Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in 1 day ago:
“During times of high wages and good harvests, peasants could expect to work no more than 150 days a year.”
Ahhh this article again. It misses a hugely important bit of info: this work is ONLY for their lord. To translate it to a modern context:
During a brief period after the Plague, a peasant “only” had to work 150 days to “pay the rent”.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 1 day ago:
It’s a really well-trained parrot. It responds to what you say, and then it responds to what it hears itself say.
But despite knowing which sounds go together based on which sounds it heard, it doesn’t actually speak English.
- Comment on Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in 1 day ago:
Peasants sow and harvested the lands but most of the year didn’t have much to do.
They usually ploughed two times before harvest, and had to harrow at least once. After the harvest you had to process it, so cleaning threshing and winnowing grain or cleaning fruits. You’d need to weed it, maybe even plough it again after sowing to flatten out the ground and cover the seed and bury the weeds. If you’re lucky, you can add some manure and if you’re unlucky you might to plough agaaaain to retain more water on the field.
Of course those staple crops are in addition to the vegetable and herb garden, and any animals that need care every single day.
And all of this is ignoring the housework, gathering firewood, cooking for today and preserving for winter, cleaning and mending clothes, making yarn and weaving fabric, down to simply fetching water.
And if you fall Ill, break a leg, have a fire or just have a shitty dry summer, the general solution to that is dying slowly and painfully.
Subsistence farming sucks so hard, people worldwide literally chose indentured servitude as a preferable alternative on many occasions.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
Honestly, there are no good home tests for heavy metals, and there definitely aren’t any for everything else.
If you eat mostly home-grown food, you can Google around for labs that do testing near you. You should be prepared for something near a 100 dollar bill though, for heavy metal tests. If you eat a 15 homegrown tomatoes and some herbs a year, then I personally wouldn’t bother testing.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
On the one hand that’s true. On the other hand, I’m self employed and I loathe gardening.
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 2 days ago:
7up and beer is a Snowwhite in the Netherlands, but nobody’s ordered one since the 80s
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Should my yard just be grass?
Definitely not!
Why shouldn’t I plant something I can eat in it?
Because a terrifyingly large percentage of soil is very polluted, and really isn’t suitable for growing food. If you eat a lot of homegrown food, getting the soil tested for (at least) heavy metals is probably a good idea, especially if you have little kids or pregnant people.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
Q: what does a subsistence farmer do when something goes wrong?
A: they die.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
This is part of the reason why early farming was so inefficient. Have a plot up the hill, have one in the valley, grow multiple crops, etc etc.
That’s not done to have more food, that’s done so you don’t die when something bad happens.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
That only really applies if your time is free, OR you’re actually enjoying it.
- Comment on Deleuze 6 days ago:
Doesn’t a root system have a single point of connection in the stem/trunk/whatever?
- Comment on Amazing 6 days ago:
tears red sea in half
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
I prefer single origin, not a blend, so I order my coffee and my roaches from the same region in colombiay
- Comment on Risk your life with this one easy trick! 1 week ago:
It’s more of a “die slowly from heavy metal toxicity” thing.
- Comment on Sticks 1 week ago:
Two sticks and a gigantic globe of plasma shining near-parallel beams of light.
- Comment on Has anyone here noticed how reddit has gotten more racist against Indians in the last few months 1 week ago:
Being critical isn’t automatically racist.
For example, the country where I’ve been groped the most is Egypt, followed shortly by India. That’s not racist.
If I were to say that every indian male is therefore a sex offender, THAT would be racist.
- Comment on This one hurts 1 week ago:
Only if they’re natural fiber
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 1 week ago:
It’s the latter, but you risk the game you previously bought and played getting blocked together with your PSN account.
- Comment on Ballot-Access Consultant for R.F.K. Jr. Was Arrested on Assault Charges 1 week ago:
Republican is a horrible person. Also water is wet
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Only the massively oversized codpiece is required, but you’ve got to attach it to something
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Wait, isn’t this what session 0 is for? Getting all the tension out and working through your issues?
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
PubChem has uranium dioxideperoxide, uranyl hydroxide, uranylhydroxyd, and the most cursed one which only has an IUPAC name: oxygen(2-);uranium;hydrate
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 week ago:
And so is my cat.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
Basically, a material can be more or less “translucent” in certain frequencies. I’d like to look lead up for you, but Google isn’t cooperating today. But basically, there are frequencies that lead will be more and less susceptible to.
For macroscopic objects, there really isn’t a single answer. Something as generic as “a plate of lead(oxide)” can be all over the spectrum depending on texture, exact composition, oxidation levels, etc etc. there’s a reason why lab-grade filters and mirrors cost so much money, it’s hard to get a narrow frequency range.
It also rapidly changes as the material heats up, melts, breaks down, reacts with the air, etc.
- Comment on youth risky 1 week ago:
I don’t think the problem is the labcoat
- Comment on the ologies don't like to talk about theo 1 week ago:
Also theologians: A=B and A=C, but B≠C.
- Comment on youth risky 1 week ago:
Spill something acidic on yourself and come back to me.
- Comment on How well can an employer be certain of a remote employee's geographical location? 1 week ago:
Depending on how accurate you want it, the simcard is plenty. If your goal is “don’t be in France”, you really don’t need more…
- Comment on madlad 1 week ago:
Or in case of a faster centrifuge, it will shatter into jagged metal shards and imbed itself in the next few walls
- Comment on Wave Particle Duality 1 week ago:
This is not how the double slit experiment works though. “Observe”, in quantum physics should be read as “interacts with a thing”, it doesn’t require a conscious observer.