Please PLEASE fix the inventory mechanics/design

at firehouse subs a gluten free roll costs +$1.50, they don't even prepare it separately from normal bread and use all the same tools for it (except for not cutting it) so it's not actually properly gluten-free, it's almost certainly contaminated with gluten.

jersey mikes also charges +$1.50 (medium) to +$3.00 (large) to get gluten-free bread, but at least they have to go through a whole ritual to prepare it where they use COMPLETELY different tools and gloves and stuff, and it is generally actually non-contaminated unless, you specify that it's not for allergies.

source: i worked at both firehouse subs and jersey mikes before, i fucking hated when people ordered gluten-free at jersey mikes but i always did it as required obviously. i didn't actually ever charge extra to people who were getting gluten free because i didn't know that was an option on the cash register at first lol, but even after i learned i just forgot / didn't care enough to do it. some people were really grateful and thanked me after seeing me go through an entire process to make sure the gluten-free sub had no gluten on it

Watt-hours

how hard is it to just use joules 😭 the consequences of non-metric time are grave

i'm just kidding btw, i know why watt-hours are used

william taft died in a bathtub due to his terrible health, a month after resigning from the supreme court.

his health had been mentally and physically declining for about a decade before that point, but despite that he insisted on staying as a justice on the supreme court the entire time because he viewed hoover as too progressive and was paranoid he'd be replaced by a dirty commie. so he stayed a supreme court justice and caused a lot of problems by having increasingly worse memory and having a worse and worse ability to actually attend his job.

he was also the president before ww1 started, he lost re-election because teddy roosevelt (the person who helped get him elected in the first place) no longer viewed him as a suitable president and ran against him as a 3rd party candidate.

also, taft's son was the co-sponsor of the taft-hartley act of 1947, which took away many worker's rights and crippled unions in the united states, criminalizing things like solidarity strikes (what's happening in sweden with tesla now), wildcat strikes (striking without union leader approval), jurisdictional strikes, and most forms of picketing. ;)

"Hello, losers"

quick, let's notify the future shooter how government may track him so that he'll take the exact necessary steps to not be caught before committing a shooting. and the foreign spy. and the person who plans to sell/traffic illegal items. they deserve a right to know exactly how the government tracks them, after all

how do you catch criminals if they know exactly how the government would catch them? saying the government has nothing to hide if it has nothing to fear is very wrong

350k a year sounds about right for an experienced software engineer at a large tech-related company. That being said I don't think Huffman, as a CEO, even actually does any engineering...

I was about to make a point but I'm scared what results will come up in google

are you canadian or something 🤮

How is that a justification? ... You do see how that's even worse, right?

Literally 2/3 of the same comment you're replying to:

I'm not saying its right, genocide is happening as we speak and the entire world should come down on Israel hard for this, I'm just saying what is real.

Full disclosure: I condemn every organization that targets civilians with violence, regardless of country allegiances.

Words aren't gendered in Spanish/French/German/etc. It's called "grammatical gender" but it's just a way some languages differentiate words/word forms and do adjective/noun/verb agreement, it's only sometimes loosely correlated with actual gender and is often contradictory when it's used on living beings.

For example, many words which are used to describe women or female animals in such languages are masculine or neuter gender. Many times words for living things will have one class regardless of the actual gender.

Some grammatical gender types which might make more immediate sense are animacy (animate/inanimate, usually correlated with biotic/abiotic), human/animal/inhuman, countable vs uncountable (the difference between "a plant is here" vs "a water is here", the second one isn't grammatically correct in standard English because "water" is an uncountable noun, same with "furniture", "wind", "energy").

A word that a lot of people prefer to use rather than "grammatical gender" is "noun class", it more clearly conveys what the actual use of that sort of thing in language is. "Grammatical gender" is a pretty outdaded name for it, it was called that in a time where "gender" was more broadly used to mean any class/enumeration/kind/variants/etc. (it has the same root as the word "genre" if that helps it make sense). Only way after the term was coined did "gender" start to refer to what it does now.

Well nobody can objectively force something to impress you or not impress you. But most people speak more than one language natively or on a regular basis, hell just short of 2 billion people (1/4 the world's population) alone are from the Indian subcontinent region, and there the high variation/diversity of languages throughout the region make speaking 3-4 languages well the norm.

Similar story with Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. And most people in Central Asia and many European parts of the former USSR speak Russian as a 2nd language (nearly all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and most Baltic people speak Russian to a high fluency, while also often speaking a 2nd and sometimes 3rd native language).

Then you consider language in European countries like the Netherlands (Dutch/English), Belgium (French/Dutch/English), Sweden (Swedish/English), Finland (Finnish/Swedish), Denmark & Norway (Denmark or Norwegian / some obscure highly derived dialect that's different enough from the standard and common languages to be counted), Spain (Castillian/some other Spanish language), Italy (Standard Italian/some other Italian language). I'd say at least a third of Europeans speak more than one language natively and two thirds can speak more than one language well at all.

Despite being a massive continent, one thing that can be said about almost all of the socities there is that most of them are polylingual. Probably less so in Arabic-speaking majority countries.

Really, monolingualism is only the norm for anglo countries – especially the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand. Not so much in like half of Canada. I think it could be said that monolingualism is the norm in most of China too, but I'm not so sure about that. AFAIK it's pretty mixed in Latin America but overall a majority of the people there speak only Spanish or Portuguese, save for places like Peru & Uruguay.