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I don't really follow X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.

    It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I'm searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Sure, I understand the moral arguments, but it's very common to have legal consequences when taking something that doesn't belong to you — regardless of morals.

    Of course it would be morally better to give everyone permission to take the bananas. It sounds like that hasn't happened though, so it seems very simple to understand that there would be legal consequences for taking them.

    How is this not obvious? Did I miss some critical detail?

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • I never thought I'd ever defend UK laws, but if you take something that doesn't belong to you, isn't it generally frowned upon in most parts of the world? This seems pretty normal to me

  • Sooo... This is happening on Imgur

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  • Whoa, I didn't know Visual Basic is still around. I remember using VB6, many years ago

  • Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today.

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  • I assumed it's probably due to some creators becoming, or later being discovered as, "problematic" and/or some sort of brand risk. It would look more strange to unlist a few of them, so better to unlist all of them.

    To be clear: This is speculation based on zero information 🙃. Just a total guess based on how things tend to go between internet culture and corporations. I'm probably wrong. It would be cool if YouTube would communicate things like this.

    It's unfortunate to see such cultural history hidden away. Though, tbh, this is probably the most that I've ever thought about YouTube Rewind, and I haven't thought about it in many years.

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    Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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  • How would that be easier?

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    Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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  • Unless I missed something, it seems like the crows are doing it voluntarily. Is that not the case?

  • Make me feel like a man

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  • Have you considered immunotherapy ("allergy shots")? That was life-changing for me

  • How I view my heritage

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  • Yep, it's "Estadounidenses" in Portuguese as well. The distinction (and occasional confusion/debate across languages/cultures) makes sense, considering how those cultures learn about continents.

    In contrast, English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model, in which there's not really any place called "America." So when we omit "The United States of" for brevity, native English speakers still understand where it's referring to.

    "USians" is an interesting shortcut. It may not be proper English, but it still seems understandable enough in text. Hopefully everyone who vocalizes it, pronounces it your way. If I ever hear "Oosian", I'll probably assume they meant "Asian".

  • Make me feel like a man

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  • I can read some of it. The text on the front of his jacket says "tsingtao". Hope this helps!

  • How I view my heritage

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  • Neat buzzword ya got there. Anyway, I acknowledge that you'll continue ignoring 9-9-6. Consider your attempts to dodge it a success. And congrats on your success :)

    On a lighter topic: I'm still curious about "USian". Appending a suffix like "ian" to an acronym is unusual in English, but this is the second time I've encountered it on Lemmy. How is it pronounced?

  • How I view my heritage

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  • Wow, that looks like a lot of work to avoid the 9-9-6 thing. I like this first one though:

    What about unpaid holiday in the USA?

    Was that at the top of the list because it was meant to compare to 9-9-6, somehow? I mean sure, unpaid holidays suck, but that's not even in the same ballpark as working 72 hours per week, every week. At that point, you're just living to work (as a robot/zombie slave cursed with a depressed human brain and flesh body).

    As for the rest of the list: I appreciate the effort, but would it have been much harder to use an unordered list? And do you think it's not possible to gather a big list about China that isn't just as bad or worse?

    Just out of curiosity: When you say "USians" IRL, how do you pronounce it? "You-ess-ians"? "Yousians"? "Oosians"?

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • These questions are getting more broad, and the answer to all of them is "it depends on the job".

    Light duty trucks and box trucks are also commonly seen at various job sites. It's also quite common to see a truck pulling a trailer – and there are lots of different types of trailers. Choosing the right tool for the job just depends on what the job is.

    Here's one example from a job I once had, long ago. If you fill one of these with water, it already exceeds the weight limit of the little truck on the left:

    And, depending on the size of the job, some jobs would require more than two people to get the job done. Those crews would get the trucks that have backseats.

    Sure, you might be able to find smaller IBC tote tanks and just use more trucks, but that would be pretty inefficient, especially if each truck/crew has to drive hundreds (or even 1k+, in some cases) of miles to reach each job site on its route.

    We also used box trucks in some cases. Some job sites required using two IBC totes, which did not fit in any of the company's pickup truck beds. For those routes, we rented box trucks. But for one IBC tote, a light duty truck is too small, and a box truck is too big.

  • How I view my heritage

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  • There are laws that limit it, and 72-hour work weeks are pretty extreme, even in the US. Do they happen? Sure. I've known people who have had to do hours like that for a week, maybe even two. But it's not their normal schedule like 9-9-6 workers.

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  • So you didn't visit any factories with suicide nets. Great! I've also never witnessed a mass murder. Lucky us!

    You chose the easier, less common example, but ignored the more common one that I mentioned. So whatabout 9-9-6? I've spoken to people in that 9-9-6 life, and exactly zero of them were happy about it.

  • How I view my heritage

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  • 9-9-6, suicide nets on some factories... Sounds like a happy place to be.

    It's interesting how much pro-China stuff seems to have flooded the Internet lately. They've even been inviting (maybe paying?) YouTubers to visit their country, despite not allowing YouTube to be accessed (legally) on their Internet. This campaign seems to be effective though.

    I'm not even really anti-China. I used to conduct a lot of business with Chinese factories, and might do it again someday. But let's not ignore reality and pretend it's all sunshine and rainbows over there.

  • Lemmy be like

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  • She was a child... But what does that have to do with spaghetti anyway?

  • My Religion

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  • 🤔 I understand this more like "Don't practice the religion as a way to show off. Don't make a YouTube/TikTok/whatever video giving a homeless man $100. Just give the guy $100 and STFU about it. Also, stop posting prayers in comment sections on social media; it seems fake, and you make the rest of us look silly too."

    I'm not a bible guy though, so idk

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • The weight capacity of the truck on the right is much higher than the light-duty truck on the left. Jobs that require trucks of that capacity tend to require more workers, so it makes sense to seat more passengers.

    The truck on the left might be more comparable to something like the Ford Ranger (the older generations). Many of those were single-cab (i.e. no back seats) models, but some of them would have two tiny, uncomfortable "jump seats" as back seats.

    You're not completely wrong though. I have known some workers who would also use their trucks as family cars if it was their only vehicle.

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