Swedneck
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps 4 days ago:
mapquest doesn’t seem to have anything to do with OSM, sadly
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 4 days ago:
I was recently amazed to discover that you can now buy 10W portable solar chargers that are ACTUALLY portable, and cost like 9 euro
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Counter-question: Why do you ask this online rather than just testing and seeing if it makes a difference?
Also, does it even give bad results anyways? Because i have never once in my life encountered a dishwasher that didn’t get things squeaky clean almost without even needing detergent. I suspect many people worry about the cleanliness of their dishes for absolutely no reason. - Comment on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons 1 week ago:
good to see work being done on the torment nexus
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 1 week ago:
i don’t shower every day and i’ve still never had dick cheese, i’m frankly not sure if it’s actually a medical condition that people just think is normal…
- Comment on [The Matrix (movie, 1999)] What does agent Brown's line mean? 1 week ago:
i fully support Agent Smith coming out of the closet
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 1 week ago:
they have been here in sweden, only high-voltage lines remain aboveground (with much much more robust infrastructure) and the odd teensy weensy rural line that probably isn’t even active any more and remains simply because no one cares enough to dismantle it.
- Comment on Dating Apps Are Dying 1 week ago:
“Dating App is great! It helped me find my soulmate 15 times!”
- Comment on If dogs have such a great nose, why do they sniff other dogs asses? Wouldn't it smell like shit or not a good smell? 2 weeks ago:
i’m just glad they’re not rabbits, who literally need to eat their own shit to survive (it’s part of their digestive process)
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 2 weeks ago:
you just get posts in precisely whateverthefuck order the server ends up pulling them from its database, which isn’t an algorithm because obviously that means the Lord himself is deciding the order of your feed.
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 2 weeks ago:
huh? are you getting recommendations in your subscriptions feed???
- Comment on What are some things that deserve their own word? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 2 weeks ago:
even better: Mowing with a scythe lets you easily deposit the grain neatly in a row (windrow), which means you can just have one person hauling ass on the scythe and another behind them bundling up the straws.
It’s honestly pretty insane how close to ideal scythe harvesting is. - Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 2 weeks ago:
mmm ecofascism mmmm
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 2 weeks ago:
my take is that simply dropping “the” from “the patriarchy” does a lot to make it more useful and less uncomfortable to talk about.
It’s not some specific thing, people don’t have meetings on enforcing The Patriarchy, it’s just an effect.
I’m not sure if it’s strictly comparable but like, talking about “the democracy” would sound strange, but talking about “democracy” is completely normal. - Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 2 weeks ago:
i mean they are shorts so i’d imagine they’re pretty liable to get uncomfortable, as they’re presumably not designed with magnum dongs in mind.
But then again i assume they’re generally stretchy so maybe it’s fine… - Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 2 weeks ago:
imagine if it was all turned into botanical gardens
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 3 weeks ago:
this isn’t really a useful question, it’s wholly hypothetical so we can’t know.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 3 weeks ago:
also, as part of that we’ve been conditioned to not dare talk to strangers or accept strangers talking to us.
In the past people would just say “my fellow those films you’re imbibing annoy me greatly, pray tell might you be so kind as to turn the volume down?” and they respond with “indubitably sir, posthaste. my greatest pardon for imposing upon you thusly”. - Comment on How do I turn fresh tomatoes into pasta sauce? 4 weeks ago:
i don’t get why you’d either peel or strain the sauce, i’ve never done that and never even thought about the skin, it’s less noticable than the seeds and those are kind of half the point of using raw tomatoes IMO
- Comment on How do I turn fresh tomatoes into pasta sauce? 4 weeks ago:
you can literally just chop them up and boil them with spices, it works absolutely fine.
You don’t need all this fancy stuff (blanching tomatoes is insane to me), just try a bunch of different things and see what you personally like best.
I like to fry up some diced onions and a couple cloves of garlic; then dump in the chopped tomatoes (i recommend one of these pull-cord chopping things, absolutely liquefies the tomatoes), a bit of vinegar (balsamic is always nice), and some spices (lots of vegeta) and let it simmer for as long as i can be arsed. - Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
as a general rule of thumb i say give people 3 chances and after that there’s no point in continuing unless you REALLY think they’re in good faith and you’re REALLY certain you’re not possibly getting things wrong.
Maybe they’re not in a good headspace, maybe they’re a shithead, maybe i’m in a bad headspace; who knows.
The only case where either of us benefits from spending an hour getting irate is if they’re a shithead troll who gets off on making others upset. - Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 4 weeks ago:
depends on what the motivation/conclusion is, if someone suspects an account of being a bot or such and calls out “hey this account is mass-downvoting anything to do with botswana” then it’s perfectly reasonable.
But if they try to make some personal judgement over it then it feels a bit: Image
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 4 weeks ago:
signatures/stamps/whatever really only ever made sense as a strict verification of identity back when it was actually really difficult to copy a fancy sigil, and even then it was a thing for rich people and by far the best use-case for it was sealing letters so you know that yes this letter was sent by the count of Mingestonshire and hasn’t been tampered with.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 5 weeks ago:
You can totally find premade viking clothing for purchase but it’ll generally be expensive and not necessarily any good quality.
The nice thing though about premodern commoner clothing is that it’s generally simple enough that you can make it at home, especially with a sewing machine.
Here are some patterns that seem good: medievalmusgrave.blog/viking-clothing - Comment on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% 5 weeks ago:
we don’t even have to build anything new, aside from installing heat pumps which we should be doing anyways for a multitude of reasons such as “i like not dying of heatstroke”.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 5 weeks ago:
right? You only have to go a couple of years old for the price of a refurbished phone to absolutely plummet, and that’s for as-new quality!
If you go for one that’s just a little bit scuffed but still perfectly functional you can get something indistinguishable from a brand new phone for a quarter the fucking price - Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 5 weeks ago:
same, the only big improvement i’ve gotten is going from 60Hz to 120Hz display, and i really can’t think of any more major improvements that would be possible.
Sure, it’d be sweet to have more battery capacity or better cameras, but the standard has been more than sufficient for any sort of normal usage for years and years now. - Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 5 weeks ago:
which is why you only buy unlockable android phones, lineageOS is if anything only going to make your device faster every update.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 5 weeks ago:
not #1? wow you classist smh…
But yeah non-nobility premodern european clothing was fucking sweet, they knew how to dress.
I’m personally a massive fan of viking-style commoner clothing, something about all the wool and usage of single-colour layers really appeals to me, and i think it doesn’t look out of place at all nowadays (at least in the colder months).
