Bloody English spelling… There’s a reason spelling bees don’t exist in some other languages.

We have a competition for spelling because English spelling is so bad at its job.

What fucking year is it in these people’s minds? 1600?

Chiming in with barely any knowledge on the topic.

Universities are massive institutions, with serious cash behind them. What the hell is stopping, say, all the public Australian universities just setting up their own journal, running it at cost for all the universities in Australia?

Make it make sense.

As someone who will die on the hill that USC/Imperial is worse than (or the same as) metric in every single way:

Yeah, the British are idiots, and we Australians also use their confusing system too. I hate it.

The ground level is the first level you walk into, this should be 1.

Expressed another way:

— 2

Level 2: between floor (the actual floor) (1,2)

— 1

Level 1: (0,1)

— 0, The ground

Level B1: (-1,0)

— -1

Etc

In the international system (the one Americans use) you are concerned where your head is.

The British system wants to know where your feet are.

The American (and many other countries) system makes way more sense.

The ground floor is the first floor.

I live under the British system (Australia) of floor naming.

So annoying.

Next year will likely explode.

There are those of us who think windows 10 is passable, have used it for many years, and were never planning on switching to Linux because we’re normies.

Windows 11 changes that, and when security updates for Win10 end in 2025, I’m switching to Linux.

I am always neutral on this sort of thing (i.e. I believe in democracy, and despite what people will have you believe, Taiwan is not a monolith of opinion of the one China / reunification / independence question)

But this is fucking hilarious

Well, you must have a great palette haha.

If you randomly give me one of the two: no idea.

Back to back, sure I could tell, else, it’s cola.

I feel like practically every second session I’m qualifying some situation of feeling stressed with: “Unfortunately with the current economic system we have I need to…”

I wouldn’t be working so hard all the time if I didn’t need to so that I might possibly be allowed to have a permanent place of residence -_-

Imagine how boss a culture would be being able to count up to 31 on a single hand, and 1023 with two hands.

At risk of being stuck-up: What, and Coca-Cola is not too sweet? Cola is sugar water with a bit of flavour.

I would say they only become distinguishable if you actually like cola, and drink I enough to be able to distinguis. Like all things taste, if you aren’t exposed to it often, you can’t tell the difference.

I’d bet you GF just rarely drank either coke or Pepsi.

How the fuck is sick leave not protected. Y’all Americans need to be rioting over that shit. That’s wild

I so badly wish this was publishable. It would be SO useful.

I think this source hasn’t sampled their data very well. The figures for china seem wildly wrong.

The figures from the same source even list the number of automobiles in China as 319 million in 2022, no where even close to 64% of the population.

The 64% commuting with own car in China is way off. So I’d question the entire chart.

We want the legend, rather than the man, it would seem

Could we not at least make various unchanging standards?

Like, housing & food inflation index?

Is that not vague and unchanging enough?

I know sourcing the data isn’t a walk in the park, but I know for a fact Victoria collects information on the first one pretty accurately.

I think we should have a “base needs” basket, because that’s never going to change. People need to eat, people need to sleep.

Thanks for indulging me in my vague, unlearned on the topic, questioning!

As a vegan who spends no time associating with other vegans, because it’s not a large part of my identity (other than watching cooking videos), these people are idiots who are getting high on being righteous.

So much so they overdosed and became animal abusers.

Quite ironic. Funny, if it weren’t causing harm.

Honest question, why is this not how inflation is measured?

I feel like the basket of goods chosen in Australia is nonsense, considering rent went up by like 50% in two years, and prices in the supermarket have been insane, somehow inflation numbers only ever cracked the high single digits per year.

I haven’t looked into it deeper, yet, but seems fishy, and cherry-picked.

I actually think these are fine. If I can quickly recognise each on my homescreen (I don’t use labels) then it’s fine, and I’ve never had a problem with any of these.

I like it because each company each has its own set of apps, and they have somewhat unified app icons.

Proton is the same, which similar icons as google but with their own unified branding.

I like it, personally.