Swiss use ’ as a thousands separator
TIL
Appreciate your response friend. I look forward to a day where we standardise this, but we probably never will (and that’s probably fine haha)
As cursed number formats go, India is the worst that comes to my mind:
Logical smooth sailing.
0_0 Why must you do this to me?
Hi, I have no idea how I managed this, but I just saw your comments were “removed by moderator” (which is me)
Sorry about this!
I’m gonna double check this hasn’t been done across the board, perhaps there was some glitch
Edit: I think this may have been an admin deleting all you comments, and my client (voyager) doesn’t differentiate.
I’m not a fan of how this isn’t standardised across the world either.
It obviously isn’t a big deal, but he’s my counter argument for fun.
Commas are the more logical option as they already serve as breaks within a sentence.
It’s fairly common across many languages for punctuation to use commas for short breaks within a sentence, and periods/full stops to be used to finish a sentence. It’s so common because even languages that didn’t use these symbols becore, have now adopted it (Chinese comes to mind).
Commas as a separator within the same number fit better into this existing structure, in my opinion.
Dots being used for decimals seems more consistent with this system also, since the difference between units and negative powers feels greater than just seperating digits into groups.
Further (without having actually looked at statistics on this, I could be wrong about this) it’s only Europe who use dots to separate groupings of digits, and commas for decimals.
If this is in fact the case, you (assuming you’re European) ought to switch to the majority’s system so we can have consistency.
Fair is fair ;)
Edit to add: I’m Australian
This option is reserved for the billionaires
I feel sorry for the son who couldn’t vote. But if I were to guess, the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Without knowing though, I feel sorry for the son
The ladies tend to wait until they’re alone before they drop a deuce.
They what? (What country is this?)
That sounds like you’ll never be able to go 😅
To be fair, I’ve not been in the ladies toilets (Australia), so can’t really comment on the state of things there.
I will say one thing, the number of times I have to wipe down a seat with piss on it on the men’s toilets is ridiculous. Fucking a lot dirty bastards out there, who honestly, I think have a screw loose.
I get the line is long for the ladies sometimes, but you’re brave to venture to the men’s based solely on how dirty it often is.
How are you so good at this? A Lemmy treasure for sure
A friend of mine when I was 12/13 downloaded some hacks for Combat Arms (a free FPS back in the day) and made his windows unusable (with “noob” as the time).
Good memories
Original commenter was making a joke, it’s called hyperbole.
There are cases where your sentiment makes sense (Women disparaging someone about dick size for example. Not sure how that’s different from men commenting on people’s boobs), but this isn’t one of those cases.
The commenter doesn’t actually advocate killing someone because they bumped up against them.
I think you should consider lightening up.
6 toes on the back paw. Including the “thumb” that’s underneath, that’s 7.
I’m pressing X to doubt on this one
Is it? We (all countries) need wayyyyy more storage, and we need it yesterday if we’re going to transition in time to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Using substantial resources on solar panels that just end up getting curtailed, on roofs not angled in an optimal way, is a huge waste
I have never understood people’s weird obsession with going to Macca’s at the end of a night out, instead of the obviously better choice of literally any local kebab shop run by whoever
I feel like a single line through would have been the correct design choice, still, because in practically every other context, that’s what’s used (no smoking signs, for example).
Seems like many, many other places around the world put a line through for road signs (though a couple outside Europe don’t, and even some inside Europe do): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign
My 2¢, Europe is wrong on this one, despite being right on so much else haha
come from the Christian crusades originally
To me, this is equally as bad as Nazi symbology
This sounds good, but is still dumb, somewhat less incestuous inbreeding.
America, you need to riot. Like yesterday. Do not let this happen. You’re too much of an imperial power, it’s gonna fuck us all over.
Fight them in every arena. Stop rolling over.
Too much to lose to fight back? Just wait, you’ll live to regret it. And so will we.
Right, the imposition to you putting a seatbelt is so high, it outweighs all we’ve discussed?
You’re out of touch, bud.
And yeah, if somehow we could help people not be morbidly obese, that’d would be great. Just listen to people in their position, no one is seriously suggesting (well, sane people) that being morbidly obese is pleasant. And “enforcing” it would be ridiculous, what, surveil people at every meal? This is a strawman argument. What’s the equivalent we do for seat belts? Speed cameras sometimes snapping someone not wearing one. Police officers seeing you not doing it. It’s pretty minor. People just do it. It doesn’t need much enforcement.
Partially yeah, because it’s the law.
Have you been to countries where it isn’t the law, or hasn’t been law long? I have, funnily enough, they have much less of the habit as a society (where it hasn’t been law to wear seatbelts in the back seats). That translates into children not doing it either or getting the habit to. I have to remind people to wear one.
I don’t have to do this in Australia, where it’s been law for decades. We all just do it. Partially from very hands off enforcement.
I’m not even sure why I’m trying to convince you though.
You’re a lost cause if you’re whinging about seatbelts. And then digging your heels in, coming up with ridiculous strawman arguments like policing BMI.
Don’t come to Australia, you’d be a liability to the voter base.
It’s much easier to wear and police seatbelts, and totally worth it. If you could feasibility do the same for high BMI, yeah, that’d be great, but they’re not really comparable. The imposition on the individual would far outweigh the benefit to society.
Seatbelts? Wooooooow, must be so hard to put it on, right? Such an effort!! Seriously, what a whinge.
People who whinge about the “nanny state” really need to get a grip.
The cost to your “freedom” here is negligible, whereas the benefits are undeniable.
Seriously, get a grip.
Edit to add: from Australia. So don’t lump me in with your right-wing liberals
Do you also think it should be the law for car manufacturers to provide seatbelts? If you don’t, then you’ve got an even worse take
Wearing a seatbelt should 100% be the law. It affects others, you’re just doing mental gymnastics to pretend it doesn’t.
If you didn’t mandate seatbelt usage it would take up extra valuable hospital resources, extra valuable emergency response resources, and simply expose more people to death of someone they know.
Go live outside of society, if you truly feel this way. Honestly.
Take your downvotes as a small microcosm that the vast majority of society is not with you on this, and maybe reconsider.
Oh. No. This is not pleasant news at all haha