I'm feeling a bit better. Starting today, I'll be returning to work as much as possible. This week will likely be spent catching up on tasks, replying to emails, reading overdue comments, etc. I also need to work with Piotr on instance infrastructure. I'll be more actively handling spam as well, but it's clear that we need...
A serial comma (or Oxford comma) is an optional comma used before the last item in a list. For example, "bread, butter, and tax evasion" uses a serial comma, whereas "bread, butter and tax evasion" does not....
I was taught in school (UK in the '90s) that putting a comma in that spot is outright wrong. As an adult I realised it is much clearer and always use it.
Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?
Oh man, I got that game in a bundle with my PS2 around 2002 with saved up Christmas and birthday money. Great memories! What were the others... Maybe Crazy Taxi, Dave Mirra BMX, and some shite flying game, Top Gun something?
Not exclusively, I have occasionally finished things that were challenging more than enjoyable. But I'm thinking about the content, not that they were just poorly written. Eg books on fgm, holocaust, etc.
Or a non-American. Obviously not possible for the jury selection which is why that was so difficult, but perfectly possible here. (Will probably still have some opinion, but not a strong/religious one).
It's like 11 months of winter and 1 month of sun in Finland so you know we desperately need to forget the rules and have some fun sometimes. We have so little to lose here.
/kbin March update
I'm feeling a bit better. Starting today, I'll be returning to work as much as possible. This week will likely be spent catching up on tasks, replying to emails, reading overdue comments, etc. I also need to work with Piotr on instance infrastructure. I'll be more actively handling spam as well, but it's clear that we need...
Do you use a serial (Oxford) comma?
A serial comma (or Oxford comma) is an optional comma used before the last item in a list. For example, "bread, butter, and tax evasion" uses a serial comma, whereas "bread, butter and tax evasion" does not....
Why (sopuli.xyz)
Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?
We should have an "Elon is a gaping asshole" community. (lemmy.world)
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Clean shirt, new shoes... (lemmy.world)
So I played the original TimeSplitters last night (lemmy.world)
So I played the original TimeSplitters last night. It was a PS2 launch title in 2000....
Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? (lemmy.world)
Question inspired by the image (see attached)
First game you played
Title says it all, what was the first game you remember playing and had fond memories of?...
Hey. You. Shut the fuck up. (lemmy.world)
A Newfie Morning (lemmy.world)
Not OC
How do you push through a book you aren't enjoying?
I ask because I tend to jump off a book if It’s not grabbing me, which at times limits me with regards to what I’m reading....
Boats can't bend steel beams! (lemmy.world)
Name one of his songs. (sh.itjust.works)
Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage (nypost.com)
this country is so fucking cool
Biden’s team had a few demands for a Trump debate. A major one: No crowd (www.politico.com)
Not my usual music taste
The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)
Fairphone’s latest repairable device is for people who hate saying goodbye to an old smartphone more than they like buying a new one.
Everyone be using the eggplant emoji as a penis euphemism, I have two thoughts on this ...
over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and...
Joost Klein from the Netherlands disqualified from Eurovision 2024 (eurovisionworld.com)
You liar! (lemmy.world)
Edit It’s 17:08 now and it still shows 3 minutes...