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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • A measuring cup is a specific size, about 237mL. There’s a whole system of US measurements, actually:

    3 teaspoons in a tablespoon

    2 tablespoons in an ounce

    8 ounces in a cup

    2 cups in a pint

    2 pints in a quart

    4 quarts in a gallon

    Not all cups are measuring cups; if you are having a cup of coffee that doesn’t mean your cup is exactly 8oz. You just infer from context that if someone is talking about ingredients then you should measure them with a measuring cup. (Very commonly you also see cups with graduated markings, which are US Imperial on one side and metric on the other, that go up to 2 cups/500mL.)


  • I mean that sounds nice, but honestly I don’t “progress” nearly as much as I “faff about” so stuff like XP lets me have the illusion of progress while I spend 30 hours roaming around the starting area looking for collectibles. I’m not sure what a real-time effect on that would look like.













  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonepromotion rule
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    6 months ago

    What the hell is up with the board and notation? The board is off by 90 degrees, the bottom left square should be black (unless we’re looking from the side, but the labels suggest we’re not, because the letters are across the bottom like normal). And then if you actually look at the file and rank labels, they don’t match across the board—the leftmost file is marked “a” on the bottom, but “h” on the top, and the ranks are the same way.

    They specifically designed it to annoy chess players, LMAO.



  • From 1962, the GDR also introduced general compulsory military service for all men between the ages of 18 and 26 for a basic military service of 18 months. The only recognized reason for refusal was religious conviction.

    So if you believed in a god who told you it was immoral to serve in the military you didn’t have to, but if you believed it was immoral because you came to that conclusion by thinking critically about the arguments for and against military service, you were just fucked?