Iunnrais

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[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Yes, TLA is a three letter acronym. A four letter acronym, on the other hand, is an ETLA, or “Enhanced Three Letter Acronym”. For advanced cases, you can get an EETLA (or XETLA) for Expanded/Extended Enhanced Three Letter Acronym.

Just so you know.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Put “cooked.wiki/“ before the url on the recipe with the life story. You’re welcome.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I suspected as such, that’s why I asked for clarification.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did you mistype, employ sarcasm, or were you not aware that the genre is named after Metroid, not the other way around? Metroidvania— games employing similar experiences to Metroid and some of the more notable Castlevania games.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Because it became wildly successful. Success brings notice.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Did you know that elevator operator used to be a job that people had to be employed to do? No one says hiring a person to operate an elevator is more cost effective than installing a push button system for people to do it themselves. The cost really wasn’t prohibitive to move away from human labor here.

This is not the only case, I’m just bringing up an example. The thing is, when a job is replaced by technology, you don’t even think about it anymore. Yes, there are also jobs that CAN be replaced by technology, where the tech is more expensive… but that’s not the rule, that’s just the leading edge.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, we also heard them from the ninja turtles, and any other kids media and/or commercials trying to appeal to the demographic. Some of us used it sarcastically on the playground, but I don’t think any of us knew anyone who used it seriously. I think it might have been surfer slang that was co-opted by marketing departments?

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with you, except that I think the time system is great. It was deliberately designed to be maximally divisible, and makes a lot of sense in that manner. 12 hours of daylight— a highly divisible number, with 60 small (minuscule, or “minute”) divisions of the hour, which is even MORE divisible than 12. Then when time keeping got more accurate, they added a second division of 60 more parts, and… well, called ‘em seconds.

Basically, 12 and 60 are just so divisible they make really good bases.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but… as you say. It’s an excuse. Give war on drugs people an opening, they take it. Anything to oppress the poors.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is stated to be literally for bugs, as in insects, for agricultural protection reasons. It’s in quotes though, because typically the real purpose of such inspections is to “accidentally” find other contraband “in plain sight” during the thorough inspection for “bugs”.

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s the last couple pages of Watchmen, not really the plot overall. It’s the villain’s secret end goal that wasn’t really foreshadowed very well? (The movie tried to do better in this regard)

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How would you make that claim believable? Did you have access to Trump (or rather, did he ever have access to you)? It’s a nice plan, but saying it without plausibility sounds like a one way ticket to not being believed about this or anything else ever…

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