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- Comment on 20 hours ago:
linux might work, actually. but firefox has become hungry ;)
- Comment on 2 days ago:
please call out my half-assed knowledge more!
- Comment on 2 days ago:
hm thanks for pointing that out. i will have to thonk abt that for longer though.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
like any good model it has it’s scope. inductivity and capacity are out of scope. electrical current is not electrons pushing each other as a longitudinal wave in water could make it wiggle in a pipe. as soon as something stops to make sense in the model we need a new model.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
electron flow is not what transmits energy it’s the electrical field. in AC circuits electrons don’t really get transported from a source to a destination.
the water allegory unfortunately breaks down very quickly. pressure is force per area. voltage is a difference in potential (~charge).
i feel like someone might be better to really answer to your questions. my physics ed is … long gone.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
i feel that. i assumed it is an autistic trait … also theres a trans thing in my life. i like my new name a lot better.
still there are situations, in which i think it’s unneccesarry to say my name. especially , when you already have my attention. people pointed to ‘removing distance’ as a function. i usually like my distance. “hi, kluczyczka.” sounds waaay to forward, as if you want to eat me. if you already have my attention, just say “hi”. …
in langiages which have strong formal language, i tend to use these forms a lot more than others too, this usually uses the family name , which has a nice distance to it?
- Comment on Couldn't ships just go elsewhere than the Strait of Hormuz? 2 weeks ago:
well redundancies are first of all expensive. plus there are already alternate ways of distribution. these are just insufficient for a naval blockade. the capacity of pumping it up and then putting it on a ship quasi-on-site is always gonna be magnitudes bigger and cheaper, than building pipelines. so …
- Comment on Couldn't ships just go elsewhere than the Strait of Hormuz? 3 weeks ago:
a lot of oil comes from the persian gulf. that is hard to get out otherwise. saudi arabia has a pipeline to their westcoast, but that wouldn’t meetvthe demand.
the strait of hormuz is a major choke point in oil trade. unfortunately oil is stil a key ressource for everything. …
- Comment on Is it controversial to point out the Nazis were mostly Catholics? 1 month ago:
lot has been said. deutsche christen werent catholics. but they sound familiar, these days.
- Comment on What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type? 1 month ago:
as a non-native i use tho to rebel against english orthography a bit, and because its faster – just like i side with the belgians and say septant instead of soixante-dix; or as i side with the saxons finding drei-viertel-zehn more convincing.
non standard lingo ftw! :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
OnO
i found a german (federal republik of ~) text once that quoted a german text published in switzerland marking a word that was written with double-s instead of s-z-ligature (ß) with “[sic!]” as if the orthography of their neighbors were a mistake.
(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
most niche: studied ugaritic for 3 semesters. (not really a conversational skill but with the arabic and hebrew i know it made for a surprisingly nice “reading phoenician inscriptions at the museum”-day. see it is useful, father!)
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
cease your investigations.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
i will not further discuss my bookshelf or any other interior item of mine without an attorney.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
they do not provide proof. why should you? he could as well argue my bookshelf didn’t exist, since none of you have seen it yourself. but is this a discussion worth having?
also: the underlying idea, that modern tech could do better whatever a human has done without it, is just naïve. we do not build much rounded shapes in windows and stuff anymore bc our machines work best and most efficient for straight cuts if we want to make use of their power we have to build a certain way.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
at this point, i might go vor claves. no harmonics needed.
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 2 months ago:
don’t give them nazis more ideas plz. they already have [gereric rationalization for their shit].
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
i was just thinking about simple melodies, that people know, and remember. probably popcorn (yt link) isn’t in the canon of music schools?
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
ty for your insights in all of this. i really is that i started playing around with DAWs but i didn’t know ‘what to say’ through those. i hope to speak a little music myself to fix that. ;) i will have a look at tgat specific ukulele :))
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
yeah i played around with reason years ago, that’s around the time i started keys. you are right, that’s exactly my cup of tea. but i always felt i was lacking an intuition. as if i had only learned to write latin but never actually spoken conversationally. i guess that’s why i feel i need to actually do music with my body.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
ty! imight as well have a look and decide by what classes are available in my area.
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
i could grab my flatmates guitar. i am somehow intimidated by that thing. but yeah maybe …
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
just do it? true. you forgot to say popcorn tho. ;)
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
i’ll see what i can do. :)
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 2 months ago:
thx a lot, for pointingout these ressources!
as for the why: i just realised that i really do view music as a kind of language, something that can be written down, realised acoustically and (with practice) be understood. that might be a big misconception. but my primary driver is to get a better understanding of what’s happening in music in general. just like speaking helps in learning a language, i thought, imitating music should help to learn music. that’s maybe why i don’t really care for the specific instrument … it’s rather instrumental.
i wouldn’t play with others, or for others. there’s not even a style i’d prefer, its just the basic understanding outside of a vague emotional reaction. i can’t tell the difference between a chord and a single note. in many cases not even what note is higher. and i feel like that’s failure? or at least a shame.
maybe i need some elementary school level lessons.
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- Comment on How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it.. 3 months ago:
it is a real threat.
there are different tiers of punishment for lies. if you swore to tell the truth, but demonstrably lied, this will f up your life further.
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 3 months ago:
i wanted to point you to a potato kerfuffle. unforch this article only exists in german wikipedia:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overather_Kartoffelkrieg
:(
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 3 months ago:
i’d like to add: the gross glibberishness eggs give to mayo is in fact gross.
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 3 months ago:
yup. got a friend who visited recently after 7(?) years abroad. her phonetics and prosody are now anglicised.
also, my grandma once made fun of my german accent. (thats a more complicated story but yeah potato kartoffel.)