Asklemmy

44119 readers

811 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

194

What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

166 comments fedilink hide all child comments

When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jqubed 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There’s a highway that formed a loop around the city where I grew up and we used it pretty regularly, but mostly only the western half (since we lived on the west side of town). My parents explained the concept to me that it had “belt” in its name because it circled around the city like a belt goes around a person. This idea intrigued me and I eventually asked my parents if someday we could drive all the way around it. My dad seemed kind of surprised but said we could sometime. I got excited and started planning for things we would need, like a tent and food, since it would obviously take a long time.

The highway’s only about 25 miles/40 kilometers long.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

ahh the old 405

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I remember my Dad teaching me about highway numbers back when I was a kid, so I know that the 4 means it's part of a loop, being odd means it runs mostly N/S, and being a low number means it's on the west side of the US.

The Dewey Decimal System is still a mystery to me, though...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I believe if the first digit is even in the 3 digit highway number, it connects, if it's odd then it doesn't. There's a cool video about it by cgp grey and a whole Wikipedia on it

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

'4' just means local.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

you got it; the 405 is the beltway around 3 big west coast cities; Seattle, Portland and LA.