Flamekebab

I’m not interested in fighting you.

Well that rather shuts down that potentially interesting conversation thread.

I thought that certain languages (I want to say French?) do not work this way.

A government’s concern is not in a single area.

For example some counties have free public transport, in part because it’s better for the economy as a whole. That wouldn’t make sense if public transport is privately owned.

Precisely this. Swear, or don’t, but don’t censor shit for advertisers.

Choosing not to swear is fine. Choosing to swear is fine. Choosing to swear but leaving out a few letters is ridiculous behaviour and deserving of mockery. If someone chooses to do something silly then being laughed at is a predictable consequence.

When I was at uni (UK) we would never put our names on assignments. Everything was done by student number (I think the official term was something like “matriculation ID”).

i.e. in this instance the professor wouldn’t know whose paper this was

I have a South Park mug that says “not safe for dishwasher or microwave” on its base. I’ve had it since the late '90s and have never honoured those instructions.

Whenever I see that on a piece of crockery my response is the same - “May the odds ever be in your favour!”

Hard to say, but I doubt it. Our governments don’t ask before doing stuff - they’ve seen how stupid we are when asked basic questions.

“Join our Discord”
Ugh. Why. I don’t want to hang out in your chatroom.

The notion that Reddit is an app to people hurts my aging brain.

Adding another step in the toolchain basically means it’s not going to be used, unfortunately.

I currently use PixelDroid and it has editing tools but I’m open to using another client if it’s a smoother experience.

It doesn’t appear to have any image editing tools. Kind of a showstopper in terms of posting pictures - I can’t even crop.

Sure, but the point still stands that the placement of the symbol isn’t one nation standing alone - it’s one of two options and the world is split. Some currencies work one way, some the other.

I don’t like France but I still respect it’s preferred placement of its currency symbols, both present and historic. Seems rather arrogant otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#Economies_that_use_a_"dollar"

I wasn’t asking on behalf of the US specifically. Pounds also work like that.

I have a laptop in portrait mode directly above a landscape monitor. I’m ungovernable, apparently.

Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?

(I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I’m not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)

That’s fair enough, thanks for being chill about it! Opinions about this stuff are all over the shop in this thread so it’s hard to be sure. When I learn I’m part of a given problem I try to mend my ways but on this I feel like it’s a lot of other people that could do with learning a lesson.

Most of us don’t need to be in such a rush - some people do though! Get out of their way!

I try to remind myself that I’m just not that important. An extra few minutes just don’t matter much for me in the grand scheme of things. Those few minutes might make a difference to someone with a dying relative or similar - I’m happy to simmer down and wait my turn (or even more, giving up my turn so others can go before me). Hence why being called part of the problem is a bit upsetting - I’m trying to be the kind of person I’d want to meet!

Sorry, I didn’t think I needed to outright state that I’m not obstructing others. I assumed, it would seem incorrectly, that that went without saying!

If you’d like you can assume I also block people at the baggage claim and take my time when I’m at the front of the passport control queue with people behind me. I don’t, obviously, but if you’re going to start off assuming shiftiness why stop at the basics! Take it the whole way! Presume I’m incapable of using a luggage trolley too! Why not!

It stands, but it neither contradicts nor supports my line of thinking. I was aware of it already when I wondered about adults constantly being in a rush. You can restate it if you like but it doesn’t change my curiosity at the nature of this common problem.

My comment is more about what the underlying cause of the pervasiveness of this issue. Were people always like this or is it one of these fun results of industrialisation? Is it a western culture thing? Is it a capitalism thing? Rhetorical questions in this case - I’m not seeking specific answers from anyone today. I am interested but it feels like we’ll end up arguing and I could do without that.

I’d be curious how different cultures handle rush, timekeeping, social pressure related to commitments. Needing to rush constantly seems like a bit of either a systemic failure or a deliberate dark pattern.