FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on I remember 9 hours ago:
MAJONNÄS!
- Comment on I remember 18 hours ago:
EpicMealTime paled in comparison to regular ordinary Swedish mealtime!
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
Makes me feel better that someone who knows what she looked like could make the same mistake!
- Comment on British Adults Overwhelmingly Support UK Ban on Illegal Israeli Settler Imports 1 day ago:
52% is what Novara media calls an “overwhelming majority”? And I thought they opposed Brexit!
Not surprising to see a high proportion of undecideds, but good that most people with an opinion are in favour.
- Comment on 9/11 meme Lemmy edition 1 day ago:
People think that if Cloudflare caved and started removing content, it’d be the right wing stuff and not the LGBT stuff, which seems preeetty naive.
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
the caption in the original post? It has nothing to do with the film, it’s just using the expressions of the two people for comic effect :)
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
The trailer for the film the meme is a screencap from, You can See Everything.
- Comment on tag yourself 1 day ago:
For the difference between major and minor keys, that’s true, and my comment didn’t emphasise the distinction because of the context of the parent.
But within major keys or minor keys, I don’t think this is true for most people. Most people do not have absolute (aka “perfect") pitch, so if you play them a piece of unfamiliar music in a particular key, allow them enough time to forget the pitch at which it was played, then play it again transposed up a semitone, they won’t actually be able to tell it’s played at a higher pitch. The brain hears the relation between pitches, not the absolute pitches, and the relations are all the same.
There are certain exceptions: string instruments sound slightly different when playing the notes of one of the open strings as those strings vibrate sympathetically. Instrument bodies don’t respond exactly the same to two adjacent pitches, so it’s not just the pitch that changes; so does the timbre. But these are subtle effects, especially on an instrument like a piano, and they can disappear entirely on electric or digital instruments leaving only the pitches as the variation.
And there are certain limits: if I play you a piece you know very well, you’ll have an expectation as to the pitch you hear it at and will be able to tell more accurately when it is played differently. If I play it to you very soon after you’ve just heard it, it will be the same. And even if neither applies, if I play it transposed up an octave, you’d have to be tone deaf to not hear the difference.
- Comment on Life 1 day ago:
I enjoy it :3
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
I didn’t when I saw the trailer.
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
Not just American (I’m not American).
Dead ringer isn’t really slang, it’s just an idiom. I’m curious what variety of English you speak?
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 1 day ago:
I re-read my comment and it makes sense to me. Have you seen the trailer in question?
- Comment on Stare of the void ... 2 days ago:
Fun fact: a friend linked the trailer the other day. I thought “wow, the acting / directing on this actor playing an absolute fucking nutter is impeccable”. I hadn’t heard of the film before, so I looked out up. Saw it was about Elizabeth Holmes whose name i remembered but didn’t know about. Saw there was a picture of her, thought, “wow, the actress they got to play her is an absolute dead ringer… wait a minute…”
What the absolute fuck?! Did no-one speaking to her realise that she was an absolute fruitcake?
- Comment on tag yourself 2 days ago:
They used to be different! Only with equal temperament are they all exactly the same.
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
Yeah I once looked into getting that but gave up. I just use fish sauce you buy in an asian supermarket. He recommended this as a substitution at some point but I don’t remember if they’re supposed to taste that different.
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
I bought some to make some old recipes (from Tasting History, which I imagine is a not-insignificant driver of online types having long pepper..?) but had to go online. The local place I go to for spices also didn’t have lovage or savoury - tsk!
- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
The tragedy is that many of the spices most jealously traded for became so integral to British and international cuisine that memesters don’t even realise that they were ever unusual or expensive. I guarantee you that those baked beans have a bunch of black pepper in them and guess what… pepper don’t grow in Britain! It’s in more or less every single kitchen thanks to a global spice trade that is now forgotten. Ginger is a main flavour in many British recipes and also doesn’t grow in Britain.
But Britain was in fact not that big a player in the spice trade, being beaten by the Dutch, who got there first and had better financial backing. The British East India Company tried to make its way by raiding ships of the Dutch East India Company but after a bunch of wars eventually had to settle for less exciting endeavours - trade in cotton being a staple.
The Dutch are themselves not renowned for their food either, though it is my firm belief that every country has great food if you’re willing to look past your prejudices, and stamppot is great.
- Comment on Lloyds Bank Denies Palestine Action Prisoner’s Mum Mortgage Over ‘Adverse Media’ 3 days ago:
It’s inevitable when you let stupid “scandals” influence policy of companies providing services which, if not sightly essential, are still crucial for major aspects of life like mortgages.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
Lie flat? Sure. But lie with your head propped up? That’s normal.
- Comment on Keep them secret 3 days ago:
This used to be true but recently they started cheaping out. My Samsung Swhatever it is had glass scratches within a month of my buying it. My friend and my partner both bought the same phone and had the same experience - we had never had screen scratches on phones for like 10 years prior, so the glass is definitely shitter. No idea about iPhones though.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
I see. But the most common type of bath I know of is a shower-over-bath!
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
🤔
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
a bath?
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 4 days ago:
Ah well now I feel bad for being sarcastic which I probably deserve.
- Comment on To be happy… 4 days ago:
So now to cook something I need:
- A solar collector
- Hot oil storage
- Heat exchanger (unless I’m deep frying I guess)
- Hot oil piping between collector, storage and cooking appliance
I’ll take the solar panels which I already have wiring for, are useful when there’s a surplus (because I can sell the electricity) and which also power my computer. Not that I have panels at the moment.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 5 days ago:
The current cost of living crisis started because of the economic turmoil in COVID you refer to as “some lines stopped going up”. There have been other causes, but that was a huge chunk of it.
But sure “everything was basically fine” because you personally didn’t die, I guess
- Comment on To be happy… 5 days ago:
“simple” storage of burning hot oil mmhm
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 5 days ago:
Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.
It doesn’t make sense to talk of “splits” unless you presume a cladistic view, which I explicitly did not. The point of a split is ill-defined unless you’re talking about a clade.