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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Urbanfox@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlLols
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    1 year ago

    Hahahah, imagine going to another country and trying to pay in another currency and being shocked they wouldn’t accept it.

    I can’t even spend Scottish notes in England when it’s all Sterling, never mind trying to pay for a small shop coffee in dollars.



  • Urbanfox@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml5 parallel universes ahead
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    1 year ago

    This is innovation, and problem solving the small stuff is a very important skill in the modern day work environment.

    Do I wasn’t to hand calculate an entire statistical analysis, no. I use excell.

    It doesn’t make the work any more or less valid. If you can Google something in under a minute, don’t bother spending a tonne of time trying to remember it.


  • I live in the UK and was astounded at the sugar consumption when I visited the US.

    The most interesting one was bread - it was so sweet, almost like cake, while our bread is just plan savoury bread.

    There seems to be an OTT approach to added sweetness that I thought was bad in the UK but is next level in north America.

    Another key difference was the milk in coffee shops. I went into Double cup and found some half and half (semi skimmed milk?) and dumped a bunch of it in my coffee. Nope literally half cream half milk. Blllerchhhh.

    That just doesn’t even exist over here.



  • If you stop trying to vocalise the words in your head you can really break away from the the time limit and just fly through text.

    This is what I do when I’m reading academic papers for writing reports to see if the content is what I need.

    Takes a few seconds to scan it, take the understanding and made a decision on if it’s worthwhile or not.

    There’s also websites where you can drop text and it will train you to read this way.