i am not native speaker as well, so it is sometimes hard to judge the nuances. in the old days of the internet there was a saying “be conservative in what you say and liberal in what you hear”. so maybe do that. or don’t care at all and just move on 🤷‍♂️ sorry i don’t have anything better.

Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn’t being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.

These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.

jesus fucking christ. i am sorry this is happening to you or anyone else.

To me it still literally means Shut The Fuck Up, and whenever I see it, my immediate reaction is that the person on the other end actually meant it exactly as rude as I have always perceived it all my life.

even if they does it mean exactly as rude as you perceive it, does it really matter? you will never be liked by everyone. so if it is situation where you can just shrug your shoulders and leave, it may be time to do it and don’t take it too personally. the person on the other side can be 7 years old. if it happened in real life, would you spend time discussing with him?

if you see a person with a sign about the end of the world coming tomorrow looking moderately insane on the street, in real life - do you go to them and try to convince them they are not right, or do you just shrug your shoulders and move on with your life? and why do we often act differently online?

to be clear i am not trying to be holier-than-thou here, i’ve been guilty of exactly this many times myself, but it is at least useful to be aware of this in retrospect.

one billion kilograms has the same problem - it is ambiguous, because you have to guess whether you are using short or long scale.

you could say million tonnes, but ton is not SI unit and is again ambiguous, because there is many different tonnes.

correct presentation that isn’t open to interpretation is 1 x 10⁹ kilograms.

Why did he pay? Or does the hotel have access to his card and can charge whatever they wish at will?

I assume you mean one octillion of femtograms?

What?

How does sharing xenophobic bullshit on twitter “harm global tech community”?

that would be really good news for native americans, but really bad one for the rest of the world 😆

she said at least 65 million meals, so she could still be correct…

meters for horizontal distances, such as

not really. distance is measured in (nautical) miles, speed in knots (1 knot is 1 nautical mile per hour)

this you? https://lemmy.zip/u/Aku@lemm.ee

it should, as long as the post was synchronized in the past…

https://lemmy.zip/c/meta@lemm.ee

seekms your username was different on lemm.ee:

https://lemmy.zip/u/WhyJiffie@lemm.ee