Lehmuusa
@Lehmuusa@nord.pub
- Comment on If a person who has smoked all their life is cremated, will the process produce cigarette smoke? 2 days ago:
Cremation happens in a very high temperature, able to basically turn the body into a vapour before the vapour then burns. The heat might very well be enough to alter the chemical compounds enough that the resulting gases can no longer be called cigarette smoke.
- Comment on ¿How communism actually work in practice? 3 days ago:
I’m a little baffled here. Are you seriously saying that the society was more equal when 19th century turned to 20th than it is now? Or am I somehow misinterpreting you?
Back then there was still serfdom. Things are bad, but my understanding is they are a couple magnitudes better than in the end of 19th century.
- Comment on How do you avoid the "third rail"? Wouldn't it be on different sides depending on where your headed? 1 week ago:
On metro networks with the third line on the side of the tracks, the trains have contacts for them on both sides. The contacts on the other side just kind of hang in the air without doing anything.
- Comment on Who named Earth, Earth? Why that name? How was it come up with? 1 week ago:
Thanks, that’s awesome to know! But even there we then have the … island. Basically “land” again :)
- Comment on Who named Earth, Earth? Why that name? How was it come up with? 1 week ago:
Which one? I guess to the list of “Dirt”, because it’s an Indo-European language, so I’d assume it does things the same way as any other Indo-European language would.
- Comment on Who named Earth, Earth? Why that name? How was it come up with? 1 week ago:
A lot of people did. It’s called “Maa” in Finnish, “Erde” in German”, “Земля” in Ukrainian, etc. Each of those means “dirt” as well.
I guess if we were to go to some other planet and find sapient locals there, they’d probably call their planet something that translates to “dirt” or “ground” or something similar.
I went to Wiktionary and checked some 15 languages from across the… Earth. And each but one that had an etymology mentioned, said it comes from their word for land or dirt. In Georgian this planet is called Motherdirt, which I found funny. In Arabic, however, our planet is called “The lower place”, as opposed to the “The upper place”, which means heaven. So, there’s at least one language that has elected to do it differently. And there was very scarce data for various indigenous American languages, so I couldn’t find much about them. In Taos, spoken in Mexico, their word for Earth translates to “land”. The Greenlandic name for our planet does mean land, as well. And their language came from North America, so the only North American samples I could get are “Earth” as well. And Japanese, Sumerian, Coptic, you name it, it’s always the same: Either “land” or “dirt”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And now it’s suddenly a reproductive strategy. The same with what chili intended as poison. Hemp and chili wouldn’t grow a tenth as much as they do if it wasn’t fornus liking their poison.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
OP didn’t talk about animalia, only about fungi.
- Comment on It's a wonderful feeling 2 weeks ago:
Should not do masonry work on a very snowy day. You’ll just end up with a very botched result.
Except, of course, if you have a roof of some kind to protect the wall.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order within alphabet-based languages? 4 weeks ago:
So, you’re asking whether there are languages that have compound words that are in reversed order in other languages? At least you’ve taken a Chinese compound word as an example.
Yes, they exist.
In German a rhino is “nashorn”, where “nas” means nose and “horn” means horn. Therefore, the literal translation would be nosehorn. And in Finnish a rhino is “sarvikuono”, where “sarvi” means horn and “kuono” means nose. Therefore, the literal translation would be hornnose.
Q.e.d.
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 4 weeks ago:
…and not filling everything with ads. They had very little ads and the little ads they had were not obstructive in any manner. The ads were text, but also formatted in such a manner that it was extremely clear what is a search result and what is an ad. You could not really say the same about the search results of basically any competitor.
Basically, Google had understood what others had not: Filling the results page with ads drives customers to competitors.
I’d say something may have slightly changed in Google’s behaviour since those days, though!
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen one recipe that uses them. But maybe we just live in different countries.
A millilitre sounds like a crazy level of precision for cooking or baking, though. How is that ever necessary? I guess you’re rounding to decilitres in practical use anyway?
If I encountered something like “150 ml” in a recipe, I’d assume it was written by a mad engineer and just use a measurement tool for 1 dl and put about 1½ of those. Makes life easier and the result will be just as good. Different nations have very different approaches to cooking, it seems!
- Comment on Eeeep 5 weeks ago:
Then it was probably designed to hop. What a cool feature!
