Dumbass just has it upside down it’s actually just LL:6
Ah that make sense . These karma whore 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
LL:6 already! I’m late for my harmonica recital!
El El Seis?! He’s HERE?!
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!
I flipped the photo upside down and…
The thermometer Celsius sign and the precipitation percentage sign indicate that this is in fact the correct orientation
Maybe it’s in Spanish mode.
You mean
%65
And
)•L1
Both seem like perfectly cromulant measurements to me.
I think that was sarcasm.
11037
Did you try setting it to Wumbo?
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…
ackshually … the French really tried something like that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
Centons
OP said Kmart, Kmart is dead in the USA, so the buyer is probably Australian or New Zealander.
Kmart isn’t completely dead in the US. There are two in the states, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam
Also the clock says it’s 17 degrees Celsius, although to be fair I think it’s established that the clock is unreliable.
A great man once said Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. … so why not temperature too?
I assume the 59% is humidity? So they took the time to make the clock indicate humidity but couldn’t make it indicate time.
No it is just 59% just in case you need to know how much percent it is.
how much percent what is?
It
Maybe it’s a certainty. The clock is 59% sure that it is 9:77 right now.
or it’s a tweet from 10+ years ago
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Kmart is still really big in Australia and New Zealand. It’s mostly replaced target, and we don’t really do chain dollar stores (we do have them, just they aren’t called dollar stores most of the time and are usually small little independent ones in the corner of shopping centres)
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 🤑 !
Kmart is still a thing? Is this the 90s?
Probably Australia, Kmart is still alive and well there.
We converted to decimal time.
I hate it so much when people say or write “the wife”. Riles me up
Ah fine. The “old lady”
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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.
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!
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.
“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?
Their later stuff got really meta.
I prefer the ole ball and chain. /s
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?
The minister or war and finance.
“my dad”
I do not own him. Wtf is that argument?? It’s not a descriptor of ownership but relation.
People are stupid and looking for reasons to be offended. Usually it means their opinions are to be ignored as they simply exist to argue about non issues.
Exactly
“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.
“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!
My banker, my hairdresser, my dentist, my accountant, my contractor, my neighbor, my boss, my elected official, etc.
Why do you have slaves? /s
What would you have people say instead? “My wife”?
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?
Ole Battleaxe
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.
You found the extra matter in the universe! Incredible!
That clock obviously runs on military time. Easy mistake to make.
Lowsy Smarch weather!
Clearly it’s set to metric time
That’s 9.7 kiloseconds for my metric friends
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).
That sounds like a better way to me. 🤔
That’s obviously Fri Apr 24 1970 02:22:39 GMT+0000 in Unix time.
+0000 implies the need for ±9999 hours difference relative to gmt
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”.
Should ring in 13 minutes