In was looking for a small space heater for the bathroom because it gets so cold in the morning. There was one that was a plug in into the outlet kinda like a night light, and had a temperature display. There was a one star review along the lines of
This thing is garbage! It just keeps saying nonsense like 9L! Needs better instructions!
Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86400 SI seconds per day).
What are the laws in the US regarding this? In Germany, this clock is clearly defective and must be repaired or replaced or refunded by the vendor at no additional charge.
You could definitely get it repaired/replaced by the manufacturer
But, would you? You can probably return it to where you bought it, but that's at least 10 mins of your life.
You could also throw it in the trash... That takes 0 minutes. That's what they hope you'll do, and so every other option is made possible, but frustrating
I'm sure most local/county recycling centers take electronics along with other recyclables (mine does). If not, retailers like Best Buy will take them at the customer service desk. Also, we have an electronic scrap bin at my place of employment, which is what I normally use. So many options!
I swear to god it feels like you guys are living in another dimension sometimes. Lol truly don't mean that in a bad way just so very different from what I'm used to, but, very similar to the West.
The old Kmart headquarters building that’s been abandoned rotting away as urban decay next to a fancy mall for since before the new millennium where the executives allegedly had cocaine parties in the 80s (which may have negatively affected the company’s outcome) is finally being professionally torn down by construction crewmen. It’s so fucking ugly beige reddish rust 80s office building its parts should be buried with humanity’s nuclear waste
All y'all guessing this is Australia are correct, dude's got it listed on his profile. https://twitter.com/Sheeds1984 This is also his pinned tweet, he's probably enjoying the fame.
Funny. They are on Lemmy.world but yet, forgot the world exists.
But it is weird to find out that a store known for cheap garbage and bad stores that went out of business is doing just fine on the murderous animal island so I get why they are confused.
My wife is absolutely fine in my books. The same way you can say my friend or my acquaintance or what have you, you can say my spouse/wife/husband/whatever without implying any sort of ownership. My view might be skewed being an ESL, but the same applies to German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, for example, which I speak too. I've never heard people complaining over those usages
"My" can, but certainly doesn't always imply ownership. It implies that the qualifier for person B in the sentence is applied to their relationship to me, person A.
My banker, my hairdresser, my dentist, my accountant, my contractor, my neighbor, my boss, my elected official, etc.
Probably not at all on you, here, but this is a good example of "exaggerated progressivism" or fake-woke/politically correct speech. It weakens the credibility of the progressive movement and gives conservatives silly exaggerations to point to and mock, when this kind of stuff emerges.
When I read "the wife", I read it as this. It feels impersonal, like you are intentionally distancing yourself from your spouse. Like, why would you do that unless you are literally Al Bundy?
I don't know if "my" always means owning the noun it could mean co-owning the relationship. If I say "my partner" or "my kids" or "my job" I don't think most people think I am a slave owner who somehow has an unbreakable contract with work.
Dumbass just has it upside down it's actually just LL:6
Ah that make sense . These karma whores i tell ya.
That's why you should always include a banana in the picture. Then we can tell if the clock is right side up in relation to the banana.
Banana for orientation
did you just assume my orientation?
I guess that depends what you do with the banana
In was looking for a small space heater for the bathroom because it gets so cold in the morning. There was one that was a plug in into the outlet kinda like a night light, and had a temperature display. There was a one star review along the lines of
I flipped the photo upside down and...
LL:6 already! I'm late for my harmonica recital!
Did you try setting it to Wumbo?
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At this time of year
The thermometer Celsius sign and the precipitation percentage sign indicate that this is in fact the correct orientation
You mean
%65
And
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Both seem like perfectly cromulant measurements to me.
Maybe it’s in Spanish mode.
I think that was sarcasm.
You Americans with your imperial system. 9:77 o'clock is 10:17 in metric. /s
I see the s, but you have it backwards. 9:77 is clearly metric time, with 100 minutes per hour...
Centons
ackshually ... the French really tried something like that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
IT would be simpler if this catched on. Why it didn't?
OP said Kmart, Kmart is dead in the USA, so the buyer is probably Australian or New Zealander.
Which makes waaaaaay more sense as everyone uses their phone for alarms now rather than a fucking clock lmao
Ummm I still use a clock. It played the radio which I like as an alarm better. Plus you can hit the snooze so easily.
