Filing your staircase mnemonic in my mind right next to this banger for the Great Lakes.

You’re wrong. They also do this in North Korea.

I thought so too. Until I saw Bloomberg try.

Well I was raised in a world where at least a few public school teachers and grownups said, inter alia, that:

• “[The United States of] America’s the best country on Earth”, and that
• “In [the United States of] America, any citizen can become president”.

This is the only Reddit tradition that has no name. But we used to celebrate it at least once every three months, if I can recall correctly.

cleverly also called “dogfooding”

Haven’t you shown her the chart with the pirates? Can’t argue with science.

Philippines- and rosary-loving atheist here. She’s a keeper.

Anyone else get ptsd flashbacks to:

• “aitch tee tee pee ess colon backslash backslash…” or
• “the email address is all lowercase, all one word…”

Barack OSAMA is a soshaless and I WILL TERRORISM YOU and the like. Got it.

Holy fucking shit. I can’t believe this is a question people have asked and others have answered and that the answer is so unsatisfying for pedants.

Omg I h9 this so fucking much

Actual scambaiting is the closest thing I have to religion these days

On the one hand, thank you for being an accessibility buddy. On the other, shall we also transcribe the number and web address of my spammer, too?

Reminds me how I didn’t know that ’til and till are both words until way too recently

Omg this is essentially me too. I just waited to lose my patience until this White Guys incident.

Is there still a pro revenge Lemmy community bc I have some ideas

Remarkably, yeah. I always get a little political text spam, but since early ’24 it’s been harassment.

EMPRESS is full on Elan Mask now as if this is 1930s Germany.

There’s no “Report Junk” on iOS Messages unless it’s an email address texting you.