Holyhandgrenade @ Holyhandgrenade @lemmy.world

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I need to get one of those, my local (rural) grocery stores don't have the locking shopping carts and I alway forget to bring a coin when I need to unlock one.

Yeah I'd argue canning is one of the greatest technological marvels of the 20th century. I never check the expiration date of the cans in my kitchen

My girlfriend's family cabin has a cold storage in the basement. We found some canned stew that had expired in 1982. A friend of mine actually ate it and he didn't get sick!

Because it's an annoying extra step I need to take. Also volumetric units are less accurate and don't convert to well into metric.

Yeah grams are way more accurate and I always prefer to weigh, especially when it comes to stuff like coffee.

Yeah each and every Covid death is a tragedy but how many people committed suicide during lockdown? How much did our society and culture suffer from shutting everything down except the bare essentials? How many people went broke because they couldn't work from home?
I think the lockdown was worth it back in 2020-2021. But at some point you just need to accept that people are going to die no matter what, and there's nothing we can do to eradicate Covid forever.

I have close friends from Grindavík, it's surreal and sad watching its destruction live on television. A building is currently being surrounded by lava on one of the livestreams. Luckily it's only an abandoned research facility, but it's only a matter of time until it reaches the nearest residencies.

I'm European but I have a set of US cups in my kitchen because most recipes are in these stupid American measurements.

As a straight male, I have also come to appreciate Sam as the best damn character in the entire LOTR series.

I can't tell you how often I've opened Google Drive when I meant to open the Gmail app or vice versa.
I know they technically don't look that much alike, but at a glance they're way too similar. Just use a different color for each app please?

They certainly can get away with slavery, ever heard of the prison system?

I think the bigger a corporation is, the more shitty things it had to do in order to reach that status.
There are some good companies with a moral code, but they'll never become competitive with the big dogs in our current capitalist system.

-30 °C here in Norway. Going outside hurts

You're right, copyright laws were written ages ago when mass media was exclusively owned by big media companies. If there was ever a copyright dispute, the company's lawyers would meet up with the other company's lawyers and either settle or go to court, and both parties could easily pay for the legal fees because they were, you know, big media companies.
But nowadays everyone can simply upload something that can potentially reach billions of people, which is unprecedented in human (or legal) history, and the legal system simply hasn't caught up to this radical shift in the status quo. This is why Youtube has to compromise between the big media conglomerates with expensive lawyers and, well, the rest of us.

There's a popular conspiracy theory that they kept swapping him out once every few years when the old one died and pretended it was the same old Rungus. They don't fool me.

I've heard a lot of joke names for trump, but "Mango Mussolini" takes the cake lol

But... But everyone having a right to medical care whether they're rich or poor? Unthinkable! Think of the shareholders!

Apparently you can't recall the word "eaten" either.

Yeah the Pizza Hut lunch buffet is a solid deal!

I've literally never gotten Pizza Hut delivered. Maybe it's a Europe vs US thing but to me it's a sit-down restaurant.