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Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The Highway to Hell (Hwy 666) runs through the town of Redditt, Canada. Department of Transport changed its number due to its antichrist conotations.
1·22 days agoI would think that a town called “Redditt” would be equally problematic.
Thank you for sharing. Most of us have been there and we all carry our previous cats around in our hearts.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense
4·2 months agoTeaspoon is abbreviated to “tsp”, tablespoon is “tbsp”.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Ford Motor Company once made helmets designed for the army.
3·2 months agoThat must have been like wearing an oven after a few hours.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense
4·2 months agoFour teaspoons isn’t very much though. Most oils and fats are about 60 calories per teaspoon, which would only be about 240 to 260 for the amount listed on the jar.
Thankfully, Dyson doesn’t eat his at all. Our other cat does, but she’s slowing down in her old age.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•I switched my phone to Times New Roman
4·2 months agoTo be truly authentic, the time should be in Roman numerals.
I want Gregorian chants or Baroque mandolin music.
They’d be the best compromise for me. I usually drive short distances in the city, but maybe once or twice a year I want to do the 800km journey back to my home city in the next province. Train travel isn’t an option.
Well… there are things like tires, tubes and components that would be hard to create.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The craziness of women's clothing sizes
15·2 months agoThe size range of most adult women’s clothes was once referred to as “misses” sizes, as in “young misses”. So a size 12 (before vanity sizing existed) was actually intended to fit an average 12 year old and the size numbers referred to the approximate age of teen that could be usually be expected to wear it. There was no size 0 back then, misses clothing usually went from 12 up to 20, although the range sometimes started at 10. After that, a woman moved into “woman’s” sizing and the next number up was 40.
“Vanity” sizing started to appear in about the mid 80s and every manufacturer had their own idea of what a size 12 was supposed to be. This is when I first noticed that off the rack sizes no longer matched up with sewing pattern sizes.
Here’s an example of a sewing pattern size chart from the 1950s. All the pattern companies used standard sizing, with minor variations.

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•My odometer rolled to this just as I pulled into the driveway
2·3 months agoAre you also driving an 11 year old Grand Caravan? (Whatever happened to the Petite Caravan?)
There’s a mineral called jasper that is often reddish brown, but it can also appear in a lot of other colours. So unlike malachite, ruby, or emerald, it’s not a great name for a colour.
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The raw (elemental) materials in your body are worth roughly £116,000 ($150,000) - or a lot less if you do the refining yourself
2·3 months agoOne of my molars is capped in gold and there are titanium screws with a matching plate on one ankle, so I figure I could get more.
No in-flight movie? Cheapskate owners couldn’t spring for business class?
Amuletta@lemmy.cato
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter ThielEnglish
7·3 months agoNo loss. I got talked into joining a Discord group and hated everything about it.





I hope they didn’t use the one in the photo. An underwire would start hurting after a while.