My parents put me in a Cantonese class when I was young. We were learning the numbers 1-5. The teacher asked me to say them out loud. I said “1,2,3,4…hmm”, I forgot 5. “Correct!”. I was confused. Apparently 5 sounds like mmm.
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9·2 months agoEritrea.
1·3 months agoThe problem is, businesses now add credit cards into the cost of items. So if you don’t get visa/mc points, you’re losing money.
1·3 months agoThat’s still on Unifi. They’re responsible for where their products are sold.
How is this a good thing? Getting extremely rich selling products to the Russian military despite sanctions?
I’ll be avoiding Unifi products until they stop doing this.
Serious question. I’ve seen a few posts now about self-hosting PDF managers. Why is this useful? Why not just open a PDF application when I need to work with PDF?
Seems ripe for a Grandmaster Flash remix.
22·4 months agoAgreed. I heard it has humans.
I used that logic to celebrate it on December 60th as well.
14·5 months agoMy wife and I don’t even buy each other gifts.
Paypal had a 20% cashback thing going on when you use BNPL. I’m sure that contributed.
“It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it hundreds of times.” Mark Twain
I forget what the exact stat is, but something like 20% of Americans don’t get enough protein vs 97% don’t get enough fiber.
Never gone to a top rope gym, but bouldering gyms you can definitely go to alone. It’s just climbing without ropes, but not very high and with spongy mats.
This varies a lot by place. In some countries a 4.0 is an excellent score.