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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • Llamatron@lemmy.worldtoHistoryPorn@lemmy.world•Some kids jumping out of windows onto mattresses for fun (England, 1980s)English
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    2 months ago

    Well shit, 80s kid here and we kinda did this. We had a pile of old mattresses and cushions. The mattresses were the super cheap and crappy kind with no springs so were actually really good for landing on. The ground floor of our house was maybe 6ft higher than the back garden and we had a kinda small raised patio at the back door with steps down into the garden. We piled up the mattresses on the lawn, beyond the flower bed. And threw ourselves off the wall at the edge of the patio down onto the mattresses. Lots of fun.

    My siblings and I used those same mattresses to slide down our stairs, crashing into them at the bottom. That was fun too.

    I also remember finding these long smooth metal sheets somewhere and using them to make a slide down our garden steps. Then using a sledge sliding down it and crashing into the mattresses.

    I miss those days.

  • Llamatron@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Chinese Keyboards
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    3 months ago

    So, a half remembered Radiolab episode or maybe it was 99% Invisible talked about this. If I remember rightly they did consider changing it because it was so much quicker and easier typing in English and Chinese character set takes up a lot of storage which was a big deal in early computers. Until someone figured they could break down all the Chinese characters into a much smaller selection of base shapes. So you could make a character by pressing a small selection of keys. So it meant a much more manageable keyboard. I think it’s even resulted in quick Chinese typists being faster than English ones.

  • Llamatron@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Trump's eligibility
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    6 months ago

    But why? Why are all these people so happy to protect such a despicable human being who will happily throw any of them under the bus and who has, and will again, sell out their country to anyone who says nice stuff to him and gives him money? It’s absolutely extraordinary.

    And it’s not like it’s a secret. His corruption is there out in the open for all to see. We all see it, we all know it. And yet here we are.

    My mental wellbeing has taken a major hit this last day seeing how so many people would rather burn down our future than vote for a competent black woman.