Because small creators are basically forced to take chances and be creative to survive with limited budgets while big corpo can take the boring safe bet and the big money attracts people that have a lot of talent for personal marketing and not much else while the number of people involved makes everything a design by committee.

The imperial system makes you a worse shot. Everybody in American stories misses by inches. In European stories, they miss by millimeters. It’s quite the difference: 25 times worse.

Where I went, they also completely recreated the living space around it for the different era. The wallpaper, the furniture, even a soldering iron for the electronics enthousiast, it all matched perfectly. That was a nostalgia trip.

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See if this triggers your nostalgia: A, B and C from here

By now it’s a sloperating system full of slopvertisement and slopware

For me it’s usually the Bitcoin guy from the “If Google was a guy” sketches

I replaced the chair with a little clothing rack from Ikea. It still looks the same but now it’s justified.

The meme version of: “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

Or use plotters. These are the same X-Y setup as a 3D printer, where you use a pen instead of an extrusion module. There are a bunch of DIY projects for this. But now you’re talking about minutes per page, not pages per minute.

One ice cream truck around here does hot waffles when the weather is cold.

The companies fail to produce quality goods and services now. Foreign companies take their market despite the tariffs. American companies go bust.

Billionaires can and do use their money to make those restrictions disappear. Just like millionaires used their money to remove the restrictions on getting more money to become billionaires.

And if you do have friends, they can laugh at you when you struggle to get out of the car

13 months of 4 weeks + new year’s day (+leap day) actually fits perfectly.

That’s how we ended up with 12 months of varying length in a year and it’s a mess.

IIRC they counted the bones in their fingers using their thumb and that gives 12. The first sundial was around the equator and there is always light for half a day, so half a day becomes 12 hours.

To count large numbers often one hand was used to count using 5 fingers and the other to count the bones, so you get 5x12 for 60 minutes.

Sounds like all shopping experiences with the wife and daughters. They purposefully choose the other one when asking for my opinion.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ovhcloud-data-center-devastated-by-fire-entire-building-destroyed

It was you!

Usually you can click on the year and it switches to year mode to make things easier, or just type the date and it figured things out. If not, you can use a massage gun on the mouse. Or a fast click app.

The nazi loved the “nothing to hide”. What better than all your information, like religion, nicely written down in official records if you want to suddenly round up one specific group of people. Or DEI wanting to deport a certain group, and DOGE doing their best to suck up all information on everybody. You may have nothing to fear right now, but you never know who’s going to be in office soon.