[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

Can't take the risk of getting in the middle of something, losing track of time, and being late to/missing the appointment.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

To refuel your car, first flip down the license plate.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Red shirt, nooooo!

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When he was a little boy, Sam Vimes had thought that the very rich ate off gold plates and lived in marble houses.

He’d learned something new: the very very rich could afford to be poor. Sybil Ramkin lived in the kind of poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty approached from the other side. Women who were merely well-off saved up and bought dresses made of silk edged with lace and pearls, but Lady Ramkin was so rich she could afford to stomp around the place in rubber boots and a tweed skirt that had belonged to her mother. She was so rich she could afford to live on biscuits and cheese sandwiches. She was so rich she lived in three rooms in a thirty-four-roomed mansion; the rest of them were full of very expensive and very old furniture, covered in dust sheets.

From Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

There are websockets.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

www is not a protocol, it's just a common subdomain. I think you meant http.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Came here for this. The whole field is ~1 1/3 acres, so if you think of the whole field as 4, 1/3 acre sections, an acre is ~ 3/4 of a football field.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Buying a bubble wrap de-bubbler just seemed like a good idea...at 2am, while drunk scrolling on Amazon.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think one thing to keep in mind is how absolutely MASSIVE the US is -- even the smallest state in the US is larger than a handful of European countries.

It's very common for people to live a 30+ minute drive from cities and/or their workplace, and in these more rural areas, it can be unsustainable to open small shops, because of reduced traffic...and people are shopping at the "super centers" in the city.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Depending on how strict you are on dates, the first one that jumps to mind is "Dallas". It ran from '78-'91, so in my mind, it is a show that very much was 80s.

Honorable mention to "Doogie Howser, M.D."; '89-93.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like using vagrant and/or docker to provision the environments, when possible.

[-] neopenguin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm thinking Elon doing this crazy rename is a throwback

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

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