pumpkinseedoil
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- Comment on Anon learns that his grandfather dodged being drafted 1 day ago:
The one difference that matters if he dodged invading a country or defending his own.
- Comment on Just checking in 3 days ago:
The new Diogenes. Make it real.
- Comment on I just cited myself. 3 days ago:
Easiest way to prove it:
1/3 = 0.333…
1/3 * 3 = 3/3 = 1
0.333… * 3 = 0.999…
1 = 3/3 = 1/3 * 3 = 0.333… * 3 = 0.999…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
About completely uncensored content: The fun part is that anyone who actually wants that can have that, I’m sure there are instances that federate with anything (or they could make their own “free” instance). And people who don’t want that (probably the majority but I have no data) can simply join moderated instances.
Great article :)
- Comment on Astronomy 5 days ago:
To be fair the style isn’t anime style
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
- Comment on And they say English is bad 1 week ago:
Read some speeches from Cicero for example (in Latin). Latin has six cases and three genders so while Cicero’s sentences often consist of multiple sentences and sub sentences with beautifully spread out sentence structures they’re still very clear and easy to understand (with sufficient Latin skills). Same for all modern languages with cases and genders (like German).
In English you only have one gender more or less (you do have he she it but in terms of referring to previous words (which, etc.) or linking attributes you only have one) and the case solely depends on where the word stands in the structure (leading to a fixed sentence structure and limited possibilities to refer back to previous words, so you have to repeat them more commonly).
- Comment on And they say English is bad 1 week ago:
Gender and cases allow you to write much more complex sentences, and make long and complex sentences easy to understand.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
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Ty, always trying to improve my English. Comments like that are really helpful because noone corrects those things in real life, ig they assume they’re trivial.
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Refer to my last sentence in the comment you replied to (no elevation, no sharp turns).
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Even with spike tires you’ll struggle greatly as soon as you add elevation. But in one of the cities without elevation you’re correct, yes.
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Of course it’d be stuck, but generally the situation is, at least in my country: It snows, there are for example 20 cm of fresh snow -> roads get cleaned -> there’s no / hardly any snow on the streets anymore. So the situation where you’d have to cycle on snow is when the snow is a bit deeper. If I really can’t wait for the roads to get cleaned (which happens very quickly so usually it’s no problem) I go by foot or use skis, depending on how much snow there is.
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- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
Get spike wheels and stay on clean roads, if there’s too much fresh snow you’ll get stuck.
Or use one of these images.app.goo.gl/A1NitHgRBS3Qanza7
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
At 06:25 they explain that they use special wheels with nails, so that’s different of course. They also use such rails for the winter triathlon (running (with spikes), cycling (with spike wheels), cross country skiing).
With such wheels it for sure is safer
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 2 weeks ago:
How is Linux Mint for gaming? Does it still have input delay?
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
In Austria I’ve already seen people cross country skiing through the city in extreme conditions (but usually streets are cleared quickly so it isn’t needed)
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
In Europe helmets are mandatory and no matter what gear you have you dont want to bike on snow
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I watch YouTube with NewPipe on my phone and Firefox + uBlock origin on my laptop.
Btw NewPipe recently got an update that fixed all bugs I’ve ever noticed
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
Oh, nice! It’s funny how it’s the same as the one I just made up which further proves that it simply makes sense.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
I mean something like 1 day = 10 hours = 1 000 minutes = 100 000 seconds (currently 86 400 seconds so a second would only get slightly faster).
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
I think we can agree that the freezing point is super important when it comes to the weather.
So where would you place the second mark (you have to define two spots) so it “makes sense for the weather” (I don’t see how it makes less sense for the weather than Fahrenheit, at least Celsius tells you if it’ll snow or not while Fahrenheit tells you nothing) while still making sure that it can easily be recreated?
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
The fixed points (for 0 and 100) are much more logical though and can be used to accurately recreate the scale anywhere (well… it’ll be slightly off on higher altitude since boiling temperature changes but it’s still not far off).
0°C = water freezes (= it’s snowing)
100°C = water boils
meanwhile:
0°F = the coldest night Mr Fahrenheit experienced, thinking it couldn’t get any colder than that
100°F = Mr Fahrenheit’s own body temperature (he had a slight fever apparently)
How would you recreate that??
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 3 weeks ago:
What about a format where we only have multiples of 10?
- Comment on Anon has an identity crisis 5 weeks ago:
Especially when the multilingualism and multiculturalism is only a result of fascist projects like making Italians move there, making the local language illegal, forcing everyone to learn the new ruler’s language, teaching different history in school (that South Tyrol had actually been a part of Italy that they “finally gained back” in WW1)… Fascism doing fascism things. Mussolini even made people create Italian names for places that never had an Italian name just so they can Italianize it (and to this day in English people usually use those Italian names).
South Tyrol hasn’t had as many rights as today until the 70s (so ~30 years after Italian fascism ended) which is why many South Tyroleans still are very hostile towards Italians, having experienced Italian suppression themselves. And they only gained those rights after excessive protests (including violence and blowing things up).
tl;Dr Explanation for my previous comment, why it’s often not a good idea to speak Italian in South Tyrol
(Especially in the less-Italianized regions; there are a few areas that they successfully Italianized - German speaking population went from nearly 100% before the end of WW1 (and a few percent ladinian) to just a bit over 70% today thanks to decades of suppression under Italian fascism.)
- Comment on Anon is suspicious 5 weeks ago:
What about wolves / dogs?
- Comment on Anon has an identity crisis 5 weeks ago:
If you want to experience being looked down on go to South Tyrol and only speak Italian
- Comment on near zero 1 month ago:
Wait do you actually say “limit” instead of “limes” in English?
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 1 month ago:
🥶 -sent from Android