darklamer

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This video, Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s, contains a lot of examples of such US road signs that depend on English text to convey their message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzr0GYfRsKI

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

In the US, traffic signs with crucial information are often written in only English text, no symbols, pictograms or anything else that could make it possible to guess what the sign is saying without being able to read English.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a certain poetic glimmer in reading the phrase "documents of magnificent verbosity that accomplish precisely nothing" in a document of magnificent verbosity that accomplishes precisely nothing.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn't bought it.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You had me at "nuclear".