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Cake day: December 18th, 2023
  • Fishbone@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Wait, not like that
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    3 months ago

    Wild, I didn’t know there was a different gallon measurement (There’s a few apparently).

    mostly unrelated, but after poking around on Wikipedia, I’ve also learned that there’s two different versions of fluid ounces (Edit: that are used actively in the US, forgot to add that), and both are used on food labels simultaneously, but relating to different things.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_ounce#Definitions_and_equivalences

    US food labeling fluid ounce

    For serving sizes on nutrition labels in the US, regulation 21 CFR §101.9(b) requires the use of “common household measures”, and 21 CFR §101.9(b)(5)(viii) defines a “common household” fluid ounce as exactly 30 milliliters. This applies to the serving size but not the package size, package sizes use the US customary fluid ounce.

  • Fishbone@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.world•What's your uncanny special talent, or what comes absolutely natural to you that makes others look at you in intrigue/disbelief?English
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    3 months ago

    I’ve always been good at basic math (up to and including highschool ball-park algebra) on an intuitive level, to a degree that was so wildly unhelpful and didn’t align at all with my schooling experience. Did extremely well in elementary and most middle school math, but in 8th grade algebra is where it really started to cause issues. We’d have a new concept shown in the form of equations and I’d always arrive at an answer by just plugging in numbers and solving it in my head until I honed in on the right answer (essentially just brute-forcing a correct answer).

    Of course this didn’t work in that class, because the teacher wanted me to “show my work”, and wouldn’t accept an answer of “I just did it in my head” or “I looked for an answer in my head and found it”. I eventually learned what “show your work” really meant (show the step by step algebraic process that the teacher wants you to do), but I pick up on that until long after I’d given up on highschool (I was forced to retake algebra in 9th grade, and then put into a lower math class in 10th, and by that point, I just stopped going to math class entirely).

    Fun fact, I got suspended from school a couple times for skipping class. The process was basically this:

    1. Skip class

    2. Be assigned detention for skipping class

    3. Skip class again when they were going to tell me I had detention

    4. Skip detention that I was never informed of

    5. Assigned, but never informed of, double detention

    6. Skip detention that I was still never informed of

    7. Suspended from school (still never informed of)

    8. Have a teacher see me on campus and tell me I’m suspended and need to leave school grounds (which is the first I heard of any of it)

    School system at its finest, y’all. Skip class enough and they punish you by saying you’re not allowed to go to class.

  • Fishbone@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Alpha Male v0.00003
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    4 months ago

    lol I worked at a professional theatre for 5 years (and theatres in general for way longer) and you seem like you’re more well versed than I am.

    Interesting point about Les Mis and Phantom. I enjoyed Les Mis the last time I saw it, but that was ages ago, during a time that I also liked Phantom (I still like a few songs in phantom, but hoo boy there’s a lot of grossly problematic themes in it). Phantom with a high budget can be a blast to watch though, from a technical standpoint. I saw it once in Las Vegas. The chandelier was in 3 pieces hanging above the audience seating, and it slowly lit up and came together above the stage during the overture. It was fucking crazy to see. (awful audio warning: I found a terrible quality video on youtube!)

    Haven’t seen Wicked, Cats or Hamilton (or basically any broadway show. I’m a heretic, I know lol), so I can’t comment on those. I haven’t seen Evil dead: the Musical, but I’ve wanted to for ages. I’m big on Horror movies, and the Evil Dead movies are all wild.

    I’m glad you mentioned Moulin Rouge. That movie is so fucking incredible. El Tango De Roxanne has lived rent free in my head since I first saw it and I’m honestly so glad about it.

    As for recommendations to check out:

    • Sweeney Todd. The 2007 movie with Johnny Depp is great (and very bloody) but I’ve seen a few renditions of it live and it’s honestly always a great show. Checks a lot of boxes for me (good tunes, dystopian, and a surprisingly heavy story given that the theme is often horror-comedy-esqe).

    • Urinetown. Been a while since I’ve seen it, but it’s a great satirical musical (it makes jabs at a ton of stuff, but it’s mostly aimed at capitalism in general).

    • Little Shop of Horrors. This one has a special place in my heart because it’s the first musical I worked on in highschool that I actually enjoyed. Not much to say, it’s just a fun show.