What hills are you dying on?

[plum@lemmy.world]

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

• ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
• We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.

[kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.

Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.

[cattywampas@lemm.ee]

American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.

[fondots@lemmy.world]

I'm a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my life wife once

It's not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it's certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city's naked bike ride to bike around in.

[zak@lemmy.world]

If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don't really own it.

[suck_on_my_presence@lemmy.world]

You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space

[pwnicholson@lemmy.world]

Looking at you, Google Play Library.

[pwnicholson@lemmy.world]

ISO dates, 100%.

Time zones...I could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?

[justathroughdaway@lemmy.world]

Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.

Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it's because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.

[spacefox@lemmy.ml]

"Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad."

How? I didn't even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It's ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you've seen one episode you've seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.

[ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works]

Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.

Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.

[stephen@lemmy.today]

For the “Midwest”, in my opinion:

• Ohio is in the Midwest (or at least the places you can order “pop”…maybe this isn’t a thing in Ohio…I don’t know…Ohio sucks…Go Blue)
• North/South Dakota shouldn’t be
• Kansas shouldn’t be
• Nebraska shouldn’t be

[spacefox@lemmy.ml]

You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there's a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn't you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?

It's like, I'm an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

We could use UTC.

[tacostrange@lemmy.ml]

Thanks for this actually, I didn't know

[benreilly97@lemmy.world]

You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.

And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.

And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.

Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.

[spacefox@lemmy.ml]

"Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty."

Monty Python is for insane British "people" who think drag is the height of comedy.

"Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up."

Not even true. Daily showers are entirely performative. I'll have you know there are many people in your life who don't take showers every day and you don't even realize.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

Typically people propose switching everything to UTC.

The read this doesn't work is because humans are still bound by a diurnal cycle and you won't have everyone wake up at 0800, since for some people that's the time in the middle of when the sun sets and rises.
So you still need to communicate to people across space where the sun is or will be for you at a time in the future, or otherwise relate where in your wake cycle you'll be.
Tied to this is legal jurisdictions. Within a legal jurisdiction it's important for regulatory events to be synchronized. For things like bank hours, school hours, government office hours, things like "no loud noises when people tend to be sleeping", "teenagers old enough to have a job aren't allowed to work late on school nights", and what specifically constitutes "after hours or weekend labor" for the purposes of overtime and labor regulation you need your definition to be consistent across the jurisdiction. Depending on where you are in relation to Greenwich a typical workday can start at 1900 Friday night/morning, and extend until 0300 Saturday morning/afternoon. Your "weekend" would start when you woke up around 1800 Saturday evening/morning.

Right now we solve this problem by deciding on a consistent set of numbers for where the sun is across some area that inevitably lines up with legal jurisdiction. Then we use a lookup table to translate our conception of where the sun is to where it is elsewhere.

Without timezones you instead need to use the same type of lookup table to find the position of the sun at the time and place of interest, and then try to infer what the situation would be.

We have UTC now, and people inevitably already use it where it makes sense. It's just usually easier to have many clocks that follow similar rules than it is to have one clock that's interpreted many different ways.

[chexmax@lemmy.world]

Oh boy I originally read this as that we needed to pick one of your listed hills and get behind it, and I liked the concept