Hegar
@Hegar@fedia.io
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 days ago:
Oh you know, just the kind of things they do on remote privately owned islands.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 1 week ago:
Smokers (of cigarettes) also dull their sense of smell so i presume it's not just a me thing. Possibly it's stronger for me for some reason like allergies or genetics or some such.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 1 week ago:
Smoke or go into space.
When i smoke too much weed - like as a lifestyle i mean, over the course of months - my sense of smell and thus most of taste pretty much disappears. I had to take a break from being a cupcake taster for an acquaintance because i could not possibly provide useful feedback.
Apparently low-gravity changes how mucus settles (iirc) in such a way that humans have reduced smell and taste in space. Astronauts always want hotsauce in part because everything tastes blander in space.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 1 week ago:
I didn't find that everything was sweet. Most things tasted normal. Beer tasted oddly sweet, citrus was very sweet, but almost everything we ate at hotpot tasted the same. Maybe spicy things were less spicy.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah i was in high school in perth in the 90s so i remember poles disappearing.
Perth has expanded massively in the last 10-15 years, i'm not surprised initial estimates were way off. Or even less surprised than normal since i believe every single infrastructure project in history has been late and overbudget.
- Comment on I ✈️ NY (HOTA Gallery, July '26, Gold Coast, Aus) 2 weeks ago:
This is the biggest photo i got, sorry for the glare and not snapping the name of the artists/work.
Just south of the glare is nixon and zhou enlai meeting, above it is the redguard bugging confucius. The top right has the GDP slot machine, the zombie next to it is Empress Dowager Cixi as her grave is looted by a warlord named Sun Dianying.
The characters from journey to the west are there, tank man, mao's 4 pests campaign, the AIDS bloodbath and heaps of references i don't get.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 2 weeks ago:
In australia buried lines are fairly common. It's more expense and harder to do maintainence, but it's also way better and safer.
- Comment on I ✈️ NY (HOTA Gallery, July '26, Gold Coast, Aus) 2 weeks ago:
The whole thing was done in that style.
Up in machuria there was a gaunt little cartoon POW being tortured by a cartoon unit 731 doctor, little cartoon redguard telling little cartoon confucius "that's a load of useless farts", two little cartoon mushroom clouds over hiroshima and nagasaki, etc.
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- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 3 weeks ago:
Fake email job is great! I'd not heard that before.
Where i work, all the bosses get the day off and those of us who actually work still have to work.
- Comment on What shall I watch next? 3 weeks ago:
I think it's just ai, right? The MJ card says "The world deung op al" and the Home Alone one says it's from John "MLON..."
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 3 weeks ago:
Linking the agricultural cycle of planting, growing, harvest with the human lifecycle is a very common metaphor.
We see this in the myth of persephone, where going into the underworld and returning (ie death and rebirth) is a metaphor for the harvest cycle. Greek mystery cults were all over this too and it's likely a pre-greek remnant from the Early European Farmers who inhabited the area before steppe-descended greek speakers began moving in.
So the association of death and harvesting probably starts fairly early.
- Comment on Is it time for eggposting 🥚 3 weeks ago:
I found it so satisfying!
- Comment on 📛Killdozers, Rollout!📛 5 weeks ago:
Caterpillar have been profitting from israel's genocide of the palestinian people for decades.
When a palestinian throws a rock at a soldier occupying their land and israel responds by bulldozing the entire family's homes in direct violation of the geneva convention, they use caterpillar equipment.
When you're engineering genocide, think caterpillar.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 1 month ago:
Given the history of racism and colorism in the US, reducing a person of color to just their skin color can sometimes cause upset. Using a non-skin-tone related descriptor is generally safer.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 1 month ago:
Did you use "mentally challenged" as a way to call someone stupid or were you talking about someone with a learning difficulty or developmental disability?
Most of the time if you cause offensive with your words, it's not the specific words as much as the tone, context and implication.
I grew up in australia which has a very different understanding of offensive/acceptable language. Before i say something that might be touchy, i mentally double check - is this information actually relevant? Am i saying this in good faith?
With a humble tone and a clear reason the worst response i've had was a polite "oh i think X is a better word, but yeah". Speak in good faith, people will respond with grace.
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 1 month ago:
they're trying to make a socialist statement
They're not though. Their politics aren't socialist, or progressive, or anything.
Their comedy is about shock and being uncomfortable. Whether the topic for the week is political, social or interpersonal the show will have a take that is designed to shock and make people uncomfortable, because there's laughs in being uncomfortable.
Claiming southpark is socialist is like claiming your fever dream was more Dengist than Trotskyite. That's just not how it works.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 months ago:
The US also doesn't label alcohol content effectively - % alone is not helpful.
In Australia for example, all booze containers tell you how many "standard drinks" they contain. 1 standard drink is the average amount of alcohol a body can process in an hour. If you have no more than 1-2 standard drinks in you, you should still pass a breathalyzer, depending on weight/gender.
A ~5% beer can is ~1.5 standard drinks. So if you drank 4x beers over the last 3 hours, best spend another hour drinking water before you drive:
4 beers x 1.5 = 6 standard drinks. - 3 hours = 3 standard drinks
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 2 months ago:
Two really strong competitors is called a duopoly and in practise it works like a monopoly in terms of gouging customers and stiffling competition. It promotes collusion, but it tends to look way healthier from the outside than a monopoly. It's not though.
- Comment on Yankee Doodle 2 months ago:
In the US it would have 6.3 times more wealth.
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 2 months ago:
The whole island has less than 10k people. They're not cities, they're villaged with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comments is comedic hyperbole, alas.
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 2 months ago:
Ok, firstly, those aren't cities. That's an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we've got the scale right.
Specifically, that's christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced "kirismas". So that's probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation ("kiribas") underneath that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A musician i know with a french name often publishes under QTN so anglos pronunce it properly rather than say que-teen.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 2 months ago:
The two are not mutually exclusive. Just drink stovetop espresso made from decent beans.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It's not true though, so it doesn't need an explination
There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don't. It was just nonsense.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 3 months ago:
People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn't think they would but 🤷
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 months ago:
I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today's brands.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 4 months ago:
Shhhhhh!
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 4 months ago:
I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like "eco-fascist" are.
Anyone sane understands that "be gay do crime" is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.
Similarly "killing people makes nature alive" obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).
- Comment on Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill 4 months ago:
That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman's mind.
