Protheus

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I've skimmed through some Singapore's road guidelines and driver's handbook and didn't find any particular significance of kerb paining, from the context I inferred that striped kerb is painted that way just to be visually distinct, to be noticeable. Significant markings are made on the road alongside the kerb, like those two yellow stripes mean "no parking at all times".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, there's no Lava demon, they are just preparing for the life in Phoenix, AZ where the pavement melts off your soles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It became too mainstream. I'll wait for the mass exodus on Reddit and return there to chat with bots.

Jokes aside: as long as I have the same communities and discussions I liked, I'll stay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This misconception comes from the fact that gen X were basically the first crowd to be the bulk of the Internets at the dawn of it, and all of them were technically proficient enough to do it, so there is a bias: you had to know something about computers to be on the internet. Nowadays you don't need to know anything, the barrier is virtually non-existent and basically anyone can do internets with their phone and some "app" without knowing anything at all about how it works or how to setup a connection or even type an address.

Most of us were and are pretty dumb when it comes to technology or even problem solving, nothing changed in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, I know a couple of guys, a boomer alcoholic and a zoomer that ages backwards, that work at a VCR repair shop, one of the three remaining in the United States. Although I don't know how good are they at actually fixing VCRs, all I see is them scamming some elderly person off of his life savings while all he wants is to watch a Night Court video cassette.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is there a value in an account you aren't planning to use on a site you don't like anymore? I think many people will wear "being banned for advocating to migrate" as a badge of honour.