spongebue @ spongebue @lemmy.world

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We did it!

Such a difficult accomplishment 🥹

Nobody's said Lenny yet? Ok. I'll say Lenny.

Honestly, it's the other way around for me. To be clear, Denali is a much better name than Mount McKinley for multiple reasons, but at least it's our mountain and it was named Mount McKinley at one time.

Gulf of America is just a dumb power move that came out of nowhere, and it's a body of water shared by multiple countries. It's not like this is the only gulf named after only one country it touches out of a few - see also the Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Thailand, for example

I laughed when I saw this. Like, it was a guy excited that his computer is working better, including with his printer. Maybe a teensy bit of punctuation I'd do differently, but whatever. It's the Internet. Then suddenly "oh yeah sorry English isn't my first language and I'm sure you can all see that"

Also like... That's probably the only time you'll see sympathy over neurodivergency from the people saying that

I had to read it a few times to realize it was supposed to read it as Nice but I should have read it as Nice

The point here is the challenge

I second the suggestion to get some Wi-Fi mesh nodes and replace your current Wi-Fi router with that. Not only will you get the Ethernet ports you need, but everything will be on one big, strong, seamless network

Is that the M420 S1? I do not, but I thought the G29 took care of that?

That'll fix the conditions causing people to flee to the US for a better life!

How far away is the Mar a Lago kitchen? That could at least put him close to one

Huh?

Its as far as I know unique to the US and certainly not the standard

It is not the standard, but it's definitely not unique to the US. It is most prominent in the Americas though, probably because of all the settlers from abroad.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-birthright-citizenship

I preferred the first version.

Nativity, obviously

I've heard about the "Korean age" where everyone is 1 at birth and gains a year at the same time on New Year's. Seems wacky until you think of it as how many calendar years you've been alive for. I mean, it's still odd but not as bad

Very cool. I would love to check out that part of the world one day. Congrats on the find! I may be in a different financial situation in the US, but I still LOVE a good bargain driven by luck.

May I ask which country you're in?

When you're being encouraged in a place that supplies your income and with that your livelihood, an "encouragement" becomes pressure.

Similarly, my brother-in-law once bought a rather expensive gift for my father-in-law and asked if we wanted to pitch in for it. He's truly a great person, we get along great, and if we said no I don't think it would have been a big deal at all... But being the one who married into the family relatively recently, it's a difficult thing to push back on. And that's in the best case scenario with someone you know, love, and trust. We don't know that OP has that same kind of relationship with their coworkers

They'll also tell you that minimum wage jobs are for teenagers anyway, but not think anything of buying one of those burgers for lunch on a school day. And guess how they're supposed to pay for college!