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 5 weeks ago:
A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one’s easy :)
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 5 weeks ago:
the average American doesn’t know a meter from a hole in their ass
Do they actually know yards? A metre is pretty close to one yard. If you know yard, you know the metre.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 5 weeks ago:
Deci is used for baking as well, all the time. How is that “only for drinks”?
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
It’s on F-Droid, at least. F-Droid has a lot of open source apps that Play Store doesn’t have. Their data security tends to be better than those of apps on Play Store, as well, because they don’t send your data to advertisers/spy companies.
- Comment on Eeeep 5 weeks ago:
Must be from a movie of some kind. There doesn’t seem to be a back axle at all. To make a fancy explosion scene, they’ve kind of partially put the car together so that when it’s pushed up by some form of an explosion or by some cable on its roof or whatevers, the various parts would jump into random directions more beautifully.
I’d say it’s an intentional effect.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
For the record, I have about 15 accounts (alts) on various instances here. It took me “some” time to find out where I belong 🫣🤣
And when I finally did, I soon noticed I’m trans and that caused my old username to feel kind of “wrong” – a deadname of a kind. So, I had to create new alts and stopped using the old ones. Now I’ve got two alts I use regularly, and a third one I have as backup in case this favourite instance of mine goes belly-up at some point.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. The two instances are completely separate servers and don’t know about each other. Also, remember to take backups of your data regularly in case that your instance goes down.
Go to Settings, then “Import & Export” and press the “Export” button. You’ll get a file that you can upload to another instance and keep going almost as if nothing had happened.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
Well, there’s still the problem of finding an instance ;)
For choosing my own instance, I’ve found this tool very handy: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list .
Click the top of the column for uptime percentage. The ones with 100% are probably a bad idea, because that means they’ve never been updated. Then maybe take a look at where the server is located. If something looks good by these statistics, click the name of the instance to check the server version number. You generally won’t want an instance that lags far behind others in the version number – that indicicates a lazy server admin. It’s also good to read the instance description.
Also, note that this listing currently conflates PieFed and PyLova, even though they are now two separate codebases. They still look and feel about the same because PyLova was forked from PieFed such a short time ago.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
Started with what? :)
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 1 month ago:
Tankie is a word coined for people who support the idea of a country using its military against its own people. A person saying that there was nothing wrong about the Tiananmen massacre is a tankie.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is likely to work. And you’ll get basically all of the same content no matter where. Some defederate the Tankie Triad, which results in better content.
I chose mine mainly based on it running on PieFed instead of Lemmy, because PieFed has a little more features and a nicer UI. And then secondly by this being hosted in the Nordic countries, where it is legal to say that genocides are always a bad thing. If there was something that defederated from the Tankie Triad, but fulfills the other two requirements I’d absolutely make the switch to that :)
- Comment on Who are these followers? 2 months ago:
They are Mastodon users. There is an interoperability bug between PieFed and Mastodon that causes some Mastodon users’ names to be replaced with some internal Mastodon user number.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 3 months ago:
Type C is completely compatible with types E and F, though. Among with some other ones, such as the smiling Danish socket. So, at least something is being done to standardize this mess!
- Comment on Impossible 4 months ago:
In Finland you need to wave your hand for the bus to stop and pick you up.
I waved, and I waved, and I waved, but the bus driver just didn’t turn the blinker on.But, the bus stopped anyway.
So, me: “Hello! Is your own private car a BMW, perhaps?"
The bus driver, visibly proud that someone could recognize that from her outlook alone: “Yes, indeed!"
“Next time maybe use the blinker."
(The bus driver looked much less proud) - Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 4 months ago:
What could be cool would be a simple “included in my CV” button that you could click to bypass the field if it would be duplicating information already given. When you apply for 100 positions and each one requires you to painstakingly re-write all the content of your CV, it’s a big-time chore.
(Also, I don’t think it’s okay to ask half the stuff you are asking… Is that really legal someplace on Earth?! Blood type as reason to hire an applicant??)
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 4 months ago:
So? It’s magnificently easy not reading those parts of the CV.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 4 months ago:
The resume does put on emphasis on specific stuff. Whatever the applicant has found most relevant to tell.
I still don’t agree that the extra workload for the applicant is justified.