Oh yeah I had a few.

• That the moon you see during daytime is actually Mars (I then repeated that to my big sister and she believed it for an embarrassingly long amount of time)
• That the “up” arrows on traffic lights were for planes

When you’re born, Pantone checks your skin color and charges you. You need to get a license before you get tanned or they fine you.

I started dating someone and then realized pretty fast I didn’t like him that way.

The dude was already pretty depressed as a baseline, and I feel like giving him hope and then taking it away like that has dropped him pretty deep into negativity.

That’s way too broad. Scripting is a pretty broad concept.

Poison… Metal… Isn’t that just mercury with extra steps?

I’m a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don’t know why, but they bring me joy.

Interesting! I didn’t know there was a movie. The version I saw on stage was even more over-the-top (very stereotypical gay coded)

I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t BREAK MY REMOTE’S PLAY BUTTON.

I hate that this is true. Why are we like this.

How should I go about that exactly?

As a Canadian, I’m like:

You guys are getting food?

(School cafeterias with food service beyond selling terrible premade sandwiches for people who forgot their lunch are rare below college level and AFAIK what few exist all operate like a fast-food restaurant, where everyone pays for their meal then and there.)

Wait it was? How are we still seeing it and commenting on it?

That is not what I’m suggesting. I’m not saying charging only cables shouldn’t exist. I’m saying what everything does should be clearer.

I absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.

There should be a way to make it simpler.

Idk, something like “for USB 4 you NEED all of these”.

Or maybe USB 4 with levels like bronze, silver, etc.

Or make displaying data rate, display and charging capabilities all mandatory on all ports…

I’m not sure what, but “it’s a USB port; look in the manual and if you’re lucky you might learn what it does exactly” ain’t it.

Would you allow long dates?

For example, Jan. 11, 2022, or 7 September 2010.

My trick is printer paper! 1 layer suffices for most LEDs, but the most intense ones need 2.

The USB standards are just… Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.

But they won’t do that, will they.

That would work for projects important enough to be worth the government’s attention. But we don’t want every small project ever to be dependent on that.

Do you really see some teenager trying to meet a civil servant to explain how their Super Random RPG 2025 wiki is worth it, and the project is finally accepted (or refused, because the civil servant isn’t too hot about giving government money to something about video games) half a year later, when the most intense players, who would have contributed to such a platform a lot, have already finished the game?

I absolutely like that idea and I think it could be great for big sites like Wikipedia and various Internet Archive projects.

But I really don’t think it solves everything.

I thought stars of similar masses were also of similar sizes. They’re not?