[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I was writing a fanfic sequel to the old testament I would call it the new testament and say that Judas was paid 30 silver.

It makes me think of how Mormons will point to such connections between the Book of Mormon and the Bible as proof. You'd expect such connections both if it was what the faithful narrative claims it to be or if it was a creation pulled from a hat that was attempting to reference what came before.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges Donald Trump's 2024 White House campaign and its related political committees engaged in a scheme to conceal who is being paid for much of the former president's legal work in a possible violation of federal law.

Legal payments as in payments to lawyers not legal payments as in payments in accordance with the law.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ternary plots (aka Triangle plots) have three axes rotated and layered on top of each other. So when you get a point like this:

You read it as 50% of the way up the clay direction:

30% of the way up the sand direction:

20% of the way up the silt direction:

So it is 50% clay, 30% sand, and 20% silt.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I don’t. Because I make them better.

That is the situation in my household. My wife is one of those people who goes overboard on the primary filling and throws the proportions off. It isn't Katz's deli levels but it is noticeable.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

(You don’t have non-drivers in the US?)

A non-driver would get a state issued ID card which contains all the same personally identifying information but instead of being both a license to drive and proof of ID it is just proof of ID. The ubiquity of driving here leads a lot of people to use "driver's license" when they mean "state issued picture ID" since it is a form of state issued picture ID so many have but it is not the only one available.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

1 tablespoon of butter is ~14 g. For a more complete conversion (with respect to butter): 1 stick = 0.5 cup = 8 tablespoons = 24 teaspoons = 113 g.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A cup in US Customary is 237 ml (often rounded to 240 ml). Americans don't exist in a world where they have to play "is this cup US Customary or different measure also calling itself a cup measure?" as all their measuring cups are going to be in US Customary. Butter usually comes in quarter pound sticks with teaspoon (4.9 ml) and tablespoon (14.8 ml) measures printed on the wrapper so you can just cut a hunk of the appropriate volume from the stick and if you were using a measuring spoon to measure butter you'd use a level measure to create consistency and not just let it heap up.

Note: I prefer weighing ingredients and in metric at that. I'm just answering your questions.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

So if you send email to the owner of the compane and to your colleagues on same level you put boss at last spot if they come to your mind as last?

Sure, why not? I think the disconnect is the people who think it is silly don't attach any importance to the order. So asking, "Would you put the most important person last?" is a non-starter as the thinking is that the CC field ends up as a list is an artifact of how email works and isn't imbued with a sense of ordering or ranking of importance. The ordering of the list could be a indicative of who came to mind first, how your email contacts are ordered, or even how a policy is written but not indicative of who you think is most important or senior.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Meijer and Walmart store brands of cheap ass white bread are 22 slices, Kroger is 21, and for a name brand example Sunbeam is 22. Nicer bread like Pepperidge Farm or Brownberry/Oroweat tends to be in the range of 16 slices per loaf (baring the thin sliced stuff) though.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Indeed. I can grab a loaf of cheap white bread from my local grocery store for under $2 which is cut into 22 slices.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I keep going back to Star Trek Online for some star ship pew pew. I usually get a month or two in going back over the story arcs and participating in events until the constant event schedule makes me realize I'm trapped in the grind and not playing any other games. So I drop it to break free and play the rest of my game library. The community isn't something I really interact with as pretty much all of the game content is playable solo or antisocial (the team content is easy enough you can just random queue and don't really have to talk or strategize with them). It is overwhelmingly PvE (though PvP is technically in the game) and it has some fun lore if you are a Star Trek fan.

[-] Dravin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I've started blocking shit posting subs. Nothing against a good shit post but it cleans up my feed without having to resort to subscribed.

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