guns the same way they’d talk about sports cars or tools. Guns are very much a serious topic reserved for law enforcement and military matters.

Wow, thanks for the reply!

That makes a lot of sense. I was trying to work out why a sink immediately next to a corner was bad, but now I know what you mean.

I guess it’s a bad solution to trying to work around the problem of kitchen real estate, the same way trying to use for cabinet in the corner unit for anything is almost always a bad time.

Ok, I’m super curious. By “In the corner” do you mean putting a sink on the actual corner unit? Or by the tablespace immediately next to it?

In the case of the first one I totally get it. The corner unit is a cursed part of the kitchen anyway. If you mean immediately next to it, why not? Not disagreeing, just curious what a professional says.

Genetics, or generics?

Generic Bulk Fiber night be fine, Genetic Bulk Fiber sounds scary.

Awkward stock photo panning shot

The Room is fantastic, but it’s so bad.

I fell into a rabbit hole of watching bad movies some years ago, starting with the room. I sat through The Room, Sharknado, Rubber, Attack of the Killer Tomato, Birdemic, and then found all of Syfy’s weird “Giant X vs. Mega Y” movies.

The Room is fantastic at being a terrible movie. It’s bad, but it’s also immensely enjoyable. It has terrible humor that doesn’t work, no acting of any kind, weird pictures of spoons, actors getting swapped out half way through. It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does.

I quickly realised that while The Room is terrible, there are far worse films out there. Some are hilariously bad, some are cringely bad, and some are just straight up bad.

Yes, but who has the most famous seafood culture? Scandinavia or japan?

We’re famous for eating a lot of fish, but not for high quality of it. Japan treats it’s tuna like texas treats it’s cattle.

We mass fish salmon, cod and plaice and sell it to the rest of Europe at dumping prices.

Japan has good fish, we have lots of fish.