I just never got used to it. I grew up drinking club soda or sparkling mineral water. Also milk, I would drink liters of milk a day for a time, but no water. Flat water just doesn’t do it for me. If it’s ice cold, it’s ok, but I never think “I feel like I’d like some water now”.

Sometimes it’s been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours

They look of equal height to me…

Same here. I wasn’t even using a 3rd party app, just left because of the shitty behavior. Uninstalled the app and never logged in again. I was on Reddit daily, I’m on Lemmy daily now.

We don’t need to, but I noticed at one point that he’s mostly seeing female leads. We read a bunch of the books in your list, many others we avoided because they’re no longer in line with current times (and they’re not old enough to understand the historical context), and a bunch of them are not for their age yet.

Same for kids books. It’s great for my daughter, but it’s hard to find good movies and books for her younger brother.

“Care e diferența dintre un porc și o râmă? Porcul râmă, dar râma nu porc”.

It’s not translatable directly because in Romanian there’s a word for digging with the snout. That word is the same word as the word for earthworm. So it goes like “What’s the difference between a pig and an earthworm? The pig digs (earthworms), but the earthworm doesn’t pig.”

In English there’s one very similar in concept: “What is the difference between a fly and a flea? A fly can flee, but a flea can’t fly.”

That was pretty much how parking worked in a lot of places in my hometown. There was someone collecting the “parking fee” and it was wise to pay it. Nothing official, basically a protection racket.

That part of the story was heavily hollywoodized. I highly recommend reading the original story.

That was a culture shock for me when I moved to the US. I knew that back in the day, in rural areas of my country, the markets only opened once a week. I was shocked to find that happen in urban/suburban areas in the US. Back home I could just go to the closest market any day. Morning news would have a report comparing prices in different markets across the city, so you could pick the one that has the best price for what you need that day.

with interest

That’s the most vulgar of the many variations. The others are “mă doare în cot / în cur / în pix / în șpiț / în bigă” (hurts in my elbow / butt / pen, not sure what the last two actually mean).

Edit: just remembered another one: “mă doare la bască” (my cap hurts)

That’s more like “I give up” / “I don’t care anymore” (equivalent of “fuck this”). Not giving a fuck is “mă doare-n cot / în cur / în pix / în pulă / în șpiț” (“it hurts in my elbow / ass / pen / dick / no idea”)

its worse than lemmy

I recently was looking for help troubleshooting an issue and ended up checking reddit and I was shocked at just how bad it got. There were AI generated comments that seemed to provide a solution, but the link went to some spam URL instead of the product they were supposedly talking about (and these were recent comments, not old dead links). The kind of stuff you used to see on unmoderated comment sections on WordPress sites that nobody maintained.

it IP blocks people and tracks IP’s linked to editing

Unless something changed, this part was at least partially true at one point. But only for anonymous edits iirc. Usually happened for IPs shared by a lot of people like from a campus or some VPNs, probably due to a lot of vandalism from such IPs.

But nobody actually calls it “natriu”, it’s just a thing you hear once in school to help you remember why the symbol is Na and then never use it again.

Humans shocked by any reminder that humans are animals

The only thing I could find is that Yes Madam is a real company and that the sender is indeed the HR head of that company. So if it’s fake, someone kept the header and signature of a real email. Or maybe a real email sent on April 1st? I have a hard time believing that this is real (not that a company wouldn’t do this, but the fact that they would admit to it so blatantly like it’s not a bad thing).

That’s a parallel worlds story. There are many movies and shows about travel through parallel worlds. Sliders is the first that comes to mind.

A human driver who can intervene when needed.