I see.

Thanks! That makes sense and is easier to digest than a wikipedia article :)

Lemmy is so technical. I now have to look up what DNS is.

That explains the meme. Thank you for the context.

Must be a US thing. There are great hotels for 40€/night in many places. I went to one for 30€/night in Florence and it was marvelous. Couldn’t understand a word the old lady said, but she was very helpful showing us where everything was and getting us settled into the quiet room with high ceiling and large closets. There was a pizzeria about 20 metres from the hotel that had an agreement with the hotel to give a discount for hotel guests. The coffee in the morning was free and terrific too. Only a stone’s throw away was a great restaurant with a veranda where they served fantastic home-made bread and small cakes.

The worst “hotel” I was at was definitely in the US. Terrible shithole of a place we had booked ahead of time. Could’ve been a beggars home in Calcutta. And we had already paid, so no refunds.

Maybe it’s not the real thing, but it was the first result my search-engine returned.

Elite VISA? What’s this?

Edit: Damn, 17k€ minimum to get 5 year VISA in Thailand.

Nice waste of plastic. “Choke on this, dumb turtle!”

Isn’t it time that Canada annexed Alaska?

Well that’s one way to destroy somebody’s reputation. Do this on twitter @ fElon with the same text.

Leave some holes for the rest of us!

!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org

Curtains and a mountain?

Thank you for that explanation :)

This doesn’t exist anymore?

I kekked, but don’t understand the fetish of watching women have sex together unless you’re a woman yourself. Do dudes imagine themselves being one of the women getting fingerblasted? Or as the active participant scissoring the other woman? I do not understand. Please enlighten me.

How many inches are there in a foot? How many in a yard? How many in a mile? More importantly: why? The foot is from a duodecimal system (12 points = 1 line, 12 lines = 1 inch, 12 inches = 1 foot), but then then suddenly 3 feet = 1 yard.

Also the imperial system is simple, not logical. Sure, it’s based on body parts and simple things like that, but every moron could’ve seen that hands have different sizes. Now you have about 3 imperial systems (international, British, US) maybe more even more if the old colonies invented more units. Everyone knows the way forward for units it the SI units. It’s logical, it’s straight forward, and it’s used worldwide - except for a minority of regions that are staunchly are against it.

Change it to what? Twenty-one? One Twenty? Four times twenty and one? Four time twenty plus ten and five? You could go the Germanic way, the Anglo-Saxon way, or the French way. Probably there are more ways to express numbers.

It’s not as straight forward as imperial to metric, where metric is logical and imperial isn’t. A vigesimal system is logical, just like binary or hexadecimal.

What’s your suggestion for a change to the Danish counting system? Do you think it is as obvious as going from imperial to metric?

For a real explanation of this watch this illuminating video.

TL;DW According to the perons, it’s based on counting sheep and from base 20. 1 score = 20 sheep. 2 score = 40 sheep.
To get to 50, you have 2.5 score, but they don’t say “two and a half”. They are quite Germanic and say “halfway to 3” (Germans do this too). So, 50 = half three score.

The video also points out that English has (as the hodgepodge of a language it is) yet another remnant of Germanic languages: 13-19 are not “te(e)n-three to te(e)n-nine”, but “three-te(e)n to nine-te(e)n”, just like in German “drei-zehn bis neun-zehn”.

It’s quite easy to mock other languages, but there’s always a reason for why things are the way they are. Think of Chesterton’s fence.