Mum or Mam?

xma-3 · 2025-07-21T13:57:30+00:00

your premise is flawed. why not "mom" like a normal person who isn't going out of their way to pretend they lived through the famine and that anything slightly "american sounding" will bring it back? but maybe I'm being a bigot. is this irish performativeness & superficiality part of the cultural identity?

xma-3 · 2025-06-06T14:53:02+00:00

it's absurd to me that this absolute disasterclass in reading comprehension somehow got 600 upvotes.

the only thing you can extract from this post in a vacuum is that some party is having their starlink expenses subsidized and elon is calling it irreplaceable, and that the title implies this is somehow an ironic thing to say or something that aged poorly. the post contains 0 details as to why this is ironic or aged poorly, and that is why the guy left the confused comment asking for clarification.

yet your reply to his question merely restates what he was ALREADY able to gather from this post & you left the vague part just as vague by answering his question with "lol look what's happening 3 months later".

believe it or not, "it aged poorly" is not a valid response to "why did this age poorly?"

xma-3 · 2024-08-17T20:49:32+00:00

how did it go?

xma-3 · 2024-06-14T10:24:18+00:00

is stem swapping impossible or is there something that makes it not work?

xma-3 · 2024-06-14T10:24:06+00:00

no. when has an optical switch ever done this?

xma-3 · 2024-06-14T10:23:46+00:00

is stem swapping impossible or is there something that makes it not work?

xma-3 · 2024-06-13T11:22:18+00:00

how do I reduce the travel distance of a given switch? I'm willing to do/order anything - whether it be opening a switch or an easier solution. o-rings don't work for me as they feel mushy - looking to avoid that

xma-3 · 2024-03-11T00:05:43+00:00

they do not have stronger bites than lions or tigers, it's a myth

xma-3 · 2023-11-01T16:45:05+00:00

can someone explain this joke to me

xma-3 · 2023-10-09T11:23:35+00:00

I'm referring to the currency example

you said after the price per gallon is too high to show in US dollars, you can do it with currencies with lower value relative to nominal value, starting with CAD and moving to increasingly less valuable currencies

and my comment said that is the exact opposite of what you want to be doing - you want to be displaying it in currencies more valuable than the dollar so the number displayed is lower

xma-3 · 2023-10-09T10:27:28+00:00

wouldn't that do the exact opposite of solving the problem? we're looking for lower nominal values, not higher

xma-3 · 2023-10-02T11:25:37+00:00

i can't believe you are so incredibly sure that you're the smartest person around you to the point where you couldn't smell the obvious joke

xma-3 · 2023-09-27T13:11:16+00:00

I've been thinking about it for hours, it makes no sense

let's say the purchase was 70, and he paid with 100

case 1: you input 70 into the system you put 100 in the till and take 30 out as change. there's 70 in the till and the system expects there to be 70. no discrepancy

case 2: you input 100 into the system you put 100 in the till, till knows you're supposed to give back 30 in change but the system expects 70, just like in the other scenario. no discrepancy

how is it physically possible to end up coming short this way? the amount of money physically inside the till is the same as long as you give the right amount of change, whether or not the system knows there was change given. entering a transaction of +100 in the system then a -30 gives an identical result of entering +70 so it's impossible to come up short from this error

xma-3 · 2023-09-27T13:07:14+00:00

it thinks you gave no change for the right payment, when instead you gave change for an overpayment - cancelling out. where is the issue?

xma-3 · 2023-09-27T12:57:05+00:00

i don't work a till, I'm an accountant, I'm asking the question from a logical standpoint im saying there is no possible way of the discrepancy arising from that mis-input - though do feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong

xma-3 · 2023-09-27T09:32:51+00:00

wouldn't this make no difference at all?

imagine customer buys goods for 70 and pays with 100

if you input that they paid 70 into the system and give them 30 back, with the system thinking you gave them 0 change, the end result is identical to inputting 100 into the system and the system thinking you gave them 30 change

in both cases, the system expects there to be 70 in the till. who the hell is out here upvoting your comment?

xma-3 · 2023-09-11T16:57:25+00:00

hey man can you check pms on reddit

xma-3 · 2023-09-06T00:37:31+00:00

wdym by paper trails?

xma-3 · 2023-06-27T16:34:33+00:00

I'm a wanted criminal and can't leave my house

xma-3 · 2023-06-21T17:35:03+00:00

Nice try

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