• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The use of commas instead of periods to denote fractions is making me want to harm someone. What in the fuck are they teaching you in school nowadays.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I demand to know what country is still trapped in the dark ages. They need to be freedom’d

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          We don’t have much oil so you aren’t going to be interested, unless you want to gift us to putin.

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          Freedom’d? Like the small children the USA bombed in Iran? Or the American troops killed in the retaliatory strikes?

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            2 hours ago

            That is indeed the dark humor, if you can’t handle it, it’s a rough time to be reading the internet at all, most of us can’t do much other than laugh through the tears. If you want to just pick a fight, you won’t find it here and I suggest you use that energy for something more productive.

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              I’m not American. You just kind of missed the mark with your version of “dark humour”. Mocking children being murdered is just kind of shitty.

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                1 hour ago

                Okay I invite you to block me because again, a lot of people are going to be making dark jokes right now because it’s how we cope. I didn’t want any of this and I can’t stop it.

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      4 hours ago

      I’m a convert. Comma is the larger symbol which should be used for the more significant delimiter. Comma for decimal, periods for thousands separator.

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        I think the Swiss did it right: Apostrophe for the thousands, which is completely unambiguous, and no-one cares what you use for the decimal point, I mean, comma.