The Ramen Dutchman

Ah, there are supposed to be 12 divisions, right? Thanks!

Does anyone else get the vibe that this image is edited? I can’t put my finger on it, absurdity aside, just a vibe.

I would guess that if you go province by province, state by state, territory by territory, you can probably find others with very high gun ownership rates.

Well, yes, the Falkland Islands.

Out of the completely sovereign countries, Yemen would be second place, though the US more-than-doubles their gun ownership per 100 civilians indeed.
Now, Falkland Islands and Yemen also have far, far fewer guns than the US; their high gun ownership comes in part from their small population.
India and China rank second and third in total guns owned by civilians, but purely through their sheer population. Gun ownership per 100 civilians ranks low in China (3.6%) and so-so in India (5.3%).

Don’t get me wrong, the fact that the US only barely doesn’t double some tiny territory’s gun ownership by population, still speaks volumes for the US’s insane level of gun ownership!

As a Mint user, you got me worried about the community I’m in (^^;

Or calories on packaging.

Or inches in Europe when talking about a screen from S. Korea, which was designed in cm to begin with.

Okay, show me your d5280 or d72, then.

Than remembering 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10; because metric has more measurements most people don’t use as well!

• 10 millimetres to a centimetre
• 10 centimetres to a decimetre
• 10 decimetres to a metre
• 10 metres to a decametre
• 10 decametres to a hectometre
• 10 hectometres to a kilometre

Okay, but I don’t use a measurement system for close enough, I use a measurement system when I want to be precice.

Especially with several thousand kilometres.

“Eleven mega metre” rolls off the tongue much better than “eleven thousands kilo metre” IMO.

You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.

Looks like we have something in common! Hämmästyttävä!

Almost, if I can believe this Wikipedia article Falkland Islands has just over half as much as the US.

This actually happens?

You’re right on with pets, had a lil’ doggo that did NOT want his medicine, lil’ pooch would eat around it in his food, squirm in six dimensions if you tried to force him, and yes one time he even used teeth!
Needless to say I was, in fact, not using teeth.

Our current doggo tho, eats her food with or without medicine. One time we forgot to give her her pill when she was on medication for something, I just told her it was a biscuit and she ate it, no questions asked. This is a blessing.

Willen wij meer of minder MAGAanen in Nederland?!

/satire

*cries in PVV majority*

I feel https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30883044 applied to “expat” as well.

Core memory unlocked: Looking at a store called “Expat store” or something in that vein in Den Haag as a little boy, asking my parent what “expat” is. “That’s an American immigrant.” “So, why are they not just an immigrant?” “That way they feel better about themselves.”

I only just realised how based my parents are.

If anything, I think it’s people used to Windows or macOS that don’t want anything to change that tend to hate Linux systems; it’s not exactly Windows/macOS (and doesn’t run exactly the MS Office and Adobe suits) so they hate it.

It also seems like English changing the letter J from a /j/ sound to a /dzj/ sound didn’t help, going by how “Iacobus” became Jacob somewhere down that line.

jimjam5 wouldn’t mind the name Saint Jim?

I feel you’re biased 😋