I don't think Twitter was founded by the time Kmart left the big cities around 20 years ago.
Last time I set foot in a K mart was in 2015 in Greensboro NC.
Wow, they were all out from the DFW metroplex and only found in rural cities by 2005 at the latest in TX. I thought they had all closed down by 2015.
That last one I mentioned was pretty late in its going out of business sale. It shut down a few weeks later.
I can guarantee there was a K-Mart in Sacramento, CA, at LEAST until 2019, possibly 2022 but my memory of being in the area in 2022 is hazy
Twitter def existed well before they were gone from populated areas
Oh wow, I thought they had left cities in the early 2000s although maybe that was just TX. I thought they completely left the states by 2015.
Also the clock says it's 17 degrees Celsius, although to be fair I think it's established that the clock is unreliable.
No it is just 59% just in case you need to know how much percent it is.
It
A great man once said Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ... so why not temperature too?
Very deep. You should send that in to the Readers Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
Kmart isn't completely dead in the US. There are two in the states, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam
Clearly it's set to metric time
9.7 kiloseconds for my metric friends
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
That sounds like a better way to me. 🤔
What are the laws in the US regarding this? In Germany, this clock is clearly defective and must be repaired or replaced or refunded by the vendor at no additional charge.
In most places you can return it back for any reason and without one, if you still have a receipt.
At least within a relatively short time period, like 30 or 90 days.
But how do you measure time if the clock is broken?
You count? one mississipi, two mississipi etc
One mippipipi… two mippipipi…
I don't know if there are laws about it but most places will let you return for store credit at least.
You could definitely get it repaired/replaced by the manufacturer
But, would you? You can probably return it to where you bought it, but that's at least 10 mins of your life.
You could also throw it in the trash... That takes 0 minutes. That's what they hope you'll do, and so every other option is made possible, but frustrating
Please recycle electronics. Thanks!
How? I recycle e-waste personally, because I find disassembling it relaxing.
What is a normal person meant to do? I've been asked and I don't know what to tell them
I'm sure most local/county recycling centers take electronics along with other recyclables (mine does). If not, retailers like Best Buy will take them at the customer service desk. Also, we have an electronic scrap bin at my place of employment, which is what I normally use. So many options!
That clock obviously runs on military time. Easy mistake to make.
Yes. Theres still a few surviving stores in America.
and there is a KMart in Australia that is totally unconnected to the other Kmarts that.. I believe is still doing well? Not sure, not aussie.
Kmart here is still doing well.
Target and KMart are merged in aussielandia now, arent they? and operate as one store?
Remaining Targets are being assimilated into the Kmart universe. Resistance is futile.
I swear to god it feels like you guys are living in another dimension sometimes. Lol truly don't mean that in a bad way just so very different from what I'm used to, but, very similar to the West.
Target doesn't dare to return to Canada LOL.
Yeah they merged last year, but its still a work in progress and we still have distinct kmarts and targets
Wow. I thought there were no more KMarts in the US. Turns out there are two in the States, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam
they also have a (Very shitty) website for ordering
The old Kmart headquarters building that’s been abandoned rotting away as urban decay next to a fancy mall for since before the new millennium where the executives allegedly had cocaine parties in the 80s (which may have negatively affected the company’s outcome) is finally being professionally torn down by construction crewmen. It’s so fucking ugly beige reddish rust 80s office building its parts should be buried with humanity’s nuclear waste
For a second I was trying to figure out what the urban decay makeup brand has to do with kmart
This broken clock never right once!
always check the packaging to make sure you're buying a clock that's base 60. Especially from Kmart
Can confirm my base 60 clock from Kmart says its 42:32pm right now.
And always check the store to make sure you are buying it from a store based on earth, not mars.
This clock is clearly using the galactic alphabet. Buyer should have looked before buying.
Money exchanged hands though, so it accomplished its purpose (of tricking the buyer). :-(
I'm sure he can return it to Kmart though
I don’ didn’t know there were still Kmarts around. Dollar stores and Wally World replaced them all in my part of the country.
Even so, it has already accomplished its purpose. Dealing with returns is the job of the next CEO - this one has already gotten theirs, ca-ching 🤑 !
Or is the time LL:6?
I used to be scared of stuff like this.
