Swedneck
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- 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
huh? are you getting recommendations in your subscriptions feed???
- Comment on What are some things that deserve their own word? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 6 days 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? 6 days ago:
mmm ecofascism mmmm
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 6 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days ago:
imagine if it was all turned into botanical gardens
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 3 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% 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 3 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). - Comment on Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026 3 weeks ago:
am i sleep deprived or does the headline say a completely different thing than the actual body of the article? surely neighbourhoods and cities are not the same thing???
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 weeks ago:
Nothing is ever colourful in movies set pre-renaissance, everyone looks like a pauper and kings dress in fucking black leather armor…
In reality most people these days would probably be slightly upset by how garish things were back then, everyone LOVED colour! Even the poorest people would probably have access to some shittily dyed red clothing at least, and from there up the social ladder it would just get more riotously colourful until you get to the nobility who dressed like absolute dickheads.
Here’s some at least reasonably representative images in order of increasing social status, not necessarily from the same places but all from roughly “medieval” times:Bonus:
Image - Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the things that makes me fucking adore the Temeraire series: the protagonist has a father who is staunchly abolitionist and yet the protagonist himself doesn’t really think about it at all, until quite a bit later in the series when he starts realizing that slavery isn’t just some theoretical thing in “the colonies”.
Meanwhile the dragon protagonist goes “um, isn’t that absolutely horrifying? am i missing something here??” when he learns about the existence of slavery
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 3 weeks ago:
are you sure that means the same thing? i’m pretty sure in britain “private school” actually means a school run by the state, which armericans would much more sensibly call a public school.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 3 weeks ago:
in swedish it’s “indian” for native north american, and “indier” for someone from india.
I feel like one could come up with a similar distinction in english but the best i can come up with is “indie” which is unfortunately already taken. - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
if you posses the vast cosmic power of not having crippling social anxiety, you should contact them and beg them to make the information available literally anywhere else as well.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
unfortunately the problem is that “aren’t technically filling the same space” is a big understatement, they’re further apart than lemmy and mastodon are and i highly doubt anyone here would consider moving to mastodon even remotely sensible, they’re just utterly different structures.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s not made specifically for android but it seems to work well enough if you just play in horizontal view:
sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental
You can use the Mitch app to download the web version of the game and run it offlineIt’s honestly one of the best games i’ve ever played, just by sheer dint of how well the gameplay is designed. It’s such a great way to add flavour to a text-based game!
