Sybilvane

joined 1 year ago

Fatherly hazing in c/[email protected]

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

Sound it out

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis in c/world

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

The number of homeless people jumped by 16% (I assume compared to last year's numbers). That doesn't mean that 16% of people are homeless.

tremendous in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (6 children)

People have most certainly felt electricity.

What is the quote? Funniest wins! in c/funny

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Can confirm it's universal. Swearing the hippocratic oath takes away your ability to write legibly.

Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The doubt is sounding quite reasonable.

What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it? in c/casualconversation

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

Found on reddit one day and I love it.

FAQs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They don't need to lighten the load when you can't contact any real people to ask questions anyway. It's all handled by their useless chat bot now.

Anon takes the blindpill in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

A-plus for authenticity, plus I feel like you've truly captured the essence of what that message sounds like. Good job!

Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages in c/technology

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's happened in education and the inverse happened in computing.

People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say in c/technology

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can have municipal regulations and be free to decide what to do with your own property aside from that. Most of the world does it and things work just fine, with the added benefit of no HOA troubles.

What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I was an only child and I just wanted someone cool to play with me who I could look up to. Also all my older cousins picked on me and I wanted defence lol

What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I'd then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time...