obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish

Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link, (please forgive me for being lazy and not formatting it correctly)

Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:

• causes the question “What time is it there?” to be useless/unanswerable
• necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
• convolutes timetables, where present
• means “days” (of the week) are no longer the same as “days”
• complicates both secular and religious law
• is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
• makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
• does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
• is not simpler.

As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.

I tried OSMAnd but it’s so fucking slow despite having already downloaded the map. Organic Maps is so much faster and smoother.

people in China absolutely cannot freely discuss the Tiananmen incident. Not even people in Hong Kong. Once-annual commemorations about this incident in Hong Kong have been canceled for a few years due to pressure from the government. People who ever dare mention this date - 4 June 1989 - on (the Chinese, walled version of) the Internet risk having their account banned and getting police visits at their door. Even the Tiananmen square closed down “for maintenance” on 4 June.

I never knew the words to this melody in its entirety. I only knew it as da dadada da-da drunken sailor.

No, it’s the other way around. 蚤 means flea and 市 means market. フリーマーケット sounds like flea market.

I interpreted the to eat in this post rather broadly as to consume.

hi fellow soy milk enjoyer. I named this puppy soy milk too

soy milk

(kinda fitting actually)

lol so it was a joke. I would have totally fell for it if I had not heard of it before and still had a vague impression of what it was.

Is this a joke I’m too dense to get or is this just plain bullshit? What I found on Wikipedia was this:

Haggis (Scottish Gaelic: taigeis) is a savoury pudding containing sheep’s pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal’s stomach though now an artificial casing is often used instead.

I don’t even think a three-legged mammal exists. However I did find this: (emphasis mine)

Wild haggis (given the humorous taxonomic designation Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature of Scottish folklore, said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is comically claimed to be the source of haggis, a traditional Scottish dish that is in fact made from the innards of sheep.

But obviously that’s something different as it’s native to Scotland and is just fictional.

fellow stinky tofu here

More likely Taiwan.

Thank you for giving the correct explanation. Pretty sure all those other “explanations” are just jokes though.

一 (one) also means top (in gay contexts). It’s because 0 looks like a hole and 1 looks like a penis.

I tried to look it up, but I couldn’t find any convincing answers. I did find one answer saying it has to do with the milk’s density, but the density is about 1.03 (both dairy and soy milk) and when you run the numbers you get that 936 mL is only 0.964 kg.

There is also no pre-metric units for volume, so that isn’t it either. Also, some other milk brands sell their milk in 930 mL, 1857 mL, 1858 mL or some other really arbitrary number.

My guess is that it’s close enough to a full liter so that the customers buy this thinking they got a liter of milk.

They don’t sell milk or soy milk in gallons. The soy milk I got was 936 mL. 936 mL is 0.2472 gallons, which just so happens to be close to a quarter gallon. A quarter gallon is closer to 946 mL.

When I wrote the previous comment, I actually thought that 936 mL was exactly 1/4 gallons, and it kind of surprised me. The tool I used to convert units rounded the result to 2 decimal places.

Where I live, soy milk is less than half the price of cow boob milk. Perks of living in East Asia, I guess.

I bought a 936 mL (1/4 gallons) carton of soy milk today, and it was only about US$1.1 (NT$35). Very affordable.

I thought it meant Bank Of Fucking America

That got me. It really does sound like what a “lawyer” would write.

Well the translation dropped the “fish”