AlolanYoda

Americans will really use literally any units except for the metric system. How long is a canary?!

If you want to tip, you leave a one euro coin at the table.

Generally people don't.

Watch it still be canon despite being canceled.

I have barely watched any anime in like 10 years, so this is probably too niche and dated, but...

The wind... Is cold today.

... A cold front is coming...

... From Siberia

(dies inside)

There's a video in Portuguese of someone going around asking if people on the street supported homo sapiens marriage. It went viral a few years ago here.

I think this is the original, usually people just shared snippets of it. It has English captions that you can turn on.

Man I get you. I have barely touched this hobby in years. Best of luck to you, I hope things improve on those fronts.

If you still have a hint of that spark in you, download a game engine and give it a go. Make something short and quick just to learn. It's a fun hobby when you don't let it consume your life.

Godot is a free and open source game engine, so lemmy would eat me alive if I didn't mention it, but any of them, including Unity, would work for this purpose.

Yeah, can plant a tree? Plant a tree. If you can't, the alternative right now is nothing. This introduces another option.

They emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and oxygen, which causes rust in metals and aging in humans. So it's a negative really...

Unfortunately there really isn't a viable option for most people. Maybe there are alternatives depending on your field and your geographical location (I know they use something else a lot in Germany), but for most people you're really forced to use LinkedIn or you're potentially doing a huge disservice to your career.

Which is the main source of hatred for LinkedIn: most people would rather not be using it but they stay there for their careers. Others use it as a platform to promote their crazy ideas, again in an effort to make them more employable or reach out to new professional connections. It's a harsh world, but each of these insane posts makes that website a tiny bit more unbearable.

Boomer moment: I'm 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears. It's terrible and I can never hear or be heard well enough. It's to a point where I always answer in speakerphone or with headphones, facilitated by not answering the phone often. Recently I've been wishing to get an old phone-like accessory for my smartphone so I could do calls in a comfortable way.

... Then again, during covid I learned to answer phones around the lab on speakerphone, too, and these were classic-style phones. So maybe I'm a lost cause

Edit: old cellphones were fine, it's just smartphones that have the worst possible shape and texture to hold them against my ear. Sadly, my parents still see that as the primary use for a phone.

There's divergent evolution, there's convergent evolution, and then there's these guys who went through both, taking the scenic route but getting to the same place anyway