The Cask of Amontillado.

I remember reading it, and seeing it as a metaphor for killing off an aspect of yourself, like being a drunk, no matter how long or hard the process is, and hoping that it will never come back to haunt you.

The names are quite similar and I was trying to sober up at the time; I wasn’t going to admit to the grade 9 class the latter.

Montresor = Mon trésor is “my treasure”
Fortunato = the root word is “fortune”

The original link works fine for me, are you looking at it using actual lemmy, or an app?

It’s only about one per week, if you average it out over the whole year, including when there is no school.
2022 had 51: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01

If you are just talking about “mass shooting” events, it’s closer to 2 events per day in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023#List

You need to use a carot/arrow on both sides of the word to use superscript on lemmy.

^this^ becomes ^this

Edit: Header removed: maybe we shouldn’t encourage the use of headers.

Not clickbait at all.

Wet-bulb is the combination of heat and humidity, and it is deadly in 6 hours. The article is about the first time they have lab tested the conditions on humans to determine the exact numbers, instead of just using the 35C estimate that we have been using.

Reader mode of Firefox helped me be able to read the content of the article, despite the unacceptable layout.

Here’s the short version:
Wet-bulb weather is when, because of a combination of humidity and heat, you can’t naturally cool off with things like sweat.
There are certain combinations where the weather only needs to be 25.8C for a health younger person, or 21.9C for an elderly person for “wet-bulb” to be achieved.
Climate change is real, and it’s causing more instances of “wet-bulb” weather.
Outside activities may not be possible in the summer in certain parts of the world, people will die, the rich will move.

That doesn’t make it any less awful.

Thankfully, a lot of browsers have a reader mode to undo such sins.

That’s some awful website design.

That’s poor notation on my part.

I’m the dense one, not the ice cream.

If it’s soft but cold, that means it’s not dense. If it’s not dense, that means there’s likely a lot of air. Probably almost half.

a 3 gallon pail of their stuff is 15 pounds. Let’s turn that into useful measurements.

3 gallons = 11.356 litres
15 pounds = 6.8 kg.

1 ml of water is 1 gram, so if the bucket was full of just water, it would weight nearly double what this bucket weights.

From my time working with the product, I know that Soft-serve is commonly 40% air.
6.8kg is 58.8% of the weight of the ice cream. That’s pretty darn close to 60%

Edit: Changed g to gallons to make things less confusing.

That a non-offensive version of asking “whose the man” to a lesbian couple.
The answer is “neither”, and you look dumb for asking.

$4.69 where I am. I had to look it up.

That’s way too slow.

Take one end in each hand, hold it “like a frown” in front of you.
Bend it in half downward and bite the peak of the bend with one of your canines.
when it snaps open, shove one half of the banana into your mouth, (chew if needed, then) swallow.
Shovel the other half into your mount, (chew if needed, then) swallow.

Carfax

It’s a reporting system for vehicles so that the next owners of a vehicle know its repair history. It will also tell you if any loans or leins are placed against the vehicle, so you don’t get screwed. Car Facts.

It’s a thing in Canada, and I think the USA

Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.

When I worked in an FLGS I heard it from customers quite often, which we would always try to nudge them in another direction. It’s not the “country boys” who say it, it’s the 4chan/incel/Alpha-male set.

It’s generally the difference between using it as a descriptor, and a noun. Noun bad.

Compare “I really like watching the female football game” and “I really like watching the women’s football game”
“Female” isn’t trans-inclusive, but people aren’t going to look at you weird either way you say it.

Now compare that to:
“I really like watching the females play football.” and “I really like watching the women play football.”
“Females” here makes you sound like you’re getting sexual gratification from watching the players, or that you see them as nothing more than a vagina, “women” sounds like you might like the game.

x380 for the 2 in 1 gimmick!

Not in Canada.

The prices in French have the dollar sign at the end, while in English it’s at the front.

not always. It’s a combination of 3 spaces for some, and 2 for others.