astutemural

@astutemural@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So you actually count by segments of the finger, using your thumb as a tapper. Crook your index finger and look at it - three segments, right? (At least for most people) The segment nearest your hand is 1, middle is 2, end is 3. Middle finger is 4, 5, 6, etc. So you can count up to 12 on four fingers.

  Then you use your non-dominant hand to mark dozens. Count to 12 one your main hand,raise on finger on your second hand, repeat. So you can actually count to 60 just on your hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, everyone post your opinions.

  I think Base 12 is superior to Base 10 for human use.

  We could get most of the way to stopping climate change by just not eating meat.

  Also, I liked Mass Effect 3 more than 1 or 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shit, I’m dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Conservative rapper’ the lyrics ‘appers’ being ‘rappers’ without the hard r

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.

  Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wrong again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one who was mildly upset that they weren’t? Like shit, we somehow got to bio-transhumanism before techno-transhumanism, that’s rad. By all means, let’s research new ways of being transgender, I wanna see what people come up with next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our local newspaper is trying way too hard to insert these casino ads on their site.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not a newspaper. That is AI slop masquerading as something useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, wild rice, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.