pwnicholson
Marketer. Photographer. Husband & dad. Lego, Minecraft, & Preds hockey fan. Movie buff, but pls #NoSpoilers!
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pwnicholsonto No Stupid Questions•What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelled exactly the same?6·5 days agoI think boot (you could also say bonnet/hood, lift/elevator, etc), pants, and knob all do have the same meaning between US and UK, they just have additional slang meanings, but those slang meanings are based on their real meanings.
Chips and Biscuit are better examples of having truly different meaning IMO.
pwnicholsonto World News•Israeli police prevent Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch from celebrating Palm Sunday massEnglish191·12 days agoMost/many evangelicals are anti-Semitic. They support action like this because they think it is completing prophecy and will help bring about Armageddon and Jesus’s return (that’s to really bad, cherry-picked readings of their own scriptures)
pwnicholsonto movies@piefed.social•‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Screened a Nearly Four-Hour Cut to Other Filmmakers and Were Told to ‘Get It Way Shorter’: ‘It Was Embarrassing’English49·13 days agoIt’s disappointing how much they cut out of his personal journey and replaced it with long sections of goofy gags. Those were ok, but not at the expense of character development. It did still feel indulgent in how long some scenes went.
Overall a good movie though. Just not as awesome an adaptation as The Martian was
pwnicholsontoData is Beautiful•Volume of US currency in circulation by type of bill (2005-2025)English2·15 days agoCrazy to me that were producing about as many $10s as $2s. I never see $2s in circulation and run into $10s quite often
pwnicholsonto No Stupid Questions•If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices?64·16 days agoThat’s basically what Amazon did. They did it even worse: they sold many things below cost. They ran their entire business burning cash for a long time (surviving off money raised from investors and later from going public and selling stock), driving other book stores out of business. Once they had enough market share and less competition, they negotiated tougher deals with publishers for lower costs and raised their prices to be at least a little profitable (they still sell some things loss-leader and many things at cost).
Edit: publishers, not punishers!
pwnicholsonto No Stupid Questions•How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?6·19 days agoYou know very different rich people than I do.
I still love the interpretation of this event from the short “Troops” (parody of the old “Cops” TV show) https://youtu.be/5HO70-Rk3jE
pwnicholsonto World News@lemmy.ml•Environmental fallout from Iran war will be felt globally for decades33·23 days agoOh, I’m not saying voting is the only thing we can do. Not by a long shot. It’s just the most impactful.
pwnicholsonto World News@lemmy.ml•Environmental fallout from Iran war will be felt globally for decades308·23 days agoI feel that.
But just to say it: Because it’s still the right thing to do, and if we didn’t, it would just be that much worse.
There’s no denying the best thing people can do for the planet isn’t recycling, etc - it’s voting.
pwnicholsontoAI (Reddit RSS)@lemmy.durstig.online•I’m designing a 70-hour course called ‘Marketing in the Age of AI’. What should students actually learn beyond AI tools?English1·24 days agoNever ever trust AI on any facts or reporting. Have it help you build tools and verify them, but never trust it to tell you directly what ads performed the best (for example).
It’s decent at creative work, but only if you use a platform that uses licensed material for training, otherwise you risk getting you/your client sued for infringement.
It’s a great brainstorming tool and writing assistant (again, see above for licensed training though)
I grew up a middle class kid in the rich suburbs. That’s so realistic and common it’s practically cliche.
The only realistic part is the rich parents not making the kid out when it really came down to it. You don’t hear about it more because Rich parents get their kids out of drug issues and DUIs like the rest of us run errands on a Tuesday night.
Backmarket will buy it from you and resell it. Just bought an iPhone 13 for my 16 year old. Lots of life left in “old” devices
pwnicholsonto No Stupid Questions•What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?8·1 month agoConsidering he’s dead, probably not much.
pwnicholsonto You Should Know•YSK: There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust231·2 months agoAll the stuff in the USA named after Von Braun doesn’t surprise me.
Really interesting to see all the stuff named after Philippe Pétain in the USA. Looks like it was banned after him in the 1920s-1930s due to his role for France/allies in WWI. Then he became a Nazi collaborator later.
Good reminder of why you shouldn’t name things after people who are still alive.
pwnicholsonto Hockey@lemmy.ca•Kings' Kevin Fiala out for season after injury against Canada5·2 months agoTom Wilson has history. Known to be an ‘on the edge’ player, physically.
Yup. I have The Clash song stuck in my head now.
Yes. The American Falls as viewed from Canada, specifically.