Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.

I know it’s pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I’m not a weirdo (well…). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes

And miss out on stuff like this?!

I agree with you that 20kg for a woman is not thát crazy, even for a beginner. But the “woman’s bar” is also very popular, which is only 15kg. I think the main reason many women prefer this one is because the thinner bar is easier to grip.

Plus the 5 years of warranty and 8 years of updates really makes it a phone to last.

I just switched from OnePlus 7 to FairPhone 5 because the battery on the former just wasn’t holding up anymore. If that becomes a problem with my new phone, I can just switch the battery and keep using it.

Too small of a minority

It’s getting there, but I don’t think it fully captures the toilet humour in the joke.

Meaning we can rest assured that the singularity is still not here.

I saw “Highly rated episode of the Fresh Prince” and immediately knew which one it was.

That one hit hard.

Megaparsec, kilojoules, kilo electron volt,… are all very common.

Then on the other hand, giga solar masses is never used.

Who switches to miles if they initially use km? They’re the same order of magnitude.

It’s most noticeable when the topic being discussed is your area of expertise. Then you clearly see what kind of grossly oversimplified or even blatantly false comments get made with so much confidence and upvoted.

I tried to keep this in mind while reading stuff that I’m not an expert in, but that’s hard.

Downvotes weren’t a thing in Reddit is Fun? I definitely remember downvoting things using RIF right until the end.

To me, I will downvote things that do not deserve any visibility. Such as things that are factually wrong, things that don’t contribute, overplayed jokes, hateful posts,…

Exactly. Billionairs look out for themselves first and foremost. They try to maximise their profit.

Musk wants to push more people to pay for verified. The reddit board (not only Spez) wants people to download their app to make it seem like their growing right before their IPO, while simultaneously forcing more ad views. Probably downloading the app also lets them track a lot of extra data about you as well.

No conspiracy needed to explain all this.

No, but I do believe “Fediverse” is a reference to “faits divers”.