You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.

directus→derecho from “straight” to “right”

So that’s why “straight on” and “on the right” are the maddeningly confusable “a derecha” and “en derecho”. Such a pain when following directions.

I’m using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I’d prefer a smaller screen

I think they’re regional. I don’t remember seeing one either, but I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t encountered it, or because I didn’t notice.

I would say “it’s on backorder”. You could verb it as “it’s been backordered”, but that feels a bit clunky somehow.

Placebo buttons.

Some appliances like elevators or traffic crossings cycle automatically, but they still have (non-functional) buttons. If the buttons are removed, people complain that the wait is too long. Let them push a button while they wait, and they’ll think it’s much quicker.

Answer from @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee when I asked the same question;

Good question, and sorry to disappoint but I believe the answer is still no. This has been talked about a lot ever since the initial exodus over from Reddit, so I can only assume there’s a complicated technical reason why it’s not a thing yet.

If you’re Lemmying from a browser there’s a tool called Lemmy Universal Link Switcher that I’ve heard good things about, although full disclosure I’ve not used it myself. It doesn’t solve the problem of generating instance-agnostic links but it does try to solve it from the reader’s side.

I got the same trying to make an instagram login earlier this year, having never used insta before. I think Meta just has some overzealous automoderation of new accounts.

I’m often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like ‘why are you worried about fuel, it’s not that expensive, guys’ because he didn’t understand the questions. He didn’t understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn’t understand the rocket equation. He doesn’t understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.

If you check the ‘nerd stuff’, it shows it was posted at 15:13, and updated at 15:16. But there isn’t a UI element to show that at a glance.

Dunno. They’re probably all on X these days.

Can’t find any evidence of that being a term prior to the tweet. I’d guess one of

• they meant something simple like ‘hateful dialogue’ or ‘hateful diatribe’, and thought it was a smart person way of saying it.
• it’s the dog whistle du jour. Somewhere on stormfront or voat they’re getting terribly worked up about ‘dialectical hatred’ as the new current threat to the white race.
• it’s used in some niche context where it has meaning. But our tweeter thinks it’s got more reach than it actually does.

And also

I don’t even work that hard

Trump would never compare himself unfavourably to anything, even in jest.

I don’t get the gender neutral either (using Gboard on an older Android). Which is a bit odd because as far as I can tell gender neutral is the base character, and the male and female versions are customisations that are applied as if they were accented characters.

I’d rather have them all as no-gender, no-race, generic little yellow peeps but eh…

It’s not specifically about those same individuals, but I want to mention Dan Olsen’s documentary In Search of a Flat Earth, which touches more on the ideology of the flat earth movement, and how it’s developed in recent years. No spoilers, peeps!

Tap tap tap. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap… Tapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapatapa…
Tap.
Tap tap…
Tap …

“I’m wasting my time”

I think the TLDR bot has its purpose.

A stoic is a boid that brings babies

That’s only a concern for one generation tho, which afaik for commercially bred chickens might be just a matter of weeks

Earth’s moon is notably big. Relative to the size of its parent planet, it’s easily the biggest* in the solar system (or second biggest if you Stan Pluto as a planet). If there was a second moon, it would likely be a lot smaller. So, I don’t think it would have much practical effect on things like tides or timekeeping. It would still have cultural significance in things like mythology and astrology. If we could observe moon-moon interactions we might have discovered gravity earlier.

/* in absolute size, there are a couple of larger moons, but they’re moons of giant planets so Luna still wins in relative size.