I’ve seen this one before, but the alt text had me in a (silent) laughing fit anyways.

Hehe, that’s funny. So everyone thinks it’s this profound thing, but he was actually just talking about the size of office paper?

And I didn’t realize you could edit images on Lemmy. Neat!

Does that console have solitaire?

Disney says Piccolo agreed to similar language again when purchasing park tickets online in September 2023. Whether he actually read the fine print at any point, it adds, is “immaterial.”

Whuh? Why didn’t they make their case around that instead of Disney+?

Your message could have been more efficient:

• “who say” already implies people, so you could have said “those who say” to be less redundant.
• “do so” is needlessly making a reference to exactly what you just said. Try “They say ‘tuna fish’ because”.
• “someone else” is redundant because the only person that’s not “else” is the person in question, and they wouldn’t have heard it from themselves.
• “the kind of people to” is redundant because you already established that they’re people. “the kind who” would be more efficient.
• “blindy follow others” doesn’t need to say “others” because it’s obvious that they’d be following someone other than themselves.
• “neither of those redundancies” is also a tad redundant, referring back to the established redundancies and then calling them redundancies again.

So a less redundant version of your message:

They say “tuna fish” because they heard someone say it, and are the kind who blindly follows rather than engage in critical inquiry and actively eliminate redundancy.

Intelligent people say neither redundancy.

Of course, I’m just poking fun. I don’t expect anyone to eliminate all redundancy from their speaking; some of it has use, especially in verbal communication. For example, saying “datil pepper” even though datil also refers to the pepper is useful because someone may not recognize that a datil is a pepper upon hearing it (though you’d be hard pressed to find that scenario with tuna outside of ESL.)

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I’ve heard it’s full of cliches ; )

Forgive me for not knowing the names, but I randomized a few to test.

Red: “We slice the meme. Everybody is using panels.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “A sliced meme.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We use slices.”

Red: “A sliced meme. Everybody is using panels.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We use slices.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “We slice the meme.”

Red: “We use slices. A sliced meme.”
Stripes: “A sliced meme.”
Red: “We slice the meme.”
Stripes: “We slice the meme.”
Red: “Everybody is using panels.”

I guess it works? Weird that it ended up with the same speaking order each time.

If you want an honest answer, I’d recommend finding some place that has a decent population of openly right-wing people so you can get an answer from them directly, rather than left-wingers snarking and saying they’re all brainwashed fanatics that would never dissent from the party’s candidate.

I dunno, I’ve never looked into them. How do they stack up against electric motors in everything else, and is the hydrogen expensive to get?

League of Legends?

Good idea. I hadn’t thought of that.

That sounds good.

Yeah, but road trips can be expensive. Suppose you want to go from Harrisburg PA to Rockford IL with 2 adults and 1 teenager from November 15 to 22.

• By car that’s about 1500 miles. An average car gets 21 mpg, so that’s about 71 gallons. Gas is around $3.5 per gallon, so the trip costs about $250 in gas. You’ll need a hotel. I picked a random one in Ohio. $110 for the way up, $185 for the way back. I guess that’s a Thanksgiving price hike. $545 total.
• By train, let’s say Amtrak because that came up first. $438 up, and that includes boarding a train at midnight and sleeping on the train, and then riding a bus from Chicago to Rockford for 2 hours. $483 back down, and this time when you sleep on the train you have to wake up by 5 AM to get off. Also this is coach class, and those seats aren’t great for sleeping. At least you don’t need a hotel. $921 total.
• By plane, it’s $650 round trip, simple as, but you have to leave at 6 AM on the way up and 5 AM on the way back. It can cost $200 more to get a more convenient time, but let’s assume you’re going for economy alone. $650 total.

That’s not accounting for food prices along the way. That could bring the car ride up to the same price as the plane if you don’t pack food, but if you’re spending extra on convenience there, you’re probably willing to spend extra for convenience on the plane too.

So it’s probably safe to say that, for this group, the car saves about $100 per year, but helping to protect the environment is worth that price. On the other hand, there’s something to be said for the flexibility and ease of planning on a car. For a bigger family, cars would be a way better option, and for a family without kids or a lone traveler, planes are the way better option. Trains are right out.

Quick Google says a great majority of Americans take road trips. Even though it’s a tiny fraction of their driving, it’s still a deciding factor for many when choosing a car. Not all people have the luxury of affording a second car just for road trips.

Public transportation would be good, but there’s less flexibility to it. For example, just yesterday, on a return from a roadtrip, I got stomach sick and had to request frequent stops. That wouldn’t fly on a train.

I’d love it if we had affordable and flexible public transport for getting all across the country, though.

I can see it making sense. If you’re blind and you hear the sound of a waterfall approaching you, you’re not going to immediately think “that’s a car.”

Googling tells me that:

• Electric cars have 77% efficiency
• Gas cars have 30% efficiency
• Electric car batteries have 270 Wh/kg (converts to 0.97 MJ/kg)
• Gasoline has 46 MJ/kg

So the math here says electric gives you (0.97 * 77%) 0.75 MJ/kg output and gas gives you (46 * 30%) 13.8 MJ/kg output. Plus, as someone else said, spent gasoline no longer weighs you down.

I like the idea of electric, and I want to see it replace gas as soon as possible, but fair is fair.

Why /s? Road trips are a thing, and you’d be hard pressed to find a combo restaurant/charging station that’s along your path.

If they can downscale enough, they should be able to pass this test.