gizmonicus

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Red pill. You can make money, but you can't make time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The annoying thing is: if everyone did this, phantom traffic jams wouldn't be a thing, and even real road obstructions would have significantly less impact and we would all get where we want to go faster, collectively. But we won't, because I got mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, I get that it's not grammatically correct in that context, but the word itself is valid. I had always thought "learnt" was akin to "ain't", but that's not the case. Both "learned" and "learnt" are correct, but the latter is less commonly used in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've heard it used in a sentence like "When I was a boy, my daddy done learnt me a thing or two about fishin'". Which is why it's associated with southern slang, I think. That's my hypothesis anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Like one of those old cassette tapes with a headphone cable when MP3 players first came out and cars didn't have adapters? Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Fun fact, related to this: learned and learnt are also both correct. I always assumed learnt was a redneck thing (I'm from the south), but it turns out the Brits use it too. Who knew?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

As an American, I think the moment I said "which one" when asked if I had heard about the mass shooting in wherever it was I can't even remember now, that was when I realized how fucked our gun policies are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn it, you beat me to it. A wise linux user you are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Vegans really need to embrace this strategy. Reduce meat consumption is a much easier sell to the majority of the world, and it would open them up to the idea that vegetables can make a complete meal.

Too many vegans I know try to get you to buy into their lifestyle from the start. Bruh, I'm an American and I can tell you from personal experience that most Americans, especially down here in the south, do not consider something a meal unless it has meat in it. You are not going to convince these people to stop eating burgers straight up. This is a cultural thing that isn't going to be easy to change. Going full vegan is a deal breaker. Cutting back on meat for your personal health might just gain some traction.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What if that small change In made was assasinating billionaires (sorry, PragerU, people with means) in my spare time instead of just playing Hitman?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This might be true, but there's something about how bad this picture is that I don't think I could do worse. It's uniquely bad in such a profound way that it would require real skill to make something more universally terrible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I wasn't understanding the joke. This made it much more clear.

 
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