The US Civil War eclipsed both in the number of casualties

I’m maybe misunderstanding you here, but as far as I know there were about 100 times as many people killed in WW2 as in the US Civil war. 60 odd million vs 600,000 or so.

Always like to hear a “dagnamit” or a “goldarnit”.

Reminds me of Butters from South Park, he says “Oh hamburgers!”

Never knew that jings crivvens was a placeholder for anything. I’m guessing ”Jesus, Christ and help me God"? TIL!

No, but you said “why do the English pronounce” with no qualification that it’s neither the only way nor the most common way.

You’re right that it does happen, but your title implies it’s the sole or dominant pronunciation.

The definitive answer :-)

Am in UK, and yeah, I’ve definitely heard it pronounced that way, sometimes combined with a second name, eg St John-Smith = Sinjin-Smith

I think it’s a thing posh people use sometimes.

The universe is so big there must be life somewhere else

Agreed, and it’s also that it’s so old - there could well have been life billions of years before Earth had any, which died out already.

Ah, good shout, thanks I’ll do that 👍

Although some would argue there’s a lot of foreshadowing.

Maybe, although it’s multiple people, so seems like it wouldn’t be a camera fault.

Possibly it’s how they are getting to me - I don’t get them directly, they come to via someone else, and I think the someone else may be getting them via WhatsApp (which I don’t use).

So in fact it’s maybe the compression from WA, rather than an issue with HEIC? I should have thought of that before!

Maybe they’re doing something else to their files then, but seriously they are grainy as hell.

Ah, that’s a shame. Thanks anyway though :-)

Yeah I hate this too - one of my clients regularly supplies images as HEIC files and they are always crappy to work with. Plus the images just seem much lower quality, which is a problem when they are being used for professional purposes.

I considered that, but it’s a paid app - yes it’s only a token amount (99p in UK, ymmv) but just as a point of principal, am I fuck paying extra just to be able to open some photos.

I think I’ve got that but have never played it. Must get it running one day!

No problem!

There’s one at !askmeanything@lemmy.ca :-)

As a football ⚽ fan, I can confirm that time moves excruciatingly slowly when defending a 1 goal lead, and absurdly quickly when a goal behind.

Yeah, likewise :-)

And you’re right of course.