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We converted to decimal time.
That's obviously Fri Apr 24 1970 02:22:39 GMT+0000 in Unix time.
it's showing internet time
One side of me is asking "Seriously, who thought that dividing a day in 1000 units would be useful?"
The other side of me can't wait for me to start saying to my friends "A'ight, meet me at @960".
It's upside down. The time is LL:6.
All y'all guessing this is Australia are correct, dude's got it listed on his profile. https://twitter.com/Sheeds1984 This is also his pinned tweet, he's probably enjoying the fame.
The clock in my car says that the year is 2165. Sometimes it corrects itself to the right year after a while, sometimes it doesn't. 🤷♀️
Your car is a time machine and somone is forgetting to clear the date after using it!
Should ring in 13 minutes
Kmart is still a thing? Is this the 90s?
Probably Australia, Kmart is still alive and well there.
You found the extra matter in the universe! Incredible!
Lowsy Smarch weather!
Perhaps try a store that still actually exists, next time?
Kmart does exist...
Funny. They are on Lemmy.world but yet, forgot the world exists.
But it is weird to find out that a store known for cheap garbage and bad stores that went out of business is doing just fine on the murderous animal island so I get why they are confused.
I hate it so much when people say or write "the wife". Riles me up
Like it or not "the wife" was a change in language seen as progressive not too long ago because it recognises that a man doesn't own a woman.
What would you prefer "my wife" implying ownership. "A wife" implying a non specific wife of anyone.
Or they name them on social media to avoid mentioning their marital status and ignoring their relationship to them.
I'm genuinely curious how this person should, in your view, refer to the person they've married.
My wife is absolutely fine in my books. The same way you can say my friend or my acquaintance or what have you, you can say my spouse/wife/husband/whatever without implying any sort of ownership. My view might be skewed being an ESL, but the same applies to German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, for example, which I speak too. I've never heard people complaining over those usages
I say either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I've just stated the reason "the wife" exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
I've heard different people complain about both and they were always insufferable people trying to nit pick the conversation into a boring place.
Like you!
"my dad"
I do not own him. Wtf is that argument?? It's not a descriptor of ownership but relation.
"No he can't be YOUR dad, he's MY neighbor"
This whole thread's logic is whack.
Right? It is almost like "my" is a word which denotes association as well as ownership. Naw that can't be right.
I agree either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I've just stated the reason "the wife" exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
Exactly
"My" can, but certainly doesn't always imply ownership. It implies that the qualifier for person B in the sentence is applied to their relationship to me, person A.
My banker, my hairdresser, my dentist, my accountant, my contractor, my neighbor, my boss, my elected official, etc.
Probably not at all on you, here, but this is a good example of "exaggerated progressivism" or fake-woke/politically correct speech. It weakens the credibility of the progressive movement and gives conservatives silly exaggerations to point to and mock, when this kind of stuff emerges.
Just my 2 cents!
Why do you have slaves? /s
I prefer the ole ball and chain. /s
The minister of war and finance.
The ole battle axe
When I read "the wife", I read it as this. It feels impersonal, like you are intentionally distancing yourself from your spouse. Like, why would you do that unless you are literally Al Bundy?
"My mother" = I own my mother
I agree either my wife, or the wife is fine.
I've just stated the reason "the wife" exists at all is a reaction against historical patriarchal language.
NO! Everyone MUST speak how I do at all times, or they're WRONG!
There's only one way to speak, and any linguistic deviation will be reported to the POLICE!
That's why I speak exclusively in Sting lyrics.
What song is that?
I don't know if "my" always means owning the noun it could mean co-owning the relationship. If I say "my partner" or "my kids" or "my job" I don't think most people think I am a slave owner who somehow has an unbreakable contract with work.
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Ah fine. The "old lady"
Dare people language! Shit.. I mean ᚨᛚᛚᚨᛁ ᛗᚨᚾᚾᚨ ᚠᚱᛖᛁᚺᚨᛚᛋ ᛃ
I tried to read that and shot an energy blast across the room. Scared the shit out of my cat.
What would you have people say instead? "My wife"?
Ole Battleaxe
Incredibly out there, I know
It's such a kludgy way of using language. You know what is being communicated with "the wife" vs "my wife" so why not use them interchangeably?