Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 day ago:
It ain’t like pharma ain’t been trying to make male birth control pills. Lord knows they’d love the extra money.
But it turns out to be damn difficult to get right.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Why is it that the Dutch press operators that Caxton hired to run his printing presses, seldom catch any blame for the spelling changes they made to English? The one I always remember is Ghost. Those Dutch press operators decided that Gost should look more like the the Dutch word Gheest. So Ghost got it’s “h”. As did ghoul because you wouldn’t that to be too different…And other words got the same treatments. Thankfully many of the changes didn’t stick but enough have.
If only the printing press hadn’t been introduced to English until after the Great Vowel Shift was over, spelling and spoken would be much closer aligned.
- Comment on Fight me 1 week ago:
Pfftt. Splitting wood is peak heat thermodynamics. And I can attest it keeps you warm down to -40F.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 week ago:
So starfish are closer to a doughnut than humans.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 week ago:
Shape has little to do with mass. Unless you want it to be so.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
I also add: Does it taste good?
I do this because of cranberries. I do not eat anything that you can make candles or soap from…
- Comment on I'm down with that 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m really confused and my whole world view and philosophy of life is crumbling! Sigh, yet another existential crisis and it’s only false dawn outside…
I think I’m just going to make another cup of tea.
- Comment on I'm down with that 2 weeks ago:
I thought everyone agreed that blue meant raspberry? If doesn’t, what color am I supposed to paint my red raspberries now?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 weeks ago:
There is one thing that people miss about that whole “10 acres to feed one cow” statement. Yep, it can take that much land. But what doesn’t get said is that one cow can take advantage of land that is unsuitable to grow crops on like tomatoes, peppers, and onions.
In the US, California produces more fresh produce every year than any other state can. But it comes at a high cost of farming land that really isn’t naturally suitable for growing those vegetables. Farmers need to pump millions of gallons of water on those acres to get those crops to grow. This in turn puts pressure on the supply of water to everyone else in the state. And much of this farmland had all it could do to grow grass in some years originally.
Aquifers are going starting to go dry because of this. The vast Ogilala aquifer that supplies water to almost all of the US west is starting to go dry. Because we now are farming land that probably be best left to growing grasses for cattle, sheep, or goats rather than tomatoes or soybeans.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 weeks ago:
You would harvest the leaves when they are small and young. And they would be one of the first fresh greens available in the spring. But their season quickly passes as the plants grow pretty fast.
- Comment on Poor salmon 3 weeks ago:
The 2 Angry Beavers did it first. I think it was Dagget that always pronounced the L in salmon. They lived in fear of the salmon spawn run. The salmon would tear their dam/home apart.
And who could ever forget their #1 hit single, Beaver Fever, so smoky and sexy.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 4 weeks ago:
Well, while em dashes can be very useful-- I like to substitute them for parentheses sometimes-- they can be over used and abused-- see AI abuses.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
This is why you actually answer the phone to prevent 300 voicemails. That’s on you if that happens. And I have repeatedly found that a one or two line text message NEVER conveys the whole message because people do not know how to create a cognizant thought. So I can either spend hours texting back and forth to get the whole picture or you can call me directly, answer my pointed questions, and be done in 60 seconds or less.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely hate text messages. I refuse to spend hours of my time sending text messages back and forth to solve a problem that a 60 second phone call could have disposed of.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
It’s better to just leave the phone at home…
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 5 weeks ago:
Yesterday it was grilled porkus steakious. By the end of the day I’m changing it to Homio Smokus Baconius. Just as soon as I get those pork bellies out of the smoker. Then I just need to get those 3 pork loins brined and smoked next weekend.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 1 month ago:
OK, more directly.
Worrying about about which measurements systems are best and making fun of them is for fools. Use the units that best fits that task at hand. And shockingly enough, it ain’t always Millimeters, centimeters, kilometers or degrees Celsius. Maybe it’s pounds, feet, miles, or AU’s and Light years.
The US is a metric country. The federal government passed a law in the early 1970’s to make it so. They just didn’t pass a law forcing the change at a set time and date. They decided, for better or worse, to let the change happen organically. And change it has. Go in any grocery store and look at the food on the shelf, it’s all clearly marked in US customary and grams/kilos. I know every pound of butter I buy is 454grams. My whisk(e)y/wine, (choose the spelling you prefer), comes in 750ml bottles. A bottle of soda comes in 2 liter bottles.My FDM printers use 1 kilo spools of filament. We are all looking for that same missing 10mm socket just like the rest of the world. And no one gives a rat’s arse about how many feet are in a mile. Except surveyor’s and civil engineers, a very small and specialized subset.
Did you know there is a error in what the meter actually is? And it’s been there from the very beginning. One of the guys sent to make the original measurements decided that drinking wine in sunny Spain was better than climbing mountains and dealing with bad weather just to measure some silly distance. So he fudged it. The error has been known for quite a while and never corrected. It’s still there even after the switch from using a physical item to define a meter to how far light travels in a set time, (now THERE’S a silly random looking string of numbers). Not very scientific or accurate to ignore the error now is that? I thought the metric system was better than that.
Again for the slow learners, G20/G21 the machines don’t care and no one else should care anymore either.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 1 month ago:
It’s 1 3/4 bicycles. Not the weird ass decriminalized number you seem to think it is. We do fractions in daily life not decimals.
I saw a yearling buck eating grass along the driveway yesterday afternoon that had only one antler. I wondered if he was 1/2 a buck or a .50 buck since he had just the one spindly fork horn antler. Will all the does think he’s ugly and not breed with him? Will the other bucks laugh at him and refuse his challenges? He will probably end up in someone’s freezer later this fall anyway, so perhaps my story doesn’t really matter.
But the story isn’t about changing anyone’s views on what is the “best” measuring system to use. It’s about the foolishness of it all. G20/G21 the machines no longer care, why do you?
- Comment on Dazzling! 1 month ago:
Never attribute pregnancy to what can be simply explained by poor taste.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 months ago:
What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.
40 of Kelsy’s team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
So the poor others should do the breeding while the wealthy limit their offspring to preserve more wealth for themselves?
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
Being poor has very little to with having children. The poor across the world have more children than the wealthy.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
Yep. My Wife and I raised 4 Daughters. Each one was their own type of terror and mayhem and need to be handled differently. No toddler needs to have a choice in anything. Their minds aren’t ready for that. But by the time they hit 4 or 5, they can handle limited choices pretty well. And they only get better after that.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
Ain’t none of them there wanna be ‘high speed, low drag operators’ would be caught dead with a carry handle on them cheap ARs. They want to festoon them with rails to mount all the bling they think they need. A carry handle would only get in the way.
They have taken what was meant to a lightweight 6 1/2lbs handy little carbine and turned it into a 10lbs+ monstrosity.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
The ones I know spend more on those optics than they spent on the rifle.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
There is always risk in any medical procedure. Or sexy time fun…
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 months ago:
To quote the great philosopher Tuco, “When you got to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 months ago:
It ain’t even local news. What we have now, is anybody’s guess.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 2 months ago:
Yep, and we thank you for the word soccer too.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 2 months ago:
No, but many needed to protect those passengers from bandits and other assorted outlaws.