Jiral
@Jiral@lemmy.world
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 1 hour ago:
Who cares, it is just some funny and crazy inconsisten conversion to SI units. The whole system is defined by SI units at its base and the fedaral government is largely metric.
- Comment on Anon thinks she's exaggerating 1 week ago:
I have no idea if they did it in NK at any point. I am pretty sure it is nothing you can see in current North Korea. It is a bit older already but in 2008 two Austrians were travelling by rail, via Russia to North Korea. They entered the country via north by train in a way, that the North Korean regime officially allowed at that time but apparently had no process for to handle in any way, because they probably did not expect anyone crazy enough to take the full Transsib to North Korea. What they managed was travelling by train in North Korea, all the way from the very north, to the capital Pyongyang, where they were then greeted by their “guides” as usual for Western tourists.
They took a lot of pictures and videos of rural North Korea and its people and they had uncensored contact with regular North Koreans on the train, who were understandably very intrigued by those very strange people from abroad. I think to this day, the material they took is among the best, uncensored and non-biased evidence of life in North Korea. Limited as it may be from simply travelling by train across the country.
- Comment on Anon thinks she's exaggerating 1 week ago:
I am not saying she is not a serial liar who is earning her money from selling out to the populist right media, but you’d be surprised what humans can do in terms of pushing rail carriages, as long as the track is flat. Rail has very low friction. For a single person it is very hard, but if you have a dozen of people at it, things get doable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qGJFDyrGEg
I could imagine that shunting work of individual carriages could be done by human force, if you have enough people available for it. With maybe two dozen people for one carriage it could be even not totally exhausting work. Still a rather crazy thing to do but perfectly possible.
- Comment on Time of death: 1:19 am October 18 1 week ago:
Wow, keep it together please, no reason to start posting hard horror like this just because its the season.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
I played it a good while after launch. I couldn’t find any of the goofy bugs by then and I did actually like the beginning of the game. But I felt the story was the strongest at the beginning and then it became a bit formulaic. Overall though I didn’t think it was a bad as some made it out to be but also not stellar of course.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 1 week ago:
Is there another gambling company that has as hobby mass murdering game studios? Or is EA rather unique in that?
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 2 weeks ago:
What starter pack has Dune II and California Games?
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t. Every measurement has error. The question is how big. It was minor already back then, but it could be further reduced and with the switch no dematerialised standards that are only possible with modern technology it is reduced even further, but it does have still an error, of course.
By your logic, that’s saying they still get it wrong but it is understandable because everyone will get everything forever wrong. I just find it mildly amusing is all.
- Comment on Banana for scale 2 weeks ago:
It is incredibly hard defining something with a certain degree of error to it. Back then, it was impossible.
The French" did not “get the calculations wrong”, it was the best that was possible back in the day. Nowadays the definition of the meter is dematerialised and the yard is defined as a conversion factor of the meter.
- Comment on Goteem 2 weeks ago:
So no argument. Ok. .ml style.
- Comment on Goteem 2 weeks ago:
No arguments, I see.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 2 weeks ago:
The point is that it could be worse, considerably worse. Yes, I know, the standards are low nowadays.
- Comment on No one talks about the REAL victims 3 weeks ago:
There were reports about considerable decrease in engagement with far right social media accounts. Those servers did not exclusively do search indexing. I think at this point it is not clear if this really had a significant effect or not on the Russian Psyops.
- Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need PVC to create durable cabling.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Slop vs Adobe loses… This is torture!
- Comment on Just coincidence 3 weeks ago:
I get your point, but Austro-Hungary started WW1, not nothing either. The reason I was mentioning it is that the US might just as well be in its late days imperialism. One of these wars might actually end the days of US Empire.
- Comment on Just coincidence 3 weeks ago:
Interestingly “ministery of war” used to be quite frequent names for these institutions. The “defense” euphemism only came later in many countries. Austria-Hungary had also a “Kriegsministerium” (“war ministery”). It also had a much more badass double headed eagle bolted onto the building. Well, the building still has.
- Comment on Just coincidence 3 weeks ago:
The new name is oddly truthful, really not in line with their common stance on truth.
- Comment on I wonder why people treat it like an Ancient Egyptian cat? 4 weeks ago:
Because of its documentation, community and software ecosystem. That makes it especially a good entry point for beginners. At least it was when prices were still acceptable.
- Comment on My people need me 4 weeks ago:
Hippie » alternative medicine » anti-vaxxer » Russian propaganda consumer » nazi
- Comment on My people need me 4 weeks ago:
I am not American, so maybe that is why I never understood why words that are so terrible they should be never said, should be used inflationarily in mass media, but will end your public life if you make for example a cover version of the wrong popular song while being born with the false colour of skin.
- Comment on My people need me 4 weeks ago:
There are differences, actually from country to country. Austria for example pioneered the whole thing (at least in Europe) when, what is nowadays conservative mainstream, was in the international media reported as “nazi country doing nazi things”. Those stories stopped at some point or had gotten so hypocritical that they approached satire level. Not because those things aren’t “nazi” btw, but because they became popular in most Western countries.
Austria has been through at least 3 right populist cycles already, starting in the 1980s. Cycles, because unless the populist right manages to degrade democracy enough, they alway blow themselves up due to their boundless corruption.There voters remember for a few years (except for the hardened Nazi core) and then suffer from mass dementia and go back to those very same people messed up the last time.
In short, Europe is just one stepb behind the US. The fascist traitors dressing up as patriots do encounter setbacks once in a while though, see Hungary.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 4 weeks ago:
Federal agencies are expected to use the metric system, even if not all of them do. That is not quite “we recognize both systems”
I disagree with the obstacles, the main obstacle is politics. The US was already on its way and the rrason it is not to the largest part metric is Reagan. And if replacing signs is such an issue, something countlesd developing and developed nations have managed just fine, that would raise some serious questions.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 4 weeks ago:
If the average American mind only knew about its goverment being metric.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 4 weeks ago:
I rarely see the need for less precision. If you don’t know the precise temperature you say “around” if you want to describe a range, you just do that “x-y”. Easy.
Like I said, you and I are used to our temperature unit systems, neither is inherently more user friendly than the either.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 4 weeks ago:
You are fooled by your own habits. Most of the world uses C just fine and why wouldn’ they? The steps of one °C are just what starts to be relevant in daily life. Yes you would totally say it has 13°C and not round up to 5 or 10s. The latter you would only do if your unit has more precision than is needed.
That said, if you want more precision just say 13.4°C. Some wearher forecasts do that but it is really not very releant what comes after the comma for daily weather forecast needs.
- Comment on Praise the Ancestors 4 weeks ago:
Titties maybe, but I am definitely not going to be tempted by those foul cancer sticks.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 5 weeks ago:
Caution! Yellow fat emulsion was prepared on machines that can contain traces of actual cheese!
- Comment on Close ad button 5 weeks ago:
That makes more sense. It is surely not done just for fun. Gaming the attention economy with slop spam makes sense.
- Comment on Close ad button 5 weeks ago:
And the result sucks, like the one above.
